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  1. green papaya

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    If you went back to the years 1680 - 1769 era and tried to blend in with the locals do you think your modern English would still be understandable to the people of the day? What if you asked them if they knew of any good places to get a good steak or a few beers?
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    San Francisco starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy the story is set back in 1906 SF , has a excellent recreation of the Great Earthquake & Fire of 1906 A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally...
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    What are you snacking on?

    Butterfingers candy
  4. green papaya

    65F is too warm for jackets in February

    52 or below is the minimal to need a light jacket 65+ is too hot for jackets, especially on a sunny day
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    What's for Dinner?

    Clay pot rice with house special pig's tails with peanuts on top
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    London Fog Bunker Hill corduroy collar barn coat
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I only consider Sean Connery as the original James Bond, all the others are imposters especially any Bond movie made after the 1980's, the real James Bond ended in the 80's all those new actors are not James Bond, I just cant accept them, too many new actors using James Bonds name just doesnt...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Nightmare Alley 1947 Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    WW1 - WW2 vets, everybody's father was a WW2 vet , now most are age 90 and up, and most have passed away.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    1. The sight of a woman wearing a dress, or real ladies clothes, the way your elementary school teacher use to dress, remember ladies wore dresses, guys wore slacks / jeans back when I was a kid it was mandatory for girls to wear a dress or skirt, if a girl wore boys clothing they would send...
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    Lunch, Anybody?

    barbecue baby back ribs, green beans, rice, leftovers from Sunday night dinner.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My old childhood fishing hole , the best bass fishing in my life, it's a out of the way place out in the country next to a cattle ranch down a levee road with a small dam. they put up "no trespassing signs" and have locked the gate, they closed the road to the public maybe 20 years ago? the...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I like the smell of cigars & pipe tobacco, but never smoked myself , the aroma does have a relaxing smell , almost like the pleasant smell of fresh brewed coffee when you go to the coffee shop.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    when the closest thing to Playboy magazine when you were a kid was the SEARS ROEBUCK catalog Women's Lingerie dept.
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    Out of The Past

    I have it on DVD , it's an excellent movie , I have only seen it in original B&W , I noticed they do a lot of smoking in that movie. he would smoke a cigarette every chance he gets
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I agree nicotine is an addictive poison, after living with a chain smoker for years, I can see how addictive smoking can get they have to have a cigarette before and after anything and everything that happens through the day and night the telephone rings, or after a call, they have to have a...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I watch a lot of the old classics, especially the Film Noir Classics and some of these movies, every scene shows them smoking, or offering somebody a cigarette or asking for a light, or rewarding somebody by offering a cigarette, or smoking while doing some activity they seemed to really be...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw the movie HOUSE on TELEGRAPH HILL [1951] an excellent Film Noir Classic! Upon emerging from a Nazi death camp, Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortesa) takes the identity of a friend who died there. She travels to the United States where she meets her friend's son, Chris (Gordon Gebert)...
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Blade Runner movie 1982: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die."
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    Show us your Guns!

    The COLT Model 1903 pocket auto is a real classic, I wouldnt mind having one in my collection these are often shown in the old Film Noir or crime dramas, old gangster movies from the Golden era, they seem to show this model in old movies more than the M1911 probably because of the size &...

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