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  1. ChiTownScion

    The Birds & The Bees, how did you find out?

    That didn't apply to my college roomie. Methodist to his core, but always enjoyed a brew in our undergrad days. He's now a three- time grandfather, and as he has matured has acquired a taste for the finer single malt whiskies. But I have to say that he was a solid exemplar of the Wesleyan...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    If memory serves, hadn't Heublein taken over when he made that statement? I seem to recall the parents of two friends who were shafted as KFC franchisees by that corporation, although I cannot recall the details.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I'm lucky (??) enough to say that I've chowed down on KFC in Corbin, KY: where Sanders opened his first restaurant before it was KFC. They had an all- you- can- eat lunch special, and I was famished. Skipped the mashed potatoes, however: starved or not I still have some standards.
  4. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    The name still lives on here. The Grant Park Music Shell is named for him. Doubt that few visitors for the Taste or other events even realize who he was, but he shaped popular music in this country. Arguably, the war time strike of the AFM killed the Big Band Era, but musicians are entitled to...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Harold's: yes. I also like Brown's, and Church's isn't bad- but occasionally, too salty. Popeye's? Can't stand it. I'll go to KFC before eating that dreck.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Today in History

    This train of thought passes many sidings. We had the 50th anniversary luncheon of our grade school graduation in September: it dawned on me at the time that 50 years prior to that date would put us in the final months of the First World War. Gotta wonder if 13 year olds today see us as ancient...
  8. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I anticipate an "equity aids the vigilant" take on it from this session. We'll see.
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Nuance and subtlety were never part of the equation in that genre, as I recall. Particularly with the bad guys.
  10. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    What they were most likely to drink was a carbonated concoction called, "Baikal." Natural herbs, citric acid, sugar, and not really a cola. Until 1973 when Pepsi was first introduced. By the time that I first visited Russia it was no longer available. My research is that Coca- Cola was viewed...
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The inspiration for the Olympia Café skit was the original Billy Goat Tavern. It's now a chain, but by the 1970's the original Goat located to Lower Wacker Drive. It really was a hangout for reporters and other Chicago newspaper people when I was a starving student. Haven't been there in years...
  13. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    Wiffenpoofs be damned: Kipling wrote it first and best in "Gentlemen Rankers:" TO THE legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed, And a trooper of the Empress, if you please. Yea, a...
  14. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    You're probably more knowledgeable about this than I am, but there seems to have been a great leap forward in educational television from what I experienced in the mid to late 1950's, and what you saw in the sixties, respectively when we were each preschool age. Prior to the involvement of the...
  15. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    Tommy Atkins goes back a while before the Great War. The origin of the nomme de guerre for the British private is the matter of much debate, but Kipling wrote the poem in 1892 (while he was living in the US, actually), and the name predates that. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it was used...
  16. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    As a kid, I chafed at any notion that I needed to be protected. At an age when most kids in my lily white suburb weren't allowed to cross certain streets by themselves I was taking the train by myself into downtown Chicago. I loved the adventure of discovery and exploration, but I wanted to do...
  17. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    And discerning when one is the target for a bill of goods being sold is a survival skill, whether in the market place, the political arena, academia, or even the church. Realizing that Buffalo Bob or the Captain is at his usual "Hey, kids!" shilling again is a valuable skill for a young child to...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    And here's the original by Kipling: Tommy I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an'...
  20. ChiTownScion

    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    I confess a love for the poems of Rudyard Kipling- both reading them and reciting them- and one of my favorites is "Tommy," the classic statement by a common soldier about insensitive and unappreciative civilians. I'll include the text of it further in this thread, but I came across (what I...
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The youngest of the family. Not a biter, either. Although destructive if left to his own devices.
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    These two are likely to lick you to death..
  23. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Bad beards aside, what I appreciate most about the film is its treatment of James Longstreet. The postwar politics of the "Lost Cause" and Southern Historical Society folks needed a scapegoat for Lee's failure at Gettysburg, and since Stuart and Lee were not only gone but had been canonized...

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