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    strangest, weirdist or just plain wrong toy from your youth

    When I was about 15, I was hanging around the house one day. Got bored and started rummaging around. The first thing I found was a length of pipe, which, I keenly noted, was threaded on one end. "Hmmm, what can I make of this?" I tried a couple of things, when I found that a "glow plug" from...
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    Any one seen "The World At War?"

    As I recall, it was on here on Sunday nights. I watched every one. I was in high school at the time, and fascinated with WWII. Maybe this was the start of my interest in these years, or maybe it was just a symptom. Fantastic series, though.
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    The Fedora style

    I've always had an affinity for the 1920s-1040s, and, I've always liked fedora-style hats. But, I never really put the two together until I found this site. That said, other than hats, I don't really dress vintage, although I so seldom shop for new clothes, I suppose some of my stuff...
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    Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?

    LEUII: I'm familiar with 02 A and B models (USAF), but not an 02-S. Is this a variant, or something entirely different?
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    Glaring Film Gaffs! (Or: The Dry Look in 1917?)

    Not much of a movie buff here - the last one I saw was star wars when it first came out. However, a while back my wife brought home The Aviator on DVD. She said she heard it was pretty good. I couldn't get past the fact that in one scene the computer-generated airplane had the canopy open...
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    strangest, weirdist or just plain wrong toy from your youth

    Although hardly "wrong" it must be wierd today...when I was a kid, I spent hours building and flying model airplanes with little 2 cycle engines. There were several hobby shops in the area where I grew up that sold the airplane kits, engines, fuel, etc. These weren't the expensive radio...
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    strangest, weirdist or just plain wrong toy from your youth

    I had one of these! great fun but no, it wouldn't work on Barbie dolls, only the intended victim who's head was spring-loaded to pop off when hit by the dull plastic blade. In junior high we did build a working Barbie-doll sized gallows for a school project though. Imagine that today!
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    Classic Style Fall '07

    I always look forward to the magazine and eagerly anticipate the fountain pen and shoeshine articles! I must say I'm somewhat out of touch with popular culture these days...Juliet who?
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    How Were Your Times Growing Up?

    HoosierDaddy, Thanks for the kind words. Yea, it would have been easy to justify crawling into the bottle, or becoming an axe murder, or pretty much anything in between. But, in a way, I attribute any success I've had in this life to the self reliance I learned when I was young. Kinda like...
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    How Were Your Times Growing Up?

    I was born in '56, and my memories of childhood are for the most part not pleasant. My father was in the Navy, so we moved constantly. I soon learned to be a loner, since if you did make friends on a military base, chances were either you'd move or they'd move soon. Few childhood friendships...
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    What was you dreamjob as a kid?

    An astronaut.
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    Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?

    Kilroy: Is aviation photography your full time profession? Have you published any compilations of your pictures? I (and I'm sure some of the other folks here) would love to see some of your work.
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    Halloween Costumes

    What do you want to be for Halloween? ... Rich
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    What is the Single Most Useful Thing This Place Has Given You?

    First of all, knowledge. About collars, armholes, and a host of other things that I would not have paid (or known to pay) attention to before that now rise to the level of a obssion! Second, the shared experiences, knowing I'm not the first guy to be called a gangster (with an "r" at the...
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    Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?

    Kilroy: That's a great list. I completely forgot th 02 - I have several hundred hours in the various military and civilian variants. The B17 and Catalina sound like fun.
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    Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?

    1927? Vultee 1930s Boeing Stearman 1930s Rearwin Speedster 1930s Taylorcraft 1930s J3 Cub 1930s Douglas DC3 1940s North American T6 1940s Beech 17 1940s Waco 1940s Cessna 140 1940s Cessna 170 1950s Beech T34 1950s Beech Bonanza 1950s Locheed Constallation 1950s Piper Comanche...
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    Can you remember where you were when you heard Princess Diana had been killed?...etc

    JFK - I was about 6, watching cartoons when they interrupted the regular programming with the news. Now, I'd seen them do this before for other events, but in a moment they'ed go back to the regular programming. When they did not go back to the show I was watching (anyone remember "Super...
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    Santa Claus Is Over

    Even as a young child, I always had an interest in science, and was quite the experimenter at a very early age. Some of the first real books I read were about science and the scientific method...so, I questioned everything. When I growing up, every Christmas eve, the TV news would report a...
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    Games of Chance!

    Horseracing, poker, craps - and I make money on all three. While the first two are games where skill plays a role, craps is pure chance. Still, I nearly always finish ahead on a day-to-day basis and am up in the long run. I've tried blackjack, studied card counting techniques, and ... still lose!
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    Steampunk, Dieselpunk, etc.

    I don't even know what these do, but I want them!

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