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  1. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Dolly's version. There's a subtle hurt in her voice that becomes too blatant when slowed down. "Steamboat Willie," or "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile?"
  2. ChiTownScion

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Satirical magazines were better then (early 1970's) as well. Specifically, the National Lampoon. It hit its peak for about 5 years, then fizzled. Yeah, there were the movies and the radio show, but the magazine in its day set the standard for iconoclastic humor- usually not in the best of taste.
  3. ChiTownScion

    What if FDR had lived?

    My own view is that history has less to do with individual personalities- no matter how forceful- than the reality of economic (and therefore, political) dialectic: action, and reaction, create the personalities rather than vice versa. FDR does indeed loom large over the 20th Century- but the...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    I was at a family at age three when my dad threatened to spank me for running into the street. I turned to my dad, shook my crooked little index finger at him and exclaimed, "Daddy.. you're an a**hole!!" He said years later that he wanted to crack me, but my grandfather was laughing so hard, he...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    Honesty as to the sentiment, of course, but sans the maledicta employed by the nine year old Miss Addie Loggins (the Tatum O'Neal character) in the scene. At least if her mom or grandmother was within arm's length. Although if she was accompanied by the legendary longshoreman aunt... maybe not...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    I cannot imagine Our Miss Lizzie, even at that tender age, hollering out in a sheriff's office, "I HAVE TA GO TO THE S***HOUSE !!"
  8. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Just by what I've read and my own common sense, I'd say that it's safe to say that those theatre kids would do anything for you. Loyalty to one's staff isn't a one way street (at least, in the overview) and it would seem prudent business practice to take your outlook, Lizzie. Wish that more in...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I can only imagine the hurt that an employer who treated someone fairly, maybe even like family, must feel when they found out that they've been ripped off by someone that they genuinely care about. I felt something similar when it came to light that a friend and co-worker, an adult probation...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Sheepskin or shearling lined leather?

    I love my ANY-4, but the downside is that the shearling collar acts like a sponge in heavy rain. About the only downside, really. I never wear it with a suit or a sport coat but I think that it has a nice rough elegance to it- and as far as keeping me warm during extreme cold, it's second to none.
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We got this little guy after he'd been rescued from a puppy mill: drove over 700 miles round trip to Missouri to get him. His left eye was already gone, and about a week after he was with us the right eye began to rupture. Emergency eye surgery cost us $3,500 out of pocket... but it never was an...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Everyone knows that Ms. Brown is the voice of sanity in the room..
  14. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Any photos of an Aero RAF shearling ("Irvin") jacket (or jackets: either pre-war, Battle of Britain, or later war incarnation) that you may have sold in the past? I'm curious as to whether a different color of shearling wool is employed from that of their ANJ-4's or B-3's.
  15. ChiTownScion

    Sounds of the past

    I remember those carts: every few feet that they'd be pushed a gong bell would sound.
  16. ChiTownScion

    Sounds of the past

    We had a small Army missile facility near our home, and every day a UH-1 Huey copter would fly overhead with the mail delivery. A very unique staccato sound: my dad said that it reminded him of the V-1 buzz bombs flying over London during the War.
  17. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Straight up, it's a sickeningly sweet concoction. And I found that high sugar drinks gave me the worst hangovers. Too much rich ice cream has the same effect on me, the day after.
  19. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A very small dash of the peppermint variety was always a welcome addition to a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter day (or night) in days of my younger adulthood.
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The thunder down-shake came up a tad short.
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But you do have an interstate that passes not too far from your city, correct?
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I tried something similar with my oldest son on an Amtrak trip. He was about eight when we finally took the Capitol Limited to Washington DC, but I'd been hyping taking him on the train to there and Annapolis (to see the Naval Academy) since he was a toddler. When I finally had purchased the...
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That was always a major bone of contention of mine when I worked hospital security: some mom (it was ALWAYS the mom for some reason) would see a nurse walking down a main floor corridor, and tell their kid, "If you won't behave , that NURSE is gonna give you a SHOT!!" Or seeing me in my hospital...

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