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  1. Stanley Doble

    Matches and Lucifers..

    Did a quick search and it seems the old strike anywhere matches are hard to get these days. Who knew. For the original questioner, they say Swan makes strike anywhere matches in England, so that may be the brand you need to look for. Tobacconists usually keep a good selection of matches...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Matches and Lucifers..

    When your hand is in a cast and you can't find your Zippo you learn to improvise. I developed match skills before the Bic lighter was invented. I leaned toward small cigars when I could afford them, hand rolled Players tobacco when I couldn't. Also smoked a pipe for many years. Gave up...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Matches and Lucifers..

    You need the large wooden matches known as kitchen matches. Get the "strike anywhere" matches, safety matches won't work. They are about 2 inches long. Hold in your hand and flick the head with your thumbnail. Place the thumbnail where the white part meets the red and snap the thumbnail away...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Being called by your first name at work

    Nevil Shute in his memoirs, talked about this. When he ran an airplane factory in England in the thirties, the rule was no Christian names in the office. This caused no problems until they hired a girl named Barton, whose cousin already worked at the firm. This meant they had two Miss Bartons...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Being called by your first name at work

    I knew a couple named Bugg who were going to christen their daughter June until the minister talked them out of it. They weren't trying to be funny. They were used to the name Bugg and didn't notice the joke.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Romania between the wars

    The negative may have been accidentally reversed when making the print. This results in a mirror image.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Romania between the wars

    One thing that might surprise some (it did me) is that Central Europe and Eastern Europe were more oriented toward Western Europe than Russia from the middle ages up to WW2. We are used to thinking of this area as being in the Soviet sphere of influence, but this was a modern development. They...
  9. Stanley Doble

    The Ration Book Diet

    Dr. Hindhede was the nutritionist responsible for the WW1 rationing program in Denmark. Based on his prewar experiments, he concluded that the human requirement for protein could be met without meat. Many vegetables contain protein. He also concluded that wheat bran and milk made a good...
  10. Stanley Doble

    We've all heard these stories before about Japanese soldiers holding out for years.

    We'll be home by Christmas... 10 or 20 years later. Pearl Harbor, one day and go home.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It's American..... American LaFrance.
  13. Stanley Doble

    We've all heard these stories before about Japanese soldiers holding out for years.

    I'm no expert but it seems to be mainly a Japanese military or samurai philosophy. Although other Asian people take a long view of things. You can buy 100 year old eggs in China. In America we prefer fast food.
  14. Stanley Doble

    MacArthur's corn cob pipe

    It is possible to take a corn cob and hollow it out with a jack knife. For the stem there is a kind of woody weed that has a straight stalk with a soft pith inside. You can hollow one out with a hot wire. A hobo could make a corncob pipe in half an hour. Using only a camp fire, jack knife and a...
  15. Stanley Doble

    MacArthur's corn cob pipe

    Corncob pipes were easily made. Many farmers made their own. Back then corncobs were larger than today, corn was picked by hand and was developed to have a small number of large cobs on each stalk. Then automatic harvesting machines came in, which needed a large number of small cobs. Today's...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I miss Jack Paar.
  17. Stanley Doble

    MacArthur's corn cob pipe

    Corncob pipes were cheap and meant to be thrown away and replaced frequently. It may be that none of MacArthur's pipes survive.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    In the late 50s and early 60s the grade school I went to had brown paper covers for the text books. Pre printed with cutting lines and folding lines marked. They were provided free of charge by a candy company and had the company's ads printed on them. At the beginning of the year the teacher...
  20. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    I took it a little differently. From a distance, the cast of characters looked like the glittering heroes of the sunday supplements. Get a little closer and you see Gatsby is a phony. Closer yet, and you see all of them are phonies. Even closer, and you see that even though Gatsby was a phony...
  21. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    Gatsby also had a great deal of charm and personal magnetism. Fitzgerald describes how he would focus all his attention on a person and make them feel understood and appreciated. The "old sport" catch phrase, Fitzgerald borrowed from a Gatsby like acquaintance. Most of Fitzgerald's characters...
  22. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    Gatsby was a poser and a social climber but he was a sincere poser and social climber. He really believed in his vision of a superior life with a superior class of people. He set out to recreate himself when he was in his teens and he stayed true to his Platonic ideal . In the end it killed him.
  23. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    You may be reading too much into Tom's racism. No doubt he was a selfish, racist, sexist, etc b#stard. But the point of him talking about that racist book was how dumb he was. The book was a sensationalist piece of trash on the level of Anne Coulter or Rush Limbaugh. Tom was the kind of dope who...

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