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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    San Francisco still operates and maintains its system of street side fire alarm and police telephone boxes. Its pretty much 19th century electro-mechanical technology that is very robust. As my cousin, formerly a submariner, once told me, 'Redundancy is a virtue'. The Chron ran a story about...
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    Your "perfect" films

    The Man Who Would Be King The Wind and the Lion Kind Hearts and Coronets The Palm Beach Story Whisky Galore Tunes of Glory The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The President's Analyst One, Two, Three
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    Tramps and other characters

    GHT wrote in response to BlueTrain saying he would be dogged: "On our side of the pond, that could get you into a lot of trouble." 'Dogging' is a term we cousins haven't picked up yet. Heck, we even build dog parks...
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    This Was San Francisco...

    2jakes: Its not my collection. It was remastered by Ron Henggeler. I was recently reminded of the 1940s-50s nostalgia for the Cleveland-Wilson years when I was cataloguing the costume movies in my collection: Meet Me in St Louis, I Remember Mama, Life With Father, Cheaper By the Dozen, and...
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    This Was San Francisco...

    Just remastered and put on-line are a collection of cartoons drawn in the 1950s by Albert Tolf about life in San Francisco between 1890 and 1920. Admittedly this is a bit early for us. However, the nostalgic view of the past and style of Mr. Tolf's drawing is straight out the Golden Era...
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    Music and sound shorthand in movies

    Flanders and Swann noted that in any period set between 1300 and 1715 the incidental music called for is Greensleeves. Here they are explaining how this came about.
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    The Maltese Falcon

    In Hollywood Canteen, Lorre and Greenstreet play themselves as if they were their typecasts in order to scare the pants off of a gunnery sergeant who wouldn't leave one of the Andrews Sisters alone.
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    Most quotable movie

    While I am particularly fond of Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, (1942), and quotations from the Weenie King, I think one of the most quotable movies out there is The Lion In Winter, (1968). Examples: "Well, what shall we hang... the holly, or each other?" "Of course he has a knife, he...
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    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    I watched BoB several years after it came out without first reading the book. I had a very strange experience when watching the D-Day episode with the company's attack on the artillery battery. It seemed very familiar as if I had heard about it a long time before in bits and pieces. And then I...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I've noticed that some people now get rather disturbed when their cell phone can't connect. Out here in Northern California you don't have to go very far to loose reception. Heck, even here in San Francisco there are still blocks where reception is iffy because of topography. While riding the...
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    Anyone else interested in the ancient world?

    If you are in Vienna you should visit Carnuntum. It is a ruined Roman city on the banks of the Danube about 40 km downstream from Vienna. In its hay-day it had a population of over 50,000. It was destroyed in the 4th C., abandoned, and largely forgotten. There's now a large archeological...
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    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    LizzieMaine wrote: "There is a lovely Yiddish phrase I picked up when I worked in a deli which serves the purpose of "Kiss my..." in a more imaginative way than the usual. If I had a coat of arms, I would use it as the motto. "Kish mir en t-----."" That is pretty close to the motto ascribed...
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    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    English has a lot of expressions that are derived from previously ubiquitous technologies, (e.g. sailing, horses, weapons). Here are a few: Shipshape and Bristol fashion. The devil to pay. Run well in harness together. Ridden hard and put away wet. Lock, stock, and barrel. Flash in the pan.
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    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    You can put "My man" back at least as far as 1891. In Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers, one of the title characters says the following to the Grand Inquisitor of Spain: "Now, my man," [Slapping him on the back], "we don't want anything in your line to-day, and if your curiosity's...
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    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    The BFMs have certainly noticed the popularity of the gluten-free label. There is even a brand of toilet-bowl cleaner out there that proclaims itself to be gluten-free.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    LizzieMaine wrote: "A cake eater is an effette young man who sits languidly around a woman's parlor eating cake and admiring the crease in his trousers while all the real men are out wrestling bears or something. While it wasn't quite the same thing as calling a man a pansy or a nance, it did...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Referring to a male servant as 'Boy' used to be common in other languages as well as English. In French, 'Garçon'. In German, "Knabe". (The latter is a cognate to the English 'Knave'.) Don't use either word to call a servant today.
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    Name your favorite films based on true stories.

    The Sea Wolves (1980) about a group of geriatric Anglo-Indian retired soldiers, (members of the Calcutta Light Horse), covertly returned to active service in order to destroy a German freighter interned in the neutral Portuguese colony of Goa on the west coast of India. The freighter was...
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    Inkstainedwretch wrote in regard to The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover: "Okay, that's fairly nourish." Except that colour played an important role in the film. Each room in the movie had a particular colour as its theme and the colour of the clothes the actors wore changed to match...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It is well to remember that a lot of the earliest rules on table manners were there for hygienic reasons just as much as they were for social differentiation. In German, for example, one of the early sets of rules is the Hofzucht by the Minnesinger known as Tannhäuser written about 1250. For...
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