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    The Tie Game: Identify Your US State Out of These Regional Ties

    #27, Michigan (Detroit's horseless carriages)
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    DIY Gone Wrong

    Good thing she didn't mess up an image of Mohammed! Oh wait, there aren't any...
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    DIY Gone Wrong

    I was just about that bad in high school art class. For pastel chalk portraits, a girl student was the model. My attempt was embarrassing-- cheeks seemed to have five o'clock shadow, and the forehead/ eyebrow area looked anything but feminine. On an impulse (and before the teacher could come...
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    From vaudeville: Lewis and Dody

    On a Rudy Vallee show from the mid-1930s, "Lewis and Dody" sing a humorous, but (deliberately) monotonous song which COULD be called "Hello, Hello..... Hello Hello Hello." They supposedly had 92 verses for it. A sample: While walking in the lane We saw A man Who must have been insane He'd...
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    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    Yet they did fend off Babe Ruth's lawsuit, somehow.
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    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    Ahhh that's one story... but the candy very conveniently appeared on the market just as George Herman Ruth was becoming nationally famous. The version I heard (and believed for a long time) was that the name honored Grover Cleveland's daughter, but the manufacturer didn't have any convincing...
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    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    Hasn't anyone corrected the original poster by now? BABY Ruth not BABE. (And there's quite a story there...)
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    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    I just recently noticed Mary Janes-- the flavor is about the same as Cracker Jack, but run together and softened. The package says who introduced them; they are now part of the NECCO line. I take Richardson's Party Patties to some vintage events...
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    DIY Gone Wrong

    Maybe she mistook the accelerator for the brake.
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    What gives you that vintage feeling?

    Fred Allen made reference to the position of "lettuce bender in an automat." The guy who makes sure the salads and sandwiches fit into the little compartments...
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    Wanna buy a duck?

    There's a movie short with Gordon & Revel demonstrating how they came up with songs for COLLEGE RHYTHYM-- in particular, "Take a Number from One to Ten."
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    Wanna buy a duck?

    Wait... what I heard her say on a Vallee show was a little different-- "I Hhope to tell ya, Hhoney!"
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    Wanna buy a duck?

    "I meen ta tell ya, Hhoney!" (That Hh is all I can think of to represent Lyda's somewhat gutteral H-sound.)
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    Suzzy Roche of the folk-pop sister veterans, The Roches, likes to mention Yo Yo Ma's habit of providing a... full-length-and-more performance.
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    Wanna buy a duck?

    In several books and audio histories of radio, I'd run into names of early comics and their catchphrases. I learned of "Ya wanna buy a duck?" and said "okayyyy, whatever..." and moved on. But a couple years ago I heard him on a Vallee show and at least I got a better picture of his act. One...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Sometimes. They. Are. On. A. Different. Screen. From. The. Letters.
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    Is It More Difficult For You to Dress "Vintage" in the Summertime?

    Last week I was heading out to attend a show (evening, indoors) and I like the look of off-white trousers at this time of year. But I constantly worry about spilling food on them, or brushing against something grimy. I had some stops to make and running around to do before sundown, so I wore a...
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    Vintage Pics in your vintage threads!

    My father's uncle was station agent for the C&O at Thurmond in the 1940s thru early 1960s. Largest agency in $$$ terms, of C&O, thanks to the many coal branches in the area.
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    The Abbreviation “OMG” Is Way Older Than We Thought

    Article assumes everyone is familiar with "O.B.E." (Order of the British Empire) and... ah well, I have to admit I don't any others. In fact, I don't know if O.B.E. is "knighthood-level." Anyway, it doesn't give as much context as it could.
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    What are you wearing today??

    Was it Betty or Veronica who had the great... black?... singing voice? The line "I'm gonna give you love so fine" on "Sugar Sugar"...

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