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    Spring is almost here...

    Buffalo always gets hit worse than us. I think they broke their record for snowfall in a single day today. We got a lot but not as much as they did. We have at least 15cm...looks like more. Sure seemed like more when I was shovelling! Despite the snow the roads have already been plowed and...
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    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I enjoy rescuing and restoring old rotary phones to operating condition. I just finished fixing up a 1960 Northern Electric model 500. My usual "daily driver" phone at home is a 1939 model 202. Works beautifully.
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    Spring is almost here...

    Same here, but then I'm not much farther north from you. Unfortunately I wouldn't bet that this will be the last snow of the season!
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    I remember when.....

    This thread is starting to sound like the Monty Python skit featuring all the old fellows sitting around trying to out do each other with tales of their hard childhood experiences…’luxury’! So...I recall: --using the first computer at my school, a Commodore PET, in 1977/78. Little RAM, no...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Exciting find at the Salvation Army today (at least for me)! A first edition of Stewart Granger's autobiography "Sparks Fly Upward"....signed by Stewart Granger. In great condition, too.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I used the term 'tempest in a teapot' today and then had to explain what it meant. I despair.
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    What Are You Reading

    Just started Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough
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    Spring is almost here...

    Here too...-5C today and compared with the temperatures in the last two months it felt like sun tan weather. Supposed to be +3C tomorrow. Might need shorts.
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Cagney was terrific in that one.
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    Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)

    There are Zeros still around but I believe only one is actually airworthy. It's an elegant, graceful looking aircraft. My son saw the film, dubbed in English, last night. He quite enjoyed it.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Exactly...you have to view it as an inadvertent comedy. Watching the Ronald Coleman version of Prisoner of Zenda right now on TCM. I love Raymond Massey as Black Michael.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Sword of Honour. A short British miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's WW2 trilogy starring Daniel Craig.
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    WWI - The war in the air

    Absolutely right, Smithy. When I was a novice collector an intelligent dealer once told me that I should never pass up a reference book. He was right.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Probably the best way to watch them! I always enjoy the random changes from night to day that play so well in Plan 9.
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    WWI - The war in the air

    I have found this book to be useful quite often. Like most reference books, it has become prohibitively expensive. Luckily I picked mine up a number of years ago. It was pricey then, but not like it is these days!
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    • Post #28
    • Forum: WWII
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    WWI - The war in the air

    I found a Biggles book in a thrift store the other day. I picked it up but have yet to peruse it!
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    • Post #26
    • Forum: WWII
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Plan 9 from Outer Space was certainly not a spoof or a parody. It is such a delightfully awful film, featuring stars like Dudley Manlove ("Because all you of Earth are idiots!") and Tor Johnson ("I'm a big boy now, Johnny."), that it's pretty well irresistible (boring sometimes, but still...
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    Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)

    I've seen Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro as well as Spirited Away. Both excellent animated films. I'd love to see this one as well.
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    WWI - The war in the air

    When I was a kid...many, many years ago, I'm afraid...my imagination, and a lifetime interest in the First World War, was ignited by this book. It was directed at young readers (like me) and dealt with the exploits of pilots like Bishop, Barker, Collishaw and McKeever. Thrilling stuff for an...
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    • Forum: WWII
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    What Are You Reading

    Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister.

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