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  1. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Or "OPs" as in Smokin OPs the Bob Seger album.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Probably the origin of "ham actor" as well.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about "Say, listen". If you think about it, it doesn't even make sense. Do they want you to say or listen? From a story by Joe Mitchell in New York about 1934 Woman at beefsteak party: " Say, listen. There's no ketchup on our table. Where's the ketchup?" Waiter: I'll bring you some...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Boy that one goes back a long ways. Earliest mention I have seen, was in The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published in 1873. It relates to a comic song, possibly a minstrel show or vaudeville tune. A parody of the hymn There Is A Happy Land Far Away. It went something...
  5. Stanley Doble

    I sometimes wonder...

    If 666 is the number of the beast would 664 be next door to the beast?
  6. Stanley Doble

    I sometimes wonder...

    They soon will be the way things are going. PS I'm not saying whose fault it is so this is not political.
  7. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Standard Oil was a major international company in the 1800s. When Rockefeller started in the oil business, Pennsylvania was the only place on earth with oil wells. At the same time he was selling lamp oil and other products around the world. When the government broke up Standard Oil the joke...
  8. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    They probably take the phone function for granted, which you can do if you live in a city. If you live in a rural area especially in the west or in Canada you can very easily find yourself in a dead or blank area. Not good if your car breaks down 50 miles from the nearest town.
  9. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    I think he was always a leftie. With time he went so far to the left he ended up on the right. There is this weird tendency for extremists on both sides to meet somewhere way out there where normal people can hardly see them. One of the first examples I can think of involve a saloonkeeper...
  10. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Tesla did work for Edison (and others before that). If that was all he did, no one would remember him. His alternating current inventions were his, and he patented them. Then licensed the patents to Westinghouse. He worked with Westinghouse but was never a Westinghouse employee. He quit...
  11. Stanley Doble

    who said this

    "A million here, a million there, pretty soon you are talking about real money" " I see they are proposing to buy six gondolas for the lagoon in the park. Why be so extravagant? Why not buy a pair and let nature take its course?"
  12. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    RE the Studebaker brake problem. One clue is that it affects both back brakes and neither front brake. This suggests the flex hose between the chassis and rear axle is defective. Sometimes they deteriorate from the inside and a flap or chunk of rubber comes loose and acts as a one way valve...
  13. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    With the possible exception of Werner Von Braun none of those guys asked for a job. They just went ahead and changed the world. By the way, back in the fifties someone in the Ford human resources department determined that if Henry Ford applied for a job there, he wouldn't qualify. I have a...
  14. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    One more reason: a lot of bosses don't know who their best employees are. I am not kidding, they don't notice who does the best job, or who never misses a day and always hands in their assignment on time, or whose department always runs smoothly and never has a crisis. They seem to be easily...
  15. Stanley Doble

    who said this

    Ring Lardner
  16. Stanley Doble

    who said this

    "Last year you made more money than the President. How do you justify that?" "I had a better year than he did"
  17. Stanley Doble

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Daniel Jenkins, examining hand grenade: Oh my God! This is real! Dennis Hopper: Sooner or later everything is, Crazy Boy. (From OC and Stiggs, during the fire fight in Schwab's bomb shelter)
  18. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    That's because the job involved actual useful work.
  19. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Can't stand George Carlin. Tried to dig his stuff but never could. Except this. He matured a bit when he got to be 70. Not many dirty words in this diatribe but it looks more prescient every year. Ironic that the dirty talking hippy and iconoclast ended up a prophet somewhat to the right of...

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