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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    I love the looks of those cartridge conversions. They just have the cleanest, most attractive lines ever. Where did you find yours? Every dealer I've found online says the same thing about all of the Ubertis, not just the conversions: "Out of stock."
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    That last one is a Mexican eagle, standing on a cactus with a serpent in its beak. It's also on the Mexican national flag. The motif is from an Aztec legend.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    White Heat -- one of the best hat (and leather jacket) movies ever.

    One of my all-time favorites.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Like when the drop ceiling installed to "modernize" a turn of the century building is stripped off to reveal the beautiful pressed tin ceiling installed 120 years before. There are several buildings like that near me. Decorators for themed restaurants and bars prowl around here trying to buy...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I'm a classic Boomer, born in 1947. I have no memory of the 40s but I remember almost all of the 50s - the Eisenhower presidency, Korean War, early tv, the appearance of rock 'n roll, James Dean's death, the whole 50s scene. It seemed like everyone's dad had served in WWII, my own in the Army...
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Songs That Seem To Touch Your Soul.....

    Lesley Gore's "California Nights," (1967) incredibly evocative of that time and place.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Those little pointy rubber gum massagers they used to put on the end of toothbrush handles. I don't remember when I last saw one. Were they deemed too unsanitary?
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When was the last time anyone cautioned you not to accept any wooden nickels?
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think that book was "The Motel of the Mysteries."
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I can remember when in the late '50s or early '60s when the son of the Irish ambassador went on a drunk-driving spree and killed several people. He was hurried out of the country under diplomatic immunity. As a kid I was outraged. My parents tried to explain to me why diplomatic immunity existed...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    3rd generation but with 1st gen "bullseye" ejector rod buttons. Was that part of the customization?
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Are there any Horologist’s on the forum?

    From one of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies: Respectable lady: "I am a horologist!" Pirate: "So's me mum, but she don't brag about it."
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Can I interest you in a dp?

    Um, you might want to reconsider that term "dp." It has another meaning in the more scabrous reaches of the Internet (As a crime novelist, I have to keep up with these less than respectable corners of the Internet). Scout's honor. It's strictly professional.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage neon signs

    Johnny Plath, whose passion was restoring old neon signage along old Route 66, has died of (you guessed it) Covid-19. He restored the fabulous Roto-Sphere in Moriarty, NM, of which I wrote back in Oct. 2015.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Some people have all the luck. I've never found a pistol on my roof.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Benzedrine inhalers. They worked pretty well to clear a stuffed-up nose. You stuck 'em up your nose and snorted. I guess the fact they contained benzedrine did them in.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Toyota? What happened to the Plodge?
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Half a century ago every straight young American male was in love with her, myself most emphatically included. I thought her the most beautiful woman in the world and she was certainly in the top 10. The only woman ever to marry James Bond. Her Olenna Tyrell was the best character on GoT, even...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    No Matter How Much You Try You Cannot............

    Go faster than the speed of light.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When was the last time anyone saw a "crying room" in a movie theater? It was a large, glassed-in booth, often in a balcony, where mothers could watch the movie without their crying babies disturbing the other spectators. They were common when I was a boy, but I haven't seen one since the late...

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