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  1. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Where are we old fat men with heart disease and a hernia supposed to park?
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    When the car is done you will have to take it to a picnic or family gathering and cut a watermelon in your aunt's honor.
  3. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Buns are fattening.
  4. Stanley Doble

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    Nothing new about this. The most common story in the world, a lifetime accumulation or collection of stuff, unceremoniously shovelled to the curb or sold cheap to a used furniture dealer or used book dealer. I know an antique car guy who shuffled off the mortal coil about 5 years ago. Before he...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    If the weather warms up and you drive around at 50 MPH with all the windows open the moth balls will disperse quicker. Ha Ha. I hope you have some nice trips this year, it is going to be a great summer.
  7. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Stories about old shoppers.... Last year I was in line behind a couple in their nineties. The old man was complaining that the bananas were too green, he didn't like them at all. His wife ignored him. "Why do you buy those bananas, I can't eat green bananas, I want blah blah to infinity"...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    This is for Big man's carburetor question 1) When you stop the car there is usually still a little pressure in the fuel pump 2) There is a needle valve in your carburetor that maintains the correct fuel level 3) If the needle valve is a bit weak or leaky it will continue to admit fuel...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Anybody read this one?

    I hope you get a bang out of whatever you read. Why shouldn't tastes differ? As for me, I find most historical novels insipid and boring compared to the real thing. With the exception of George MacDonald Fraser. If you want to call me a hypocrite, right now I am rereading the crime novels of...
  10. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Babydoll your 5 year old can really pack it away lol. I had vegetable beef soup and a cheese sandwich with lettuce and tomato. This is more of a treat than it sounds, I have been trying to cut down and have not bought a loaf of bread or made a sandwich in 3 weeks. (Today I broke down).
  11. Stanley Doble

    Anybody read this one?

    I don't know why anyone would bother reading something like that when there are plenty of accounts written at the time, or written later by people who were there and lived through it. Nearly all such books suffer because the writer sees things through modern eyes and does not understand the...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Paper

    From the mid 1800s on, almost everyone used steel nib dip pens. The best pen nibs were made in England. I don't know when fountain pens came out but they were something of a luxury. Ball point pens came out right after WW2 and at first, were very expensive. I have an old "do it yourself"...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Paper

    This just in from The World Of Raymond Chandler In His Own Words by Barry Day "I do all my work on yellow paper. Sheets cut in half, typed the long way, triple-spaced. The pages must be from 125 to 150 words and they are so short you don't get prolix. If there isn't a little meat on each, there...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Bufallo Coats

    Planning on a cold winter?
  16. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Salad and pasta with tomato sauce.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    If you are sore at your wife (or husband) there are worse things you can do than putting an ad in the paper. From the samples, you can't tell who is at fault, a wayward wife or a stinker of a husband. Incidentally it seems in the beginning the word elope had no connotation of sexual...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Nazi V2 archival documents found

    There are some comments from those who read German saying the story is bogus and the documents have nothing to do with testing rockets.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Paper

    Interviews published in magazines, newspapers and books. If the interviewer was young enough and green enough he or she might ask what kind of paper, pens or pencils the author used and similar questions about technique. As if you could become a great writer by buying the same brand of pencils...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Paper

    I have seen interviews with famous authors done in the Golden Era in which the interviewer asks what kind of paper, pens or pencils they use and similar questions. This always exasperates the authors, as if the kind of paper has anything to do with the quality of their writing. Different...
  22. Stanley Doble

    The Awning

    It had a lot to do with the development of aluminum. Even though aluminum is one of the most abundant metals on earth, it took a long time to figure out how to refine it, and make strong alloys. Napoleon had a dinner service made of solid gold for special occasions. But on such occasions, he...
  23. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    It would probably cost MORE to make special machines WITHOUT braille just for drive thrus, now that every other machine has braille. To make the keys with braille on them must cost less than a penny extra per key. It would cost more than that to have someone file them off.

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