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    I can't believe this sort of attitude still persists today

    Starius wrote: "Seems we are judged (and judge) on how our speech is dressed just as much as how our bodies are." -Paging Professor Higgins. Telephone call for Henry Higgins!- Haversack.
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    Dec 5th Repeal Day

    I rather suspect that one of the brew-pubs here in San Francisco will have a special commemeration. Its called "The 21st Ammendment". Haversack.
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    Looking Back Into History

    Major Danger wrote: "We do have a tendency to romanticize the past to the point of distorting the reality of it. Hollywood has been especially good at putting a spin on history." Long before Hollywood. Take for example our popular conception of Vikings:…Horned helmets, shaggy furs, dirty...
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    Looking Back Into History

    I've been following this thread with interest as it deals with a topic of personal and professional interest. What LizzieMaine referred to as Pesentism, I've been calling Chronocentrism for several years. It pretty much takes the same tack as Ethnocentrism, only instead of recognizing that we...
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    Looking Back Into History

    Actually, within the study of history, the recent past is very difficult to analyze and write about because it is TOO recent, a lot of data is still hidden, and our own personal involvement with the events in question overly influences our judgement. Its rather akin to sitting very close to a...
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    Classic Films About Advertising

    A couple that deal with the advertising world if only on the periphery: _Its Always Fair Weather_, (1955). An MGM Musical about 3 GIs who meet up again 10 years after the War. Dan Daily plays an artist who went into advertising rather than art. His song "Situationwise, Saturationwise"...
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    Compliments you've received

    zaika wrote: "that's fantastic! and i don't doubt that she was right! "Well, thank you ma'am..." Haversack.
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    Gentlemen: The most beautiful actress from the beginning of film up to the 50's....

    Hedy Lamarr. Beauty and Brains. Haversack.
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    The many Virtues of the Bow Tie (Send Pics)

    Back before the near universal adoption of CAD and CADD in architectural offices, bow ties were practically a uniform item among many architects. For a very practical reason: They don't drag when you are working over a drafting table nor do they require artificial means of restraint like tie...
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    Compliments you've received

    One summer weekend a couple of years back I was getting on the bus to head downtown. I was wearing a panama Art had crafted into a planter with a blue pugaree, a dark, (but not navy), blue silk sport coat, a spread-collar stripped shirt with a muted gold paisley tie, caramel-coloured poplin...
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    Getting dinner home

    That meal will have a really small carbon footprint. Haversack.
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    Where are the Great Steak Houses??????

    cooncatbob asked about the Big Texan Steak Ranch next to I-40 in Amarillo, Texas. "Is that the place in Amarillo where they advertise the 72 oz sirloin. If you can eat the whole thing you don't have to pay. You could feed the whole family and have leftovers." Doch. Its a big barn-looking...
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    Where are the Great Steak Houses??????

    The three best steaks I have ever eaten were, in order: 1. The porterhouse steak at the Old Plantation in Medicine Park, Oklahoma. 2. A steak of unknown cut in a hole-in-the-garden-wall place in a village-whose-name-I-do-not-know, on the Akrotiri Peninsula near Hania in Western Crete. 3. A...
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    Favourite movies from the 1930s?

    _The Prisoner of Zenda_: 1937. Ronald Colman, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, and Madeline Carroll. Haversack.
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    Real Time Capsules

    I've made mention here before about finding newspapers and dried-up apple cores left over from some workman in the double wall cavity of the California Governors' Mansion. That they survived intact is not suprising as it is a fairly dry environment. What was suprising was finding newspaper...
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    The Golden Compass

    And there were also the mass 'conversions' to atheism among the people who watched the _Babylon 5_ television series. Haversack
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    The Golden Compass

    I’ve not read the books but after looking around today at what has been said about them, the author appears to be pretty outspoken about his beliefs and purposes. Doesn’t really matter. I can enjoy a piece of proselytizing propaganda if it is well done and has an entertaining premise...
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    What Make You Nostalgic?

    Another vote for smells here. Its hard for me to describe but I have very distinct memories of the smells of my grandparents houses. The dry smell of the 1930s carpet in my maternal grandparents' living room and the damp dustiness of the storage room they added off the kitchen. Memories of my...
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    Serious Comedians

    How about Jack Benny in _To Be Or Not To Be_? Haversack
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    Outhouses

    Yep. I've dug a new pit and built a wheel chair accessable outhouse to cover it for a friend's ranch in central B.C. Of course I can't take complete credit for it. I had read Chic Sale's classic bit of vaudeville humour, "The Specialist". If you don't know it, find it and read it. Besides...

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