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  1. ChiTownScion

    Is "yanks" an offensive title

    From what I understand, calling someone "fat" isn't considered such a faux pas in the UK. Over there, the character who runs the railway in the kids' books and television series is "the Fat Controller," but we call him "Sir Topham Hatt," because labeling someone as fat is not considered polite...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Is "yanks" an offensive title

    It doesn't bother me if someone from the UK calls me a Yank, but if someone south of the Mason & Dixon line refers to me as a Yankee, I usually look at them straight on with gimlet eye and say, "I prefer 'Western Federal.' " In Germany, my friends refer to me as an "Ami," short for "American."...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Which Silver Screen Star Do You Resemble?

    Found the whole toon on YouTube:
  4. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I think the first time that historical perspective hit me was in 1977. I was in my first year of law school, and went back to visit my old university. I was chatting with a very cute little freshman gal, and the subject of JFK's assassination came up. Says she, "Oh yeah. We read about that in...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I traced my paternal lineage back to the mid-1600's, mainly to a little village on the Mosel river in Germany. It was my great grandfather who decided to strike out for a new life in the US in the early 1870's. My dad came into the world in 1924: his mother died when he was three, he ended up in...
  7. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Pea Coat- although I'd prefer an officer's bridge coat if given the choice. ANJ-4 or B-3?
  8. ChiTownScion

    Favorite Old Halloween tunes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8uhGHgEMM4 Here ya go.
  9. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    "Iggy, keep an eye on me!" And the question remains open.
  10. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    London. Dick Tracy or Fearless Fosdick?
  11. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    If you ever make your way to the Midwest, visit Segar's hometown: Chester, Illinois. Statues of the characters all around town, and even a dedicated Popeye museum/ gift shop. I'm not much for splurging on trinkets, but I did pick up a nice Eugene the Jeep figure.
  13. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    NorCal. Heading north of the City, it gets even nicer, esp. beyond Santa Rosa. Bluto, or Alice the Goon?
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    The Floor Work Instruction Manual of my Masonic Grand Lodge. At times I am fully aware that the obsessive devotion to this sort of minutia surpasses the ridiculous and the inane to the outsider... but it is important that when we put on the degrees for our candidates that they be done right. I...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Good DVD with ALL of the Little Rascals shorts?

    Love that movie, but even I can't handle more than two viewings. Watching it is an annual ritual- the best part being when I threaten to buy a "major award" leg lamp for our own front window to my wife's protest. I keep hoping that Ralphie will flip out and go after Skut in a manner that he...
  16. ChiTownScion

    whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?

    I think that the closest I have come to time travel were isolated "moments" at certain Civil War reenacting events (and they'd never last more than a few seconds) back when I was active in "the Hobby." I particularly recall a national event outside of Franklin, TN a few years back. We were...
  17. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Walter- although Dunham hasn't written/performed an original funny gag in five years. Marlene Dietrich or Edith Piaf?
  19. ChiTownScion

    What was your first car...???

    Didn't own a car until 1982, nearly a year after I had graduated law school and passed my bar exam. A 1970 Red Ford Torino, similar to this one, at least in appearance. Nicknamed it, "Das Boot," because it was so darn oversized. Finally sold it to buy an engagement ring for my wife.
  20. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    The old Don, easily. De Niro had far better roles. Brando made One, and amid a highly talented cast he stood out. Two was a fine movie- but nothing ever surpassed One. Captain Kangaroo or Sesame Street?
  21. ChiTownScion

    Loungers' Pets

    Chloe is our oldest pug at nine years, nine months. Calvin is our rescue pug; eight years old. Casey is an honorary pug- actually a Bichon - Shih Tzu mix. Just turned one on September 11. The baby of the family, and my little lamb........ even if I really wanted an English Bulldog...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Why the 1920s-1940s?

    I love my wife dearly... but I swear that if I ever walk out on her after 30-plus years it will be because she whipped out that damned cell phone one too many times during one of our all too rare dinners out.
  23. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Black Cat. "The Katzenjammer Kids" or "The Captain and the Kids?"

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