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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
When you roll out of your sleeping bag into the cold Rocky Mountain morning air, there is simply no such thing as a "bad" cup of coffee.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
I have no doubt that this sort of ex parte communication with judges takes place all of the time, but even with good intentions, it's a no- no. Clarence should recuse himself.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
It's definitely a regional thing. One of the reasons for the no ketchup on a Chicago hot dog rule that I've heard articulated is that "the perfect dog" with all the standard condiments is a balancing act of sweet and spicy. The local preference for relish is a bright green, almost glow in the...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
It isn't done in Chicago, either. Although kids four years old and younger usually get a pass. For an adult to put ketchup on a hot dog... well, it's like using the word, "pie" to describe a pizza.- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
She may look like Mr. Bean's Irma Gobb in those glasses, but before I was married I've always found that sort of woman far more attractive. Bookish, intellectually driven and well read is a lot sexier to me than a girl to whom after one says, "Hello," is stuck for an answer... no matter how...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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You know you are getting old when:
Another old time product which originally haled from the great Bay State, and still produced by a company called Numark Brands. Note the disclaimer: and yet I am certain some still swear by it. Whatever else, is sure made grist for a fun pub song.- ChiTownScion
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
If it was an easy job anyone could do it. We chose to go to law school and the cards were on the table all along.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
A popular bumper sticker in this region: "MLB PDX." Incorporating the local airport code as a plea for a Major League team. I'd love to see it happen. I can't get excited about rooting for the Mariners. Not sure if there's a Red Sox Nation contingent here as there was in Chicago, but it's on...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread
An exquisite jacket. Well done.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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The Era -- Day By Day
That was a term applied at my secondary school, both externally (during football and basketball games) and internally, against those whose demeanor and upbringing was a little too uppity. It was a parochial (Jesuit) preparatory school, then all boys and now coed. Bill Murray was five years ahead...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Well, he's not wrong. Doesn't our hero emerge from the US Navy after serving in the Second World War, only to return home and hang out with that very same "so childish" lot? When hindsight is 20/20 these gags take on an ironic humor of their own, I'd argue.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Could Covina possibly be a mashup of Colona (Illinois)? Carl Ed (who drew the Harold Teen strip) was from Moline, and Colona is a short distance east of Quad City Rock Island via what was the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (The Rock Island Line) Railroad. Then again, perhaps I'm obsessing way...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The ONE Celebrity (Living or Dead) You'd Give a Body Part to Have Dinner With?
The man whom I'd love to have dinner with is Robert E. Lee. Not that I deify him as one of the Lost Cause Trinity (along with Stuart and Jackson). Far from it. But simply because he was so guarded about his own opinions about what and who was so close to him during the Late Unpleasantness. We...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The ONE Celebrity (Living or Dead) You'd Give a Body Part to Have Dinner With?
And then there's Red Skelton. He and his agents fought conscription until his marriage ended in divorce and he lost his married man status, and then he was drafted right after D- Day. Was assigned to doing entertainment productions in the ETO, but evidently he got stressed out by that, and...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Almost took out a guy on a bike last week for the same reason. Only reflector was on one of his pedals and you couldn't see it 99% of the time. Thankfully, a residential street and low speed.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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How Was Your Day?
Today has been not so bad, really. The last few were a little rough, on one front. Ever start thinking about a casual acquaintance, some who was not really close enough to you to have been a friend, but who left a lasting impression that was generally favorable? I got to thinking about someone...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
If you ever see those words in relation to residential real estate, just envision: "tumbling down shack."- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?
My own view was that while it may have been the worst of times and not really the best of times, there were examples of Americans displaying what Mr. Lincoln referred to as, "the better angels of our nature." In 1953 and 1954, for example, Edward R. Murrow stood up against Joseph McCarthy on...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?
Not all railroad/ railway museums are created equal-- but I enjoy visiting all of them, and climbing aboard an old interurban, rapid transit car, or streetcar, closing my eyes, and listening to the (often close to a century) old traction motors open up as the car accelerates. To me, the sounds...- ChiTownScion
- Post #138
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
I found out that Harold's illustrator, Carl Ed (pronounced, "Eed") was a longtime resident of Evanston, Illinois, a fairly progressive community and home of a major university (Northwestern). Your observation raises the issue: were such illustrations the only way in which people of color were...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
