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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Do as I say, not as I do" is never a good way to parent. But hey: none of us get this parenting thing right all of the time.
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I recall one gym class coach (also the head football coach) face slapping the kid next to me for plastering his nickname on his gym trunks. My impression was that an ex- Marine who had to resort to face slapping a 14 year old kid for something so trivial was nothing more than a ********* coward...
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Never was on the receiving end of any of that, but heard the usual parochial school war stories about it as a kid. By the early 1970's, the "do as you're told or we'll pound the crap outta ya" mentality had become passé in most parochial secondary schools. Likely it became obvious that the...
  4. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    In an attempt to be polite, instead of saying, "He's taking the dirt nap," I prefer: "He was granted cert. to that Big Supreme Court in the Sky."
  5. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A Bag of Marbles, a 2017 French and Canadian production based upon the autobiographical account of Joseph Joffo. Two Jewish brothers and their family flee Nazi occupied Paris and attempt to survive the German occupation. Very well done and highly recommended.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Today in History

    Wallace was clearly a victim (perhaps that isn't the right word) of the electoral system. At day's end he didn't garner a single electoral vote. Would his 2.4% popular vote have earned him a few seats in a parliamentary body? Not sure. Wallace's running mate, Sen. Glen H. Taylor of Idaho was...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Today in History

    He certainly locked on to a particular mindset and didn't seem to be able to let go of it. He felt no small amount of frustration with two leaders of his own party- Thomas Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower- because he felt that they were too unwilling to retreat from what he felt were the excesses of...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Today in History

    He was a very skilled and able engineer, and as such, was terrific in dealing with the distribution of food logistics. During the Soviet famine of the early 20's he literally saved millions from starvation: not merely handing out bags of grain, but providing the means for future agricultural...
  10. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    When I think of the Rock, I think of those old 1920's "Al Capone" cars that they ran into the late 1970's, particularly on the Blue Island branch. No AC in the summer and I am certain that few commuters lament their passing... but it was like climbing aboard a time machine for an unapologetic...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Things I wanna know before I kick the bucket!

    To you, it's "too much noise." To me, it's a symphony: compressor, air brakes, traction motors winding up, squeal of flanges, the singing overhead wire, and that clang- clang of the motorman's bell. Sad, sad the day when streetcar service ended in Chicago: I wasn't yet four at the time, but I...
  13. ChiTownScion

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    In my younger days I bore a marginal - marginal- resemblance to John Larroquette (prosecutor Dan Fielding). O, the fun of having total strangers come up to you on a street in downtown Chicago and exclaim "Wow! You look just like Dan Fielding, man!" (Kind of like your "I Love Lucy" resemblance...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    For myself: always for court, a nice dinner, live theatre, or Lodge. Never around heavy machinery.
  15. ChiTownScion

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    Out of 125,000 volunteers (and they were all volunteers) serving in RAF Bomber Command as aircrew: 55,573 were killed; 8,403 were wounded in battle; and 9,838 were taken prisoner. Put another way, out of a random group of 100 airmen: -55 killed on operations or died as result of wounds...
  16. ChiTownScion

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

    Definitely not a repro of what was government issue, but...wow! A simply beautiful variation on the theme.
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Worse than a boss whose answer to every inquiry about the status quo is, "Well, this is the way we've always done it?" The person who grasps at the most faddish "in" concepts and the hidebound traditionalist: we've all known those of each extreme, and they can make a fine matching set of...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Today in History

    The damn Secesh had their own version. But that was a common phenomenon in that War: versions and parodies of the same song.
  20. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Still and all, I learn from it. And that's a good thing.
  21. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    And here I thought that I was the only one who was odd man out...
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm old enough that it was still, "the starving kids in Europe," although I doubt that anyone in Europe was starving by that time. Dad: "There's some starving kid in Europe who'd give his right ARM for that bowl of soup!!" Me (age four): "If he sends me the arm, I'll send him the soup."
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The original name- in honor of company founder Leonard Japp's wife. Then December 7, 1941 happened, and they changed the name to the one we know now, Jay's.

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