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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, as far as I know: 1. John F. Kennedy: Navy Officer 2. Richard Nixon: Navy Officer 3. Gerald Ford: Navy Officer 4. Jimmy Carter: Navy Officer (USNA grad) 5. Ronald Reagan :Army Officer (made movies, but still held a commission) 6. George W. Bush : Air Force Officer. Both Bushes were...
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Monty's Irvin jacket features the much longer Devon fleece. Eastman Leather makes a reproduction currently that will set you back 1600 quid. $2,257.00 at today's rate of exchange. A little rich for my blood, especially when I've read that it can be kind of scratchy.
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, technically... B-3's do not have hand warmer pockets. They have an outside map pouch. My model is the ANJ-4, the last leather and shearling model before Hap Arnold- to the lament of his air crews- did away with them in favor of cloth jackets. And technically, the B-3,the ANJ-4, and the...
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    B-3's are quite awesome.
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My dear wife swears by her heated seats. Unless the weather is extremely cold I find them a bit of a nuisance. In an open air convertible on those crisp autumn or spring days, I might get to like 'em.
  7. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    While I'd like to be able to afford a new leather jacket every year, the price (as you indicated) prevents that. I can justify spending about $1200 on a shearling jacket on the basis that I will never- ever - have to purchase another winter jacket. Got mine two years ago, and it's just now...
  8. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Agree that it went downhill as time progressed. A lot of the earlier strips were reproduced in books that I read as a kid. Even then I knew that the earlier strips had the most edge. Linus was always my favorite. A genuine intellect among his peers, but hobbled by his insecurity. At least in...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Season of Lent

    They made a big deal on giving stuff up for Lent when I was raised Catholic. Candy, soda pop, movies, etc. The only permanent good that I ever saw come out of that practice was when, in 1964, my eventually agnostic Dad decided to give up smoking. Having gone cold turkey, he decided to stick with...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Season of Lent

    My college roommate and great friend is a Methodist, and I love to kid him with a definition of Methodists proffered by the dad (and Presbyterian pastor) in A River Runs Through It. Played by Tom Skerritt in the movie version (Have you seen it?). He defined Methodists as, "Baptists. Who can...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Fish or cut bait," or its less sanitized cousin, "Sh** or get off the pot." Admonitions to cease the fence straddling.
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Precisely because so many religious and other reactionary crackpots are against these unisex bathrooms, I find myself in agreement with those companies and stores that designate them. It's akin to the boycott of Pepsi products that was organized because certain mercenary religionists had their...
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I swear that I've seen that somewhere before... https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-05/enhanced/webdr03/24/11/anigif_enhanced-10337-1400947044-11.gif
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I actually came out with a failing grade in Latin at mid- term, and that had me transferred to a remedial Latin class. An old priest well into his 80's who repeated the basics of declensions and conjugations over, and over, and over again.. until even the thickest headed could grasp it. My...
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One particular clergy sexual abuse case hit a little too close to home. Long story, and I'll omit all but the essential details here. A priest who taught classical languages at my prep school was assigned to meet with my mom for a pre- enrollment conference for the parents of incoming freshmen...
  17. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was thirteen years old when that happened, and in retrospect, what is most shocking about it was that Buckley was so unlike the usual Buckley. I don't care for his politics but I always admired the way that William F. displayed cool calm under fire- on most occasions. Not that time. He was...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    And speaking of Mobil....
  20. ChiTownScion

    The Sound of New York: May 1931

    Washington DC has a similar streetcar conduit pickup. It avoided overhead wires, and some people found those an eyesore. One unique power collection system was Cincinnati's two wire system. The negative return for direct current operation was via a second overhead wire, much like a trolley bus...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    UOTE="EngProf, post: 2358187, member: 38066"]A recent episode of the Simpson's had the VERY old stereotype of the southern sheriff with the usual sunglasses and shotgun guarding a chain-gang - right out of "Cool Hand Luke" (and others). In that same show the recurring southern character made an...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Simply.. beautiful.
  23. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That brand of residual American Puritanism has played out to the nation's detriment in many incarnations. The Euros have a much healthier and adult attitude toward sexuality. Their kids are sophisticated as to contraception and as a result, far fewer of them are pregnant at age fifteen.

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