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  1. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Similar thing. Back in the 70s fluorescent posters with black light were popular with the rock n roll crowd. You should get one of these:
  2. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh I wash mine. In hot water even. I'm just not one to wear a pair until there's only one underwear molecule left.
  3. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That's exactly what it looked like to me. I immediately thought of all the old 70s posters. I remembered the posters that came with the original Dark Side of the Moon album. I had those on my wall too.
  4. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Have I mentioned people who don't know how to use escalators? You see...you stand still and the stairs move. When you reach the top, you step off and keep on walking. That's the way it works. However, the moving stairs don't stop just because you stop when you've reached the top. When you...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    For some reason, I'm thinking you need a Led Zeppelin poster on the wall...
  7. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I wanted this neon sign over the fireplace, but you wouldn't believe the fit my wife pitched.
  8. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You mean I *don't* look like the model? And what bothers me more than the packaging is the thought of buying underwear only when it wears out. I buy new every few months. I'm not a big clothes shopper, and I don't have to keep up with the latest fashion trends, but clean, fresh underwear is...
  9. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Never heard of that, and it doesn't sound too good for the carpet. Shaving foam contains things like stearic acid or lanolin, or some other oily saturated fat. I use it as a leather conditioner, but I don't think I'd like it as a carpet cleaner.
  10. HudsonHawk

    Selfmade pralines

    Same here. "American" pralines are mostly defined by what you find in New Orleans, and most always contain pecans instead of almonds.
  11. HudsonHawk

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Well, the people who study and do intensive research on the subject. But I get the feeling you pretty much discount their opinion anyway.
  13. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And just a point of order (since Mrs. Hawk is a tax accountant, and I know way more than I'd like to)...April 15th is the deadline to file the previous year's return. The deadline to actually *pay* your taxes is January 15th.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Name your favorite films based on true stories.

    The Japanese were exceptionally brutal and inhumane to POWs. A great many of the guards and officers from the Railway were subsequently tried and executed for crimes against humanity. Many more received life with hard labor. Then there was one guard who was sentenced to one day in prison.
  15. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    So all this talk inspired me. Picked up sixers of both today:
  16. HudsonHawk

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Lena Blackburne's Baseball Rubbing Mud. It's been used to rub up baseballs since 1938. It's still harvested, by hand in shovels and buckets, by the same family, from a secret location on the Delaware River.
  17. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yeah, it's pretty common in the U.S., though like a lot of colloquial terms in the U.S., I believe it's English in origin.
  19. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Don't know if it's been mentioned in the previous 122 pages, but the other day I used the word "cattywampus" in a casual conversation at work, as in I told a woman she couldn't see something on the other side of the room because she was "sittin' all cattywampus". For those of you not from the...
  20. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    The Texas State Fair is famous for its deep-fried ridiculousness. It's become the rage these days to deep fry liquid drinks. So for example, you can get deep fried sweet tea, deep fried caramel latte and deep fried Coca Cola, in addition to everything else from deep fried Oreos and deep fried...
  21. HudsonHawk

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    As a good Southern Baptist, hellfire and brimstone were as real as the nose on your face. Roasting on an open pit for eternity was your fate. If there was a reason to give up the drinking, dancing and playing of cards, that was it.
  22. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I read something not long ago, but cant' remember where, about how this is typical of the "third generation" of family business operators, and it doesn't matter if it was the 1880s, the 1940s or the 2010s...people just tend to not want to be in the same business as their grandparents. It was an...
  23. HudsonHawk

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    So I'm flipping around on the TV last night, and I run across a show about Einstein. It's from a few years ago, and it's a mix of Einstein the man and his scientific theories. They started explaining how gravity isn't the earth pulling objects to it, it's the bending of the space around the...

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