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  1. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I first saw it sung by Rowlf the Dog in a skit on the Muppet Show....... which featured a lot of great old songs.
  2. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I think it actually began with the advent of the affordable automobile- not the 60's or social media (which we can argue forever as to what extent they made things even worse). When we all had to rely upon buses, trains, interurbans, streetcars, etc. to get around, rubbing shoulders with...
  3. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Had to chuckle as I read this. I remember my assessment of When Harry Met Sally a quarter of a century ago: "overindulged New Yawkuhs fixated upon the petty conflicts of their crotches."
  4. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Good thing, too, at least as far as a public school is concerned. If any teacher or principal did that to my son back when he was in grade or high school, he/ she would be fortunate if a lawsuit or an indictment was the only adverse consequence of such conduct. And it certainly wasn't tolerated...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Old Department Stores

    Growing up, the standard that by which all other department stores around here were judged was written by Marshall Field & Co. For a kid, the Loop flagship store was one of the best places in the world to visit. Their toy department was absolutely awesome: they had stuff there that I would not...
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    The general decline in standards today

    I don't do Twitter for that reason. I liken it to the scrawlings on the wall of a bus station bathroom: nothing worth reading, and you lower yourself by posting.
  8. ChiTownScion

    The Cap Faction

    I was recently reminded by a family member that I acquired a likeness for nice caps at a very early age.
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "The Raid" (1954) with Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Peter Graves and Lee Marvin. With a plot very loosely based upon the St. Albans Vermont Raid of 1864. Farbie uniforms (esp. the Rebs) and a lot of overacting, and more than a few anachronisms and other inaccuracies: "so bad, it's...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Time is relative ...

    A couple of my American CW re-enactor pards used to regularly travel up to Canada to play Roundhead pikemen in a Battle of Naseby event.
  11. ChiTownScion

    Time is relative ...

    Sounds like a lot of lives were improved not only because this dentist was there, but because your dad opened the door for him to be there. Great story!
  13. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Latest edition of AARP: the Magazine has an interview with Bob Dylan. He's now a great grandfather. Vey ist mir.
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Mine was several boots in the arse that I needed along the way as a "gentle reminder" for many hard learned lessons. To stay in school and complete the course, obviously... but also one of many reminders to be grateful for what I have and avoid wallowing in a sense of entitlement. Had several...
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Saw the film, and I think the point was to show the extreme ravages of early onset Alzheimer's on someone who was (perhaps almost to stereotype) a hard driven educated professional (tenured professor of linguistics at Columbia married to medical researcher) who had international peer...
  16. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I feel a lot more fit, trim, and energetic at 60 than I did at 36. Could be because I'm now semi-retired, hit the gym regularly, and don't have an infant in the next room waking me up every 90 minutes for a year and a half. The price you pay for delaying parenthood until you can actually...
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    The general decline in standards today

    I'm going to guess, and maybe even hope a little , that this whole caper was committed on impulse. I'd hate to think that there is anyone out there so seriously lacking in anything resembling "a life" that premeditation had any part in all of this.
  19. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Standing joke in our house whenever we see one of these is me begging my wife to allow me a snapshot of her rubbing Big Boy's belly for good luck. She never agrees to do that: go figure.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I wasn't even considering Dugout Doug, but he was a pompous gasbag with more show than go... although his father Arthur was a legitimate hero at Missionary Ridge. No. 1 in my book for overrated American generals would have to be Thomas Jonathan Jackson. One of my most passionate...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Time is relative ...

    My reenacting days are over. It got to the point where I looked a bit silly playing a 28 year old Federal regimental surgeon in my mid 50's. I'd occasionally galvanize and don my grey Secesh uniform if the event called for it, but around here, the Rebs tended to be - and I can't think of any way...
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    The general decline in standards today

  23. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    And don't even get me started on his racism and anti-Semitism. But even beyond that, he never grasped the realities that land forces in the West played but one part in the defeat of the German Reich, and that it was the Red Army that bled the enemy white on the ground while Allied strategic...

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