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Adult Boys
Quite. I had in mind the ones I see, the boat people generation who started little businesses like mini-markets and dry cleaners and whose children are flooding the universities in great numbers. Americans of Asian descent, to be precise.- Otis
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Adult Boys
I find the sociology of this outlook interesting, chiefly because it's shared by ethnic groups that tend to excel long term. Case in point, I was listening to a lecture by a Rabbi who casually mentioned that middle-class Jews disdain drunkenness. "Why?" says I. Because we're studious...- Otis
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
How true! Looks like we cancel each other out here...:) I'd deregulate the whole mess entirely...right down to abolishing the FCC.- Otis
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What is your biggest vice?
Yep, good phono cartridges and/or styli will keep you broke.- Otis
- Post #302
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Ok, let's assume those figures are correct. There was probably a great deal of overlap in the rolls, but giving your side the benefit of the doubt, let's say there wasn't. That's 18 million people, almost all FDR supports, no doubt. I think the population was closer to 140 million at the time...- Otis
- Post #716
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage grocery stores
Yep, back in the 30's my grandmother used to take 'Turkey Red' flour sacks, which came in fine cotton bags, bleach the red turkey logo out and make housedresses out of them. It would have been wasteful not to. As a youngster in the 70's I tried to interview her about life in the 20s-30s-40s, but...- Otis
- Post #26
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Good job, Fading Fast! I was about to reply along the same lines but you're a much better writer, so best it came from you. :cool:- Otis
- Post #690
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Is chivalry dead?
Just for the sake of clarity - For you ladies who prefer to be called "Miss", does this apply regardless of age or marital status? I can't easily see addressing one of my peers (+/-50) as "Miss" when she's probably a happily married grandmother.- Otis
- Post #325
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Mindset Lists
Heh, heh ok, and to that list add comedian W.C. Fields and author Paul Fussell. It's been almost 20 years since I've read anything of his, but his railing against "prole caps" is something I'll never forget. :) I didn't know Fred Allen was a curmudgeon. His Allens Alley routine was funny, but I...- Otis
- Post #99
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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CNN Opinion: Stop hating on the millenials
VintageTink, And elsewhere the requirements for receiving church welfare payments were laid out, namely, a widow, aged 60 or more. In other words, someone with literally no other economic options except destitution. Younger women were instructed to marry and escape poverty that way. Lizzie's...- Otis
- Post #177
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Living a Ration Book Life
Since the term "black market" is an arbitrary, perjorative term for "free market", and I'm a defender of the free market, I will. This is a separate issue. Ethically speaking fraud is fraud whether the transaction is legal or not. The fact that the State won't prosecute fraud committed by...- Otis
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Is chivalry dead?
Good point HH, but looking back from the standpoint of mature reflection, I'm convinced the girl in my story was a fundamentally decent person, she just had a chip on her shoulder. I hope she's happier now. Great story! I normally think of waitresses as kind of tough but this one must have been...- Otis
- Post #284
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Is chivalry dead?
It's been many years ago now but I still remember taking out a teenager who made it clear she didn't like the normal courtesies. Each time I opened a car door, restaurant door etc. she grumbled something like "I can do it" or "I'm not helpless". Later in phone conversation, she explained that...- Otis
- Post #281
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Outstanding single episode of Nero Wolfe
Hi folks, yesterday someone mentioned the name of old-time actor Sydney Greenstreet, and that's all it took to remind me that back in the 90s I bought a bunch of OTR on cassette, among which is some Nero Wolfe. After digging them out I spent a pleasant evening revisiting these old gems. They... -
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The fan in the avatar is a 1946 Emerson Silver Swan - one of the most beautiful ever made, imo.
The fan in the avatar is a 1946 Emerson Silver Swan - one of the most beautiful ever made, imo.- Otis
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Living a Ration Book Life
Hm, well there could be a confusion of terms. When I use the word "argument" I mean it in the academic sense. Something like "I disagree". It's not at all 'argument' in the belligerent sense. There are no heated passions or raised voices. Even so, if I've violated the spirit of the...- Otis
- Post #14
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Living a Ration Book Life
Fair enough, if that's what you as an individual desire but what you described was a massive, faceless, unaccountable bureaucracy dictating living and spending conditions. My inner libertarian is cringes at the thought. ;)- Otis
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Living a Ration Book Life
Well, yes....people can do a lot of things if pressed. Some even survived Buchenwald & Treblinka. A better question is "why would anyone want to try?" Wasn't it Your Guy Wesley who said to do the best you can, as much, as often, etc? Knowing that each of us has only a limited, undefined...- Otis
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Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....
70 was the the first year for the 500. It was rated at 400 gross HP and 525 foot pounds of torque. It was an Eldo exclusive that year and for a few years after. Devilles had make do with the 472 until the mid-70s.- Otis
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I agree completely. Ideas always have a germination period. The FDR era was merely the political realization of ideas that had been fermenting for at least a generation prior. Maybe two, going back as far as 1871 with the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man. Very interesting! It's easy to...- Otis
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