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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    An expression I haven't heard in a while; "This is where we came in." When I was a boy, you could buy a movie ticket and stay in the theater all day if you wanted to. They didn't herd you out at the end of the credits. We'd come in any time, even if it was the middle of the movie, watch it...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    An Aussie expression for going to the men's room is, "I need to go shake hands with the unemployed."
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a boy, "doing a brodie" referred to any insanely dangerous stunt, Evel Knievel-style. It also meant committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. As a boy in Pasadena, CA in the '50s it was common to hear some kid say "I heard someone did a brodie off Suicide Bridge last night.") And...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anyone "do a Brodie" anymore?
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    For me it was Butch Wax. I bet it smelled the same.
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    What is your favorite military vehicle of all time?

    Jeep for me. I drove one in Vietnam, not sure exactly which model, but that vehicle had class and it had history.
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    if a non white person tried to order a meal back in 1850 would they serve him?

    Jack Benny would never tolerate racist comments directed at Eddie Anderson ("Rochester.")
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    urt Reynolds. Who else could have starred in a movie titled "Stroker Ace"?
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    Show us your Switchblades

    Could people repost their old pictures of their switchblades? At least half seem to have been lost, many through the photobucket debacle.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    During the filming of "The Hustler" Gleason was famously impatient with Paul Newman's Actor's Studio Method routine of psyching himself into each scene. Gleason would sit stoically in his chair while Newman was emoting. Of course, Gleason had only a handful of lines to remember.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    The Mandela Effect

    Earlier, Cody and Ma are toasting one another and she says "Top of the world, son," and he responds "Top of the world." But what everyone remembers is "Top of the world, Ma!"
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Things that make you smile

    Of American anthems, I think "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is the best. Yes, it's about war, but it's about the very best justifications for war: "As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." Strangely, Germany's national anthem, "Deutschland Uber Alles," is one of the least...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    The Mandela Effect

    Misremembered movie lines are a subject unto itself. Johnny Weissmuller never said "Me Tarzan. You Jane." Jimmy Cagney never said "You dirty rat!" He also never said "Top of the world, Ma!" What we remember are decades' worth of stage impressionists doing their celebrity schtik.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    When Esso had the slogan "Put a tiger in your tank," There was a novelty fad for fake tiger tails to hang from your slightly ajar gas pipe cover.
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    Comment by 'Inkstainedwretch' in article 'Seven-Plus Films to Watch For the Vintage'

    "Dillinger" (1973) featured a pitch-perfect vision of the Depression. Clothing, furnishings and hairstyles were fabulous.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Paper weights. People now collect them as antiques. Long ago, offices had windows that could be opened, which happened in hot weather. The weights kept papers from scattering in sudden gusts. Haven't seen them used except as ornaments in ages.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Harlan was quick to point out that the Writer's Guild Award he won for "City on the Edge of Forever" was for his original script, as submitted to the Guild, not the script that was actually shot for ST.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I first met Harlan in 1971. He was controversial and, let it be said, some people loathed him, but he never had any but kind words for me. He was very supportive of a young, aspiring sf writer and I reconnected with him a number of times in the last 47 years. He was one of a kind and he will be...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And then there's its corolary, Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Name Something That Your Mother or Grandmother Cooked That Was Your Favorite!

    My grandmother made the best banana pudding I ever ate. With vanilla wafers and meringue topping. She made it with a double boiler and I've never been able to duplicate it.

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