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    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    The guy in the video (and others here) who assert that the purpose of the "fuller" is to maximize strength and minimize weight are exactly right. There is an engineering term for this physical situation: the "parallel axis theorem", and mechanical engineers learn this in their sophomore and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I spent the early years of my life in Detroit - one of the prime nuclear targets in the whole country, and we had regular "duck-and-cover" drills. I guess we accepted at the time that it would do some good, but obviously later knew better. The best part of the Civil Defense stuff was that all...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Let me say up front that I haven't seen the movie, but my suggested subtitle for it may illustrate why: "What if Ford Won Le mans and No One Cared" I was right in the midst of the car culture of the Sixties, when Ford, GM, and Mopar (Dodge and Plymouth) were competing for performance wins and...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    There was a short-lived (one season) TV series of T&tP back in the early '50's, and even though I was a young kid I do remember it slightly. I was born an airplane nut, so the fact that they were flying DC-3's made an impression on me even then. Here is the IMDB plot summary: "Colonel Terry Lee...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Now that Nashville is a big city, they keep all the school buses in one big school-system parking area, but when I was a kid the bus drivers drove their buses home with them. I'm pretty sure they would have done that also out in the sticks of upper East TN during WWII. So, you could have a...
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    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Putting your two GE toy items together, a Mr. Potato Head character made a good target for our BB guns. As you say, we roamed the backyards, creek, and empty lots shooting at whatever. Since the creek ran right behind our house we very often floated paper and balsa boats and shot at the moving...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    After his active baseball career he was part of the (in my opinion) best baseball announcing duo ever: PeeWee and Ole Diz broadcasting weekend games. I'm not really a baseball fan, but I'd watch just to see what they would say and do. I remember one game in which the shortstop was coming up...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Be cautious about believing what you read in "The Glory and the Dream". I used to use passages from that book as examples for my history students about how some "respected" references were dead wrong and could not be trusted. My copy is locked away in my inaccessible office, but one mistake...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Answering questions is a reflex action by now after teaching for 25+ years. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to do that... I agree with your statement: "...it is absolutely amazing what a wide variety of things I learn here on the Lounge!" That's a very big reason I keep coming back... (By...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    High surface tension... The surface tension tries to pull the bead into a sphere, the high density tends to flatten the bead... Hence that sort-of rounded button shape. The high surface tension also makes the bead surface VERY smooth so it acts as a shiny mirror/reflector.
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    Morse Code

    I was BARELY able to get Morse understood well enough to qualify for First Class Scout (boys). I remember almost nothing of it now, and still get mixed up whether "SOS" is dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash-dot-dot-dot or dash-dash-dash-dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash. However, I figure that if I got in...
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    Who makes the most accurate summer (cotton) uniform?

    It may be different in your part of the world, but around here (mid-South) original WWII Army cotton khakis are reasonably plentiful and also cheap compared to the OD wool shirts which reenactors want/need for ETO use. You can't get more authentic than real/original. It's a case of Supply and...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    My favorite "Count Floyd" bit was when he announced: "Well kids, we just found out that the station is going to have an IRS audit. That's *really* scary! OOOOOOOOH!"
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    You know you are getting old when:

    And the jacks were good for throwing at your brother. (OW! You'll put your eye out.)
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    Your favourite commercials

    It will probably strike others as odd, also, but Hollywood would not want to "trigger" someone and make them feel the need to run off to their "safe place". Aside from the PC aspect (there, I said it), it's poorly done from a creative perspective. Sam's mustache-bit is the most humorous and...
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    Your favourite commercials

    Sure there is... It's the same reason that Spielberg edited out the firearms and replaced them with walkie-talkies in "E.T". Hint: the reason has two letters... ("South Park" had a good response to Spielberg by producing an animated version of "Saving Private Ryan" in which the GI's came...
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    Where can I buy a good enough/costume-quality WWII Navy or Army officer's uniform?

    Getting the outfit that you want in OD wool would be expensive and not likely to succeed in meeting the budget limit. I assisted a local college in putting on a presentation of Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" and we used Dickey's khaki work shirts and pants for the WWII uniforms. They were/are...
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    Today in History

    Close... He was getting a shoe-shine, so he stood mostly) still for a while.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    A story told by our former Electrical Engineering Dept. chairman goes as follows: Some years ago, when it wasn't so strictly taboo to touch or be touched by a student, a girl came up after class on the first day and hugged him and said she knew she would enjoy being in his class since he...

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