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  1. Stanley Doble

    Missing posters

    There are forums that I contributed to for several years then got bored and left. You can only answer the same questions so many times.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Growing out short hair

    Have you thought of a wig? It seems drastic but it might get you through the next few weeks.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Missing posters

    And yet us duds keep hanging around. I don't know, people change, get busy, get tired of the same thing. Maybe your favorites will come back after they take a little break. I must say, this is about the most troll free site I visit. So you have that going for you.
  4. Stanley Doble

    The DINER.

    "The kind of place where the soup and napery are thin and the crockery and atmosphere are thick" - O.Henry
  5. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Bing to the rescue. A quick web search turned up this: "A shemozzle is a state of confusion and chaos. It might simply be a muddle, or it could be a ruckus, row, quarrel or loud commotion. “No end of a shemozzle there’s been there lately,” he said. “Marina Gregg’s been having hysterics...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    Unless you go back to contemporary reports and original documents it is easy to overlook what an able politician Hitler was, and what a talent he had for telling people what they wanted to hear and conning them.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    The German people weren't sucked in by Hitler so much as hijacked. It's hard to believe today, but Hitler was never elected to anything. The closest he came was in 1932 when the Nazi party became the most popular party in the Reichstag with 230 seats or 37.27%. This was far from a majority. In...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Jokes About Hats

    Have you heard the one about the man who gave a speech on the topic of sex, but told his wife it was about sailing? The next day one of her friends told her how much she enjoyed her husband's talk. She said "I don't know what he knows about it, he only tried it twice. The first time he was...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    Joseph Mitchell wrote a story worth looking up: "The Downfall of Fascism In Black Ankle County" about the Klan in his home town in North Carolina. It was gotten up by an eccentric farmer named "Spuddy" Ransom and tobacco salesman "Catfish" Giddy and broken up by a family of moonshiners with...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    This talk about the Klan reminds me of a story. The author was well known in his time but I can't remember who it was. He said that when he was a boy in the twenties, the Klan put on a membership drive in his town. His father got one of their advertising leaflets. He read it and said " this...
  13. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    Speaking of logistics, you would do well to go as some type of foreigner, immigrant or outsider in your time travels. This would cover up your empty background, lack of local knowledge, your odd accent and peculiarities of language and explain any gaffes. They would just think you were a...
  14. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    Least of your worries. You can buy currency for any era, going back thousands of years. Worn coins and bills of the small change variety are quite cheap.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Favorite Christmas candy

    I associate Black Magic and Pot O' Gold chocolates with Christmas. Every family seemed to have one or the other at this time of year but never at any other time.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My mother, a Canadian farm girl born in 1920, referred to a fuss or commotion as a "Shemozzle" which I believe is a Jewish expression. How it gained currency in rural Ontario is more than I could say.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    It is slightly puzzling to me that the Nazis idealized the hunky blonde Nordic type but were mostly small, dark and unathletic. They also trumpeted the importance of putting the Superman or Master Race in charge, while they themselves were a prize collection of losers, cripples, jail birds...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Slang doesn't always make sense. Readers = marked cards, cheaters = eyeglasses. You would think it would be the other way around. I guess that is the idea, a sort of secret language for insiders that only insiders know the meaning of.
  20. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    Up until the fifties vegetable gardens in the back yard were common. I remember shopkeepers and people with good jobs had them even though they could well afford to buy food. By the sixties it seemed only the older generation, like people born before 1920 kept up their gardens. I remember one...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Close but no cigar. A cigar was a common prize or bar bet. For example if you played a game of pinball or pool, or the equivalent, the loser would have to buy the winner a drink or a cigar. So close but no cigar means you are almost right, or almost won but not quite. Cheaters means eyeglasses...
  22. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    I just thought, you would probably be surprised by the number of gas stations and garages. They used to be on every street corner almost. I would say 4 out of 5 went out of business in the seventies and became convenience stores. Cars became more reliable and needed less service and repair, and...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    I still think of WW2 as Round Two of a fight that began in August 1914. It would be much better to prevent WW1. On the surface this should not be hard to do, as the whole thing was the result of a trivial crime and should never have happened. But I am not sure about the forces behind the scene...

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