Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[2jakes]

I’ve been told that in peaceful moments I sound like Spencer Tracy
when I’m speaking.
But the most disturbing realization is that I come across like W.C.
especially in the morning.

And for some reason gorgeous reminds me of someone from Maine which
I admire from a distance.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

I only had to look as far as my mother's sister and their mother to find the skeletons. Both were with child prior to marriage, in the 1930s and 1950s respectively. And my maternal grandfather's mother was never married but had two children - different fathers, btw. One of my great-great grandfathers was captured by Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run and spent the rest of the Civil War in a prison camp somewhere in NY. I have a copy of the Oath of Allegiance he signed after the war was over to again become a citizen of the United States of America. I wonder how he would have felt knowing many of his grandsons and great-grandsons would all serve proudly in the United States Navy and Army during WWI through the first Iraq War. Also, one of my great-great-great uncles was governor in a southern state who lost his bid for the Senate because he openly opposed slavery - you might think he'd have seen that one coming. My paternal grandmother often bragged that our family was related to John Quincy Adams, but through research I found it wasn't the famous one, but someone with the same name. The only famous person I'm related to is Robert E. Lee being a distant cousin to my paternal great-grandmother - the one with two kids and no husband- not surprising why we were never invited to dinner at the Lee home.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And for some reason gorgeous reminds me of someone from Maine which
I admire from a distance.

Fun fact -- she was actually based on the radio comedienne Cass Daley, who was frighteningly popular in the mid-1940s, and sounded exactly like that. TA HAVE!

 

[ChiTownScion]

Fun fact -- she was actually based on the radio comedienne Cass Daley, who was frighteningly popular in the mid-1940s, and sounded exactly like that. TA HAVE!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Hooray to market-economy, translated:

-Balloon toques
-Berets
-Beanies
-Bobble toques
-Cabrio toques
-Docker toques
-Flight toques
-Scarf toques
-Visored toques
-Ski toques
-Knit toques
-Walk toques
-Summer toques
-Winter toques
-Sale toques

 

[Fading Fast]

Hooray to market-economy, translated:

-Balloon toques
-Berets
-Beanies
-Bobble toques
-Cabrio toques
-Docker toques
-Flight toques
-Scarf toques
-Visored toques
-Ski toques
-Knit toques
-Walk toques
-Summer toques
-Winter toques
-Sale toques

Yup, shame that wall ever came down as East Germany was doing so well for its people (or the ones not killed under the "shoot-to-kill" orders for trying to escape the socialist worker's paradise) before the horrible market economy was introduced.*


*I will only post these type of posts in response to Trenchfriend's as I have repeatedly pointed out that he does this - so if his are okay, I guess my response posts are as well.

And let me add a since maybe that makes it okay.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Fun fact -- she was actually based on the radio comedienne Cass Daley, who was frighteningly popular in the mid-1940s, and sounded exactly like that. TA HAVE!

What an entertainer! She was more animated than the cartoon character!

 

[2jakes]

From someone that has only seen snow in great amounts, once.

Chicago.

And the realization that snow in the city gets
dirty until it snows again.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Alpha-Industries "Bomber(jacket)coats" for women? Eeeh, what??

 

[2jakes]

Writing letters or holiday greetings.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Alpha-Industries "Bomber(jacket)coats" for women? Eeeh, what??

That's not a Bomber jacket Trenchy, it's a parka (presuming it has a hood.)......what don't you like about women in this type of coat then ?

 

[Trenchfriend]

What the hell??

Dr. Brinkmann (Schwarzwaldklinik), with a camel-coloured M65-fieldjacket!

1:23:00

 

[Zombie_61]

What the hell??

Dr. Brinkmann (Schwarzwaldklinik), with a camel-coloured M65-fieldjacket!

The buttons, and no zipper, appear to indicate it's based on an M-65 field jacket, but not made to military specifications; something similar to the jackets seen here (scroll down to "khaki").

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Crickey !......the Black forest clinic.......haven't seen that in decades.
And Zombie's right, that isn't an M65 jacket. Most Nato armies had their own version of the olive M65 in the 80's, before they went camo......
Here's the German model..........I think.

 

[2jakes]

Dr. Brinkman (Schwarzwaldklinik), with a camel-coloured M65-fieldjacket

Ten of the M-65 Field Jackets

 

[Trenchfriend]

Crickey !......the Black forest clinic.......haven't seen that in decades.

Maybe kind of kitschy, now and then. But to me, that was just the real great old-school of acting and we all can still see, that Wussow didn't just play Dr. Brinkmann. He WAS Dr. Brinkmann.

Klaus-Jürgen Wussow = Dr. Brinkmann

Götz George = Horst Schimanski

AND the cord-trousers!!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I remember Schimanski too........Derrick, Der Alte, Siska, Tatort, Ein Fall für zwei, I've watched them all. ..I really liked Kommissar Rex, especially the first seasons with Tobias Moretti.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I've worn an M-65 for winter ever since being issued my first one in Oct. 1967. I disliked most army stuff except for the M-65, the black leather gloves with wool liners, the lensatic compass and the M-14 rifle. The M-16 was okay, but the 14 had real class. Last of the wood-and-steel battle rifles. I don't like OD and feel silly wearing camo in a civilian context so my M-65s are black or khaki.

 

[2jakes]

I've worn an M-65 for winter ever since being issued my first one in Oct. 1967. I disliked most army stuff except for the M-65, the black leather gloves with wool liners, the lensatic compass and the M-14 rifle. The M-16 was okay, but the 14 had real class. Last of the wood-and-steel battle rifles. I don't like OD and feel silly wearing camo in a civilian context so my M-65s are black or khaki.

Saving Private Ryan "jacket".
Not sure if the jacket was OD or khaki unless it was the film and time of the day
the scene was shot.

 

[Harp]

I disliked most army stuff except for the M-65... the lensatic compass and the M-14 rifle.
The M-16 was okay, but the 14 had real class. Last of the wood-and-steel battle rifles.

I turned most of the basic issue in at discharge but have retained and replaced the black M65 along with black/green commando sweaters initially gotten from the Brits.
The M14 rifle ranks the later M16 though sweet sixteen saved my skin more than once. Did a stint as an adviser with a Greek infantry battalion that used the M1 Garand,
perhaps the finest rifle ever issued, and a weapon that served all global terrain.