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  1. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    This is why I love A-2 jackets. The ones that were issued to aviation officer candidates were made largely during times of war restriction and yet they were well made, and conveyed the serious functionality of the time. Make them with premium leathers, custom touches.. and they display an...
  2. ChiTownScion

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    "True dat" (or "true that") ranks up there as well.
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A few of my Brit friends disagree, but I think that Churchill the Insurance Bulldog is a cute gag.
  4. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    We celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary this evening. Since neither my wife nor I are of the "Work Young, Marry Young, Die Young" persuasion, I'll let you sort it out. Old? Yeah.
  5. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I love Jughead carrying a fish wrapped in a copy of the Daily Worker while wearing a sweater cum swastika: so over the top that even a nine year old kid would laugh at it.
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    My very first encounter with Harold Teen (as with so much else in my childhood) was in a Mad Magazine parody:
  8. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Since you're managing a not- for- profit, is the discount minimal?
  9. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    "When you grow up to young adulthood, age loses much of its meaning, and for long stretches of this time of your life, you often forget how old you actually are." When I was about 40 I was purchasing a bottle of wine at a local grocery store and the young lady at checkout asked for ID. I told...
  10. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My college roomie and his wife (lifetime friends) financed their home through that program. Forty two years, two grown kids, and three granddaughters later, they're still there. I'd say that program did a lot of good.
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'll nominate owning two homes. We owned our vacation home outright, so no second mortgage. In an If Worse Comes to Worse scenario it seemed like a haven during the financial upheavals of 2008. But we rented the place out to vacationers, and the obvious pebbles buried us there. I could write...
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Last year we (temporarily: for ten and a half months) had to rent a house to live in after being homeowners for over three decades. The whole experience was a nightmare. I'll spare you the gory details, but I found that the transformation from homeowner to tenant was especially unsettling...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It's usually the less costly alternative to a church nursery. When my now- 30 year old son was a neonate, dropping him off in a church nursery for a couple hours was a much needed break. I would have argued that being sent to a crying room (bawling kids in addition to my own, PLUS a sermon...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Zealotry

    Sinclair Lewis clearly used Aimee Semple McPherson as the model for his character, Sharon Falconer, in Elmer Gantry. And I can't help but think that the later female preacher, Kathryn Kuhlman, channeled her style.
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The thing that makes it different in your town (and correct me if I'm wrong on this, please) is that unlike a lot of urban gentrification, there's really no risk (aside from financial) to life or in taking up residence in a small Maine coastal town. When the building two doors down in the...
  17. ChiTownScion

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    It's an innate dilemma of reenacting. Those of the "right age" to accurately portray a soldier are often incapable of coming up with the necessary cash to equip themselves. Figure that, with musket, bayonet, uniform, leathers, and other accoutrements, it'll cost you about $1,500 to equip...
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    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    I was in "the hobby" for over 20 years. I quickly learned that there is a strong line of demarcation between those who wanted to play soldier and those who took their role as living historian seriously. I did medical reenacting: I spent nearly five years building a field apothecary and medical...
  20. ChiTownScion

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    Douglas Southall Freeman, although an excellent writer, is the patron saint of all Lost Cause authors. He deserves much credit for being among the first serious Civil War scholars, but he essentially parroted the party line of the Southern Historical Society, of which former Confederate General...
  21. ChiTownScion

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    Whenever I see someone post that flag on FB I usually reply with something like this (and I have several that are similar):
  22. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Check out a phone app called RoboKiller. $29.99: highly entertaining, and in two months the solicitation calls will cease.
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fun fact: the "King James Bible" that 99 44/100 of the people who say that they own one today isn't the original 1611 "Authorized Version" at all. It's a 1759 rewrite known as the "Standard Text." The 1611 Authorized Version included fourteen Deuterocanonical books of the Apocrypha when it was...
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