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The Era -- Day By Day
- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,125
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Suppose this should be in the "So Trivial/Still Ticks You Off" thread, but since it was raised here: One doesn't "win" the Medal of Honor. Or a Bronze Star. Or a Purple Heart, or a VC. They are awarded. Okay, I'm off the soapbox.- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,118
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
As I have said before, by greatest asset in getting through my higher education was in those willing to give a kid a chance to work hard and earn his way. I don't know that if I had parents paying my bills that I would have taken everything for granted. Actually, the opposite was more likely...- ChiTownScion
- Post #1,718
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
That was pretty much what I did. Neither of my parents were college grads nor had even attended. So of course, that- and essentially back fence gossip- made my mom an "expert" as to how my higher education was going to play out. I was still responsible for costs "as much as I could handle" but...- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,016
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
$2.50 for a white dress all cotton shirt. I checked out an online inflation source and was informed of an inflation rate of 1,640.59%. That plays out at $41.01 in 2022 . With what Brooks Brothers charges, that could be quite a bargain. Thread count is an issue.- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,007
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Probable cause for a search warrant. Surely the good padre knows a cop or two who can get the ball rolling.- ChiTownScion
- Post #6,006
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I think that they reined him in as best they could at the archdiocese level. Anything such as relieving him of his duties as a priest would have required action by the Vatican, and Pius XII wasn't going to do that in 1942 for a number of reasons- good and bad. That he had such a large...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,990
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,950
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
I grew up with pretty much the opposite situation: a blue collar father who did everything he could to discourage me from pursuing a higher education, even though I footed my own bills for it. Even in the last year of law school he was pressuring me to take an exam to get on the fire department...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Era -- Day By Day
I always said, Tracey Ullman for me if I was marooned on an island. If I'm stuck on a damned island, I don't need romance or passion. I need to laugh until my sides ache. And my wife is totally in agreement with that.- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
My uncle's (dad's brother) pet name for his wife was Honung, Swedish for "Honey." Goofy actually more resembles my dad at that late teen/ early 20's stage, but he's close enough. My uncle - I always thought- more resembled Leon, a character in Bob Cordray's strip of the 1960's "Smidgens."...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,876
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The Era -- Day By Day
Weddings can become less about the couple and more about the in-laws/ family. The back & forth between Walt and Phyllis over the nuptials of Skeezix reminds me of the back & forth between my now wife and my father's second wife. We always intended to pay for our own wedding: a somewhat...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,782
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The Era -- Day By Day
So remind me. In what way, shape, or form was this Honey/ Goofy marriage ever a good idea? Or was Mr. Ed merely trying to instruct us as to the long term adverse consequences of decisions made in the heat of passion?- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,773
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Honey is best described as a, well, it rhymes with "wall duster." And Goofy, her meathead hubby, would try the patience of a saint. He makes Harold seem sageous by comparison: perhaps the only consolation is that Miss Honey could have ended up with Shadow. But speaking from my own experience, I...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,756
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The Era -- Day By Day
The article regarding wartime rationing of wool and "no white tie and tails for the duration" foreshadows a permanent reality. Full evening formalwear for men (with a few exceptions, such as state dinners at the White House) essentially died out with the Second World War. Even on Cunard, "formal...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,700
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The Era -- Day By Day
Iva Toguri D'Aquino. She ran a shop (imports and such) on Belmont Avenue near Sheffield. A friend of ours handled employee health insurance issues for her. By all accounts, a nice lady. Gerald Ford issued a full pardon for her in 1977. A lot of fair trial issues in her case. FBI pressure for...- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
{Plot spoiler alert}That name, "Laura Ingalls," really popped out at me. A little Wiki research led me to discover that she was a distant cousin of the Little House author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and was an unapologetic fan of Adolf Hitler. She ended up convicted of failing to register as a...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,580
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The Era -- Day By Day
Every now and then you read about someone who wants to "recreate" the Titanic, as if a first class suite as determined by 1912 standards would be anything to brag about in the 21st Century. Never understood the appeal myself. To me, the Normandie is the ship that would better display the best...- ChiTownScion
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Do you own a Tux?
Shawl collar with cummerbund. Want to get a new jacket w/ peaked collar & black vest.- ChiTownScion
- Post #517
- Forum: Suits
