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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It doesn't only occur in Northern States. Here in Nashville (mid-South) there were a LOT of dissatisfied electric car owners. I won't call them electric car "drivers" since they weren't going anywhere. Batteries lose capacity in the cold - it's called physics and chemistry...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    It's nothing short of amazing the small military details that he captures, and it's not big-issue plot points, but the smallest items that you can imagine. Recently when their revolver was shown, you could tell it was a *Colt* Model of 1917. (Not a Smith and Wesson, which also made Model of...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I have told a number of folks that the word "electronic" comes from the Greek word meaning "You can't fix it." Most people agree that the idea makes sense, even if not really true. (I have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and I can't begin to fix a modern car. My Electrical Engineering...
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Just saw "Twelve O'clock High", and Gregory Peck gives an almost exact version of Lt. Speirs' words to his flight crews.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I must have punched thousands of those cards back in my Fortran programming days, but I never saw one of those. An interesting item...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I built one as a science project in the 6th grade. You could barely hear it. Better than nothing, I guess, but not by much...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "(AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO KITTY!)" Why don't they delete those stupid mutts and continue with the adventures of "Kitty"?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You're just a young whippersnapper if you think that sign is old. How about "premium" for 29.9 to feed my 1960's muscle car? It had enough octane (and lead) to support 11:1 compression ratio.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agree completely... My parents and their friends never pined for the Great Depression and a World War. As far as I could tell they were quite pleased that things were mostly peaceful and prosperous in later life.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There's an old hot-rodder's saying that covers this issue: "If you can't eat it, save it."
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The best thing I ever saw from Keaton, and he did a lot of great real movie work, was a scene from a biography of him. He was a great railroad and train fan and expert("The General") and this was an aspect of that. In what looked like a home movie he was standing on a railroad station platform...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Another likely suspect for the "midget car" is the Austin Bantam - coupe or roadster - produced in the mid-thirties. Drag racers in the sixties used Austin bodies with Chrysler or Chevrolet engines for drag racing - small = light weight.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "A game that Used to be popular was “what’s your stripper name?” First name: the name of your childhood pet. Last name: the name of a street you lived on." My dog was named "King" and we lived on "Oxbow Drive" King Oxbow is not very sexy...
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    Clean Jokes

    I have a good friend who is a tenured professor of musicology - I asked her if she thought of the Lone Ranger when she hears WTO. Answer: Yes
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Gasoline Alley" is so good that it has almost driven my interest away from all the others. If anything does happen between Corporal Skeezix and Lieutenant (new) Nina, they are both risking court-martial. It could get really interesting soon...
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    I like the Star Wars jacket, but I'll bet 99% of the people who see it will think it's Russian surplus. :-)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Pitcher turned broadcaster Dizzy Dean, who airs the games of the Cardinals and Browns for a St. Louis radio station, has been ejected from the press box at Sportsman's Park. The St. Louis sportswriters decided they'd had enough of the Great Mouthpiece's line of gab." I think this is a case of...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    "I always wondered when do you know that sour cream has gone bad? When do you know that Cottage Cheese has turned into sour cream or maybe Bleu Cheese?" "Anyway, this might be a bit of a stretch for this thread, but we have all probably experienced buying and using things in our lifetimes that...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I think I'm a rare exception to the out-of-towner's "lost in the subway" problem. I took one good look at that specific map - exceptionally well done - and figured it out. I was, and am, a mechanical engineer who paid part of his way through school by doing drafting (and 3-view projections)...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I had trouble tonight getting on, also.

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