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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Whenever you mention him Lizzie, I always think of a man who was handed golden opportunities in having a daughter like you but was too damned stupid to realize it. What father wouldn't want an intelligent, inquisitive, and hardworking daughter? Or son? How many wasted afternoons over the course...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
I retired ten years ago this October. A few years back I took a security job: what I did to work my way through school at some points. I quit after 3 days: when you're not desperate for the money you suffer fools a lot less. Job itself was fun: I provided security (onboard and perimeter) for...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Smartest dog we've ever had, and technically, a mutt. Even if he's a "designer hybrid" ("Teddy Bear:" A Bichon/ Shih Tzu), as he can't be AKC registered, he's a mutt. (The non- shedding part is nice after two pugs.) Got him from relatives who neglected him: urinary tract infection, ear mites...- ChiTownScion
- Post #1,777
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Morning dress - white waistcoat and bow tie
Personally? I'd go with a buff waistcoat rather than white vest or waistcoat. Or even dove grey. And a long tie rather than a bow tie in any color. I'd eschew black or white: with the white shirt and black cutaway coat, a little color in the tie could give the needed pop and sizzle. Red or...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Mounting the soapbox here, so, apologies. Saw this at a recent daytime fraternal event. Members of the leadership, understandably, want to dress up in a manner befitting their office, but a relative few, despite good intentions, needed some instruction as to what to wear and what not to wear...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Hiring a moving company today for a cross country move can be an endeavor costing in the tens of thousands of dollars. We made the big retirement move in 2019 from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. And from a four-bedroom home w/ furnished basement (including pool table and library) on...- ChiTownScion
- Post #14,453
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
Here's a wild theory: Harold Gray may have "borrowed" the inspiration for spunky and bright Orphan Annie from Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables). He wouldn't have been the first. Kate Douglas Wiggins' Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm exhibits a lot of parallels with...- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,415
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
It was drummed into me at age ten (not by my parents, but by the director of a men & boys choir of which I was a member) to always "dress as a professional" when I travelled with the group. That meant wearing a collared shirt, sport coat, and tie, whenever I'd board a plane. A rule that I...- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,393
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Not an automat, but arguably a similar concept. A local place offers fresh sushi dishes on a conveyor belt apparatus. You pick off what you want: the plates are color coded according to price. When you're done, the waitress tallies the bill, and you pay at the cashier. I'll note that on a...- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,385
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Show us your scale models!
I wish that I could claim credit for building this, but it was made by Fire Replicas. The prototype was my father's company rig, Engine Company 71, Chicago Fire Department. I literally grew up crawling all over the prototype. 1953 model. A year older than me.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Display Case
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The Era -- Day By Day
Interesting that Harold Gray became so much of a flag waver once war was declared, having had almost a religious zeal in opposition to everything regarding FDR and the New Deal prior to the war. I get it that once we were at war, partisan loyalties were shelved "for the duration," but as an...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
To a certain point I can understand why a cartoon strip about young men needs to go a bit dark every now and then. Life at that age does have its reality checks, and they're not always laugh provoking. But this? I have to wonder what the hell Carl Ed was thinking: the country is in its first...- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,282
- Forum: The Golden Era
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Latin was pushed at my high/ preparatory school. A few fools told me that I'd need it if I ever wanted to become an attorney, and I was the bigger fool for taking two years of it after believing them. My gut feeling was to take German instead. I should have listened to my gut. Had I taken four...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
My wife insists upon her freshly ground Trader Joe's coffee every morning. I enjoy it as well, but if she's out of town for a week or so I have been known to just pick up a can of commercial grade Folger's with the sole motive of saving a few bucks. It really doesn't bother me to go low end on...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
And we still haven't seen her face. Not that Ed's the kind of cartoonist who'd run a gag into the ground, of course...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
The New Yorker spinach cartoon that they're still talking about:- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,158
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Old show biz axiom: when all else fails, put a kid or a dog in the act.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
And how long has it been since we've seen a plot twist involving Harold and Lillums? My crystal ball sees Paulette and Harold becoming the next side show act.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Recovery from chemo.....
Glad that you're on the mend. Take care.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
It's interesting that "Minnesota Fats" was a character created in that book, but Rudolf Wanderone claimed that nomme de guerre as his own. He claimed that the character was based upon him but there seems little to support that. He had no connection to Minnesota, but apparently "Dowell Illinois...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
