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  1. "Skeet" McD

    What would you serve as the best local food?

    And, SubVet...you've continued in the same vein, and closer to "us" I presume. I've only been briefly in Ca'lina...and Atticus wouldn't want to know what uniform I was wearing at the time...but, for all that (the worst possible thing to be in the South: an honest-to-Gawd Yankee, in full CW...
  2. "Skeet" McD

    The Great Beer Thread

    "I am the great OZ" (stout) And now for something related, but different: Back in the early 80s, here in the Boston Massachusetts USA area, it was possible to purchase--quite cheaply, and in LARGE quantities--Tooth's "Sheaf" Stout. It was a lovely beverage...I drank an awful lot of it in 18C...
  3. "Skeet" McD

    Does anyone use a name that's not their own?

    I don't quite know how this one fits in the schema here: but here's the story, for what it's worth. My Christian name is Kevin...when I was born (1953) that was a VERY unusual name, a good deal less so now. I got it because my father--the eldest of 14 children, almost all male--was estranged...
  4. "Skeet" McD

    Recreation with a Weak Partner

    I have no experience with Swing Dancing, nor its scene...but, believe me: what you say about it could be said about ANY human activity. More's the pity. There is no escape...this is humanity, red in tooth and nail. The good ones will stick out...you'll find each other. The rest: well, you can't...
  5. "Skeet" McD

    Recreation with a Weak Partner

    I've been playing traditional Irish music again, after a LONG hiatus...there's a session of music that I can walk to, 2.5 miles from where I live. When I first got there, I had no idea who would be there. Sessions are truly democratic affairs: they're not entertainment, but groups of people who...
  7. "Skeet" McD

    Potrzebie

    Another Westchester lad of the same vintage here, who was also exposed to MAD back in the early 60s...pretty amazing stuff. An interesting twist was meeting and getting to know the MAD artist, George Woodbridge, under rather different circumstances 15 years further on... Many who know his MAD...
  8. "Skeet" McD

    Formalizing/Small Pleasures?

    With pleasure, although there's not much pound to ex, if you will! Things are so much easier in the land of iPod...I've cobbled together playlists of appropriate things under the heading TAFELMUSIK: things make it into these lists by being restful or romantic, and largely instrumental--because...
  9. "Skeet" McD

    Casablanca

    Well, I for one enjoy hearing various opinions; we're all entitled to one, of course, but it gets interesting if there's thought behind them...and I'm sure I'm not alone. My experience is just the reverse, Spitfire: I saw the film years ago and couldn't imagine what all the fuss was about...
  10. "Skeet" McD

    What tickles you?

    casting about for feathers.... If nothing else, I should think you would find just about anything you were looking for in a well-stocked fly-fishing store: it's worth a trip just to see what amazing feathers there are in the world. "Skeet"
  11. "Skeet" McD

    What tickles you?

    Ain't it the truth! And I tend to record 'em, then watch 'em when I can...so it didn't necessarily have to be broadcast during that period :( . Additionally...while there is some repetition on TCM, there's not a lot...and what there is is on a pretty long leash. I'll keep combing the memory...
  13. "Skeet" McD

    What tickles you?

    Dear HP, I used to think the same thing...and also wondered at it. But, just within the last month or 6 weeks, an old film on TCM showed...just what we're talking about here, so it really DID exist back in the day. Problem is...I can't for the life of me remember what film it was, and therefore...
  14. "Skeet" McD

    The best films no one has ever seen.

    Couldn't agree more. I saw it when it first came out....amidst the nightmare world of the '60s, a young teenager dressed in 3 piece suit. A wonderful film, and wonderful to see as a 16 year old getting ready to start his own series of adventures. Wonderfully filmed; wonderful story. I really...
  15. "Skeet" McD

    My first retrofitted radio restoration- Did someone say UPDATE? (yes it was me)

    Ich gebe Rat: Sprengstoff! Und dann: Uhu, der klebt Alles! die, das, der "Skeet"
  16. "Skeet" McD

    Radio Company Promotional records

    Fascinating! Great stuff! Particularly interesting to hear the early versions of the "Canadian" accent...a good deal of variation, but distinctly Canadian. Thanks, Retro! "Skeet"
  17. "Skeet" McD

    My first retrofitted radio restoration- Did someone say UPDATE? (yes it was me)

    Dear JB, That's looking grand! just grand! Congratulations...and congratulations to whoever ends up the lucky (next) owner.... "Skeet"
  19. "Skeet" McD

    Got my decoder pin in the mail! (A Christmas Story in June)

    Yup, I was lucky. Found him twisting through the dial, heard "that" voice, and stopped dead. But had no idea who he was, or what the show or station had been. So spent the next few weeks trying to find him again...and then listened religiously until going off to college; my "Shep years" were...
  20. "Skeet" McD

    Got my decoder pin in the mail! (A Christmas Story in June)

    And, let's face it: if you're going to SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, :eek: you NEED that power ;) Great stuff, Jeremy. I'm expecting--and certainly HOPING, with your radio obsession--that you also know and love the Jean Shepherd radio shows...I'm yet another of those "men of a certain age who grew up...
  21. "Skeet" McD

    You Big Softy! - Your Favourite Soft Drinks

    Any Michiganders with a Vernor's monkey on their back? My dear wife is a Michigander, and the first time she took me out to meet the folks, the other thing she made sure I sampled for local color was Vernor's Ginger Ale. I'm glad she did! This is a ginger ale which has a good proportion of the...
  22. "Skeet" McD

    You Big Softy! - Your Favourite Soft Drinks

    Both my parents were New Englanders, but I grew up in Westchester County New York in the late 50s and 1960s. Za-rex was available there, although I was not a consumer...how much farther away, others will have to tell us. "Skeet," now safely back in New England
  23. "Skeet" McD

    From Scratch

    Dear LD: Good for you! And it TASTES better, as well as being cheaper. Once upon a time...everyone knew what really FRESH bread was like. Now...you're one of the few. I bake 2 to 3 times a week, and have for 3 or 4 years. My wife started to keep chickens (layers, mostly) 3 years ago...so we...

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