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  1. ChiTownScion

    Who here is a millionaire?

    "Net worth" is a mirage. So much of it cannot be spent or gifted without adverse tax consequences. Perhaps one indication that more often the not, the assets own you rather than vice versa.
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not typical, I'll admit, but I prefer northern Germany (Schleswig- Holstein). Rendsburg, Kiel, Husum, et al. North Sea and Baltic sea coasts.
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'll add: we meet here in the Lounge because of "gadgets," of course. Microchips enable our collective pining for simpler and better times. If we're Luddites, we're selective in our particular exercise of that religion.
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My opinion? This began taking place a long time before iPhones, the World Wide Web and Zoom meetings. Explosive growth of private automobile ownership. Once we were safely nestled inside of our horseless carriages and were no longer exclusively dependent upon streetcars, buses, interurbans...
  5. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Oldest manipulation in the book. Add a few decades to the calendar and she'll throw in, "Besides.. I think that I'm pregnant" as well, just to drive home the point.
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Ah, golden childhood years. Too short of a sliver in time, but for a while the Windy City enjoyed the Brooklyn Alum Show with Stanky managing That South Side Team (until replaced by fellow Dodger alum Al Lopez) while Durocher ran herd on the Cubs. Heart still aches when I think of late summer...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You are correct as to "soup & fish:" the term is employed to describe full formal (after six, white tie) dress. A full formal dinner usually included a soup course and a fish course in addition to the meat entree course. A "monkey suit" usually describes semi- formal (black tie: a tux/ DJ, but...
  9. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    On a perhaps happier note, I encountered a fine gentleman in Albany Oregon this weekend whose vehicle is remarkably similar (although, I believe, a year younger) to that of a renowned historian and theatre manager from Midcoast Maine...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    My unsolicited opinion? The guy's sole redeeming virtue is that he owned several Pugs. And her? Between her and Lady Nancy Astor, I'd like to know what evil did Britain ever do to the United States that justified imposing those two harpies on them?
  11. ChiTownScion

    Stress and Anxiety

    The problem is that there are a miniscule amount of people in this world who are truly self educated: you (Miss Lizzie) and Harry S. Truman, are the only two who immediately come to mind. Many claim that they are, but when I see someone describing their education as, "School of Hard Knocks/...
  13. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Those are amazing looking boots. Definitely on my wish list.
  14. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Brought to mind the one humorous line that is always remembered whenever the play, Our American Cousin, is discussed: "Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap." Last joke that made Mr. Lincoln laugh?
  15. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Is it possible that Gramps is playing her?
  16. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Stealing a kid's bike is one of the worst thefts (morally) that there is, in my book. A brother in law stole my dad's bike when my dad was a kid and pawned it to buy booze. That transgression was never forgiven by my dad.
  17. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Good thing. When my mom would spout that fifty plus years ago, I'd cringe.
  19. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh.... and the passenger cars of the train bringing Federal agents to Chicago in "Public Enemies" (1934) were all built later and were painted in a 1952 paint scheme. I did exclaim, "Cool! They used Milwaukee Road 261 and I remember when they filmed at Union Station!" but the error was noted.
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pointing out rail related inaccuracies has gotten me into trouble. While viewing "The Color Purple" in a theater with my wife, I merely pointed out that the Panama Limited: 1. Did not run through the state of Georgia: 2. Was dieselized at the time purportedly depicted on screen with a steam...
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That song mentions "Track 29" and Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station in New York had 21 tracks.
  22. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    One thing that IS better now than it was in the era: the availability of pre- nup agreements.
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Most of my closest childhood friends all earned engineering degrees, my dearest having earned a Masters in Mechanical (Design) from M.I.T. Barely getting through two years of algebra and geometry, I was odd man out. I did well for myself, career wise, but the lack of math and science depth has...
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