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  1. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Noting further, it would appear that the state of New Jersey enacted this gem into law in 2015: "An Act concerning certain retrofits to diesel-powered vehicles and supplementing P.L.2005, c.219 (C.26:2C-8.26 et al.). Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Issue is whether a criminal action for assault is the most prudent remedy. A lot of states already have vehicular endangerment statutes that could either be directly applied or amended as the remedy here. The issue was assault: it's usually the lowest class of misdemeanor unless done with a...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Common law? It essentially defines an assault as a single act or series of intentional acts that is with either general or specific intent, cause the reasonable apprehension of an immediate battery. Defining a battery as intentionally and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "If you see a man who sings too loud on Saturday night, and prays too loud on Sunday morning, go home and lock your smokehouse. " Harry S. Truman, self- professed "Footloose Baptist"
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Been saving this one...
  7. ChiTownScion

    What is a day worth?

    The word did go out through a mutual acquaintance: a fire fighter / real estate broker who found the guy for me in the first place. And as I said, I am certain that my insurance carrier contacted him as well.
  8. ChiTownScion

    What is a day worth?

    f In our first home, an old Victorian, we restored a fireplace that had been covered over for decades. Got a beautiful old mantle and winter screen (which we also restored to mint) and had some really nice tile work done on the hearth. Joy turned to tragedy on Super Bowl Sunday 1989: as the...
  9. ChiTownScion

    What is a day worth?

    It's kind of something that we've always done. We both work full time, and while we're not neatness freaks, it is a morale booster to have the place spotless once in a while. I do remember when my now 29 year old was just past his toddler stage and was upset because the housekeeper had put his...
  10. ChiTownScion

    What is a day worth?

    When my wife and I are finally "fully retired" in two years, the plan upon relocation is a townhouse with minimal maintenance and no yard work. And although we can both knock out a full house cleanup within an hour (if we work together) I don't rule out a housekeeper once a fortnight to tidy the...
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And my corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
  13. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    In the mid- 1970's humorist H. Allen Smith wrote a brilliant article for Esquire, "Will Rogers Was No Damned Good." It starts with an episode of an encounter between Smith and Rogers at the Calgary Stampede* during the 30's. As a cub reporter, Smith was dispatched to invite Rogers up to the...
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Love that film. Wasn't it supposed to be a somewhat loose take on Arthur Godfrey? After he fired Julius LaRosa on the air, I always wondered if there were a lot of people who wanted to see Godfrey served up a helping of come uppance, and I wonder if A Face In The Crowd carried part of that.
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Exactly why I gave up private practice, which became primarily domestic relations cases before I took inactive status. Male or female, the clients were not into solving their problem by applying rationally based legal solutions proffered by hard working counsel. Or resolving conflict in a manner...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Name the Actor...

    Charles Lane. And despite the fact that his characters were pretty irritating, he was actually a warm and funny guy in real life.
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A nickel for every poor woman who thought that she could "change" some boorish, violent, narcissistic lout or superannuated mama's boy (the latter who will never find a woman in this world who'll live up to his unrealistic image of dear Ol' Ma). Heck, I'll take that nickel for every woman who...
  19. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    And that's why I will never retire to one of those warm, sunny retirement havens. Florida, Arizona, OC California, etc. : you can have it.* The last thing I want to deal with when I'm old myself is crotchety old fogies. Give me young, radical, artsy, funky- and a little bit eccentric.. and you...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Vintage roadside

    Robert Crumb's take on the subject:
  21. ChiTownScion

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    They have it a lot harder than we did. The ones I know work hard and have well reasoned but passionate convictions. As a generation, they impress me more favorably than my boomer generation, and certainly more favorably than the Gen X-ers. That said, it's a generalization whose exceptions number...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    Meh. I couldn't wait to grow up and have no warm fuzzies when contemplating most of my childhood. I hated being a kid and having to be around kids for most of the day. And I realized early on that I could have made better decisions than those which were made on my behalf by well meaning but...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    I hated snow shoveling as a kid. We had a fairly long driveway and a wide garage apron, and it was a grueling task. The perk was that my Dad- who was the chef at his firehouse- would usually prepare fresh soups and home made bread for a reward. After two hours shoveling in subfreezing...
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