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  1. Fletch

    ever heard of very many tall people that live over 80?

    Amazing life he's led. I think he premiered at La Scala in, what, 1935?
  2. Fletch

    The Age of Entitlement

    You're forgetting the sisal rugs. And the Swedish meatballs, not that they'd last long.
  3. Fletch

    The Age of Entitlement

    Somewhat ironically, IKEA's greatest contribution to modern day culture is this vision of how much nicer life will be when the cats finally take charge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vXP3tHzhA Personally, I can't wait.
  4. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    In April, 1933, this was the first national release for RCA Victor's new bargain-price Bluebird records. The choice of artist was an obvious one - Jimmie Rodgers was the biggest selling recording artist of any kind in those deep depression years. Radioless, rural families were the only ones...
  5. Fletch

    The Age of Entitlement

    There is classism in all this, but it is a different sort of classism than the old pointing and laughing at the girl at the prom with lank hair and big sister's five-year-old gown. That was cruel and complacent, but perhaps not quite so complacent as today. Today it's middle-class Whites...
  7. Fletch

    ever heard of very many tall people that live over 80?

    Actor-singer George Gaynes, a slightly stooped 6'2", turned 95 last spring and was still in good voice.
  8. Fletch

    ever heard of very many tall people that live over 80?

    Not a public personality by any means, but Capt. Bill Eddy, NBC-TV's first lighting and special effects boss in the late '30s, stood an inch taller than Tiny at 6'7" - and had been a submarine commander in the cramped diesel pigboats of the 1920s! Capt. Eddy, an engineer, cartoonist, and...
  9. Fletch

    Cockpit USA ANJ-4

    I don't expect a BFF in a merchant or tradesperson either. I do expect someone who holds the paying customer in higher regard than a supply sergeant who is following orders way up the chain of command. See the difference here? Edward gets it. But hey, maybe I'm just not enough of a man, or an...
  10. Fletch

    Cockpit USA ANJ-4

    I know I said I was very happy with my US-A, and I am, but it has finish issues brought on by the former owner, a horseman who treated it with the fish oil he used for riding tack. That took away the gloss coat on the sheepskin, leaving a kind of nubuck texture. But I still find it preferable to...
  11. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Chef d'orchestre Joe Haymes in 1932 proffering a piping and piquant Jazz Pie. A reissue from my very own Columbia Royal Blue Record, as it happens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQjsIrr2Qfo
  13. Fletch

    What's for Dinner?

    Update! Po'k's off. Gonna be chicken cacciatore instead. My dad makes a kick-a version.
  14. Fletch

    Cockpit USA ANJ-4

    No experience with Cockpit's version, but I own a US-Authentic AN-J-4 and like it a lot. Very nicely built. Right now it's on special for $995 (I got mine secondhand for a bunch less).
  15. Fletch

    What's for Dinner?

    Po'k. With apples. We're still looking for a po'k roast that isn't a. super friggn lean and/or b. injected with briny watery crap. This being an agribusiness state, it ain't to be had.
  16. Fletch

    New A-1 jacket from Original Flightjackets, horsehide, crafted in Germany, PICS

    Why not go full fettes Schwein? lol I'd qualify easily, having put on 75 pounds since high school. Inside that skinny teenager, there was a fat man slowly eating his way out.
  17. Fletch

    Small Town Noir

    Yep...you have to ask yourself, was New Castle special, being a steel and smokestack town with high immigration and something of a wide-open air? Or did stuff like this go on elsewhere without so much hoop-de-doo? The blogger got his background info from contemporary newspapers. I know that in...
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Dude...poor choice of titles for the Lounge. I won't sic Lizzie on you just this once, but can you still edit it?
  20. Fletch

    are we becoming too self-centered?

    It's already beginning with cats and dogs. Of course, back in the day it was mostly whispering campaigns, and it could happen to anybody who was a little too loosely wound, or too much of an original, or showed kindness to the wrong people. That's the backside of community.
  21. Fletch

    New A-1 jacket from Original Flightjackets, horsehide, crafted in Germany, PICS

    German directness is always refreshing. In America we'd say "for layering." ;) In Japan they'd say "not available."
  22. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    Yeah, good idea. Using it as a decoration is a little too fakey-fashiony. Here it is without the label and with the top flap and a bottom layer Photoshopped in. The zip closing would be ±22", recycling the jacket zipper. It would open the top and about 2" on each side. The question arises: how...
  23. Fletch

    USN waterproof mackinaw

    This coat should be reproed. In Japan. For $1,800 a throw, and only in very small sizes. lol

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