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    You know you are getting old when:

    To tell the truth, you don't have to travel far from SFO to see the hats and boots. There's a bull ring just south of San Jose and I can think of about half a dozen cafes within an hour of the airport that if you go in a 6 AM you'l see plenty of straw Stetsons and boots with prod spurs. It...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Carl Barks wrote that into a Donald Duck comic book back in 1952. Finding the Golden Helmet of Lief Erikson entitled the possessor to ownership of all of North America. Donald was going to own the air...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I must admit to having a particular liking for the opening bars of the second movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. NBC retired its use when Chet Huntley retired.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    These are what I knew as scones, (to rhyme with bones), while growing up.
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Another thing to factor into the calculations is that along with the greater weight with more/larger batteries, so too must the body, brakes, and suspension be made stronger and heavier. This can cut into the vehicle's payload. I think this is a factor in Toyota's new version of its now...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Growing up, what I knew as scones were from my Scots grandmother. These were a rich batter griddle cake very much like a dollar pancake and eaten with butter, jam, and clotted cream. It was not until I became aware of the NZ comic strip, Footrot Flats, that I learned that these were called...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Harp, thanks for that reference. It adds some depth to what Russ Meyer was doing with Uschi Digard, Charles Pitt, and Stuart Lancaster in Supervixens.
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    Today in History

    In 1940, after she finished making the movies with Astaire, (bar one), she bought a ranch on the bank of the Rogue River northwest of Medford in Southern Oregon. For the next fifty years when she wasn't making movies she lived there and spent a great deal of the time fishing. I learned this as...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    For more on that word in English, a book entitled The F-Word was written by Jesse Scheidlower and published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Pre-1450 examples of the word's use in English are pretty much on the order of meaning 'to strike'. For instance there is the surname of Fuckebegger...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I inherited a large, (11’ x 16’), Persian carpet from Mashad. It is too big for any of the rooms in my 1910 flat so has been cleaned, rolled, and wrapped for the past 20-odd years. When new, (sometime between 1930 and 1960), it graced the Montecito home office of Kirk Johnson, my grandfather’s...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Now't new... "What you are, we were, and what we are, you will be."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "There's a hold-up in the Bronx. Brooklyn's opened up in fights. There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights..."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I wonder if any other mayor of an American city has had a Broadway musical about them?
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Regarding payrolls: When I was stationed in Germany back in the 1980s one of the various extra duties that rotated among the junior officers in the battalion was pay officer. Once a month one of us would check out a .45 (and ammunition), from the arms room, get one of our battery's sergeant's...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    One of the small details kept secret at the time and for several years after was that US Navy pilots were already flying in RAF aircraft on combat missions by May 1941. More on this later as events surrounding the Bismarck unfold...
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    If you could choose, what city would you like to see crushed by a giant monster?

    My wife is the fan of Japanese monster movies rather than I. However, I remember having a fair bit of fun back in the mid '80s with a game for the Commodore 64 titled Crush, Crumble, and Chomp. In it you played a variety of classic movie giant monsters, (e.g. Godzilla, Mothra, King Kong, the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Apparently it was a nickname that her mother saddled her with. She was not too pleased with it. According to her obituary, she was related through marriages to Myrna Loy.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    This bit jumped out at me as to my knowledge there isn't anything anymore that would qualify as an estate in San Francisco. So I went looking for clarification and found this site about Waters and the creation of his customized De Soto taxi empire. Fascinating information. And sure enough...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I first saw Olympia Dukakis at the American Conservatory Theatre production of Euripides' Hecuba in which she had the title roll. I remember to this day her giving the final line in the play: "History has no compassion."
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    When I lived on the economy while stationed in Germany, my landlord and his wife downstairs were Hungarian Germans. Never learned what he did during the war. I did learn though that he didn't get released from a Soviet POW camp until 1953 after Stalin died.

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