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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I know shooters who use Necco wafers as targets. Hit squarely, they just vanish in a puff of powder. They dissolve in the next rain. So they're a challenge, a satisfying target, and eco-friendly.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Tramp Steamers

    I just want to say that this is the most enjoyable thread I've participated in on FL. Let's keep it up!
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    White bandaids. It used to be the only color they came in. Then, in the '60s, they brought out "flesh-colored" bandaids. I don't remember the last time I saw a white one.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    I thought Cruise was great in "Collateral," which also featured some of the best shootouts on film.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    I spent a summer harvesting avocados. You don't just pick them. You have to cut the stem, leaving about an inch of stem intact. I swore off agricultural labor that summer. Still like guacamole, though.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm a classic early Boomer (born mid-'47). The Baby Boom was socially significant in that the nation went into a frenzy of school-building and teacher-training. While I was growing up there always seemed to be a shortage of classrooms with new schools under construction. My high school...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Forward Time Travel

    Plus you'd be in a world as alien to you as ancient Sumeria, with an education and skills centuries out of date.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Forward Time Travel

    One volume of Spider Robinson's "Tales From Callahan's Bar" series is titled, "Time Travelers Strictly Cash."
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Things I wanna know before I kick the bucket!

    Since 1965 I've lived much of my life in New Mexico. This place was multicultural before it was a word. At first, it was Latino-Anglo. Not just cuisine, but politics. For decades, Anglo governors alternated with Latinos. Same with Senators and Reps. Since the '70s we've acquired a large Asian...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In the army we would get cokes from a vending machine and everybody would put a quarter (or dollar, or whatever was agreed upon) in the pot. After the cokes had been drunk we'd look at the bottoms of the bottles. The city where the bottle had been made was embossed on the bottom and the pot went...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage roadside

    Remember New Coke? Probably the most infamous marketing blunder of all time. Take a century-old, insanely successful product and change it. They thought they would lure the Pepsi drinkers to Coke. They actually tried to imitate the inferior product. The Pepsi drinkers stayed loyal to Pepsi and...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    He was a tough old ba***rd, but nobody beats time. It's the Giant's Nurse.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Things I wanna know before I kick the bucket!

    If Jude Law and Lucy Lawless co-starred in a movie, would they cancel each other out?
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Things I wanna know before I kick the bucket!

    Ron Shipman, owner of the Rubayiat, Dallas's beatnik coffee house in the '60s-70s, sang an updated version of that song. I had no idea it originated in the English music hall.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Something that just turned up in the "so trivial" thread that hadn't occurred to me in years, maybe decades: When I took driver's ed in '62-'63 you still had to learn hand signals. They must have disappeared when most cars got AC.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I learned so far back (ca. '62-63) that you had to learn and execute hand signals. Haven't seen anybody do that in decades.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My father was in packaging for many years, and he lamented about how difficult it was to please people. If you didn't inflate the bag, consumers complained that the contents were reduced to fragments. If you inflated the bags, they complained that they were getting more air than chips. If you...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My favorite among the disclaimers that always follow the pushers' ads: "Do not take (name of product) if you are allergic to it." Says volumes about the intelligence of their targeted audience.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    English, (that is, to say, from the country of England) has over the centuries developed pronunciations greatly at odds with the spelling, especially proper names. The thumping name of Cholmondeley is pronounced "Chumly." The equally awesome name of Featrherstonehaugh is pronounced "Fanshaw."...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The Doors would be better remembered if Jim Morrison hadn't offed himself at 27. And while everybody idolizes John and Paul, no less an authority than Frank Sinatra acclaimed George's "Something in the Way She Moves" as the best love song of the 20th century.

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