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  1. ChiTownScion

    Aero Grand Theft Sale – who's going?

    Didn't make it across the pond for the big sale and as I saw no Irvins, B-6's, or B-3's in my size for the online list I'm kind of glad that I decided to hold on to my money-- for now.
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I do the same thing. Choking down two sunny side up is the necessary downside of a steak & eggs breakfast, and steak sauce gives them enough flavor to make it tolerable.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I picked up on the similarities between Fred and Wilma, and Ralph and Alice Kramden, at a very early age.
  4. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I also remember the MGM Tex Avery 'toons of the era creating quite an impression on the cousins' pre- school kids. I'd put a tape of them into the VCR (1990's), they'd sit on the floor, and it would keep them quiet for hours. Screwy (Screwball) Squirrel and the Red Hot Riding Hood gal of Avery...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They were a great tool for teaching history. I remember when I was about 4 (late 1950's) asking my dad why they would yell, "Turn out that light!" in the cartoons and hearing about World War II blackouts. It came full circle when I was watching a Bugs cartoon (mid 1990's) with my preschool son...
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Domers. Some of them are pretty decent types. The subway alum wannabes, on the other hand.... don't get me started.
  8. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Had an adjunct faculty research & writing instructor who had worked her way through school as a Playboy bunny. WAY above my pay grade, so the Hart- Susan scenario would have never happened. The closest thing we had to the Paper Chase crowd was one egomaniac who could have been Bell: made a big...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Wearing vintage is considered costumes.

  10. ChiTownScion

    Wearing vintage is considered costumes.

    Rather than "look silly," I submit that the robe and wig of the barrister convey an important concept: that the focus of the jury during the trial is supposed to be upon the facts presented during testimony and the law that they are to apply and not on the personality of individual counsel...
  11. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Wouldn't treat the film it as a documentary of the law school experience. I certainly never had a professor whose daughter looked like a young Lindsey Wagner, and even more certainly I never ended up sleeping with her. Not has any other male lawyer that I have encountered in over three decades...
  13. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Tempus? Fuggit.
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Can't really complain about eBay too much. Over the past year I've decided to sell off most of my Civil War reenacting gear- from canteens and haversacks to my officer's tent and a number of my uniforms. Having passed the age of 60, any idea of still portraying a 28- 30 year old regimental...
  15. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    The realization that more time has elapsed from the time that the last US combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam to now, than elapsed from the time my cavalryman great uncle chased Pancho Villa to the time I was born. Or that more time has elapsed from John Glenn's orbital space flight to...
  16. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    For my money, Barney Greenwald was the real hero in both the movie (Jose Ferrer) and the book. I've always admired gutsy Jewish guys who never back down (goes back to David taking down Goliath, I suppose) and his post trial speech is really the best part of the book. It ends: “‘Scuse me, I’m...
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    I make it a point of gifting two large ball bearings to friends who are former US naval officers. They always seem to get the joke: rolling the bearings in their hand and exclaiming, "AH! The STRAWBERRIES!!"
  19. ChiTownScion

    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    Ran into one of the ministers of our church at the local cinema (about 35 years ago) who had brought his own popcorn in a brown paper bag from home. My friend told him that brought to mind Grandpa (Walter Brennan) on The Real McCoys pulling the same stunt.
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I saw my mother die inch by inch, day by day, over a period of twenty years as result of it. When death finally came it brought an overwhelming sense of relief, knowing that her unrelenting suffering while fighting for the next breath was finally over. Broke off an engagement when I found out...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    That was the irony and the tragedy of it. This was not some backward, ignorant nation. This was arguably the most educated and technologically advanced of nations, the nation of Beethoven, Schiller, and Goethe. That it could happen in Germany- because its population had been driven to...
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And while their own Boys deserve as much wrath as any, their marketing campaigns have defined Santa Claus as we understand the persona.
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Having never smoked, having given up alcohol over two decades ago, and having been faithful to the same woman for over three, drinking soda pop is one of my few remaining vices.* I get the lecture about it dissolving the calcium in my bones about once a fortnight, and I substitute unsweetened...
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