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  1. HanauMan

    The wrist watch.

    There were several German watch makers in 'Old Germany' who made chronographs and regarding your teacher, well he could have been wearing a Russian or DDR made chronographic watch. I recall a East German watch maker called Ruhla who made 'big' watches in the 1970s and I'm guessing that there...
  2. HanauMan

    The Decline and Fall of the Funnies

    Never heard of this strip, nor the cartoonist. For me, on a personal level, nobody really has beaten Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Charles Schulz, Bill Watterson or Alex Nino.
  3. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    Some recent B&W photos..... In the Bleak Midwinter. Christmas lights. Along the river Ness. Along the river Ness.
  4. HanauMan

    The Decline and Fall of the Funnies

    I have also noted a decline in the funnies, both in daily newspaper editions and also in the Sunday Funnies. When I was a child, and right into my mid teens, I would check out the funnies in the paper that Dad bought. Our home paper was the Stars & Stripes , the unofficial paper of the military...
  5. HanauMan

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched both the Home Alone I & II films as they were on over the Christmas period, just out of nostalgia. The plot lines are a tad dumb but the slapstick comedy still holds up. I still wince every time Daniel Stern gets an iron dropped on his face, or several bricks from the third floor! And...
  7. HanauMan

    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    Looks like a nice read. Nothing better, really, than taking a hike in the woods and doing a little whittling. BTW, what is that pocket knife, looks like a modern version of the old BSA knives.
  8. HanauMan

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Really? The BBC impartial? Have you ever watched their political editor Laura Kuenssberg on prime time news? Or their US reporter Jon Sopel?
  9. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    December morning along the river.
  10. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    Love the dinosaurs displays. I'm guessing that you took 'em at the Chicago Natural History Museum, Bushman? Great photos, really interesting. I've always loved dinosaurs and also took many photos the other week when a dinosaur exhibition arrived at my local museum (though much more low key and...
  11. HanauMan

    Mission to Mars.....

    Another cool thing is that my name, along with nearly 2.5 million others, is on a data file on Mars now.
  13. HanauMan

    The Birds & The Bees, how did you find out?

    Nope, no hang ups here. I went to a totally secular school. No religion at all. We were taught morals, sure, but not in the sense that you mean but rather as part of a wider Citizenship.
  14. HanauMan

    The Birds & The Bees, how did you find out?

    We had sex education lessons in 7th. grade and my mother gave me 'a talk' (she was a nurse). My friends and I knew the basics already, being army brats there were always sources for porn magazines, especially in the dumpsters of the enlisted mens' quarters or at the NCO clubs.
  15. HanauMan

    Mission to Mars.....

    I've been interested in real Mars science since I was 11, when Viking I and II landed on its surface. That interest has never faded and I watched the InSight landing live on the BBC last night and seeing that first surface photo was just great. Mars is currently residing low near the southern...
  16. HanauMan

    America Gets The Bird

    Growing up in the 1970s, our family Thanksgiving meal usually consisted of Mom, Dad, my brother and I having a Turkey TV dinner each. May not have been a traditional meal, but I still have fond memories of them.
  17. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    The fog shrouded riverside this morning induced a vivid Victorian Gothic atmosphere.
  19. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    Autumn continues....
  20. HanauMan

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I quite agree on that. I often watch older films, like D.O.A. (1949), just to catch a glimpse of that everyday vibe of a bygone era in the background.
  21. HanauMan

    Star Trek

    Well, all I can say is that, as a kid, I lived in Germany and we didn't have American TV. So it meant, for me, watching Star Trek (or Raumschiff Enterprise) dubbed into German. Just didn't sound right at all. Glad when we moved back to The World and I could watch it again in good old fashioned...
  22. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    A northern European forest: home to the Waldgeister of Nordic and Germanic legends.
  23. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    Takes me back to elementary school. I was the little kid who always volunteered to clean the chalkboard at the end of the lessons. Just loved wiping down the board with that felt eraser, the white chalk dust settling on me as I did so. Sometimes even washed the entire board with water. Only the...

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