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    World War I veterans

    K.D. Lightner wrote: By the way, the countdown now is that there are only 30 WW I and WW I era soldiers left worldwide. There are also 4 unverified claims. There have been 28 WW I veterans who have died so far in 2007. One died last week in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was 106 years old...
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    How trench humour can get the modern day Joe interested in The Great War (film clip)

    Edward wrote: "Without getting overly political, I did particularly appreciate the way Blackadder (I believe accurately) portrayed the top brass and the callous, office-based attitudes that existed towards real lives being spent on the front over the sake of a few feet of mud often." The...
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    How trench humour can get the modern day Joe interested in The Great War (film clip)

    One thing to remember is that much of the recorded/published humour of the time was cleaned up for published consumption. This meant that most sexual and scatalogical material was either toned down or eliminated. What did slip through was material reflecting the filth and futility of living...
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    First Movie

    It was either the first reissue of Disney's _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ or _Alakazam the Great_. The later was a Japanese animated film based on the Chinese classic, _The Journey to the West_, (the Monkey-King), and was released in the USA in 1960. Regardless which was first, I saw both in...
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    Proper Polo wear?

    Back in the 1970s, I would occasionaly see the University's polo team practicing. If I recall, they dressed pretty traditionaly. Then again, for people from the Ag end of the Cal Aggie student body, traditional included Wrangler jeans, cowboy boots, and straw Stetsons. Not too much different...
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    What Are You Reading

    I've just finished up Wm. Dalrymple's _The Last Mughal_ about Bahadur Shah Zafar and the city of Delhi just before the 1857 uprising. Good, informative, and Dalrymple makes his standard good use of the large quantity of largely-untouched extent first-hand materials to be found in archives...
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    Movie Villains

    I just finished rewatching the PBS Mystery series, _Heat of the Sun_ (Set in 1930s Kenya). I would nominate Joss Ackland for his portrayal of the villainous Max van der Vuurst. Rather like Sydney Greenstreet, but nastier. Haversack.
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Cold and foggy this morning as I left for the train station. Forty miles away where I work it is bright sun. Today, I am wearing my "John Bull" in pecan by the Clearwater Hat Company. It has seen a few years, (Art has reblocked it once), but it is as comfortable to wear as a favourite old...
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    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Viola wrote: "One is for fighting...?" A bit of Basic Training doggerel. You have to unlearn it if you go through Fort Sill or Woolwich. Haversack, Former Red Leg.
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    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Warbird wrote: "Howitzer now, thats a gun." Naw, a howitzer is a howitzer, a gun is a gun. (Although because they've been making the barrels longer lately, they've taken to calling them gun-howitzers.) The last true gun in the US Army's inventory was the M107 175mm gun. Haversack.
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    Iwo Jima Name Change

    The fact that different countries have different names for the same piece of real estate or history shouldn't get anyone's knickers in a twist. For example: Munich/Muenchen; World War II/Great Patriotic War; Bull Run/Manassas; China/Zhonghua/Middle Kingdom. Names most often get changed for...
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    Novels and Movies

    Warner's movie version of _Captain Blood_ strayed very little from Raphael Sabatini's novel of the same name. Haversack.
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    Are there any universally liked actors/actresses?

    How about Joel McRae, Claudette Colbert, and Myrna Loy? For a modern actress, Emma Thompson. Haversack.
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    Weird Food Combinations

    Dijon mustard, butter, and dill are a perfectly good sauce for fish. It is a not uncommon combination in the cooking of the southern Baltic countries. You would want a fairly strong, oily fish like salmon, but even pike would work if the mustard is not too strong. Haversack.
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    Jeans

    Levi, Lee, and Wrangler jeans with wide legs and suspender buttons have been a staple for decades in the Pacific Northwest. They call them "loggers jeans". For a pratical reason too. If you are working where wood chips and long splinters are flying around, you don't want to be wearing a belt...
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    Fellas living with froufrou?

    Madonna's Inn is quite the place if you want to see oppulance, (for a given value of oppulent). And as noted, there is a fair amount of frou-frou there as well. http://www.madonnainn.com/ Each bedroom has a separate design theme and is decorated thusly. It is a unique place. Mr. Madonna...
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    Fellas living with froufrou?

    I think a good illustration of what could be called "frou-frou" can be seen in the photograph of the steak house at Madonna's Inn in San Luis Obispo. http://www.madonnainn.com/steakhouse.asp There is a particular shade of pink that Mrs. Madonna was very fond of. Even the sugar at the...
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    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    Ja, it was some time ago. But I think Garreau divided Alaska between Ecotopia, (Homer and the Banana Belt), and the Empty Quarter, (everything else). Still, some of his observations such as recognizing the east-west divide in Oregon and Washington, still holds. Haversack.
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    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    Viola made mention of some people referring to the old heavy-industry part of the USA as "The Foundry". That's is from Joel Garreau's 1981 book entitled, "The Nine Nations of North America". Its an examination of the continent based on economic and cultural grounds. A map of his redivision...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    When I was in the US Army stationed in Germany in the early 1980s we refered to those British style wool "commando" sweaters with the fabric epaulets and elbow patches as wooly-pullies. We were not permitted to wear them with our uniforms as they were not issue. They were popular however...

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