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    WWII Crusher and Garrison Caps

    A not-so-well known repro is the visor caps made for Texas A&M University's ROTC department. They used to (and maybe still) all wear pink-and-greens. I got one of their hats a few years ago from a call to a surplus store in College Station, TX that I can't recall the name of today. I think I had...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You and me, both!
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Snobs of any type, in my experience, often just want the rare and unusual, thinking that alone makes it better. I was dragged to a BBQ place in Seattle in the middle of my cross-country train trip from NYC in September, by a dedicated food snob. The food was 'Meh' at best but the guy who...
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    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    I have been researching trivial info from GIs and the 40s since I was a kid and have talked to countless vets in that time... ...and this subject never once came up.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Around here (Pacific Northwest, somewhat near Seattle), we have craft beer snobs. I can't stand talking to them. They go on and on about some rare stout that they found somewhere. Even when I tell them, "I couldn't care less about what rare micro-brew you found," they don't hear me say it and...
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    Loungers In Print!

    Fair enough. That's why I asked, thanks for clearing that up. I agree with the points you made there.
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    Loungers In Print!

    I just found this review on Amazon, which I assume you've seen already, in part: One thing that I especially didn't like or agree with was her statement saying the guards were chosen because they were unfit for any other duty. Now I have no idea if that's really in the book, but I would take...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Trust me, the coffee snobs around me have suggested almost every type of coffee there is out there. I drew the line at the panda poop blend, but I was literally forced to chug countless sips of various coffees over the years. They all tasted like what I would assume used sewer water tastes like...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Growing up in the deep south, I was convinced that coffee would be dead by the time I was in my 40s or 50s. Nobody I knew under the age of 30 when I was a kid drank the stuff. I often wonder if trendy, overpriced coffee didn't become a big thing if indeed coffee would be dead in parts of the US...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Alcohol wasn't avoided in my home growing up, Dad had a beer every now and then and they had a big jar of Moonshine one of my Mom's uncles had made (all her uncles, WW1 vets, were moonshiners at one point or another). Dad let me take a sip of the 'shine once as a kid (to make sure my curiosity...
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    Past lives, do you believe?

    Fair enough reasoning there. I agree fully. All the cases I've read for reincarnation have centered around a context the person already understood. Show me someone who explains sights and actions they don't get at all and maybe there could be support for it.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm also not a fan of alcohol. At least that can be made to taste good, but I never liked the feeling of being out of control. I've done my share of drinking, make no mistake. I guess I'm the opposite of an alcoholic in that I really don't like alcohol very much and would go out of my way to...
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    Past lives, do you believe?

    I had memories of Europe in WW2, very clear, I could even draw you a map of a village I could see in my mind as a small child. I wondered why this was as I never crossed the pond until I was 18. Then, in my teens, I saw the movie, "Kelly's Heroes," and the village matched my memories exactly. I...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'll go to my grave wondering while coffee has such an appeal other than waking you up when you need it. I've never once encountered any type of coffee that didn't make me gag from the smell...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    Burnt meat. Reminds me too much of a horrible smell I'll never get out of my nose after a helicopter crash in the Army. That, and the smell of MRE heaters or rubberized canvas with dust combined. If I never smell any of them ever again, it'll be way too soon. I'll never understand the people who...
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    Past lives, do you believe?

    My brother, who used to be a big hunter, always said he wanted to be tied to a tree when he croaked so the animals could have dinner. Sure beats the expense of a funeral. "I'll tell ya, country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate." -Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik...
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    Past lives, do you believe?

    Nope. I don't buy into it, at all. I think it's from an inherent need among humans to want something else to happen to them once they die, other than just fading to black. I'm reminded of a movie (I think Kevin Costner said this?) where someone asks why when people think they lived past lives...
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    Any modelers on Fedora Lounge?

    More: Myself after my ever op session. This was something I'd been looking forward to for almost 30 years... Future op sessions will use this chalkboard I hand painted:
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    Any modelers on Fedora Lounge?

    I'm digging this thread up as I see no reason to start a new one. I was into model trains when I was a kid, had a horrible experience with a HO module group in my hometown and left the hobby in disgust for several years. Bachmann made the prototype locomotive I'd always wanted to model (a ET&WNC...
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    whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?

    Better yet, go to the other end of the former D&RGW 3-foot railroad to Chama, NM. Walk down the embankment with the parking lot and the state highway behind you. You'll truly feel like you've stepped into the mid 1950s or earlier.
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