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  1. Bugguy

    Of Sheep-Dip, Rot-Gut, and Furniture Polish. The worst of the worst.

    Slivovitz - like owning a Rambler; once per lifetime.
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    At the end of a 5 hour night drive with at least a million trucks, a little too much Glenmorangie neat. If you know the mid-western US, you hate I-65.
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    Refrigerator Dishes

    We still use a vintage glass covered butter dish that's kept in the butter tray in the fridge. Once the stick is unwrapped, the dish keeps it from drying out. It's easy to pull out and slice off the butter. I've had at least that my whole life. We buy really interesting ones when we see them in...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I heard one today that is apparently UK'ish... goes like they're "all fur coat and no knickers". Never heard it before, but was told it means you've got a high end look, but are plain underneath. Is this still in use?
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    Chicago area people I need some advice

    Kenosha - the city isn't my favorite. But I moved down to Cincinnati, OH from Salem, WI, about 15 miles due west of Kenosha. I had an acre with 120' lake frontage. I loved it! If it wasn't for a job and a nice salary, I'd still there. You might check out Antioch, IL. right at the state line and...
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    Chicago area people I need some advice

    ...only if you drink the water. I have it on good authority.
  8. Bugguy

    What do you do for Living?

    Hmmmm.... antique mall with auto museum and (?) manufacturing plant. Could be I drove past - quickly - twice this weekend. Was I close? Exiy 26'ish?
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    The Moustache

    It's been 25 years since I had a mustache and I restarted it on November 1st. for the Movember Awareness Month for men's health - prostate and testicular cancer. There were almost 40 of us growing mustaches - even my boss (she) had mustache earrings. The kids, a.k.a. our administrative...
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    What do you do for Living?

    I was recruited to be the hospital administrator for the transplant programs. I'm still that and the corporate director of research and the oncology administrator.
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    Being called by your first name at work

    You bring back a memory... I once was helping the wife of one of our patients and she always referred to her husband as The Colonel. Not my husband (he was passing at the time, so it was pretty emotional), not Jack; but always The Colonel. Obviously he was in the military his whole life and that...
  13. Bugguy

    Poll - How old...?

    Cotswold Tudor built in 1923. Steam boiler heat - perfect for this year.
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    Being called by your first name at work

    In an academic health center this creates an interesting situation. The MD doctor is highest in the pecking order, but we're populated by plenty of PhD doctors as well. We have doctors with white coats and doctors without and everything in between. In a clinical situation staff and patients can...
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    Being called by your first name at work

    Good thread... I'm a sr. hospital administrator and our CEO sets the tone . She's a first name person, so her direct reports respond in kind. Here's where I skew in a slightly different direction. In the presence of strangers, I introduce and refer to her as Ms. xxx. She then has the prerogative...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When trying to have a teaching moment with my teenage daughter, i'd either be "talking to the wall" or my comments would "go in one ear and out the other". Another one my father would use when I was trying to spin a tale was "If stands stiff on fifty-fifth". I could never quite figure out...
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    Photo of 747 cabin ca. 1969-70. Look at the people!

    I was on a flight like this a couple of times in the early 70's - Seoul, Korea to LAX and back. I never saw the quiet cabin, that must have been a Lufthansa thing. All I remember were 24 Holt adoption babies on their first flight - 18 hours worth. Being a sitter was worth a free one-way ticket...
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    "The Vanishing El" (1950)

    How could you miss Chicago?? Think of the Blues Brothers car chase under the Wells Street elevated, ending with the world-class pile-up at Lake & Wells. The CTA "L" will be there long after I'm gone.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My father always referred to someone as being "able to screw up a two-car funeral".
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Funny, I always used a cheater to refer to a pipe extension... put it on the handle of your "monkey wrench" to increase your leverage.
  22. Bugguy

    Favorite Authors

    Harry Harrison - Sci Fi writer passed in August 2012. I own a copy of almost everything he wrote. Notable (sci fi'ers) was Soylent Green (Movie) from Make Room, Make Room Deathworld Trilogy Stainless Steel Rat Bill, the Galatic Hero I have much of his work in the original Astounding, Galaxy...
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    Doc Savage

    I still have a few - my son-in-law is storing several hundred of my vintage sci fi. I'll have to go into the archives and see what's left. As for DesertDan's comments, if you ever read the original Allan Quatermain novels, then watched the movies, you'll see the worst case scenario of poor...

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