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  1. ChiTownScion

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Had more than one job during my college years where I felt as though I was reduced to a mere means of production: retail and manufacturing, both minimum wage. From the safe vantage point of nearly half a century's time, I suppose that there was a two- fold silver lining in those dark clouds...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Went in to see the doctor last week, and the twenty- something tech and I were chatting as she took my temp and bp. I mentioned these Calvin & Hobbes strips, where Calvin goes to see his pediatrician. She had never heard of Calvin & Hobbes, the poor kid.
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    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Can't remember if I posted this before or not. I asked Art to make me a fedora that resembled the one frequently worn by Howard Hughes, and he did. Liked it SO much that I wore it on a vacation trip to Oregon (Where I now reside, tyvm.) and had this taken of me in the pilot's seat of the H-4...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Almost 31 when I married and- damn!- that was too young.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A word to the wise in MidCoast: the hand that holds the marquee letters rules the world.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Some uppity senior citizen type who was upset at you because, at 64 3/4, you wouldn't give them the 65 or over discount? I jest, but the viciousness and penchant for destruction on the part of some people is disgraceful. I was out walking the dogs a while back, and about a block from me I saw a...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Sadly, too many have to deal with that type..
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    WWII Songs

    Folk singer Bob Gibson recorded an album of ski songs (1959) that my late uncle the ski bum gifted me that has a number, "Super Skier's Last Race" that is essentially a re- write of "Blood On the Risers." The Air Force pilots have a great rendition to the same tune called, "The Air Corps...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Andy still stands vigil over Lake Geneva WI. This is actually the third statue. The first was erected by the Chicago Tribune company as a tribute to the artist in his home town- that one was taken out by a car. The second statue was destroyed during a drunken riot/ rampage in the Sixties, and...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Just got finished watching three seasons of Canadian Broadcast Company's production "Anne With an E," a recent retake on the "Anne of Green Gables" stories. I've always enjoyed the Anne sagas, although there's a strong argument that they're a ripoff of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms. This...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've washed my hands of the NFL. Entirely. They change the game rules every year, depending upon what will best affect the team owners' bottom line. That isn't sport: it's spectacle. At least pro wrestling is more or less upfront about the kayfabe factor. Live in a metro area now that has...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I retired from the job I held for over three decades (an assistant public defender in the largest unified criminal court system in the world) the thought hit me that if the life of just one person was better as the result of my doing my job, it was worth it. I think there was more than one...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I hate when I see that brand of bullying. Not only because bullying is hurtful to the bullied and painful to the eyewitness, but because every bully is, at heart, a coward.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred...."
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Rocky<upon viewing Wassamotta U's upcoming football challengers, the Mud City Manglers>: "Bullwinkle, they're just GIRLS! What kind of games can you play with GIRLS??" Bullwinkle: "Boy this really is a children's show, isn't it? <pause> Why, PARCHESI, of course."
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In one episode there was a treasure map that featured, right in the middle of "Veronica Lake," a body of land labelled the "Isle of Lucy." Desilu's attorney called up Jay Ward, the creator and producer of the series, threatening a lawsuit. His reaction: "Please DO! We can use the publicity!"...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    And then there were the puns: Rocky: "If this is a boat covered with red jewels, and it has the name, 'Omar Khayyam' on it, then this must be.." Bullwinkle: "It you're waiting for me to finish that line, you're gonna wait a long time." Rocky: "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam!!" Bullwinkle...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I was about four years old when Nikita Khrushchev visited Manhattan and spoke at the UN. I somehow got it into my head that "Soviet" was a bad thing, the worst thing that you could call someone. Mom had a lady friend I didn't like, so my name for her became, "Sylvia the Soviet." A four year...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Best package delivery experience I ever had was with DHL. Evidently the company is DHL Deutsche Post, part of the German Federal post service. Product in question was a pair of repro World War II RAF shearling lined air crew boots: they seemed the perfect casual footwear for cold Chicago...

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