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  1. Bluebird Marsha

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    I think some of the shows on TV serve in the same way that the gossip columns of the 20's-50's did. They showcase the behavior of the young, wealthy, terminally stupid (pick two!), and display it for the rest of us to go tsk*tsk*tsk over. Alas I remember the one time I talked to a mortgage...
  2. Bluebird Marsha

    The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Weapons Ever Built

    Properly tested, both before being deployed in actual combat, and then if BuOrd has listened to the commanders using the weapon, I would've considered it a great weapon. But the totality of problems, plus the lack of useful response (blaming the subs marksmanship doesn't count as a useful...
  3. Bluebird Marsha

    Clothing Choices A 1941 Survey

    At first I thought those numbers just had to be off. I grew up in a house built in the 1800's, and the closets were miniscule! And my dorm closet was similar in size. A rod about four feet long, plus whatever I could cram in the shelves above, and into my dresser. How could those 40's era gals...
  4. Bluebird Marsha

    How's Your Summer Going?

    It's hot, hot, hot, I thought after moving here (Tennessee) from Florida, I'd be ready for it. But there's no ocean breeze, just hot and sticky! Just like my kidhood in Kentucky- I should have known:). But I just passed my two-year mark with my employer, and I love them. I like the people, the...
  5. Bluebird Marsha

    Clothing Choices A 1941 Survey

    Zombi and Lizzie, when I saw that article, I mentally subtracted nursing and teaching from the results. I sort of thought I'd read something about nursing along the lines of what Zombi said. And while one of my grandmothers went to college to become a teacher, from what she told me, hats and...
  7. Bluebird Marsha

    Clothing Choices A 1941 Survey

    Based on the number of formal dresses, it looks like the girls in Texas were certainly going to more parties. My kind of place:) I think I'm movie influenced, but I tend to picture the young college/career gal of the Forties as Gene Tierney in Laura. College educated and career oriented, but...
  8. Bluebird Marsha

    Clothing Choices A 1941 Survey

    I saw this on another forum or blog also, and thought it was interesting. If you substitute skirts with jeans, and sweaters with t-shirts, I think you'd have an accurate representation of a modern college students wardrobe :) Someone stated that a modern student at the end of college hasn't...
  9. Bluebird Marsha

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    You did not know this? Horrors! Yes. Water+bare skin+spanking=intensified punishment. Think about it for a second. Wet skin with a well-placed kerthwap! Ouch! Not that I know this from personal experience. I was a good (didn't get caught) child. The sister? Not so smart. But she REALLY deserved...
  10. Bluebird Marsha

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    You too?! Arghh! We who love our Bear seem to have *evil* sisters! True stories. When I was about 11, my sister and step-dad instigated a Bear war. I was "obviously" too old for a Bear. So they stole my Bear and started a game of keep-away. Which involved tossing Teddy onto the garage roof. And...
  11. Bluebird Marsha

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    Maybe I'm prejudiced, but if you have a Teddy Bear that understands you, you have the best friend ever.
  13. Bluebird Marsha

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    An advantage to using a bucket as a toilet. You learn at the age of 6 that metal and skin are a bad combination! THAT movie is one of my favorites of all time ( I swear I'll have a leg lamp by this Christmas!) But I laughed myself hoarse when I saw the flagpole scene. Poor Ralphie! You didn't...
  14. Bluebird Marsha

    Show Us Your Compacts . . .

    I don't have it in my hot little hands yet- but I just purchased this off Etsy... http://www.etsy.com/transaction/54551045 It's so gosh darn swell- I just hope it looks as good in my purse. I suppose I need to sew up a case for it. It deserves it, probably in U.S. Navy colors?
  15. Bluebird Marsha

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    I had this great go-kart that my grand father built for us. The only thing wrong with it was the built in governor! We couldn't go faster than he allowed- we knew how to change it, but we didn't dare! Sleds. Take the sleds out to the farm in winter. Toilet was a bucket. Don't let your bum touch...
  16. Bluebird Marsha

    Terror attack in Oslo, Norway

    For what little comfort it offers, Norway does provide a method for keeping someone locked up indefinitely. From what I've been reading, if the inmate is deemed to be dangerous to society and at risk of repeating violent offenses, they can keep him locked up with reviews every five years. It's...
  17. Bluebird Marsha

    Forbidden items in my home...

    Another voice in support of the softy SGT's of the armed forces. I had a Special Forces CSM as an instructor in ROTC. On at least one occasion (admittedly, alcohol was involved) we had the poor guy bawling after we started going on about how much we worshiped the ground he walked on. I think...
  19. Bluebird Marsha

    The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Weapons Ever Built

    While that list was amusing in some ways, it was only because the ideas behind the weaponry only seemed lacking in retrospect. To me, an ill-conceived weapon has to have been designed with a bad premise that was known at the time, built poorly by the technological standards of its day, and...
  20. Bluebird Marsha

    Terror attack in Oslo, Norway

    I'm just so sorry, words fail me. You'll all be in my prayers.
  21. Bluebird Marsha

    Space: end of an era?

    Thanks, but I have vacation homes at the NASA and Hubble web sites.:D And The Planetary Society, The Mars Society, Astronomy Magazine, Sky & Telescope Magazine... well you get the picture! I adore being a space geek! I wish I still had my old Mars and Lunar wall maps. When I was a kid I would...
  22. Bluebird Marsha

    Space: end of an era?

    Flares can be an issue, but even the shielding used on an Apollo lunar module provided enough protection to an astronaut to protect them from a lethal dose of radiation. And no one is going to be outside during a flare. But I think it's the day to day exposure that would result from a long...
  23. Bluebird Marsha

    Space: end of an era?

    I'm hoping that is the kind of thing NASA will now be working on: R & D. Getting people out into space beyond lunar orbit requires some hardware that I don't think we possess yet. Attention all peeps out at NASA, JPL, MIT, and other assorted habitats of genius engineering types: GET TO IT...

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