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  1. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Historically Presidential elections have always been close in the popular vote. Only 13 times (out of our 58 elections) has the winner received more than 60% of the vote, and 19 times the winner has received less than 50%. A big deal is made in the media these days about how our country is...
  2. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    So you made me look it up, and the film was indeed nominated for best original screenplay (though the award went to Talk To Her). The logic at the time seemed to be that it was *inspired* by Ashbury's work, not *based* on it. Ashbury's work was reporting historical events, and the characters...
  3. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, it was sort of a process. The last monarch to have any real power was George III, and the power shifted quickly after him. It sort of went downhill for the king after that, and by the time of Victoria, the role was as head of state.
  4. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    They do. I'm sure there's a list of exactly what they actually personally "own" somewhere, and I'm sure it's extensive. I think I read where the Queen is estimated to be worth about $500MM, which placed her as "wealthy", but not "rich", at least not in the league of Bill Gates and Warren...
  5. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That is a bit of misrepresentation, often touted by the wingnuts out there. She is the monarch over the Commonwealth countries, and as such figuratively represents the "crown" in "Crown Lands" in all of those places. But she doesn't personally hold allodial title to those countries. It's not...
  7. HudsonHawk

    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    I carry a Rawlings genuine baseball glove steer hide bag. Like any good mitt, a little stiff at first, but breaks in nicely. I don't pay any attention to the hecklers having an identity crisis, and if anyone tries to snatch it, I'll just whack 'em with my 34" Louisville Slugger:
  8. HudsonHawk

    Wearing used shoes?

    Shoes are like hats, underwear and toothbrushes. They are very personal, and I'm not interested in someone else's.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My wife has a 20-something friend who is my resource for all references to pop culture. I routinely have to ask her "what does this mean?", or "who is this person I've never heard of?" She's often brutally frank. I get embarrassed some times.
  10. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The problem with this is that 20-30 year old women is where all the crazy is at. I would never want to be a 50 year old man with a 25 year old woman, no matter good looking she was.
  11. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Religious differences can doom a marriage. It's one thing if one of you is a dunker and the other a sprinkler...that can be overcome. But "sorry...you're a Red Sox fan, and I'm a National League man...it could never work".
  13. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Speaking from my own experience as a "eh, you'll do" guy, not unattractive, but certainly not a matinee idol: When I was 25-30ish, it was nearly impossible to find women my age, but boy let me tell you about the 35-50 year old women who threw themselves at me. And I'm not bragging, that's just...
  14. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My aforementioned sister got married at 18 to the guy she'd known most of her life. They're still married, 33 years and counting. Which brings up an interesting observation; I know of very few people my age who ar divorced. Many of my friends' parents are, but it's extremely rare in my circle...
  15. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    They did not. Dad left school in '57 to join the Army (101st Airborne, he was). Mom was a few years behind, graduating in '62, and they didn't meet until Dad got out of the service and Mom was in college. I know a few couples my age who met in high school, but not many. I know many more who...
  16. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I remember that school from 10 Things I Hate About You. It is indeed spectacular. I've posted this before, but this is the high school of both my parents. Of course you could never get something like this constructed today...the Gothic Revival architecture and stained glass windows. I...
  17. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I think it's just traditional Russian baroque style, which I guess would have been common in Imperial Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries. I doubt it was intentionally "czarist". IMO, there's nothing particularly special about it. It's just typical firehouse layout...a little office...
  19. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There is also the Palace of the Soviets, which was designed, but never got built:
  20. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The last picture is on Khreschatyk Street in Kiev, Ukraine. It was completely destroyed in WWII, so every building you see today was built post-WWII. Stalinist architecture is very neo-classical in style. It wasn't until the end of Stalin's reign that the "inefficiencies" in the labor...
  21. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    This is the fire station that was recently built in our little district. People pitched a conniption fit at how over the top elaborate and ornamental it is, and what a disgusting waste of taxpayer dollars. A simple metal or cinder block cube is all that is necessary.
  22. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The problem with coinage design is that too many people scream bloody murder every time the government wants to do anything with any style. "Wasting our tax dollars, there's nothing wrong with the old ones!" It's like the wave of unattractive architecture of public buildings, fire houses...
  23. HudsonHawk

    Old gas stations

    Pure Oil was bought by Unocal in 1965. Unocal continued with Pure branded gas stations until 1970, at which point they transitioned them to Union 76 stations. Unocal continued to own the Pure brand and when they pulled out of the southeast in 1992, sold the name to a jobber co-op, who opened...
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