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  1. Stanley Doble

    Titanic sunk by U-boat?

    It is hard to exaggerate just how important it was to set a new speed record with a new ocean liner. Everyone wanted to cross in the quickest time, especially business men and rich men generally. This meant the fastest ship was always the most popular with those who had money to spend. An ocean...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Why Winston had no cash

    So he took goods from shopkeepers and never gave anything in return, and took money from political supporters and never gave them anything in return.... Not sure which is more reprehensible, taking bribes in return for services rendered or taking bribes and giving nothing in return. I am also...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'll give you a backhander and you'll be pinched for speeding in China. A favorite of the old man's.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They don't defrost things anymore. Now they are rethermalized. Just learned this from a friend in the fast food industry.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    They still try to write Christmas songs but they are all boring depressing rubbish. There were a few from the fifties that are empty and meaningless but cheerful. For a decent, touching Christmas song you have to go back to the 19th century and earlier, when people actually believed in Christianity.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I used to devour books, one a day sometimes more. Lord of the Rings was the first book I picked up and couldn't read, or didn't want to read. And I was a science fiction fan at the time. I thought 'I will read this later'. That was 1968 and I still haven't read it.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Medium-wave ends, in Germany.

    What do you mean by medium wave? Would it be like North American AM 560-1700Khz or FM 88-108Mhz? I have a few German tube radios, the prize of the collection is a SABA Breisgau with 16 tubes and 4 bands.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    If your niece is grown up I don't know why she can't have any kind of Christmas she likes. From what you tell me if she wants an elegant sophisticated Christmas she won't be able to invite any of your family but she wouldn't be missing much.
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It never occurred to me that a TV show or movie should resemble real life, let alone my life. Those shows took place in some magic land of imagination. The difference between a Twilight Zone episode and Leave It To Beaver was one of degree. Both took place in worlds of their own. Neither...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Latest word on Shkreli's Twitter account is that someone hacked it and tried to make him look bad. Talk about coals to Newcastle.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Speaking of dress codes has anyone else noticed how doctors have gone down the scale? When I was a kid 50 years ago they dressed like professional men in suits, ties and white shirt. In the office they might exchange the suit jacket for a white coat. Around 1980 they started dressing like they...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Latest word is Shkreli has gone completely nuts. Tweeting to his fans, things like '**** da fbi you know they cant touch a god like meh'. I always knew he was a shmuck this is taking stupid to a whole new level...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Normal House on the Outside, 17th Century on the Inside!

    This used to be a thing. In the late 19th/early 20th century some American millionaires spent enormous sums importing antique rooms, paneling, mantels, even whole houses from Europe and building them into new houses. In the seventies I knew a guy who was very into this kind of thing. He bought...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    You have a skeleton inside you.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Doesn't seem odd to me at all. I remember reading in the papers and seeing on TV about the civil rights struggle when I was a boy. I mean when it was happening. Would see people like Martin Luther King, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby (on I Spy) Aretha Franklin Ella Fitzgerald etc etc. They seemed to...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    It just struck me that there are people who would lose their minds if they couldn't show off the latest Iphone or electronic gadget as soon as it came out, but think nothing of appearing in public in pyjamas, goofy T shirts, torn jeans and worse.
  20. Stanley Doble

    On Vonnegut's Alias Kilgor Trout in Venus on the Half Shell....

    Lifelong battle with depression may have had something to do with it.
  21. Stanley Doble

    The Maltese Falcon

    Blanks can sting and even kill. The paper wad and powder blast are real if the bullet is not. Jon Erik Hexum was killed by a blank. Modern blanks are safer but even so, you don't want to be shot by one.
  22. Stanley Doble

    The "real" cool cats.

    There were 'greasers' who drove hot rods and wore blue jeans with cuffs rolled up 4 - 6", T shirts with a pack of Camels rolled in the sleeve, black leather jackets, work boots and a greasy pompadours like Elvis. But they were outside the main stream and generally looked down on. More...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Liberty Ship ready to blow off English coast?

    The point is that 1400 tons of explosives can make a hell of a bang. I put in the Halifax explosion as an illustration of what it means when a ship load of munitions blows up near a populated area. If the Monty went up it would be a lesser explosion but still powerful enough to do a great deal...

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