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  1. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Only if he was fresh. How long has it been since someone who acted like a smart aleck was called "fresh"? How long since someone was called a smart aleck?
  2. Stanley Doble

    Sports coat as outerwear

    Sweater and a muffler or scarf.
  3. Stanley Doble

    WWII secrets...

    But they had the RAF beaten. There is a story that during the Battle of Britain Churchill visited an airfield where fighter planes were continually landing, refueling and taking off. He asked the officer in charge "where are your reserves?" the officer pointed to the planes being refueled and...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Which hat for a Noir Movie ?

    Funny remark about film noir by Robert Mitchum in the last interview he ever did. Noir films were B pictures. The features got all the best equipment, we had to light our scenes with a couple of cigarettes.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Jack Daniel's Sinatra Select

    Bourbon was Sinatra's drink. Bourbon and water, very weak. The books don't name a brand. This surprised me a little, I would have thought of him as a scotch or martini drinker.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    Was it Art Buchwald who reported a conversation about that time. Someone said "we'll never laugh again" and someone else said "we'll laugh again but we will never be young again".
  8. Stanley Doble

    WWII secrets...

    What the hell was Hitler thinking when he started the war? How could he think it was a good idea? Battle of Britain, why did he call off the invasion of England when he had them on the ropes? What was Rudolf Hess up to? Probably basic questions for you WW2 experts but they puzzle me.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Next summer will be all pleasure with a brand new motor and all the bugs worked out.
  10. Stanley Doble

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

    Recently read one of Paul Theroux travel books, this one about a river trip in China in the eighties. The other passengers were rich tourists. When they passed a city the air smelled of coal smoke, sewage, industrial waste and a hint of kerosene. A 70 year old Englishman said it reminded him...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    It must be in the blood.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    He wasn't a buffoon, he was a Kennedy. They were famous for their devil may care attitude. They did riskier things than that. Usually they got away with it.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    Yeah... flying a light plane over the ocean after a couple of lessons with your leg in a cast. Who could forsee anything going wrong?
  15. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    You could buy an old MoToR Repair Manual or Chilton (I prefer MoToR). They cover all makes for a period of 10 years or more. Not as complete as the factory manual, or as detailed, but they cover the common stuff and you only need one for each decade.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    Only 20 more years till they open the files.
  17. Stanley Doble

    It's a Wonderful Life sequel underway

    What do you expect, originality or rational thought from Hollywood?
  19. Stanley Doble

    Need Information "Gomer Pyle Hat"

    You can do better at Winter fur hats http://www.winterfurhats.com/Fur_Hats.aspx Or a genuine Canadian Mountie winter hat http://www.williamscully.ca/gallery2/v/Headwear/sylvie_4.jpg.html More from Winnipeg Outfitters http://www.outfitters.ca/cms.Catalog.aspx?catalog=FW_Fur_Hats
  20. Stanley Doble

    Hiking food.

    A traditional food of voyageurs and arctic explorers is Pemmican. From The Canadian Encyclopedia "Pemmican [Cree pimikan, meaning "manufactured grease"] is dried meat, usually BISON, pounded into coarse powder and mixed with an equal amount of melted fat, and occasionally saskatoon berries or...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The term "tank town" "jerk" or "jerkwater town". All have similar origin. When the first railroads were built the locomotive had to stop for water every 50 miles. If there was no town or depot, they built a water tower with a wooden tank on top, and a windmill to fill it. The local farmers...
  22. Stanley Doble

    How do you react to intrusive hat price questions and/or unwanted hat touchings?

    The song Stagger Lee was based on a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Eve 1895. "Stag" Lee Shelton and William "Billy" Lyons were drinking in Curtis's saloon. They got into an argument over politics. Lyons snatched Shelton's Stetson hat off his head and refused to give it back...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    I was 12 when it happened. We were in class when someone came in and told the teacher who told us. This was in Ontario Canada. I remember it as a solemn and serious event but of course, did not have the impact it had in the USA.

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