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  1. ChiTownScion

    Dressing Down For Church Has Gone Too Far, CNN Article

    And then there is the option of dressing however you see fit, and doing something you view as more constructive, beneficial, and enjoyable with your scare free time on a Sunday morning than spending it inside of a church. Perhaps it's rooted in part in my Catholic upbringing and the...
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    Phoenix area or Denver

    Denver itself isn't much to write home about, but go an hour or so west into the mountains, and it's quite amazing. The nice thing about skiing west of the Divide is that even in winter, the cold is not extreme until the sun sets. And if you're willing to drive a few hours on a long weekend, the...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Father's Day - Did you request anything special?

    I have found that it really isn't "Fathers Day"-- not in the sense that dear old dad (me) gets to do exactly what he wants. But that's okay- I'd rather share the time with my wife and son doing something that we all enjoy. I usually get taken out for a steak or prime rib, or we simply prepare...
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    A Classic Boys From Marketing Pitch

    Too bad that Der Kapitan had never met Horace Rumpole (of the Bailey). Jack Pommeroy's claret would have kept him "astonishingly regular"......AND he could have a form of "dot dosing" that would have gone well with a meat entrée.
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    A Classic Boys From Marketing Pitch

    This was one of those, "things I found while researching something else" items. I saw it, and I immediately thought that Miss Lizzie (and others) would get a kick out of it as a study in marketing. No idea when or where it was published.. but I got a laugh out of it- especially Bobby and Dad's...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My parents divorced after 29 years of marriage, and my wife's parents divorced after 57 years. Both of our parents married before each spouse was little more than teenagers (In fact, her mom was 17 and mine was 18: really too damned young.) We will celebrate 30 years in August. Both of us...
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    The Fallen of World War II - Well Worth Watching!

    It's an apples and oranges comparison, at best. The total number who died as result of Stalin's policies has never been documented to the extent that Hitler's atrocities were documented. Moreover, while ethnic groups were singled out for deportation under Stalin, it was never based upon the...
  9. ChiTownScion

    How do you stay inspired during uninspiring times?

    I consider myself extremely fortunate, to say the least. I worked for thirty years in a county government job before I retired in 2012. Sparing the gory details, suffice it to say that between my wife's and my income, we are comfortable, and we anticipate to remain so when both of us fully...
  10. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Watched my mother die in such a manner, inch by inch, day, by day, over ten years. I didn't date smokers, I could have never married a smoker, and I broke up an engagement when I found out that my GF was doing it behind my back. (There were other factors, but that was the straw that broke it. )...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Favorite comfort food . . .

    Favorite comfort food? Popcorn is one of them. My wife got a Whirley Pop Corn Maker for me a while back, and I swear by it.
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    <sigh> Okay. Two more, just for good measure:
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And as a kid, she has a lot less inhibitions in what she says than most adults might face...
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I propose a more immediate solution.
  16. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    I have the Art Fawcett hat: I needed the plane to go with it.
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    New to the Vintage lifestyle, first meet up turned into a disaster

    Well noted. People seldom stop to consider that Cairo ("KAY- row") Illinois lies further south than Richmond, Virginia. South of Effingham is definitely a different world from Chicago, or even Freeport or Rockford. Even Abe Lincoln recognized that: commissioning southern Illinois Democrats such...
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    Sears might be going belly up

    But, score one for the good guys: WCFL was originally the radio station of the Chicago Federation of Labor.
  20. ChiTownScion

    New to the Vintage lifestyle, first meet up turned into a disaster

    The conduct described in the OP was absolutely despicable. I hope that those who engaged in that conduct are not affiliated with TFL.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    So, steering this back to Germans under Patton: why would the majority of German soldiers having survived years of unrelenting hardship on the Eastern front be willing to turn around and do the same under Patton? I've spoken to a couple of men who had served under Patton in the Third Army as...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    That he was ever taken capable of being taken seriously after the Dardanelles disaster is really a tribute to his greatness, methinks. He clearly was capable not only monumental failure and great accomplishment, but of conveying his ability of achieving the latter to others, even when the former...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Molly Goldberg did her commercials during the show itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5pJZtzQMp0

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