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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    Chattel slavery didn't disappear in the United States until the modern capitalist system appeared. It still thrives in places around the world, even (especially) in places which call their systems "communist" or "socialist". I could list them, but you can probably think of several immediately...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Fallen of World War II - Well Worth Watching!

    I make no apologies for being among the "automatic" Cold War generation. I don't know what is more frightening, the systematic, well-planned, and announced plans of the Nazis to eliminate those they considered to be sub-human, or the Kafkaesque capriciousness and arbitrariness of Stalin's...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Fallen of World War II - Well Worth Watching!

    This was a wonderfully well-produced film. A+. I have a few quibbles, though. First, the writer/narrator's loose way of using "Nazi" and "German" as synonyms. While there certainly were military units which were undeniably "Nazi" (e.g. S.S.), there were undoubtedly millions of conscripts in the...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your favorite movie quotes

    From Young Frankenstein,: Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job. Igor: Could be worse. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How? Igor: Could be raining. [it starts to pour]
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Are You Reading

    The Lady from Zagreb , the latest edition of Phillip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I've been looking all over TFL for the trial narrative thread and all I can find is this discussion of the trial narrative thread. Where do I find it?
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Why men used to be scared of shopping trolleys.

    This leapt into my mind when I saw this thread. I don't know how this guy can do this with his tongue so far into his cheek! I'm headed out for some yogurt, fruit, and milk, but I won't be wearing a backwards ball cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx4-ULOW3q4
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Image request - Black fedora with silver ribbon please

    You will remember that I had you make two like the one worn by the customer in the Edward Hopper diner picture "Night Hawks". The men (both Hopper) are wearing silver fedoras with black ribbons. You made one like that, and a second one with reverse colors (black felt, silver ribbon). It must...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Image request - Black fedora with silver ribbon please

    Say, Tony, how about the black hat with the silver and black ribbon you made for me? Have you got a picture?
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Miscounted. Relevance is to taking the Lord's name in vain, as in taking oaths in trivial matters or swearing falsely. There are Protestant churches which frown on taking any oaths under any circumstances.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "zounds" (original pronunciation zoo- nds) is a slurring of "God's wounds". It was a sort of "oath in trivial matters", against which Pastor Faulstick would admonish his catechumens as a transgression of the Fourth Commandment, or an expression of surpise and shock. I suspect that gadzooks...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    Here are two wonders from Pittsburgh: Dollar Savings Bank, 340 Fourth Avenue. Founded in the middle of the 19th Century to cater to workingmen and their families, this building was erected in 1871. It looks like it was carved from a single block of sandstone. It stands in the middle of the...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    I can see Walter Neff and Barton Keyes on the second-floor balcony. This looks like the Pacific All-Risk Insurance company setting in Double Indemnity!
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Custom made suit or an off-the-rack suit?

    I'd prefer bespoke suits of Savile Row quality, but I can't afford them. I usually wear made-to-measure suits. I will wear off-the-rack suits.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I am a guest somewhere, I don't expect to pay for the hospitality proffered. When I am a customer, I expect to pay for the service, and I expect the service or product or both to be satisfactory. If I were a guest, and the meal wasn't satisfactory, it would be a faux pas to complain. If I...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In my home town there were two drug stores with soda fountains (and this goes way back before the sixties). When you ordered a Coke or root beer or "Rheem's Lemon Blend", the counterman grabbed a steel gizmo and slapped onto a stack of paper cones set pointy-side up. When he lifted it, the cone...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Every society, everywhere, at all times, had/has social superiors and social inferiors. One of the ways this is expressed and enforced is with language. Each particular society has it's own concept of who is socially superior and who is socially inferior, which changes from time to time.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I expect that "coolie" came to the U.S. with the importation of large numbers of single (or separated from their families) Chinese men to work laying rails from California east. When the "golden spike" was driven in Utah on May 10, 1869, the Irish and black laborers moving from the east to the...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Truth be told, anyone in a position of providing a service would likely not have been "hey you", but "boy".
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I may have brought up these before, so pardon my repetition if I did, but railroads, once the "engine" of economic and social life in the U.S. once supplied many common terms which have disappeared as the railroads' economic centrality has faded. Here are two. From the world of politics...

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