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  1. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Grainers ("single barrels" and "double barrels")are more or less the preferred ride among train hoppers today, from what I've read and heard. Boxcars are becoming rarer, and they're usually sealed. If a fella is really fortunate, the "Cadillac ride" is an unlocked DPU, a diesel power unit...
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I'm in a nautical mood I announce, "I need to pump bilge.."
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In one employment assignment, we used a line used (in another context) by W.C. Fields in "The Fatal Glass of Beer:" "I need to go milk the elk..."
  4. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The term actually dates to the truss rods underneath older railcars made of wood and wrought iron. They were pretty much dying out by the late 1930's as steel framed cars became the norm. Remember that when the old time hoboes spoke of riding the rods, most freights ran at slower speeds and...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Italian Vicenza Horsehide Full Grain Veg.-Tanned Horsehide for Aero Jackets

    My personal view is: Flyboy over Scooter Boy (jackets), any day of the week. These look especially nice.
  7. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, and he was the first astronaut to have an earned doctorate in engineering, so there's that too.
  8. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Saw the movie and loved it, to be honest. Viewed it with a Brit friend and his Canadian wife: it was interesting hearing what those from other nations experienced in July of 1969, when the major actors in the film were not even alive. Aldrin is evidently one of those cheerleading disapproval...
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    I had an English prof in college who told me that she had attended a conference where Farrell was a speaker: described him as pathetic, "..like an over the hill boxer trying to still give it a go in the ring and getting beaten mercilessly." As I read about his difficulties with publishers later...
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    What Are You Reading

    An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell , by Robert K. Landers (2004). I fell in love with the works of Farrell when I was working construction during that summer between high school and college. I began, of course, devouring the Studs Lonigan trilogy (Young Lonigan, The Young...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Happy Birthday...

    You mean "crypto- Nazi" vs. "I'll sock you in your godd**ned face and you'll stay plastered!" at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968? And that was one of the saner moments of that particular week. Buckley could be more than a little pompous, but that was one moment when he definitely...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My cousin was 15 (a year younger than me) and his mom told him to clean up his refuse at a Burger King. "What?? They pay foreigners to do that!" To this day I hope that he was simply being teenage snarky and not serious.
  14. ChiTownScion

    Had lunch out at............

    My dear wife loathes White Castle, so any "crave " satisfying has to be done on my own time. Their shakes and fries are pretty good: the signature sliders (my opinion) seem too soggy. I do remember that, decades ago, after a hard night of bar hopping nothing provided better ballast before...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Your first job

    First real job was as a trap boy at a gun club (trap & skeet). I'd be hunkered (sometimes for hours at a time) in a concrete bunker- type structure, placing clay "pigeons" on a mechanical trap arm that would fling them through the open front and into the air for guys with shotguns to blast. The...
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Whenever I heard, "Hey, kids!" I knew that the pitch was following. I suppose the upside is that it planted a seed that sprouts in my noggin every time that our Lizzie mentions, "the Boys," and hits the button for a "Damn right!" in me when she does so. In a similar vein: The Boys are...
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    if a non white person tried to order a meal back in 1850 would they serve him?

    And the irony, of course, is that but for certain non Anglo- Saxon identities, the United States of America would have never come into being. It was never an exclusively Anglo- Saxon enterprise even at the onset. The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown was treated at the time as a French...
  19. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Ever since I read that Lou Costello ripped off sight gags from Curly Howard, I had no use for them. "A gentleman does not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do," and all that. "Who's on First?" was a pretty decent bit, but not enough to rate them as comic geniuses. Anyway... that's...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Vintage neon signs

    Still served@ Hamburger Heaven, York Street at North Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois.
  21. ChiTownScion

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Technically not a "western" (more like a "midwestern" as it took place near St. Louis), but when I was a tot my favorite TV show was " Casey Jones." Alan Hale Jr. starred in a pre- Skipper role played Casey, but for me the star was Sierra Railroad #3: later featured in both "Petticoat Junction"...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage neon signs

    Lizzie: "….. bourgie snots who wouldn't be caught dead drinking Maxwell House. " Hey, even a bourgie snot couldn't say no to a cuppa joe proffered by Cora. Unless she suddenly flipped out and said that she was willing to kill you over your ruby slippers...
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    Celebrity Look-alikes

    I know I'm not the first to notice it. Personally, I thought that Cousin Oliver was easier to stomach.

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