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  1. ChiTownScion

    Humphrey Bogart is Really Dead

    Like the fact that that the NFL has made 145 game rule changes from 1995 to 2014, and an additional 11 rule changes for the 2015 season alone? And usually made to increase revenue for the already filthy rich team owners. The funniest past is that the NFL is, on paper at least, a "not for profit...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Humphrey Bogart is Really Dead

    Naw. She'd be closer to a young Kate Hepburn. Not gonna take any crap from a man, but a little more subtle than a rolling pin to the cranium in the means that she'd employ to put him in his place.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Humphrey Bogart is Really Dead

    My twenty-something friends know the name and the face, but I don't think that they fully appreciate the tough but fair, hard but tender nature of his screen persona. One of my closest friends and lodge brothers is educated and very Era aware. He teases his very lovely wife with a routine he...
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Family legend regarding my great grandfather, born in County Cork and emigrated to Chicago: at the wake held at the house, the boys wanted to prop Martin up for "one last round" with them in the kitchen.
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Call me cynical, but that looked staged. First day of class routine to drive home the point that attention is to be focused on the here and now.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Frank Nelson: Yeeeessss!

    As to the real Frank Nelson...... When we were first married my wife and I joined the 20th Century Railroad Club in Chicago. About a year or so prior, they ran a "Jack Benny Special" excursion to Waukegan. Visits were made to a school named after Jack where films of the old show and such wee...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Frank Nelson: Yeeeessss!

    Wow.... that isn't even subtle.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Frank Nelson: Yeeeessss!

    I love the fact that a whole new generation of kids is exposed to Frank Nelson, even if it's his cartoon incarnation ("the Yes Guy") on the Simpsons. My son, who got exposed to old time radio at an early age and knew all about the Jack Benny Show and Frank, "got the joke" when other kids in 3rd...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The Titanic sails again!

    Bravo Zulu, YY.
  11. ChiTownScion

    Loungers' Pets

    Our newest addition: Casey is a Bichon / Shih Tzu mix, and (because of his older brother & sister) an "honorary pug." He'll be a year old in September. My sister could no longer take care of him so he's now part of our household. Because he hadn't been groomed in such a long time he had to...
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I remember seeing the video of that 1994 remake with my (then) little boy of four, and the thing that I recall being most disturbing was the language of some of the wee rascals ("Finder's keepers, losers suck!" "Aw, BITE me!!" ). I remember saying to my wife that the original rascals would have...
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Nah. The reason the strip was funny, and the movies succeeded, was because Dagwood was upper class, and Blondie was a flapper who decided to settle down. Can you imagine Baby Dumpling playing with an Xbox? It'd be like redoing Jiggs and Maggie and their short features: the reason that the...
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The worst- THE worst- remake of a classic was that Steve Martin, "Cheaper By the Dozen" thing a few years ago. Now generally, I like Steve Martin. But when you grew up reading the Gilbreths, reading about the Gibreths, haunting libraries looking for anything that you haven't already unearthed...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives

    My dad's second wife (since you mentioned cradle robbing) was the same age his oldest son (my older brother) would have been had he lived past 16. She was a wealthy young widow, and when my dad was exposed to that wealth he turned into a real ba***rd. He and I were estranged for 8 years: didn't...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives

    Head injury. Went into a coma and died a few days later. As much as I miss him daily, I realize that he would have been miserable in a nursing home, deteriorating day by day, etc. The really sad part about not having him still around, though, is that my father in law, who is a far less noble...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives

    My dad was three years old when his mother died in the 1920's. His father was unable to take care of the seven kids, so those who couldn't be farmed out to relatives or were too young to fend for themselves were dropped off at an orphanage. Since it was a Catholic orphanage, Dad had to be...
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I recall crossing from Wyoming into Montana and observing a daylight speed limit sign that said, essentially, "..as fast as is safe under the circumstances." We were in a Honda, so "opening it up" was a relative term.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Cockpit USA ANJ-4

    To me, authenticity is merely frosting on the cake. It's a nice bonus that the jacket is authentic to the era- it makes for great conversations with people who may have "been there" or had someone who was there. But comfort, warmth, and durability are more important to me personally. And I think...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Cockpit USA ANJ-4

    I'm reviewing this thread over two years after the fact, and I have to say that Mr. Sloan drives the nail quite succinctly. I grew up with a father, several uncles, and quite a number of professors and employers who were World War II vets- and almost to a man they never displayed that chip on...
  23. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Is a tankless heater an option for a replacement? We have one at our vacation home, and we're planning on replacing the water heater at the main residence with one. A bit pricier but we're hoping it'll save money in the long run.

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