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  1. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    And that's all that I am!
  2. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Nothing wrong with any of it, just be what you want to be.
  3. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It's certainly not the way nature made us.
  4. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    All of the above are natural. What is un natural are implants, liposuction & botox etc.
  5. ChrisB

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Often we accept things the way they are because they have always been that way. It doesn't always stand up to scrutiny. The next generation has the privelege of blaming previous ones for the ills of the world.
  7. ChrisB

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    And many women were quite willing to accept their second class status. I cant say that the rules of etiquette were intended to keep women in their place, but they would not have existed without women being considered weak and in need of protection. There is also a distinction between etiquette...
  8. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That would give Miss Snow the vapors!
  9. ChrisB

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Many rules of etiquette are arbitrary, there is nothing inherently rude about holding your fork in your left vs. right hand. They are merely shibboleths to separate "Us" from "Them".
  10. ChrisB

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Such rules of etiquette were based on the notion that women were the"weaker sex". So the intention was to protect them from the rigors of the world, at the cost of being considered a lesser human being.
  11. ChrisB

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One never knows, do one?
  13. ChrisB

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

  14. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    Melatonin, taken an hour before bed time, works for me. And if you can get the time release variety, it helps you to sleep through the night.
  15. ChrisB

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You will hear similar lyrics in just about anything sung by Bessie Smith, and some of the tunes Jelly Roll Morton sang in his youth were obscene even by today's standards.
  16. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Remember when people refused to wear seat belts because they wanted to be "thrown clear" of the accident? You don't hear that lame excuse anymore.
  17. ChrisB

    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    When I first started working in Princeton, there were a few people who remembered going to the Trenton Drive In in Robbinsville, where they encountered a young employee by the name of Ernie Kovacs. In my home town, Washington NJ, the theater built in 1926 sits empty, and is in danger of...
  19. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Motorcycles look like fun, but I have heard too many bad stories to ever want one myself. My cousin's husband was hit broadside by a car making an illegal left turn, breaking his femur into multiple pieces. He required a lot of hardware and rehab, but eventually recovered. A former colleague of...
  20. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Thus the term "Donorcycle".
  21. ChrisB

    "Uncontested - The Champ"

    My father's hat, which I recently inherited:
  22. ChrisB

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Anyone have an Akubra Plainsman? Any opinions or photos? I'm interested in this hat because it is rather different from most of the Akubra line, also my first hat was a similar style.
  23. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    When my grandmother, in her 80s, went to visit her sister in Florida, she would complain that "there's nothing but old people here!". She did not see herself as part of that group.

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