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  1. ChiTownScion

    Good Wear Star Sportswear 42-18245-P after the first year

    Nice jacket. Wear it in good health.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    At least we had the National Lampoon magazine in the first half of that decade. Iconoclastic humor in print that has not had anything as an equal since.
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    Other cultures

    Had a friend/ fellow traveler in college whose father got a less than royal shaft in that same takeover of Kentucky Fried (mid- 1970's).
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Get well, soon!
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    It started as a conspiratorial pleasure enjoyed with my son- behind my wife's back. My wife found the series to be "gross," particularly one episode where after losing all of his teeth to dental neglect, Ren began ripping out the nerve endings of his teeth for a Nerve Ending Fairy, who would...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    I have to confess that I really enjoy watching Animaniacs, and Ren and Stimpy. As to the latter, one of my favorite episodes (Anthony bears an astonishing resemblance to my oldest son, when he was little):
  8. ChiTownScion

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

    Heard a similar comment from a Louisiana friend regarding "Cajun Chef," Justin Wilson.
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    I have said this before, but my favorite "regional character" of radio (and film) was Kenny Delmar's Senator Beauregard ("That's a joke, son!") Claghorn. What made him even funnier to me was when I found out that Delmar was actually born in Boston, died in Connecticut. His cartoon doppelganger...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    The early (pre- Code) Betty Boop features, and the early ones with Popeye muttering puns (Ex: After removing Swee' Pea's facial features with ink remover.. "Take that blank expression off yer face..") were priceless.
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    Did the Fleischers run a sweat shop? I had read that they moved the operation to Florida to avoid dealing with unionizing.
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    All of the Harveytoons were pretty inane, although some of Casper were passable. I could tell (even as a kid) that the MGM (especially Tex Avery) and Warner Brothers toons were originally written with adult audiences in mind... but the Harvey characters always seemed to "talk down" to kids, at...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    That strip was extremely popular among second and third generation Irish Americans whom I have known who grew up with it. Classic threads of "shanty" vs. "lace curtain" Irish identification, and the folly of acting too big for one's britches. They all "knew people like that." But I think that...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    Start with the rancid, thick air of a commuter railroad Smoking Car.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Certainly was true as far as my maternal grandmother and her sister. They were the most bigoted individuals that a kid should ever have to deal with. Had I ever used the N- word in my house, either my mother or father would have washed out my mouth with soap. My dear, sweet grandmother and her...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Reminds me of when I took a trip to Canada in 1979. Stayed in a youth hostel in Ottawa: neat place, a converted jail that even had its own built in gallows (still functioning trap door). Part of the fun was hooking up with young people from around the world and then taking in the local sights...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Houseman was cashing in on his The Paper Chase Professor Charles Kingsfield character. The movie, with Timothy Bottoms and Lindsey Wagner, was pretty good. But there was a later television series where they did an Iago the Parrot Job on Kingsfield: made him more "lovable" in order to widen...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Anecdotes always provide an interesting perspective and they certainly are always of value in their own right. However, there is always a danger when equating them as the final word in any historical event or period. They are the snapshots, but never the whole story. And I'd submit that is why...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I was in third grade (8 years old) at the time and I recall discussing it with the lady next door. Afterward she apparently told my mom how impressed she was with my knowledge of that then- current event. And I remember thinking, "Why the hell wouldn't I know about the Fidel Castro, Nikita...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    And then there were the Federal Signal Thunderbolt sirens. By the late 1950's, every firehouse in Chicago had one on its roof. Imagine the hilarity which ensued when, after the 1959 Chicago White Sox took the American League pennant, then Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn ordered the sirens to...

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