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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The meaning isn't to hard to unpack, but I don't even remember it from The Maltese Falcon, much less having heard it elsewhere.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Only the first was worth watching, a classic. The remake with Dennis Quaid was ho-hum.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    More cop-speak ... "subject" instead of "person" or "suspect" "male" or "female" instead of "man" or "woman" I can't believe that the police are on the lookout for "a female subject" who is not a woman. Really! Are they looking for a "female subject" who might be a dog? No!
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Oooh! Oooh! I'd like to chime in on the term at the very top of my most-despised list ... "utilize" I have yet to see a circumstance where "utilize" conveys a meaning different from "use". Thanks for the new term. I hadn't known of "hypercorrection" before.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Attention: Johnston & Murphy footwear owners

    My own experience, exactly.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Are You Reading

    How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How many of you had a father who advised you to go somewhere by "shank's mare" when you asked him to drive you somewhere?
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Unfortunately, many native drivers here don't know the rules either. So, for the benefit of ignorant locals and for our foreign guests, here they are: 1) If two cars arrive at a four-way stop intersection, one after the other, the car which arrived first has the right-of-way. 2) If two cars...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A little weak on your Old Testament, eh?
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    THE LION BRAND (Triest & Co) NOT THE LANGENBERG HAT CO

    You can see the 615 East Fifth Street address on Google Earth. It appears that the neighborhood has been redeveloped over the past 80 years, but it's still residential, if a bit more up-market than it would have been in 1930. The Alvorado Street address in now a park.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    THE LION BRAND (Triest & Co) NOT THE LANGENBERG HAT CO

    "Aunt Rose father" appears to be the nine-year-old daughter listed as "Rosa" in the census record. The inscription leads me to believe that at some point she gave it to one of the grandchildren.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    THE LION BRAND (Triest & Co) NOT THE LANGENBERG HAT CO

    Using Ancestry.com, I found an entry for Giovanni M Crosetti with a matching date of death and age. He lived in Watsonville Township, Santa Cruz, CA. He was born in Italy (no surprise there) and was married to Mary, also of Italian birth. According to the 1930 census record, Mr. Crosetti, was a...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Duluth Trading Co - AWOL Bag

    I have the canvas one, with leather trim. I bought it about a year ago. My only complaint is that the handles aren't rounded where they fit in the palm. If they made them with a rounded, padded handle, I'd give it two thumbs up, but as it is, It gets one-and-a-quarter.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw "Gravity" the day it opening at the up-scale multi-plex (they have a wine bar) near my house. The visual effects were great! The tension was well-maintained, and Sandra Bullock still looks wonderful at 49! (OK, I'm not so young myself, in fact, if I had tried to date her when I was single...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    When did city slickers start wearing jeans?

    Yes. He had a small part as a, wait for it, a piano player.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Ditto for my father's mother.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In the US, a person involved in taking illegal bets is called a "bookie" or "book maker", because he notes the wagers his customers place in his notebook. So, placing a bet is "making book". Another way of saying the same thing is "you can bet on it" with the unstated assumption is that the...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was in high school, I knew a recent graduate who, after knocking around a year or two, got training as a "key punch operator". Holy Hollerith, Batman!
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's another one from a Dragnet episode. Friday and Romero were interviewing the mother of a teenaged suspect at work, where she was "a multigraph operator".

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