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  1. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I gave up tobacco myself in 2006, so smoking bans have little direct effect on me, outside from sparing me “secondhand smoke,” which remains nowhere near the top of my roster of worries. A young person asked how our parents and other adult authorities couldn’t have known we were smoking back in...
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ By my senior year in high school, when I turned 18 (drinking age was 21), I was bearded (the “hippie” era, you understand) and it was becoming apparent that I would be bald within a few years, so I was the one who procured the alcohol. I won't name the establishments that sold me hooch...
  3. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Learning the local code was the first order of business when a committed drinker found himself in unfamiliar territory. The liquor laws in Washington state have loosened quite a bit from where they were when I moved there, in 1968. Back then a person could get a drink on Sundays, but only when...
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ I clearly remember “tables for ladies” signs painted on the window glass in drinking establishments, but that’s going back more than 50 years. It was considered improper for a woman to sit at the bar, the implication being that she would be seeking to leave the place in the company of a...
  5. tonyb

    Ringling Brothers Circus is Closing.

    It was brought to my attention that RB&B&B decamped Baraboo for warmer climes long before my time, but that my recollections of the circus train on the tracks near our house are shared by others. Thanks, Mom.
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … it occurs to you that those hot “young” women who catch your eye while going about your daily business are in their 50s and 60s.
  8. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    They dropped the price. Today the 2 1/2 pound bag was $10.99, so $4.40 a pound.
  9. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    ^^^^^^ Perhaps your taste buds are keener than mine. I’ve heard that blade grinders “burn” the coffee. I don’t dispute that, necessarily, but if I were making drip coffee I doubt I could tell the difference between coffee ground in a blade grinder from the same coffee ground in a burr grinder...
  10. tonyb

    Ringling Brothers Circus is Closing.

    Yeah, I looked it up myself a few minutes ago. Seems a risky proposition. Here’s hoping it’s a show worthy of success. Online reviews of the reborn circus are mixed. It’s scheduled for a four-day, seven-show run here locally in October.
  11. tonyb

    Ringling Brothers Circus is Closing.

    ^^^^^^ Yup, it seems it has. Or at least its TV advertisements I’ve seen in recent days would have me thinking that. Perhaps I’ll look into what relationship (if any) it has with its namesake. Like, who owns the name?
  13. tonyb

    What’s to like about where you live?

    And they got internet access, too!
  14. tonyb

    What’s to like about where you live?

    That counts for a lot. I have cousins, my contemporaries, living in a small town not far from Madison, Wisconsin. They say pretty much the same as you do: They can take in whatever Milwaukee or Chicago might have to offer and still get home to their own beds before it gets too darned late. In...
  15. tonyb

    What’s to like about where you live?

    My lovely missus and I are given to romanticizing, too. But we both know that’s exactly what we’re doing. Once the novelty wears off the hard realities of living anywhere remain. It’s not impossible that we would relocate, but the smart money isn’t on it.
  16. tonyb

    What’s to like about where you live?

    Seriously, I wanna know. There’s something to be said for pretty much every point on the map. And there’s something to be said against it, too. Heaven is not on Earth, after all, nor is Hell, although I have questioned that second proposition a time or two. This matter came up during a...
  17. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Wife’s sister, who still lives out that way, had to jump through hoops to procure this poster for me. They weren’t just handing them out, and they weren’t for sale. She said the exhibit was just splendid. I won’t be taking it in, though, seeing how it’s closing the day after tomorrow.
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ You’re quite young by the standards of this joint, where 1987 was last week. But it’s good to be reminded that it was indeed 37 years ago, if my feeble old brain is doing the arithmetic right.
  20. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s one of the obscure words I probably forgot about since I stopped doing the NYT crossword puzzle, when the morning Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which ran it, ceased the print edition 15 years ago. Doing ’em online just ain’t the same. As I’ve mentioned before, solving the NYT crossword was...
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ I had to look up “etui.” We never heard that kinda fancy talkin’ around the trailer park. Now that I know what it is, the answer is no, I never knew of anyone smuggling small items in such things. And if I were a person charged with locating and seizing such contraband, little cases...
  22. tonyb

    Some of my old electric fans

    Seeing how we’re in the dog days I figured it’s as good a time as any to ask who else around here is using old electric fans and might offer their impressions as to how practical they are for regular use. Some electric fans are more than a century old now. Are they safe? Are they noisy? Are...
  23. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    In recent times I’ve heard reference made to “thirdhand smoke,” which isn’t smoke at all but rather the residue of tobacco smoke deposited on pretty much everything in spaces where smoking has taken place. It can be empirically established that those residues are present and are harmful, but at...

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