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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    You aren't kidding. I needed another old car like a hole in the head but it kept calling out "save me! save me!" every time I drove past. After about 6 weeks I finally succumbed and bought it. I have a feeling it would have gone to the junk yard soon if I hadn't.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    You've got something there except for the mayo.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    What is a lunch time sandwich without a bowl of soup? Today I made a salami sandwich with saurkraut and mustard for lunch and Campbell's tomato soup. On a whim I hopped up the soup with a big spoonful of salsa, it was pretty good in a Tex Mex kind of way. I still haven't figured out what...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It was in the garage for 13 years. Then the owner pushed it outside so he could put his new Hobie Cat in. I saw it as I drove past, it was on a suburban street just off the road that I take to go home. After a couple of weeks I couldn't stand it any longer. So, one Saturday I stopped in and...
  5. Stanley Doble

    The Return of Vintage DI S E A S E S

    If the tuna came from the Pacific you can stop worrying about the mercury. The radioactivity will kill you first.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Does anyone play crokinole anymore? When I was a kid we would go to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving or Christmas and she would get out the crokinole board for us youngsters. Anyone remember Crokinole?
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I have bought many cars and trucks out of people's driveways and never got anybody mad. For a start, I only ask about cars that are obviously out of commission, with no plates or expired plates. I will go to the house on Saturday morning after 9, or on weekday evenings after 6. Knock on the...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Possible origin of the use of X's for price/quality level designation

    It occurs to me that this was written before the Hudson's Bay Company was chartered, and most of the beaver pelts came from the French colonies in North America, and also from the northern or New England colonies. So, the bever hattes fetched from beyond the seas could have been of French...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Retro gym equipment?

    ^^^^ Is this how twerking got started?^^^^
  11. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    In 1986 I took a trip to the south and in Louisiana I saw the name "coonass" for the first time. When I got back I asked him what a coonass was, he gave me a look and said I hope you didn't call anybody that. I said I don't even know what it means. He never did explain it and I'm still puzzled.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I used to know a guy from Louisiana who settled permanently in my small town here in Canada. One day in February when it was 20 below and snowing sideways I asked him what he had done, that he had to hide out this far from home. Or if he thought ROTC meant run off to Canada. I don't think he...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Essentials of a 40's Party

    Let Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman explain how to throw a party (in the cool cool cool of the evening) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSgWX4DbZ4
  15. Stanley Doble

    Essentials of a 40's Party

    Fun fact about Carling's. When prohibition ended in 1933 or 34 the Peerless car company was going out of business. So the top management decided to turn the auto factory into a brewery, and made a deal to produce the Canadian Carling's ale under license.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Possible origin of the use of X's for price/quality level designation

    I know the story of Ben Franklin walking into Philadelphia for the first time. Notice that he was surprised when the baker didn't have a threepenny loaf - I don't suppose he had ever seen a baker's shop that didn't. By the way I think it was a penny loaf he was after. It doesn't make sense...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Possible origin of the use of X's for price/quality level designation

    He makes it perfectly clear that the price of the hats was XX, XXX, or XL shillings. As for how he knew that, my guess is he went into a few hat shops and asked. He seems to be well informed on the fashions in hats, whether of silk, bever, velvet or taffetie. As if he did some research before he...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Possible origin of the use of X's for price/quality level designation

    I suppose at some time between 1585 and 1900, hatters or hat manufacturers forgot the origin of the X system but still used it to grade hats. Possibly as prices slowly changed. You did not need a classical education to know Roman numerals. They appeared all over the place, on tombstones...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Why does anybody do anything? Go figure the secrets of the human heart. In the days when prohibition was a hot political topic, it was common for the town drunk to be the biggest advocate for prohibition. Funny to some, but he knew that he was powerless to stop drinking as long as there was a...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Anyone who wants to get off drugs or alcohol should look into Neuro Electric Therapy or NET. Here is an interview with Pete Townsend where he describes how he got off drugs and alcohol with the help of Dr. Margaret Patterson and her "black box". http://www.thewho.net/articles/penthouse_1983.htm...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    That is the point. Not everyone has the power to remain sober, or to make responsible decisions especially when drunk. No one who has ever had a problem with drugs or alcohol would think that drug addiction or alcoholism is a conscious, rational choice. It is obvious you have never had a...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    But someone who is addicted to liquor or drugs is not able to make a conscious choice. There is an old principle in law that we are all responsible for our actions, with exceptions for children and those who are incapable due to disease, injury, or by nature, or who are incapacitated by liquor...

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