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  1. ChiTownScion

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    A lot of it can be dismissed as bourgeoisie anachronism, and there are always those who get over occupied with the minutia of detail, but etiquette at the end of the day really is about treating others with the same respect that you'd expect others to show you. Call it a personal weakness if...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I fondly remember that freshness as well... but pity the poor housewife back in the Era in a place like, say, Altoona, PA: division point on the Pennsylvania Railroad and home of their Juniata Shops, where they manufactured and repaired their steam locomotive fleet and had several roumdhouses...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    One of the aspects of Victorian dance protocol that I especially appreciated in my Civil War reenacting days was the dance book that each lady was supposed to carry, and did, at the more formal events. The unwritten rule was that you were not supposed to dance more than twice with the same...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Old pair of ww2 AN-T-35 USAAF trousers

    When it's minus 5F with a howling north wind and my upper torso is toasty from my ANJ-4, everything below the waist really wishes that someone still made a repro of these.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Cold/Cough Remedies?

    My first go- to is hot lemonade. And then a shot of Nyquil to get to sleep. Usually helps.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Remember the B-17 wait gunner I mentioned before? Ed regaled me with a tale of how he lost two stripes. His bomber group was being addressed by a brigadier who was seeking volunteers for a mission likely to reap a lot of casualties. This was after the second Schweinfurt raid, and the crews were...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Had a lot of teachers, bosses, and other mentors who were World War II vets as I was coming up. They were terrific role models. First boss had been a young tank officer under Patton. Another supervisor had been a waist gunner (Mighty 8th) on a B-17. The guy who hired me for my career position...
  9. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have a friend who, in high school, would set up daily fake Wikipedia accounts just so that he could wreck the grades of lazy fellow students. Ex.: If the class was assigned to write a piece on Shakespeare, he'd edit the Wiki article to include, "In 1939 Shakespeare masterminded the invasion of...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It got so bad on commuter trains out of the city here (Chicago) that all rush hour trains now have a "quiet car" where cell phone conversations, and even normal conversational volume tête-à-têtes between passengers, are verboten.
  11. ChiTownScion

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    The Amish figgered that one out long ago.
  13. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Italian Vicenza Horsehide Full Grain Veg.-Tanned Horsehide for Aero Jackets

    Really nice look with the olive knits. Of course, you know me: Fly Boy jackets over Scooter Boy jackets, ANY day.o_O
  14. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Suggestion for new attraction at WDW: "Mr. Vit's Wild Ride."
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Already planning those extended B&B weekends. Mrs. Scion and I will, I hope, be lighting out in a little 2- seat convertible.... acting like a couple of crazed twenty- somethings in a manner that we couldn't afford when we really were twenty- somethings.
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Religion and nationalism run a close second. At day's end they're all part of the same insane tribalism deployed to divert attention from the real issue: class warfare that is the inevitable by- product of extreme economic disparity. And no: I'm not a Marxist. I embrace economic determinism...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Watched my mother die, inch by inch, day by day, from smoking induced COPD. For twenty years. I broke off an engagement with a woman who was a "secret smoker." Sorry, but it's a non- negotiable with me. Vowed that I would never become involved with a woman who had that habit. Losing one person...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    The man who founded the university I attended (Before it was a university, it was a "Normal School:" perhaps they anticipated my arrival and decided that normality should be abandoned.) was not a bona fide academic: he was a transplanted New England schoolmaster with no academic credentials. His...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I worked one factory job (assembly of electric motors) job in my life. Only 3 months, over a summer. But the mind- numbing drudgery was a great object lesson as to Marx's concept of dehumanizing an individual into a mere means of production. Compared to those who work such jobs for a lifetime...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, I'd definitely prefer a suit to some of the ridiculous outfit that we wore in weddings or to proms in the 70's and 80's... Note the guy with the wrist watch, cummerbund, tailcoat and yellow ruffled shirt: you hang round the FL long enough and there are certain modes of dress that become...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You can actually pick up a decent (wool, not polyester) one online for purchase at a price less than a decent suit. A trip to a local tailor for adjustments, and purchase of the right shirt, tie, shoes, cufflinks & studs, and a cummerbund or vest, and you're set. The one tailored for you will...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    White tie and tails (full formal) are called a "soup and fish" because you usually are served many courses (including those) at a high class banquet when such dress is worn. It's a very proscribed form of dress... only used on rare occasions and quite often gotten wrong by those who attempt it...

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