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Stearmen

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How about this little tike?
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Stearmen

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Jonas said " I will take an anti Semite like that any day, over a liberal who runs at the first sign of trouble".

I can't help having an uneasy feeling that those who are most punctilious about being politically correct, would conform just as carefully under a different regime.

Yet it took a Liberal to do this!
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2jakes

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"What's the idea of doing a "Brodie" into the creek ?"


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Steve Brodie (B.1861~D.1901) from New York who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge
and survived on July 23, 1886. Brodie's fame persisted long past his death, with "Brodie" portrayed in films
and with the slang term "Brodie" ~ as in to "do a Brodie" entering the language, meaning to take a chance
or a leap, specifically a suicidal one.







Merry Christmas
 
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^^^^^

Innerestin'.

The term was used with some regularity among a set of teenage boys back in my high school days. To "do a brodie" or "spin a brodie" meant to crank the steering wheel and hit the gas and get the back end of your car to swivel around on the front. You know, to make a circle, and, sometimes, a fair amount of smoke. Of course, large, mostly empty parking lots with a fresh layer of snow made it easy, and fun.

I'd never considered its etymology before. Definitions do indeed expand.
 

Stanley Doble

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Nobody ever called Truman "politically correct". He was more apt to do the right thing, and to hell with political correctness.
 
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LizzieMaine

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Nobody ever called Truman "politically correct". He was more apt to do the right thing, and to hell with political correctness.

Harry was the last "common man" who will ever be elected to the Presidency -- failed haberdasher, low-echelon Army officer, Pendergast ward heeler -- and he was the last President the Boys From Marketing had absolutely no pull over. He wasn't any FDR, and he knew it, but he was a pretty decent HST.

My favorite Truman photo:

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Post-presidency, Harry takes in a game at Kansas City Municipal Stadium with no flunkies, no lackeys, no hangers-on, and no expensive field box. He just sits in the upper deck with the rest of the slobs and gabs with the guy behind him about why in the hell the A's had to go and trade Bob Cerv.
 

Stearmen

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Truman was liberal?! You might have a fight on you hands there with him. lol lol

Whatever the case, actions speaklouder than words. :p

You have been reading the same revisionist history that says JFK was a Conservative. Go read what their opponents called them!
 

Stearmen

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Nobody ever called Truman "politically correct". He was more apt to do the right thing, and to hell with political correctness.

I think you need to reread your post. You implied that Liberals can't do the right thing! I showed you one that did, even pertaining to that guys beloved Israel. I wrote nothing about political correctness.
 
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There's a reason -- a very good reason, by my lights -- that political discussions are banned around this joint.

"By my lights." Now there's another phrase you don't hear so much anymore. I suppose that most people can deduce its meaning from its context.
 

LizzieMaine

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The terms "liberal" and "conservative" applied by moderns to the politics of the Era are completely meaningless, just as "Browderite," "Fosterite," "New Dealer," "Taftite," "Coughlinite," "America Firster" and "Townsendite" are completely meaningless when applied to the politics of today.
 
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