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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    This leads to the phenomenon of what I call "ghost phones." Any time you walk around a hotel or convention center or sports arena you encounter these little alcoves that accommodate nothing but you can tell by their shape that they once held pay phones. I always find them a little spooky and...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Westworld

    Another name: Delos Entertainment, the mother corporation of the park. In the ancient world, the Greek island of Delos was the biggest slave market in the world. Slave traders and raiders brought their wares to Delos for sale. This Delos deals in a different kind of slaves.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    The great challenge to having a Magnum mustache is having the rest of Tom Selleck's face.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    My favorite reductio ad absurdam is an extrapolation made by a scientist a few years ago that, if the increase in the human population keeps increasing as in the past decades, by the year 4000 or something the entire known universe will consist of a ball of human flesh expanding outward at the...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    And then, of course, he starred in the immortal "I was a Teenage Caveman." But he'll always be Napoleon Solo to me. That Ph.D was in Political Science. He was a politics junkie and most of his latter-day roles were as politicians, usually sleazy ones which he played exceptionally well.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A few years ago there was a museum display of pulp magazines with their garish colors. One was singled out for its personal condemnation by Fiorello LaGuardia. He had seen it at a newsstand and complained about the scantily-clad woman on the cover. Strangely enough, he said nothing about the...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think this is a mispronunciation of "jury rigged," a sailor's term for improvised masts, spars and rigging after storm or battle damage. From French "jour"for "day." In other words, rigging to get you through the day until you could install proper masts and sails. Moby Dick mentions "coming in...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    I think part of it had to do with urbanization. When most Americans lived on farms, more children meant more unpaid farm hands. Urban families didn't require a lot of labor and pretty much restricted themselves to replacement level. I knew few families growing up with more than three children...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    TPD, could we see those beauties outside their holsters?
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    Sitting on a shelf in my study I have a mustache mug from "Your Father's Mustache," a long-vanished pizza joint in New Orleans'French Quarter.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    What's For Breakfast...

    The bread of affliction, salted by the tears of bitterness.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    G.I. numbah 10! Cut a chogi to the hooch and tell the dai-wee no more same-same MPC. Now on, greenback!
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    Question: Why are 1890s bartenders always burly, with hair on the top of their heads parted in the middle, shaved on the sides, with a handlebr mustache?
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Westworld

    I wonder if they're playing some game with the names. The boss, played by Anthony Hopkins, is named Robert Ford. The historical Robert Ford murdered Jesse James. There are hints that Ford did away with his former partner and co-creator of the park. The two techs in the basement are named Felix...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    Hemingway probably had the most famous beard when I was growing up, and Einstein the most famous mustache.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Some years ago an economist worked up a prediction based on the declining weight of the American candy bar coupled with its increase in price while shrinking. He arrived at the conclusion that by some date in the future, we would have a weightless candy bar that cost several hundred dollars.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I know of two great-grandfathers who fought in the Civil War - one North, one South. My paternal grandfather served in WWI though he didn't manage to get overseas before the war ended. My father and his brother both served in the Army Air Corps in WWII, both served overseas. My brother and I...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    Maybe it should be noted that shaving yourself became much easier post-1900 with the invention first of the safety razor (King Gilette, 1901, patent date 1904) and later the electric shaver. Beards and mustaches are a lot of trouble to tend (I've worn both in my time), and most of us are too...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Another evening of Poldark followed by Westworld. I confess I'm getting a little tired of Ross Poldark's relentless bad luck. How is he even alive the way everything goes bad for him? And Demelza continues to annoy. Angharad Rees was much better in the role in the '70s series, a real spitfire...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    The Fall of the Moustache

    I think WWII had a lot to do with the short-hair-clean shaven look that prevailed until the late 60s. In the military beards were forbidden and mustaches were pretty much restricted to officers. During a popular war, even the civilians imitate military style so wearing a beard became the mark of...

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