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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    British actor Robert Newton, born in Dorset, used an exaggeration of his native West Country accent to portray Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney version of "Treasure Island." The result was so striking that it became the stereotypical "pirate accent"and people to this day think pirates...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I suspect that, for the true gambling addict, it's like any other addiction: gambling floods their brain with dopamine. When they're at the table or the races or on their knees in an alley throwing dice, they feel good, and they come to crave that feeling.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    On the subject of grandmothers, my maternal grandmother was born in the late 1890s and married the ne'er-do-well scion of the town's most prominent family . In 1922 she had twin daughters and a few years later her husband abandoned the family. She never remarried and was something of a scandal...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The smell of "Sea and Ski" suntan lotion instantly transports me back to summers at the beach, half a century ago.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That Adrian looks exactly like the one I remember from the shoe store in Mt. Vernon, OH.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Name the Actor...

    Can't say, but it just don't get no more noirish than that.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Not in my home but in the schools I went to in the '50s mixed marriages were an abomination. A mixed marriage meant marrying a protestant, white or otherwise. After all, why would you want to marry someone you knew was doomed to burn in hell for eternity?
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I don't remember of I've mentioned it before, but when I was a boy shoe stores had fluoroscopes. These were x-ray machines that cast the image on a tv screen instead of on film. I could stand on it with my feet in the recess provided and look through the eyepiece and see my skeletal feet. I'd...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    The president's limousine has running boards for the Secret Service guards to stand on and handles for them to hang on to.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    If you could choose, what city would you like to see crushed by a giant monster?

    This is very poor Latin structure. There is no such word as "Elvi." First declension Latin nouns ending in -us form the plural by dropping the -us and adding -i. Those ending in -is (I forget the declension) form the plural with -es. Thus, it should be "the flying Elves" (pronounced el-veez).
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Weapons in the Movies

    In the trailer for the upcoming Sony film "The Gunslinger,"based on the Stephen King novel(s), the gunslinger of the title is shown using what looks like a Remington c&b army (the rammer is visible under the barrel), clearly converted to cartridge. One brief scene shows that it has a swing-out...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I first encountered them as a kid visiting California in the early '50s, the other kids called them "zoris," and that's what I've always called them. I think it comes from the Japanese word for them.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Film Noir Office

    I've already mentioned the bottom right-hand drawer for your bottle. The top right-hand drawer is for your handgun. If you're a smooth, Dick Powell-type detective it should be a Colt or Smith & Wesson snub-nosed .38, in its shoulder holster with the supporting straps wrapped around it. If...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    AL CAPONE , which movie was the best portrayal of mr Capone?

    My favorite is AL CAPONE (1959) starring Rod Steiger as Capone. Steiger was a good physical match, and the look of the '20s-'30s was spot-on, emphasized by the B&W photography. Of course, this was barely 30 years after the events of the movie, like a 2017 movie about the '80s.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I feel the same way about the word "debrief." I first heard it used after the early manned space flights. On return, the news said that the astronauts were being "debriefed." Young though I was, this struck me as senseless. Like, did NASA give them a briefing before the mission and then they...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I know it's trivial, but I still cringe when I hear "disrespect" used as a verb. Maybe it's because it originated on the street. I mean, it makes perfect sense: if "respect" can be either a noun or a verb, why not disrespect? It still bothers me.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Weapons in the Movies

    In Godfather II, in the flashback sequence where the young Vito Corleone and his new friend Clemenza go into a townhouse to steal a carpet, at one point they are almost interrupted and Clemenza takes out and levels a long-barrelled Merwin & Hulbert, one with the "scoop" flutes on the cylinder. I...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I recently watched a clip of Howdy doing an incredibly creepy "cowboy" dance. I wish I could remember what it was. I watched the show as a kid but of course all the bad stuff went right over my head.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Groucho: "I've been in bed with a hot toddy." Chico: "That's-a nice!" Groucho: "It's a drink." Chico: "That's-a not so nice."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Ships still "sail." We still talk of "steam shovels" and "steam rolllers" even though they haven't been steam-powered in a hundred years.

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