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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "What's that got to do with the price of tomatoes?" Meaning, what relevance has that to the subject at hand? I haven't heard it used in many years and always wondered where it came from.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Oscars were horrible

    The problem with it is viewers would only want to vote for best picture, best actor/actress, maybe best director. How many give a thought to Best Achievement in Sound Editing?
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    Oscars were horrible

    Back in 2004 or 05, I was both surprised and pleased when the in memoriam featured Russ Meyer and Leni Riefenstahl. I thought it was cool that the Academy was willing to recognize its black sheep (though the montage behind Leni was of "Olympia," not "Triumph of the Will."
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can remember, back in the early '60s, reading somewhere this distinction. "A hobo is a migratory worker. A tramp is a migratory non-worker. A bum is a stationary non-worker." The suggestion is that a hobo never resorted to panhandling unless there was absolutely no work to be had. I...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Now there's a term that has disappeared: "whoreson." It was thought so vulgar that it was euphemised to the much less offensive "son of a bitch." Of course that in turn became a vulgar expression. Sometimes you just can't win.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    As with lank/skirt steak, so with chicken wings. They used to be super-cheap and people mainly boiled them for soup, along with the necks and backs. I remember when I could buy them for $ .10 per pound. Then somebody invented Buffalo Wings. Now they're the costliest part of the chicken.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In Texas "damn" is two syllables: "day-um."
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Other cultures

    I've always wanted to own a greasy spoon and name it "Joe's Eats." My name isn't Joe.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pardon me while I exscape.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Cities can grow so fast that their institutions remain at the small-town level for years before modernizing. Dallas grew enormously in the post-WWII years. I was there in 1963 when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of the Dallas police station. This has been fodder for...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Something that shocked me when I was a boy was that Dick Tracy didn't shoot a bad guy's gun out of his hand like the Lone Ranger. He very sensibly shot them through the head, usually while doing something acrobatic like ducking and rolling. The shot was depicted quite graphically, too, with a...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    Nice shoes!
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have APPEARED In Your Lifetime

    In 2010 I attended the Left Coast Crime Convention, held that year in L.A. With great timing, during the convention the Angel's Flight funicular railway was reopened for the first time in many years and I got to ride on it. first operated in 1901 and closed in 1969, Angel's Flight was featured...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In the mid-50s my father had a Dictaphone Dictabelt Recorder in his office. It recorded on a red plastic belt that was almost rectangular when folded flat. The belt slipped over two fat spindles in the device that spun it as you recorded. It was strictly a business device, with poor sound...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Another thing I see is that many times in films set in the '20s-'30s the cars are always gleaming and spotless. This is because the cars are rented from collectors/restorers who aren't about to allow their cars to be marked up. Back around '78 I saw a tv movie of "The Dain Curse" and it took...
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Some of the most authentic-looking films were the early silents with William S. Hart. The action, plots and dialogue (cards) were hokey, but the look was quite accurate from costumes to architecture. After all, until no more than three decades before the silents, California was the Wild West...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    It's funny that the post-CW period is what most people think of when they say "Wild West." Actually, that was when the West was settling down and coming under rule of law. Look at a photo of El Paso from 1885 and it looks like any big eastern city with big, brick buildings and streetcars...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Luckily, Turkey was a German ally and I believe most of Germany's tobacco was Turkish. In both World Wars the British government considered two commodities to be of absolute necessity to soldier morale: tea and tobacco. At the outset of WWII the British government tried to buy up the whole...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Coincidentally with AdeeC's post above, I just watched "Triumph of the Will" in its entirety. I've seen it many times before, but it struck me for the first time that in the whole thing you see nobody smoking. It was shot in 1934, at the height of the tobacco habit, when Europeans perhaps...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I can remember when rock 'n roll was quite openly referred to as "n****r jungle music." Yes, the divide was pretty wide.

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