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    Fictional characters defined by their hats

    Anyone mention Radar O'Reilly and his jeep cap from MASH?
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    • Post #55
    • Forum: Hats
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    Show us your Militaria

    i just posted this over in the thrift store finds thread but I figured I'd post it here too. Made an exciting find today in a local thrift store. It was a signed first edition of Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff, better known as 'Popski'. It is his memoir of service in the 1st Demolition...
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    • Post #293
    • Forum: WWII
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I've found some terrific stuff at thrift stores over the years and today's find has to rank as one of the most interesting. Poking through the single shelf of old 'vintage' books I came across a first edition hardcover of a book I had originally read as a teenager..."Private Army" by Vladimir...
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    What Are You Reading

    Just started Philip Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I’ve always enjoyed the scene in which they capture Pegasus Bridge. I find it interesting that Richard Todd, who played Major Howard, was actually present at that action as a member of the British paratroops that reinforced Howard’s glider force at the bridge. “Up the Oxs and Bucks!”
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    Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!

    Warden Norton from Shawshank Redemption.
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    Your "perfect" films

    What a difficult task! Here's some films that I wouldn't alter: Gallipoli (1981) Breaker Morant (1980) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Seven Samurai (1954) The Cruel Sea (1953) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Battle of Algiers (1966) Apocalypse Now (1979) Paths...
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    Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!

    Ma Jarret (Cagney's mother) in White Heat. What a nasty bit of work! She made Cagney's character look like a boy scout.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You certainly know you're getting old when you overhear a young woman in a rummage sale holding up a CD and asking her friend: "Have you ever heard of Frank Sinatra?" Or another young woman in a thrift store holding up a DVD and exclaiming: "Who's Shirley Temple? Is that a girl's name?"...
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    What Are You Reading

    Goodbye Darkness is one of the best memoirs I've read regarding the war in the Pacific...actually just war in general. It's one of the books I re-read every couple of years.
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    Show us your scarves ...

    Although scarf season seems to be winding down here, I came across an interesting Tootal scarf today at a contents sale. I've never seen this label before...
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    What Are You Reading

    'The Laughter Goes from Life' by Thomas Penrose Marks. A First World War memoir by a young O.R. and a compelling read.
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    What Are You Reading

    Just finished Michael Harris' Party of One about our last Prime Minister. Excellent book but very hard on my blood pressure. Can't say anything more without straying into the range of politics.
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    Today in History

    May 4th, 1910: the Naval Service of Canada was created. It became the Royal Canadian Navy in 1911. And in 1970, an event I certainly remember well...Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing 4 and wounding 9.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw Easy Rider back in 1970. It was, of course, the coolest...then. Saw it again a few years ago. I don't think it aged very well...or perhaps I didn't age very well. Something certainly didn't.
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    Today in History

    Today is ANZAC day in Australia and New Zealand. It originally commemorated the landing at Gallipoli in 1915 but I believe it has become the national day of mourning for all their war dead. Out of respect, memorial events are being held in 8 major Canadian cities as well.
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    Today in History

    April 22nd, 1915...the Germans release chlorine gas during the Second Battle of Ypres, making a nasty brutal war even worse.
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    Today in History

    Ninety years ago, on April 21st 1926, Queen Elizabeth II was born.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Finally got around to seeing Grand Budapest Hotel. Delightful...and civilized.
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    Today in History

    I dug out some dusty volumes on the Zulu War that I haven’t looked at in years. You might want to have a look at Robert Edgerton’s Like Lions They Fought...a very good history of the war. He quotes a letter from General Sir Henry Ponsonby in which he calls Chard “a dull, heavy man who seemed...

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