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  1. DeeDub

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We had both mercurochrome and merthiolate. They looked similar, but there was definitely a difference. Merthioliolate hurt more than the injury it treated, mercurochrome didn't hurt much at all. Given the choice, I opted for mercurochrome and I was very careful to check the label before putting...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I was a Fuller Brush man. And I knew you were really there.
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    songs that make you shiver/cry

    And, honey, I miss you.... (sob!) Okay, may be a little sappy, but Bobby Goldsboro's Honey gets me every time. Also, Bill Cosby's spoken-word single, Grover Henson Feels Forgotten Mr. Lucky mentioned Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman a while back. I'll vote for that one, too.
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    Do you have a crush?

    EVE from Wall-E She has a cute little robot giggle and one mean blaster up her sleeve.
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    What Are You Reading

    I found Gatsby well worth the time spent. One of my favorite Fitzgeralds.
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    What Are You Reading

    Finally getting around to The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. It's been on my reading stack for a while, but so far it's worth the wait.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Wall-E Loved it. It emphasized the animators' art, since there wasn't much dialog to draw attention away from the characterization of the robots.
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    Ice Cream Parlor Talk

    I like all the above and I would check them all if I could. Let me also add a vote for Mocha Almond Fudge. Done wrong, it comes out too sweet. But when done right, it's a little sweet, a little crunchy, a little tangy, and all heavenly. There was a hand-packed mocha almond fudge gelato...
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    Anyone up for a little Celebrity Gravehunting?

    That's a good one. Another good book about dead celebrities is They Went That Away by Malcolm Forbes. It's a collection of brief stories about famous people, how they lived, and how they died. The best book for finding the resting places of the stars is Final Curtain. It has a table of...
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    Carole Lombard

    Pardon me if this is in poor taste, but I ran across a website a while back with photos and detailed facts about the crash site where Carole Lombard died. It's at http://www.birdandhike.com/Hike/Other_Areas/Lombard/Lombard.htm I found it very moving to see remnants of the plane still there...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I just saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall this evening. Definitely adult material, with some crass humor. I laughed heartily, in spite of the crass humor. Or maybe because of it. (My wife thought it was funny, too. Same reasons.)
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    New Indy Flick Poll

    I saw it and I enjoyed it. Sometimes I want to see complex characters and watch their relationships develop. Sometimes I want to be surprised by plot twists and unexpected endings. And sometimes I just want to have fun. This movie was non-stop fun.
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    Jacques Tati *ROCKS!*

    Mr. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle are in my top 10 of all time. I see something different every time I watch them. There's just nobody like Jacques Tati. I've seen Jour de Fete, Playtime, and Traffic. I've got them on my list to add to my DVD collection. Hulot and Oncle were among the first...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Be Kind Rewind It's a quirky sort of film. Bizarre comedy with a touching end. Jack Black was over the top, but still enjoyable. Mos Def is surprisingly adept and believable as the straight man. And Melonie Diaz is very sweet. Afterward, I felt there there were other, parallel stories I...
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    C-141's

    I know of at least one proven civilian use of the C-141: The Kuiper Airborne Observatory
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    Scouting anyone?

    I was in Cub Scouts. We didn't do any camping, but I had an active imagination, so the descriptions in the scout manuals seemed real to me. I was especially inspired by my father's Handbook For Boys from the 1940s, (which I still have among my most treasured books.) Later, I joined the Sea...
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    Let's Retire these Cliches

    Stick a fork in me... ...I'm done.
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    Classic Arcade and Video Games

    In the early 1970s, I spent a lot of time with friends at the local pool hall. In addition to eight ball and bumper pool, we spent a lot of time playing pinball. Then they installed a game with a TV screen in a bright, metal-flake, fiberglass case. The game was called Computer Space. We spent...
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    Classic Arcade and Video Games

    You can also use IDFA to get all the weapons and ammo, but not the keys, (the K in IDKFA.) I started playing the X-Window version of Doom for SGI in about 1993. I'd usually start at the end of the work day, thinking I'd play for a few minutes, then go home. About 9 pm or so, my wife would...
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    Let's Retire these Cliches

    That's what I'm talkin 'bout!

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