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  1. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My grandmother told me slang was ill bred and there were two words she never wanted to hear me say. One of them was swell and the other one was lousy. But she never told me what they were.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    Henry Ford was a strange, quirky character who fascinated and baffled me for years. It took me a long time to figure out Henry Ford. It finally dawned on me that he was born a Michigan farm boy from the 1860s and remained one till the end. None of his beliefs would have seemed out of place for...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Are you saying you would refuse to associate with them unless you were paid. Someone asked Fred Allen "what's an Associate Producer?" He replied "That's anybody who will associate with a producer".
  4. Stanley Doble

    Did and Didn't

    I meant Herbert Hoover and Georgius Agricola. Unless you are saying it was Mrs. Hoover who did the translation?
  5. Stanley Doble

    Did and Didn't

    I didn't know Hoover translated Agricola although I have great respect for both men and their achievements. I once designed a motor based on a pump first described by Agricola. There was a lot of lousy Latin and lousy handwriting in the old days. Education was kind of hit or miss for quite a...
  7. Stanley Doble

    How do you style your hair? How do people react?

    Long hair is not a good look for an old man. As for men with pony tails, well if you want to look like a horse's ass that is your privilege. Pony tails are for 14 year old girls. Balding men with long hair, that is the worst. Or maybe a photo finish with the bad comb over.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Arsenic and Old Lace. Watched it again recently and nominate it as the best screwball comedy from an era of great comedies.
  9. Stanley Doble

    How do you style your hair? How do people react?

    I'm a lot older than you guys and my hair is gray, nearly white. It started to turn gray when I was 26. I get a standard short back and sides, wash every 2 or 3 days with shampoo, use conditioner, and VO5 for gray hair, which contains bluing. This keeps my hair looking white or gray with no...
  10. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    But you could. Those old polyester suits wear like iron.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Did and Didn't

    Penny ante in the sense that his books sold for pennies to what was known at the time "the little man" or "the little people" meaning ordinary people without wealth power or influence. Hoover had the right to be sore at every Democrat from President Roosevelt on down. If he was the vindictive...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Did and Didn't

    Hoover was deep in the doghouse and being cursed by every Democrat in America since he was being blamed (unfairly) for the depression. I doubt he had any vendetta against a penny ante publisher.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Re the cold bloodedness of old cars. I thought that until I "restored" the air filter and choke system on a 1970 Dodge six cylinder pickup truck. I replaced the rusted out "stove" on the exhaust (made one from a tin can) , replaced the controller for the hot air system ($12) replaced the...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Did and Didn't

    "Candy butchers" were selling magazines and paperback books in railroad cars in the mid 1800s. "Dime novels" and "penny dreadfuls" go back at least that far. There was an explosion in publishing of cheap books, newspapers and magazines when wood pulp paper and steam printing presses became...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When did alley cats become feral cats?
  17. Stanley Doble

    Battle of Britain Chapel to be closed

    I wouldn't say quickly. The Battle of Britain was 75 years ago. Not many of the original combatants are even alive.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Thanks. I do make the effort but sometimes wonder if anyone gets it. In another thread someone posted photos of his dogs wearing leather jackets and caps. I asked "do they play cards?". Got a little positive feedback on that one. But usually, nothing. I try to find something amusing to say...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time you saw a Zarf? For those of you who are not Lizzie Maine, in the sixties and seventies some restaurants served coffee in disposable plastic or paper cups set in a metal or plastic holder. The holder is called a Zarf. A quick web search turned up the information that the...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    There was a fairly wide spread belief in England in the 19th century that the English were the Lost Tribes of Israel. I don't know how they worked that out. There was a British Israel or British Israelite Society, they may still be around. Those things never seem to die in England. They may...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    2jakes while we are at it, why are laundromats the only store that never has automatic door openers, when they are the only store where every customer enters and leaves with their hands full?
  23. Stanley Doble

    Chino?

    In the Ballyhoovintage site above he actually shows Lee Leesures Chinos, new old stock. I guess I didn't scroll down far enough the first time. Lee is an American manufacturer best known for jeans and work clothes.
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