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  1. ChiTownScion

    Life, or Look?

    I got rid of about 2/3 of the 1,000+ books in my old library when we moved across the country two years ago. The books tossed were mainly old textbooks and casebooks from my student days: long since replaced by newer editions. And as far as the law books: I'm essentially retired from active...
  2. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Agreed. Shadow peddling Sizzle Dogs and Shadow one- upping the jocks with the girls. It actually IS amusing.... the first hundred TIMES.
  3. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "It's kinda sweet that Bim well knows that Andy is a gibbering idiot, but still finds humor in his antics. And jeez, Gus, you really do know my brother in person, don't you?" Min impresses me as a "looker," in that she's very attractive. How'd she ever end up with Andy?
  4. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I'd say that you called it, Lizzie. Ma clearly has a concealed wrench and she intends to toss it into the works.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Lunch, Anybody?

    Living not too far from the Columbia River and the Pacific holds the perk of accessibility to salmon in multiple variations. You can get it in any grocery store but it likely has been frozen before put on sale. So, freshness being an issue, Friday we took a trip up the Gorge from Portland...
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Hmmm. Is Mr. Ed (the cartoonist..... not the talking horse) trying to boil our blood against Veronica to an even higher temperature, so that when she gets her comeuppance (And she will, boys & girls. Just wait.) it'll be all the more delicious? Me? I'll place my money in the office pool on the...
  8. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Keyboard warriors who pull that online More Patriotic Than Thou cr@p. A lot of people disagree with me on even the most hot- button issues. But who who am I- or anyone else- to question their love of their country? Anyway, that's my take on it.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Agreed. Quality leather jackets get more pliable and supple with wear.
  10. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Yeah, you better duck!" Meh. Just throw a bucket of water on her. "I'm MELTING!! I'm MELTING!! Ohh, whatta WORLD..."
  11. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Harry Bridges was never deported, although there were attempts in the 30's, the 40's, and the 50's. He didn't retire as head of the ILWU until 1977. The West Coast longshoremen have an interesting history. Bridges may have been a "Red" but his legacy is a union where even apprentices can count...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Now Vintage

    I recall a teacher telling us at age ten that she didn't think my idea for a class play on the assassination of JFK (which had occurred a few months earlier) was "appropriate." I remember that the script we decided upon took fewer liberties with the known facts than Oliver Stone's movie did 27...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Now Vintage

    Wonder if that has to do with the fact that you were born in '63? I'm nine years your senior, and I remember the Fifties as fifty shades of dark grey. When you're a little kid you can't really see viewpoints beyond those of adults around you. The clouds parted after Kennedy was elected...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Now Vintage

    I still retch when I think of the miserable excuses for tuxedos which we wore in the 70's, particularly at our friends' weddings. It's one of the reasons why, as I grew older, I insisted upon purchasing my own traditional black 100% wool tux for future special events. No formal wear rental guy...
  16. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I have a hunch that Lena Lovewell's reaction to this plot twist is going to exhibit an even uglier mercenary outburst. We shall see. She was, I'm guessing, envisioning a Pops to Prunella to Lena double play of Pop's assets that would have put Tinkers to Evans to Chance to shame. For a...
  17. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    And clearly, you are not alone. Racism is not a Maine tradition | Boothbay Register
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    You know you are getting old when:

    "... and, Chamberlain the unorthodox tactician who ordered the bayonet against the Texans would accord this fact." The bayonet charge was conducted against the 15th Alabama under the command of William C. Oates. The War Between the Union and the Confederacy, and Its Lost Opportunities ... -...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Your first job

    As I said: I was inside of a concrete trap house.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Your first job

    I was sixteen and desperate for a part time job and so I went to a job placement service run by the Mothers Club at my high school. Followed the lead and was hired, as a trap boy at a local gun (trap & skeet) club. The job mainly consisted of climbing into a concrete bunker (trap house) sixteen...
  22. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    As well you should. I wonder what those men of the 20th Maine who held the end of the Federal line on an obscure Pennsylvania hill known as Little Round Top might have to say on the subject. The funny part is when they fly a Southern Cross pattern in 3 x 5 dimensions it's actually a...
  23. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Went to a Nissan dealership yesterday as a lark, to check out the electric cars. Did that, but also saw a really sporty Z type model on the showroom floor that really caught my eye. Dawned on me that now that I can actually afford a sexy car like that, the body is too damned old to climb down...

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