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  1. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Every subway and elevated station in the Chicago Loop hosted one of these (sans the foreign language newspaper array) back when I was a 10-13 year old kid, mid- 1960's. I'd be in the Loop four times a week for rehearsal and performance demands as a boy chorister: an extra two quarters usually...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Standard joke between my wife & I: Why did Wanda Sykes end up doing those Appleby's commercials? To demonstrate that she could actually speak for 26 seconds without dropping the F- bomb.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The simple gesture of proffering a "Bonjour, Madame/ Mademoiselle/ Monsieur" upon entering a shop, and an "Au Revoir" upon leaving, established a lot of good will in both Montreal and Paris, I discovered.
  4. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's interesting that they are so passionate (some might say, paranoid) about that sort of thing in Quebec, where, to cite one example, all of the red octagonal signs must read "Arret." Yet, travel to the lovely North Atlantic islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which are actually France, and...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    "I'm Jooooe."
  7. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Kids these days....
  8. ChiTownScion

    You Know You're in Canada When...

    Now, in all fairness, the last three trips I've taken on Amtrak also featured clean trains and on- time performances. I just wish that the trains ran as fast as what I experienced on a corridor run last year, round trip, between Toronto and Montreal. Even my wife ("No trains. I'd rather fly.")...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've gotten into similar discussions recently regarding what I've always thought of Red Skelton and his Pledge of Allegiance pontifications. Lest I get too political here, I'll let it go at that. Make me laugh, he did. But that didn't give him the right to lecture others on love of country- as...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There's nothing more painful than watching a comedian who is past prime: it's like watching an over the hill boxer climb into the ring and get pummeled by someone nearly half their age. Timing is everything in comedy, and when it's gone, it's gone. I remember going to a college "Marx Brothers...
  11. ChiTownScion

    You Know You're in Canada When...

    You know that you're in Canada because the passenger trains are clean and run on time.
  13. ChiTownScion

    1941: My hometown

    You may have been had on this one. Can't speak for the Grange, but stories of having to "ride the goat" are a common joke among seasoned Freemasons to the newbies. A more or less open secret.. but trust me on this: the only goats in my lodge are of the two legged variety.
  14. ChiTownScion

    1941: My hometown

    Fraternalism hit its membership peak in the decade or so after the Second World War. I can't speak for the Odd Fellows, but a number of young men became Freemasons in those years who didn't maintain their membership for the long haul. Many reasons for that, I suppose, but essentially popular...
  15. ChiTownScion

    1941: My hometown

    Bear in mind that the George Washington Masonic Memorial isn't your typical local Masonic temple: it was built and paid for through national subscription. It's a mecca of sort for visiting Freemasons from around the world.
  16. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I became a father at 35. Financially, it makes a lot more sense to forgo parenthood until one is established, but the downside is that your energy level diminishes with age. Dealing with a baby who didn't sleep through the night for eighteen months took its toll. Not that you'd know that now: as...
  17. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    One year the local Shriners' temple was having its annual fundraiser, selling bags of sweet Vidalia onions. I brought home a bag. "Eat 'em like apples," we were assured. So, like a damned fool I took a bite out of one... immediately recoiling and eyes tearing up. Dear wife chimed in and asked...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well... I suppose it IS a stereotype, but the actor ("act-tuh") is from Maine: Parker Fennelly.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Opinions on US Authentic A2

    I'm wearing a rather thick Orvis sweater beneath it: that could distort the sleeves' look.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Opinions on US Authentic A2

    Bought a US Authentic A-2 about 2 years ago. It's great "entry level" jacket for the money- but as noted it is not of the quality you'd expect from Aero or Eastman.
  22. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Shocking fact: upon vetting this guy I discovered that he was at one time the pastor of the very church where my wife and I were married 31 years ago, and where my son was later christened. It appeared that he drifted to the Congregationalists after his gig there, nearly a century before we came...
  23. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Sounds like a good read. Growing up, it always galled me whenever I'd encounter some pulpit screamer who was about my dad's age (old enough to have served in World War II, our last declared war) but who had avoided the dangers of armed combat in their youth through a clergy deferment. All the...

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