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  1. ChiTownScion

    Things I'll miss when retired

    Personally, I love it. Key for me is staying active. Lodge activities, reading, and keeping current with professional developments. This month, for example, I'm judging a national trial competition among law students. Plenty of time for leisure, of course... although as my wife is still working...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Condemned by The Catholic Legion of Decency

    Religion used as a means of manipulating the proles, in order to protect vested pecuniary interests? Oh, say it ain't so, Joe....
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Father and paternal grandfather were both named John Nicholas. Tracing back the paternal line back to the 1640's there's a John (Johann), Nicholas, and/ or Lawrence (Lorenz) in about every generation. Mother was named Elizabeth as was her mother.. but that didn't seem to go back any further. My...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Dressing nice in the modern world can lead to trouble?

    I picked this ANJ-4 AAF jacket up last November. It's very warm: have not had a single occasion this winter where it hasn't kept me very warm. Problem is: my rear end is still exposed to the cold. Not a big deal most of the time, but when we go up to northern Wisconsin for a weekend I feel the...
  5. ChiTownScion

    If you could be born in any year

    The Puffing Billy Railway of Australia is definitely on the Bucket List: it has an "Engine Driver For a Day" option that seems fun. I like those Pullman excursions in the UK as well. I remember when that graceful lady Flying Scotsman toured the US when I was a boy. We're restoring a Union...
  7. ChiTownScion

    If you could be born in any year

    1954 here. Suppose that, if I could have chose to have born in a different year, it would have been a year that would have allowed me to grow up in the golden age of steam railroading and become a locomotive engineer at a time when passenger trains were common. To take the throttle of, say, the...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Never burned a bridge on my way out... but was tempted once. Was gonna pull the old Jimmy Cagney grapefruit bit on a nursing supervisor at a hospital where I worked. Going out the last day, we did have breakfast together... and against all of my reflexes I actually ended up liking the old gal...
  9. ChiTownScion

    The "SS United States" will maybe sail again?

    Problem is: time is a luxury for many. That four week annual vacation that you good people in Germany take for granted upon going to work for a company is unheard of in the US: we start out with 2 weeks paid vacation a year-- IF we are lucky. I had to work for an employer for ten very long years...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The "SS United States" will maybe sail again?

    Liners and cruise ships are two different breeds. The only true liner still crossing the Atlantic is Cunard's Queen Mary 2. And even her lines are more akin to cruise ships: because demand now is for balcony cabins, she had to be made wide enough to support a higher superstructure. The result is...
  11. ChiTownScion

    The "SS United States" will maybe sail again?

    What the plans to restore the SS United States- and the scheme to launch a Titanic II - gloss over is the fact that what people will put up with regarding travel accommodations change radically over the decades. If you can find that one in a hundred person who'd prefer a seven day crossing on...
  13. ChiTownScion

    The "SS United States" will maybe sail again?

    Much like the Titanic II project, I'll believe it when I see it.
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This little scoundrel! Casey James. Gets us (two other dogs and two humans) up every morning @ 5:30 AM. By the time I hit the main floor I need that coffee.
  15. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Chuck it out the window! Gravity is our friend! Monk fans: Sharona, or Natalie?
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My sister in law and her then-husband used to pull that crap on us when we visited. Not just when it was wet outside, but all of the time. Thing is, their house at the time was a crummy little hovel (since razed for their McMansion) and I think that any dirt tracked in would have actually...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The "cake eater" actually ended up with gal. Hot pups!
  19. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    So.. what's the difference (in 20's terms) between a "cake eater" and a "jelly bean?"
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Working in a hospital can definitely color that outlook dark. At the first hospital I where was employed- now closed- there was a definite arrogance among many of the attending physicians. And the thing was, it really had no basis in reality: the hospital was not one of the better ones around...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Cabooses ("cabeese?") on the rear end of freight trains. At least my son got to see them in action before they were replaced by FREDs (flashing rear end devices).
  22. ChiTownScion

    Philosophical: Life just consists of episodes.

    It's also the sum total of a lot that occurred even before I was born. So many, "what ifs." What if Granddad had actually applied himself when he won that basketball scholarship to college? Earned a law degree and gone on to a professional career before the bar, or even on the bench, and lived...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Hail, Ceasar!

    I enjoyed both movies. Very different- but each was era based fun in its own right.
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