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    You know you are getting old when:

    And shaking your head makes you dizzy.
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    The blue jacket looks too much like an old-fashioned working man's jacket that might have been work a hundred years ago by, say, a locomotive engineer or a truck driver. But in Europe, of course. The funny thing is, when looking at the other photos in the link, how some edgy looks somehow look...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Another interesting thread that slipped by me without comment. Let me just make up for it right now. Concerning eugenics, it doesn't not seem to have died out with the end of WWII, nor was it confined to Germany. There were some surprisingly diverse groups that embraced the concept, all with...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    It's not gambling; it's "gaming."
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    That's the place. That's also when I was going. I'll bet you visited Matt Kane's, too.
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    Things I'll miss when retired

    You must read Parkinson's Law.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    From an old movie: "One good one makes up for all the bad ones! Might as well be broke as to not have enough! Stand away from the table if your not placing a bet."
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    I used to do Scottish Country Dancing, a social dance form that really isn't a folk dance. It was possible to go to three different groups in the area where I live. I haven't been for years. For weekly meetings, photograph records were used for music and only rarely was there live music. But...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I recall a television program about card games, such as are played in casinos as well as on Saturday night with your buddies. The host stated that the casinos were all perfectly honest. They had no reason to cheat as the odds always favored the house. But you had watch your friends when you...
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    "Cracker jack is an expression that came from advertising, that is, it was from the name of a commercial product. The word "crack" is also used as an adjective as in crack shot or a crack regiment but I don't know if there is a connection. Probably not. There are other words that derive from...
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    I didn't know that "Tea Dance" was out of use. I've even been to a few, back in my younger days. Mind you, they were nothing like they might have been in the 1930s. When people put on their "Sunday go to meeting clothes," afterwards come home and have dinner, they might later go for a "Sunday...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You realize there were lotteries held during the colonial period.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think being rich would be divine! But I don't think Jesus wanted us to be wealthy, contrary to what is sometimes preached. I think there is still a strong belief, stronger in some places than others, that the social order was divinely ordered, which is not to say it was heavenly for everyone...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think there was a feeling, not necessarily held by all, that some people were better than other people and that some people were simply better off than other people. If the people that were better than other people happen to also be better off but then had a reversal in fortune, then they were...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    And we all thought it was rock 'n roll that was poisoning our little brains and made us do crazy things. I wanted to add a footnote here about me and my relatives. My father served in the army but none of my other relatives with one or two exceptions. My son also served as did I. Those of us...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I had just look up those two on Wikipedia. In never knew anyone who was in television, on stage or in Hollywood, nor have I known anyone who was hounded by the FBI or assaulted by so-called patriots. But I understand completely what your point is. The 1950s were very much a time of conformity...
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    As in, "nice girl."
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I agree with Zombie_61 (!!!) about the way our parents and relatives were and why they were that way. They all had twenty difficult years that my generation never had, if you ignore Vietnam, which wasn't much like WWII (unless you went there). I have no idea who Loeb and Hollenbeck were. I also...
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    The way you described using whitewash, painting (with whitewash) a rotting fence, is exactly what is also meant when the word is used: to do something to make something look nicer even though it does nothing to make it last longer. It just looks better, like painting over rust. The army--all...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    It's because we're now the ones over 30. Way over 30! I knew about the Buick V8 and one of the cars I owned was a Rover 3500, which had one of those V8s. It was the only high-performance car I ever owned. I also had a Rover 2000 TC. I also had three Renaults, which I thought were highly...
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