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  1. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    True ’nuff. But “hamburger sandwich” feels as redundant as, say, “BLT sandwich.”
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Bill Cosby said, in an old routine, that thanks to his father, he was 15 before he realized his first name wasn’t actually Goddamnit! And his brother Russell? His name was Jesus Christ!
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    You know you are getting old when:

    An old friend (RIP) had a formula for this — divide the boy’s age by two and add seven to arrive at the ideal age for his new woman friend, seeing how we fellas are so slow to grow up and all. It works for most any age except the earliest ones. 20 - 17; 30 - 22; 40 - 27; 50 - 32; and so on.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I had cataract surgery on my left eye going back, gosh, 16(?) years ago. I now see so well out of that eye that I’m legal to drive without corrective lenses. But I wear bifocals anyway, because I see better both near and far with them than without them, and because I’ve long grown accustomed to...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ... the shows you watch on TV are full of ads for prescription medicines that treat conditions afflicting the elderly, mostly.
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    Old gas stations

    I think I’ll choose to be tree food. In my blue jeans and All-Stars. Hope the tree doesn’t mind.
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    Vintage roadside

    When matters have deteriorated to that degree, it could be argued that it’s a service to “salvage” what remains that is still worth salvaging.
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    The Strange Case of Melvin "Ted" Carr, Unresolved Mysteries

    Yeeez! All families got skeletons in closets, but my god, that’s a big ol’ pile of bones you all got there. It was disturbing but not surprising to read of the child molestation. That kind of thing happened ALL THE TIME, and still does. It’s all to the better that we are likelier to actually...
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    The Strange Case of Melvin "Ted" Carr, Unresolved Mysteries

    ^^^^^ One of the two of my acquaintance was a fellow I worked with. We weren’t bestest buddies, but we got along okay. In retrospect, it wasn’t shocking that he did what he did. Small world that it is, he was a cousin of a girlfriend’s ex-husband. I asked her recently (we stay in touch) if she...
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    The Strange Case of Melvin "Ted" Carr, Unresolved Mysteries

    Charming fellow, eh? I understand the impulse to hot-blooded homicide. I’ve known and been friendly with a couple of guys who actually did kill people they knew and who had, in their minds, done them serious harm. They both went to prison for lengthy stretches. But I suppose I can consider...
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    Knockoffs?

    ^^^^^ If history has taught us anything, it’s that if there’s a dishonest buck to be made, someone will give it a try.
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    Knockoffs?

    ^^^^^ An outfit called therealreal sells, as its name suggests, genuine name brand stuff, used. I was intrigued by a large Nelson bubble lamp, the one shaped like a flying saucer, on offer there for a steal of a price. So I was set to buy it, entered my name and address and was about to get to...
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    Knockoffs?

    Among the reasons I much prefer Antiques Roadshow on PBS over other “reality” TV shows is that it calls out its own false information. Right off the top of my head I can think of three occasions when it drew attention to its appraisers being fooled by a fake. So many (un)reality shows portray...
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    Knockoffs?

    Retro fridges are now a “thing.” Smeg’s offering, with 1950s styling and dimensions, retails for something like $2,500. A person can get a perfectly serviceable used fridge for next to nothing if he doesn’t mind putting a little effort into it. I’d much prefer a gas stove to the glass-topped...
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    Knockoffs?

    Yes, Liz, same with most household appliances, large and small. I bought an original Sunbeam T9 toaster not so long ago for something like 15 bucks. The thing is older than me by a good decade or so, maybe more. Works fine. In the downstairs unit is a GE four-slicer — a thrift store find, if...
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    Knockoffs?

    I recall a discussion I had a few years back with my old-car restoring uncle regarding the all-new steel MGB bodies then available from British Motor Heritage and the all-new first-generation (’65 and ’66 models) Ford Mustang convertible bodies. He was unequivocal — they’re fakes, as far as he...
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    Knockoffs?

    It’s darned nigh impossible to protect a style, in clothing or furniture or automobiles or any number of other things. I believe that Levi’s has trademarked the decorative stitching pattern on the hip pockets of its blue jeans, for instance, but beyond that, copy away, so long as you don’t...
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    Knockoffs?

    A friend recently scored a pair of upholstered Eames shell chairs, on the “contract” base, for something like 90 clams for the pair. One of the chairs has a small tear in the pink vinyl. She’ll get it to the upholstery guy one of the days. She found ’em on Facebook Marketplace. Had to drive an...
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    Knockoffs?

    Part of what fuels the market for knockoffs, I do believe, is part of what fuels the market for originals. Design Within Reach, a retailer with stores in the tonier districts of several major cities, sells the licensed, authentic versions of “iconic” furniture pieces from the big name modernist...

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