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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    As I have mentioned once or twice previously, I inherited a collection of political cartoons that my grandfather cut out of Southern California newspapers chronicling events from about 1938 to 1946. Being a British subject, (professionally necessary as he was a valet and butler), much of them...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    A few years back I mentioned that I had a collection of political cartoons that my grandfather cut out of Southern California newspapers chronicling events from about 1938 to 1946. Being a British subject, (professionally necessary as he was a valet and butler), much of them deal with goings-on...
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    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    Regarding 'redneck': In Affrikaans, 'rooinek' literally means 'redneck'. However there it is used as derogatory term for white English-speaking South Africans. Presumably because the English came after the Dutch and hadn't learned to wear a hat.
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    How’s the burn-rate on your wine rack during quarantine?

    ...And traditionally vodka is made from the juice of the potato.
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    How’s the burn-rate on your wine rack during quarantine?

    Being able to work from home, we've been trying to support local business that are hanging on by doing take-away and delivery from them at a higher rate than previously. One thing that our corner of San Francisco has developed over the past 20 years are small wineries. They don't grow the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My dad, born 1926, didn't listen to much music, and when he did it was Classical or Baroque. His LPs were Toscanini's Beethoven Symphonies and E. Power Biggs' Bach organ works. My mom, born 1930 and still kicking, was more eclectic. She liked Glenn Miller, Gene Autry and other cowboy singers...
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    Private train car travel

    Back in 1999 during the Dot-Com Bubble, there was an entire consist of five private cars parked on the eastern-most platform of the San Francisco Caltrain Station. It was during one of the big tech conferences at the Moscone Center a few block away. I asked one of the Caltrain conductors, (I...
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    Favorite song....

    It rather alternates between: and
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Fading Fast wrote in regard to C. Aubrey Smith: "He would probably be a top five in a 1930s game of six degrees of separation." I can do that in two or less, (depending on how the count is made). My grandfather was one of the founders of the Santa Barbara Cricket Club back in the '20s and...
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    British Light Music

    Other light music, (albeit not British), regarding train travel: op. 281 (Johann Strauss II) (Hector Villa-Lobos) (Robin, Whiting, & Harling)
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    Deco Deliveries

    Morris is introducing an updated and electric version of their classic commercial van. They're calling it the Morris JE.
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    “Smart” phones

    Over-reliance on sat-nav, Waze, and similar electronic aids have had results ranging from comic to tragic. In San Francisco it is not uncommon to see long vehicles driven by non-locals playing teeter-totter at the crest of the numerous hills. Usually these are stretch limousines, out-town-tour...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Whenever I see someone wearing purposely slashed clothing, the words to a not-so-old song run through my head. 'Hey Landsknecht, hey Landsknecht. Leben ist nicht aber Krieg und Schreck.'
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Andalusians, particularly Sevillans and Malagans, are absolutely mad for fried fish. Lots of little walk-ups where you can get a single piece of battered and fried cod to an entire basket of piscaliciousness.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    LizzieMaine wrote: "The scene with the vat of poop was the point too far for a lot of them." When I loaded this page and saw the above remark I thought, 'Oh, they're discussing the final scene in The Magic Christian.'
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    Old gas stations

    A 1954-55 Cadillac in Sweden?
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lean'n'mean wrote: "Boffins are also working on an implanted microchip that will allow sheeple to 'connect' & surf the net by thought alone." Foreseen back in 1967 in The President's Analyst.
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    Autumnal Thoughts........

    Here in San Francisco, September-October is when we get what the rest of the country calls summer. It was 92 here last Friday.
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    Autumnal Thoughts........

    And the London to Brighton Run has been going on for decades. There is a delightful 1953 movie called Genevieve in which the Run is the central feature.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    George Bernard Shaw had an answer for intrusive telephone calls. He had a writing hut built at the back of his garden in England. It was 8' x 8' with a windowed door flanked by a pair of windows on one face of the building. The building itself was mounted on a pintle so Shaw could rotate the...

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