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Show Us Your Boats
Wow, that's a beauty! As a teenager, I was interested in boat racing. I read every book in the library on the subject. At the time, the books were circa 1930s-1950s, so I got used to seeing vintage outboards. I stopped at an outlet mall in Lake Elsinore, where they had a small visitor center...- DeeDub
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- Forum: The Display Case
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In which WWII army should you have fought?
The other way around would make a better movie. Either way, we'd be mates. I'm British and Commonwealth, too. -
Californians Please check in!
As a naturalized citizen of the Bay Area, I live in Redwood City (94061). I was born in San Diego to immigrants from Oklahoma. That is to say, the hospital was in San Diego (Hillside) but we lived in Chula Vista. I spent most of my formative years in Garden Grove, then we returned to Chula...- DeeDub
- Post #119
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
Utopia by Lincoln Child So far, it's a real page-turner. As soon as I post this reply and finish scanning the new posts, I'm getting back to it. (Notice my priorities: FL, followed by everything else.) From the back cover: "It's like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Utopia is the...- DeeDub
- Post #1,225
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Art (by Dinerman)
As I'm looking at these paintings, it occurs to me that the subjects remind me of the work of Bert Monroy. I can't say why, but commercial architecture and signage, especially when it's well-worn, fascinates me.- DeeDub
- Post #69
- Forum: The Display Case
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Fountain Pen Illusions?
This sounds like my old Scheaffer cartridge pen. If it isn't used every day, it gets gummed up and takes a lot of random scribbling to get it going again. I keep the thing mostly for sentimental reasons. For everyday use, a Lamy filled with Private Reserve ink never gives me any trouble. If I...- DeeDub
- Post #20
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Famous Intersections
"Moitle from Thoity-thoid and Thoid" A novelty song from 1946, according to the American Dialect Society mail list archive, immortalized... er, 'scuse me, immoitalized... that particular intersection in New York.- DeeDub
- Post #2
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Movies For Children
The Incredible Mr. Limpet is among my favorites. On the subject of Don Knotts, I also liked The Reluctant Astronaut and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.- DeeDub
- Post #21
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Talk about an Ancient TV show...
I do enjoy the Geico caveman commercials, but it really was the background music in one of them that hooked me. The one where the caveman is on the airport moving sidewalk and passes by the Geico ad. I went looking for the music and found the band that recorded it, Royksopp. I would have been...- DeeDub
- Post #15
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Could you survive?
Although I've done other things, I owe the majority of my livelihood the past couple of decades to computer programming. So in 1937, I'd have to find something else to do for a few years until I become a pioneer in the field. Fortran was my first language, so who's to say I didn't give John...- DeeDub
- Post #28
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Favorite Cartoons You Don't See Anymore
Lupo the Butcher- DeeDub
- Post #80
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Favorite Vegas Hotel, Casino, Club, or just hole in the wall...
We usually go to Vegas when relatives come to visit from Hawaii. Since the California Hotel downtown caters to Hawaiians, we stay there. I find the casino smokier than most, but the downtown location is convenient and I spend most of my time wandering around, looking at the various styles of...- DeeDub
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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It's At The Tip Of Your Tongue
Yeah, I'm terrible with names, too. But I always forget a face.- DeeDub
- Post #16
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The coolest video.
That beautiful women have two eyes. :) I'm only half-joking. I found myself fixated on the eyes as each painting morphed, as though that was the common link from one subject to the next.- DeeDub
- Post #17
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Two Rivals - You choose!
Could have been a leaky gas tank. Depending on the age, it could have been something else. The late-model beetles had a plastic filter box on the gas tank vent line in front of the dashboard. That box tended to crack with age and let some fuel spill out when the tank was full. I had that problem...- DeeDub
- Post #12
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The coolest video.
Terrific! I recognized some of the faces. (I won't flatter myself by claiming to recognize many.) This is something like a puzzle in which the object is to identify each of the faces. Now where's the video with the answers?- DeeDub
- Post #11
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Great website for books (cheap!)
alibris.com, no? I haven't had any experience with them, so I can't say one way or the other. An alternative might be abebooks.com, (aka Advanced Book Exchange).- DeeDub
- Post #5
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Keep Honking...I'm Reloading
Sorry. My karma ran over your dogma. Remember the heart stickers? "I (heart) My Beagle", and so on ad infinitum. If any of you are old-time programmers, you'll appreciate the one I saw outside Space Sciences at NASA-Ames many years ago: 4TH (heart) IF HONK THEN (For you non-programmers...- DeeDub
- Post #126
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Radio re-enactments
I don't know if you'd call it a reenactment, but XM channel 4 ran the D Day news announcements in real time last June. Interspersed with the recorded news flashes were updates by the current channel 4 announcer. I enjoyed the sensation of hearing about D Day as though for the first time. And...
