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    Why does Samuel Adams Boston Lager taste so much better than many other Lagers?

    As noted above, the water beer is made with has a great deal to do with how it drinks. Because the majors have breweries all over the place, their beers end up tasting different. (even though they try their darnedest to standardize them). And then there are the contract brewers. For instance...
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    What's For Breakfast...

    The wife is working from home today and feeling a little under the weather. So I cooked up some left over sorrel Spätzle and a chopped shallot in butter, threw in some white pepper an a bit of salt, and added the beaten eggs. After the curds began forming I added chopped parsley and six slices...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Harp wrote: "...but NC stirred the imagination." Not only that. His depictions of pirates in his illustrations for Stevenson's Treasure Island set the standard in the public's mind's eye for what pirates look like. Without his work, there would be no Pirates of the Caribbean. (for better or...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    There is a similar motel on Lombard Street in San Francisco, the Marina Motel, with individual garages under each unit. It was built in 1939 and is still run by the same family.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Recall that Kipling coined the phrase "...Single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints." A couple of war-time movies that address this in a round about way: The opening scene in the 1943 patriotic musical and everybody-on-the-lot Paramount satire, Star Spangled Rhythm, has a trio of...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I seem to recall tell of a telephone prank that was occasionally pulled in a particular college dorm back in the mid-'70s. The prank was called 'green wiring' and involved disconnecting a particular wire inside the body of the telephone. What this accomplished was that when called, the phone...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Well, the town of Arcata up on the north coast of California is taking down the statue of President McKinley from the center of the town square because he was an American imperialist. And in San Francisco there are moves afoot to rename Phelan Avenue. Not because of anything the person it was...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    LizzieMaine wrote: "Basic facts are one thing. It's how the facts are interpreted where propaganda comes into play, and there's no author of whatever point of view who doesn't indulge in it. A history book without propaganda is an almanac." Absolutely! Being a historian by training, the basic...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    The common thought today seems to be that anything labeled propaganda is either misinformation or disinformation. 'They' manufacture propaganda. 'We' provide factual information. The term has acquired its negative connotation through its use in the 20th C. in the arenas of war and ideology...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Fading Fast, I use Clipperton Island as my location primarily because it tickles my fondness for obscure geography. Clipperton is an island, (with attached atoll) off the west coast of Mexico that is considered a part of France. My actual location is not hard to figure out given that I...
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    How to Make a Bed

    I grew up with making the bed pretty much as LizzieMaine describes except that my family added a cotton seersucker topsheet on top of the blankets. An influence from my grandparents who were in service. Mind, having grown up making hospital corners and a bed tight enough to bounce a quarter...
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    What's for Dinner?

    A large, (pumpkin-sized), winter squash roasted and stuffed with rice, onion, apple, chopped bacon ends, pulled pork, cumin, cinnamon, and sage. Accompanied by a Spanish grenach.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    The ear worm maggot from the '30s that afflicts me is Charles Trenet singing Boum. 'Course I can trace it directly to having watched in the early '70s The World At War series narrated by Laurence Olivier. The episode concerning the Fall of France used this recording to close. With appropriate...
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    Old gas stations

    A little further looking around makes me think it is a 1960 Ford Taunus. I've now seen several examples with a similar paint job to include the little swoop-down behind the front door.
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    Old gas stations

    I think it is a '59-'62 Ford Taunus by Ford Germany. They were sometimes called 'Seitenstreifentaunus' as they were commonly painted with a contrasting color side-stripe. I've not seen any other example with a paint job similar to this one. Also, I think the photo may have been taken...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think 'chronocentrism' covers it. I first ran into the aversion against black & white movies back in 2006 when we hosted a late-night firequake dinner and viewing of the 1936 movie, San Francisco before heading downtown at 3:30 AM for the 5:12 AM centennial festivities. The husband of a...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Tommy's Joynt is one of few remaining hot-braus left in Northern California. (A style of restaurant that serves hearty meals quickly at a reasonable price with lashing of beer to wash it down. The common features is series of carving stations along a cafeteria line where roast beef, turkey...
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    Pocket Knife

    My EDC pocketknife is a Victorinox Economy, (2 blades, scissors, bottle opener, can opener, corkscrew, & reaming awl), that I bought for 12 marks in a hardware store in Germany in 1982. (Realization struck that what is sold as 'luxury' in the States is often utilitarian elsewhere). Emblems on...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Beside McKellan's Richard III, another movie which features a DH 89 Dragon Rapide is the 1954 Ealing Studios comedy, The Maggie. In it, an American millionaire hires one to search off the coast of Scotland for the boat carrying his furniture. An amusing movie in which the peculiarities of...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Tinkuy wrote: "This reminds me a story..." Other languages and cultures have similar expressions to wish actors luck. Besides the English 'Break a leg' that Upgrade mentioned, the German wish is 'Hals und Bein bruch' - 'Break your leg and neck'. In France it is simply 'Merde'. In the world...

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