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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I remember showing that clip to my wife, and her replying, "Whether or not she's fed up with the 'I Love Lucy' comments, that really is what most people will conclude." While admitting that Lucy Ricardo was a 1950's upper middle class ditzy housewife and what you see here is a no- nonsense...
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I see a typed "y'all" on an internet post, and it's like the proverbial nails on a blackboard. I immediately flash to the image, "hayseed." I usually retort with, "Yawl is a two masted vessel: YOU is the second person subjective case pronoun- singular or plural." Same with "there" for "their"...
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And the south side of Chicago. Usually forgoing the "guys."
  4. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    The game plan is for my wife to retire in 4-5 years and then retire to Portland. A Miata hard topped convertible- and an RAF Irvin to wear when driving with the top down- are on the wish list. Too old and too poor for a Spitfire.:rolleyes:
  5. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    ^^^ Stunningly beautiful. Had I not purchased my gorgeous ANJ-4 from you last year, I'd be mightily tempted. I actually look FORWARD to the next Chicago winter, it's so comfortable and elegant.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Cowwboy Cussin...

    "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter." Gabby Johnson, Blazing Saddles
  8. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Saw him at an Indiana event about 20 years ago: he stood about 5'4", trouser legs rising high enough to see his white socks, and wearing a wrist watch. I do have a friend who does an outstanding Lincoln presentation, however. His wife does an excellent Mary Todd Lincoln as well, at both...
  9. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pains me to admit that I'm this old, but at my first time at Wrigley (1962: at a time I believe that our own Miss Lizzie was little more than a twinkle in the eye of Providence), bleacher seats sold for a buck, grandstand seats (where we sat) went for $2., and box seats went for a whopping $3...
  10. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One solution is minor league games. The play isn't as good, obviously, but the young guys really seem to love the game for the sake of the game itself. They all want that shot at the majors, most will never see it, and yet there is that burning desire to play their hearts out. And for the fans...
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just filling out a scorecard is a dying art.
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Food was always better on the South Side, anyway. Although Wrigley always seemed to attract the more gorgeous women-- a consolation when I was a teenager and the Cubs never really seemed to get it together after that September '69 choke.
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Curiously, the two- tone leather jacket of the Era was an item that both sides of the eternal class war embraced. For the well heeled, it was a fashion statement, a wardrobe necessity for the dapper. And for the working guy, it was an affordable way to acquire a good durable jacket: tailors...
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was always partial to "America the Beautiful," but the best verse is rarely sung by the proles who could learn the most from it. The verse containing the words: America, America, God mend thy every flaw! Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law.
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That is more or less how I tend to view the best way to show my own patriotism, taking a cue from those of the World War II generation who raised me. In a nutshell: keep your mouth shut, just do your job, and avoid the jingoist adolescent flag waving crap. If you feel the need to stand for the...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Does your name date you?

    My grandfather had a brother named Adam and a sister named Eve. And five other siblings as well. Odd part: I never knew about several of them (and three generations of their descendants) until after my Dad had died, and Facebook came into being. Turned out that the extended family was bigger...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Does your name date you?

    Then, of course, there's the greatest animator of them all: Tex Avery.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    A couple shots of the first floor lobby of the Field/ LaSalle Bank Building (135 S, LaSalle Street) in Chicago (1934). As kids, we didn't know what "art deco" meant, so we called it "Flash Gordon Architecture." I think that it looks as if it were designed by Albert Speer.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Does your name date you?

    Creator of Waldo the Cat!
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Thing to remember is that Amtrak was essentially set up to fail. By 1971, the powers that be believed that passenger trains would die because no one wanted to ride them, and the initial Amtrak labor pool (old timers from the railroads essentially waiting it out to railroad retirement) really...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Does your name date you?

    Had an Uncle Herbert: great guy. He was "out" (at least as far as the family) long before it became fashionable. Always kind and gentle. Parents: John and Elizabeth* Grandparents: John and Marie, Joseph and Elizabeth** Great- Grandparents: Nikolaus and Anna, Unknown and Carl, Martin and...

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