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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    I think Roth meant that, while Moe's killing was a business matter, trying to find out who had given the order would be an exercise in pure emotion, not a smart thing to do for business. Of course he knew perfectly well that Michael was behind it since all of Michael's enemies and rivals were...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of the most harrowing experiences of my life was in 1967 when I drove around San Francisco in a stick shift. Guaging that clutch-accelerator coordination was a killer. I was told that natives burned out their clutches every few months.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Kirk Douglas to turn 100 Dec 9th/16

    " Out of the Past," one of the seminal films noir.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    The old phrase: "Give your little finger to other people and they take the whole hand."

    I believe it's fine to discuss the politics of the Era. Bringing modern, especially American politics into it is to invite discord. Getting back to the have-have-not thing, I'm a writer and among writers cadging drinks and meals is almost a holy mission, because we spend so many years being...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How long has it been since somebody was accused of being a "masher"?
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Right. I got carried away with the parallel and remembered Arnold as Howard. That would have been too perfect.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    They surpassed it with the Schweddy Weiner.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    1945-1953: Generally a forgotten era?

    The noirs were as much a European product as American. Many European film people fled to Hollywood to escape the Nazis and brought their sensibilities with them. The stark black-and-white photography with its slanted light and shadowplay was straight out of German Expressionism of the Weimar...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Humorously or fascinatingly bizarre things that have happened to you in your life

    In the 70s my wife and I lived in Scotland where our daughter, Alayne, graduated high school and began nursing college. When we returned to the States she stayed behind to finish nursing school. She is a skilled violinist and she also studied Scottish fiddling. She became interested in Shetland...
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    1945-1953: Generally a forgotten era?

    As an addendum to Lizzie's encyclopaedic entry: "Geek" was originally a carny name for the animal-human hybrid "wild man" of the freakshow. He bit the heads off animals and generally behaved like a rock star without the glitter. William Lindsay Gresham wrote a best-selling sleaze novel about a...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Mechanical "twist" doorbells in the middle of the front door. They were once as ubiquitous as the mail slot beneath them. Besides announcing a visitor,the postman would put your mail through the slot and give the doorbell a twist. I don't remember when I last saw one.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    WWII Films

    My all-time favorite WWII movie movie is Robert Aldrich's "Attack!" (1956). It was in truth an anti-war movie, unsympathetic to the military system, for which reason the DoD refused cooperation so it had a small budget. Its small but stellar cast included some of the best character actors of the...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The latest Westworld. They keep playing name games. Anthony Hopkins plays Robert Ford who may have done away with his partner, Howard. Robert Ford was the man who murdered Jesse James, who was going by the name of Howard at the time. Jimmi Simpson's character is named William, sometimes...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I suspect the no-cash policy comes from being robbed one time too many. After all, if the felons know there isn't any cash in the till, there's no sense trying to stick the place up.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I graduated high school in 1965 and I had no idea how to write a check or balance a checkbook. I had no idea how to do comparison shopping or take advantage of sales or coupons or draw up a budget. I had to learn all that stuff the hard way - by losing far more money than I had to. I wish I'd...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Is home ec even taught any more? I imagine it's been suppressed as a sexist vestige of patriarchal culture, but it was one of the very few subjects that taught actual useful, necessary life skills. I wish home ec had been mandatory for every student, not just girls. I graduated knowing nothing...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I was a kid in Beaumont, TX in the mid-50s it was a Christmastime ritual to drive around the neighborhood of the rice-and-cotton barons'mansions to see their Christmas displays. Beaumont was a crummy industrial town when I lived there, surrounded by oil refineries, but like so many Gilded...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In Spanish it's pronounced almost the same as "abogado," meaning "lawyer." Mexicans find this hilarious. And when it comes to testicular words, next time you give testimony in court, you're basically swearing by your nuts.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    There is an old saying: "Nobody under 40 should drink brandy." The reason was that brandy tasted too strong for young palates, whereas the duller senses of middle age require stronger stimulation.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Interestingly, the ones ending in "ard" are all pejoratives: dullard, laggard, sluggard, coward, ba***rd, and the ever-misunderstood "niggard" ( a miser or cheapskate, not what it sounds like).

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