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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Airline meals. People complained and joked about them at the time, but I miss them now on long flights.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Another thing that kids now will never experience: When I was growing up, nearly all our fathers and some of our moms served in uniform in WWII. You knew where all your friends'dads had served. Everybody in our neighborhood knew my dad served in the Army Air Force in CBI ( China-Burma-India)...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another saying, more recent: "If the service is free, you're the product."
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    You know you are getting old when:

    They can sue me.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The three men J. Edgar Hoover hated above all others were JFK, RFK and MLK. He was absolutely obsessive in his loathing of King. All three were murdered within 5 years by obscure, deranged assassins. If that's not fodder for conspiracy theory I don't know what is.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Recently I was in a morbid mood and wondered who might attend my funeral. With growing horror I realized that almost everyone I could think of was already dead. If I live just a few years longer I'll just have to give instructions to put my ashes in a sack and toss them in the nearest river...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

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

    There was a 1938 anti-smoking Looney Toons cartoon starring Porky Pig that warned of the dangers of smoking, titled "Wholly Smoke." Of course, it warned not to smoke when you were young, not that it was dangerous to adults, but back then it was pretty unusual to see even that much of an...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Do scenic spots still have coin-operated pedestal-mounted binoculars? I don't remember whenI last saw one.
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    One of my favorite Western tropes is when someone gets shot in the shoulder and it's "only a flesh wound." Reach over and feel your shoulder. Not much flesh there is there? What you feel is a lot of bone and if you get shot in the shoulder you're crippled for life, like Bob Dole was in WWII.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I lived for 20 years in the southern Appalachians and there, people did not go to town to "shop." They went to "trade."
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Remember when "made in Japan" meant cheap and shoddy?
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's when your leather belts shrink that it gets infuriating. I just tried to put on one of my old gunbelts and it's shrunk good 4 inches.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Did anyone check his room for a dead face-hugger?
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    His loathsome Marquis of Montrose in "Rob Roy" was one of the all-time great character roles. Nobody did the old giving-birth-to-an-alien-larva routine better than John Hurt.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    EASY PHOTO POSTING

    That's the problem. I don't have a Mac. I have an IBM clone running Windows.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    EASY PHOTO POSTING

    I gave it a try, got an error message "File is too big."
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And there remains the great mystery of "Dagwood": Just how many puppies does Daisy have?
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Another single-panel comic (with a Sunday strip introduced later) was "Our Boarding House," by a number of artists, which was still running when I was growing up. It featured the iconic Major Hoople, who even got a shout-out in Kerouac's "On the Road."
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Old tires are the most common breeding ground for mosquitoes. You'd think there would be regular free pickups to eliminate a public health hazard. Maybe a mass letter-writing (or emailing) campaign would help.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anyone ever take Shank's Mare anymore?

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