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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    50s Communities?

    During the Era, a small town's service station men's room was often the only source for condoms, from a vending machine prominently labeled, "For prevention of disease only." Wouldn't want to offend the anti-birth control crowd.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Are American soldiers still referred to as GIs? It was still in use when I served in the late '60s and prevailed in Vietnam pidgin: "GI numbah 10!"
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I can vouch for that. My wife of 46 years is 10 years older than I am, and she is a great-grandmother.Granted, she started early, marrying her first husband when she was 15.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"

    I hope they bring back the short "Ike" jacket, too. That was one handsome military garment.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    Anything dinosaur-related was tops with me.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Under the Code of Hammurabi the punishment for watering beer was to be drowned.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    "Vintage" Illnesses aka "I'm Old Fashioned whines for a moment".

    Does anyone get tonsilitis any more? It was one of the standard child ailments when I was growing up. I haven't heard of it in ages, but then we haven't had kids in the house in decades.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    The link won't work for me. It goes to the watch site and immediately flicks off. Does it include Red Grant's watch in "From Russia, With Love"? That's the watch with the built-in garotte that Grant tried unsuccessfully to use on Bond, but which Bond used successfully on Grant instead.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Coney Island rides 1930’s

    When the US Army began training paratroopers for WW II they "borrowed" the Coney Island parachute tower and moved it to Ft. Benning, GA. When I took jump school at Benning in March 1968 it was still standing on the Tower Field, occasionally used to give visiting VIPs a safer experience of the...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    My late uncle, Peter Berkey III, was a POW in Stalag Luft 3. He wasn't involved in the famous escape but a man from his barracks was. At night he would sneak to the British barracks area and a Brit would come over to occupy his bunk for bedcheck. He forged documents for the escapees. The real...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Julie Adams has died at 92. She is best remembered as the lady in the white bathing suit swimming a disturbingly erotic underwater pas de deux with the Creature From the Black Lagoon. She was married to actor/dancer Ray Danton (The Legs Diamond Story).
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Clive Swift, the long-suffering Richard Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) of "Keeping Up Appearances," has passed away.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    He Married The Wrong Woman

    High Noon - How Coop's character could leave beautiful, passionate Katy Jurado for icy Grace Kelly escapes me.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My wife has to do this every month, plus having her dosage reduced because, as the pharmacist explained: "New Mexico is number one in opioid overdoses." Because, in other words, people who actually need the meds (my wife suffers from lupus and arthritis) can't get them because people who don't...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    It's become a cliche that you know you're getting middle-aged when you see a war newsreel and the buck sergeants and lieutenants look like kids. You know you're really getting old when the master sergeants and colonels look like kids. Hey, I just used the term "newsreel." Doesn't that date me?
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    When it dawns on you that there is now a whole generation of adults who can hear the William Tell Overature and not think of the Lone Ranger.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I just learned that Nicholas Roeg died yesterday (11/23) at 90. He had a good, long run and made some important films. Another one lost.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Or, as somebody said, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Much the same here. I've just learned that my older brother (by 2 1/2 years) is showing signs of dementia. He's a lifelong bachelor so there is no family to be taken care of but it's going to be a trying time ahead.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I felt the same way when Mercedes used Janis Joplin's song "Mercedez Benz" in a commercial.

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