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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Sounds of the past

    Me! Dragnet and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In honor of this site and in consideration of the election season, when was the last time you heard someone "talking through his hat?'
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I drive an eleven-year-old car and a fifteen-year-old truck. I am astounded that so many newer cars don't seem to have turn signals, even the really expensive ones!
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Drivers who can't be troubled to use turn signals to change lanes! When I'm on the local interstate, traveling at a reasonably safe distance behind the car in from, there is always some clown who wants to squeeze between us, despite the fact that there is at least 20 car-lengths open behind me...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Wearing vintage is considered costumes.

    There "no organic, essential reason ..." for anything beyond eating, defecating, and copulating. Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, else is a social construction, and that fact doesn't detract anything from those social constructions. There is no organic, essential reason why I...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Wearing vintage is considered costumes.

    Lizzie, do I have to point out to you the difference between a public park and a court room? Whose definition applies? Well, that's easy. Judges, for good or ill, are the sovereigns of their court rooms. Judges ought to practice "judicial restraint". They are there, after all, as servants, not...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Short for "baby faces". There was a time I was a big pro wrestling fan. I remember taking the young son of a friend to a wrestling show. I told him that I bought the seats far enough away from the ring so that the fake stomping and punching wasn't so obviously fake.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Acetylsalicylic acid just doesn't trip off the tongue like "aspirin". It must have been the hated "boys in marketing" who persuaded the chemists that a shorter, easier to pronounce and remember name was just the thing for the label on the bottle.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'm pretty certain I've read that "divan" is a word of Turkish origin. Let me check. Yep, I love it when I remember something! Here's the WikiPedia entry for divan.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Something similar happened to me, oh, thirty or so years ago. When the doc finally entered the examining room, I said, "Doctor! I'm glad to see the rumors weren't true!" He looked at me with a puzzled expression and said, "Rumors?" I said, "Yeah, the rumors that you joined the Foreign Legion."
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Does your name date you?

    I suppose that would have to wait at least until you're a grandfather.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Cagney may have said it, but what came immediately to mind was the character "Slip" Mahoney of Bowery Boys fame. I think there's a good possibility (snarky comment here) that 1960's U.S. stand-up comic Norm Crosby was his illegitimate son. Leo Gorcey played Slip and the group, in various...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said: 'England and America are two countries divided by a common language'
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My father's mother referred to what I would call a "sofa" or "couch" as a "davenport". I don't hear that term these days. According to this web site (http://furniture.about.com/od/furnitureglossary/g/Davenport.htm) the name comes from the name of the company which manufactured a popular line of...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Rock & Roll Oldsters

    Nobody younger than me will ever be old!
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    This suit's material?

    It's also known as "glen plaid". Cary Grant wore a similar suit in North by Northwest. An outfit I have used is Prince Henry in Bangkok. They travel around the world, booking a room in a hotel in various cities, taking measurements and showing swatches. According to their web site...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Remove wrinkles from silk sport coat, advice, please

    I just received a sport coat I ordered from The Territory Ahead. It is a silk "tweed". It came folded and bundled into a plastic mailing envelope. Needless to say, it has wrinkles. The fabric care instructions are "Dry Clean Only". I don't wish to pay to have a never-worn garment cleaned for...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Does your name date you?

    My recently-deceased uncle (my mother's brother) had Melvin on his birth certificate, but everyone but his mother called him Butch.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Like I wrote, we don't write it, we say it. What you've got there is the apostrophe representing the missing "o" in one of my alternate, you should pardon the expression, spellings of it. As a native whose family lived there since the mid 19th Century, by the mid-20th Century both "yins" and...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Custom made Vintage inspiredFedora 7 1/2

    Nice hat, too bad it's so small!

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