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    Ban Charlie Brown

    That's not people like Mr Mommy think. They get offended at something, and they REALLY get offended when everyone else doesn't also get equally offended at the same thing. Then there must be something wrong with you for not thinking as they do. That's how these people roll. I once got into an...
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    Vintage Desecration - Things Altered/Repurposed, and a Vintage Treasure Lost Forever.

    I tried to explain this to my nephew recently, he couldn't wrap his head around the idea. I can surf the internet on the new cells my wife got us, which is nice. But I hardly need it. The last time we went to the phone place to ask a question, I asked how I could get rid of 80% of the phone's...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Both "Rome" and "Deadwood" were in my mind excellent shows that died early. That said, the language, violenece and skin got pushed so strongly that even I got tired of it (especially with Deadwood) because my wife got sick of hearing a never-ending series of obscene language from both shows and...
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    Premature burial that causes you the most pain....

    The cliffhanger comment got me recalling a show when I was a kid. There was a series called, CLiffhangers and they didn't air the final episode when I lived, I never found out how the stories ended! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhangers_(TV_series) So true. I dare any fan of the 'new'...
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    Aloofness in Re-enactment.

    Not really at all. Go on to almost any forum devoted to WW2 re-enacting and you'll find others who have had this happen to them as well, that is, people who've served in real life lording it over those who haven't (all in modern timesframes) within the hobby. Its actually pretty common in WW2...
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    Premature burial that causes you the most pain....

    My two favorites are both sci-fi shows. "Space: Above and Beyond" only lasted one season in the 90s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_Above_and_Beyond "Defying Gravity" didn't even last one season and the last episodes of it's only season were only to be found on DVD later...
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    Aloofness in Re-enactment.

    Nothing unique about it. It's very common where I live in the Puget Sound area. I've talked with plenty of people in other groups in the area and it's happened to many of them as well. Must be a regional thing. NEVER from WW2 re-enactors, though.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    Aloofness in Re-enactment.

    Maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. I wasn't talking about WW2 vets, as the post from Hunter_aka_Scotty talked about people who'd served and not WW2 vets as such and I was following on that line of thought. Now that we all understand I was talking about postwar vets, I stand by my comment...
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    • Forum: WWII
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    Aloofness in Re-enactment.

    Maybe in your group that is the case but I can assure you that it is indeed very common for people who have served to down upon those who haven't within the hobby, especially for the WW2 guys. I see it most of all among the airborne types (which of course are now everywhere. That was a rare...
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    Vintage Man Caves

    It's a victory that must be fought for constantly. Hardly a week goes by when something needs to 'find a home' (my wife's favorite phrase) and she immediately proclaims that said item will forever be housed in 'the toy room' (my phrase for the room). Sometimes, said item will go there, then...
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    Aloofness in Re-enactment.

    I have been re-enacting since the age of 5 and into WW2 re-enacting since I was 18 (I'm 42 now). These days I almost exclusively do display events only, having served in the real US Army (and relaizing that re-enactment tactics are very rarely based on any kind of reality). I get the original...
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    • Post #31
    • Forum: WWII
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    The general decline in standards today

    You'd fail on me, then. My watch has always been on my left arm. I always did everything right handed but write. The odd thing is my Dad does everything right handed but he shoots left handed! I never could make left handed scissors work...
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    The general decline in standards today

    Well, you at least know of one in the US of A.... me. I regularly caught crap growing up in school for being left-handed. It cracks me up that even today, I'll be writing something and someone will stop and ask, "Are you left handed?" like it's some sort of affliction. For years, I've answered...
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    Vintage Man Caves

    I really wouldn't want a room that looks lik Kipling's smoking lounge. That said, when my wife wanted us to have a house built a few years ago, one of my demands was to have one of the bedrooms for my military/railroad/space collection. It's been a point of contention ever since, every time she...
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    The general decline in standards today

    I was born in 1969 and was in grade school in the 70s and while I didn't have teachers beat me into being right handed, I sure got my share of verbal beatings over it. I had this conversation at some point when i was a kid, I remember it clearly to this day: Teacher: I see you're trying to use...
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    My trip to Space Camp. Not golden era as such...

    Soon after the final photo, we returned to the visitor center, made one more pass through the gift shop, said goodbyes to those still there, and Space Camp became a memory. I'll never forget my time with Team Columbia, week 50, 2012 at Space Camp! After I got home from a cross-country...
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    My trip to Space Camp. Not golden era as such...

    DAY THREE The day started by doing a trivia game against the other team. Done Jeopardy-style, we had no idea what our score was until graduation. Cleaning up and packing our stuff up, a few people were allowed to try their hands at hitting the bin with the linens from the second floor of...
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    My trip to Space Camp. Not golden era as such...

    We also had a "get to know you" session where we all explained how we got there. Our team trainer was Lydia, a 20-something gal from California who was going to be a teacher someday. She called us all, "her kids," even though many of us were old enough to be her parents (and two, her...
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    My trip to Space Camp. Not golden era as such...

    Here I am hoping I'll eventually get to be in the comander or pilot position on a mission... This was Mission Control right after the first ("Alpha") shuttle mission, note that the orbiter is sitting on the runway with no landing gear extended! I was manning both the INCO and Science stations...
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    My trip to Space Camp. Not golden era as such...

    DAY ONE The following morning, I checked out and met up with Steve, who I'd met only on an internet forum devoted to Space Camp once I realized we were already signed up for the same rotation. We couldn't check in at first, so we walked around and I took plenty of photos. As it was by then...

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