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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    The End of the Era ...

    People picture the most-ballyhooed developments as representing "the 60s." Hippies, communes and drug culture were restricted to a tiny minority but the publications of the time would have you thinking they were taking over the culture. The Pill, on the other hand, wrought vast changes...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Not exactly a "thing" that has disappeared, but it occurred to me today that it's been years since I heard a car backfire. I guess cars burn fuel more efficiently these days, but it was once a common sound.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    2016 Nobel prize in literature goes to..............

    It's always a disorienting moment when people who establish their reputations as rebels against the establishment are honored by the establishment. As one of the old rockers who hit it big said, "It's hard to stay a rebel when you're pulling in seven figures."
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    2016 Nobel prize in literature goes to..............

    First it's SIR Mick Jagger, now this. The world turned upside down.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In Texas when I lived there as a boy, many houses had a "screen porch." This was exactly what it sounds like, a roofed porch surrounded by window screening. Few homes had AC, and we slept on the screen porch on warm summer nights. There is no better sleeping than on a screen porch when it's raining.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Where I live a porch is a "portal,"with emphasis on the second syllable.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    What if FDR had lived?

    The defining thing about FDR was not that he died when he did, but rather that, like many another immensely powerful and vain man, he thought he would never die. No matter how sick he was he wouldn't admit that he was mortal. He should have acknowledged that each breath might well be his last...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another funny movie is "The Road to Wellville" (1994), about the Kellogg - Post cereal wars of the early 20th century. It includes one of the hysteria doctors, who at one point simultaneously treats Bridget Fonda and Camryn Manheim (he has two hands, after all) while Colm Meany, another doctor...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've lost touch with GI slang. Do they even still call themselves GIs? We still did in the 60s. Do they still eat chow (dates from the Boxer Rebellion)? Is the First Sergeant still the Topkick or First Shirt? Is the CO still the Old Man? I won't even say what we called the old fore-and-aft...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was at a science fiction convention in San Francisco some years ago. The women's shop Good Vibrations had a large, and I mean LARGE display of vintage vibrators, some of them dating to the turn of the last century. It was, it seems, among the first appliances devised with the arrival of...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Police Uniforms

    "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One" Gilbert & Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Proof that Satan exists.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Heh. That reminds me of Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren in "The Hateful 8." He was in "Wellenbeck Prisoner of War Camp, West Virginia." It was a Rebel camp. Pretty good trick, considering West Virginia was a Union state. I don't know if this was supposed to be an alternate time...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "Timeless," pilot episode. An update on the 1966-67 series "The Time Tunnel," A woman history professor is dragooned by the government into using a rickety time machine to chase a better time machine that some terrorists have hijacked to, for some reason, keep the Hindenburg from crashing. I did...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Corn is naturally sweet and when fresh has a high sugar content. This quickly turns to starch so the best corn is right off the stalk. I've been places where, when the corn is ready for picking, they got the water boiling before picking the corn, then they (usually the kids) ran to the kitchen...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sometimes the Boys hit a homer. A few decades back, fruit merchants experimentally imported a fuzzy little Asian fruit that looked odd but tasted good. It was the Chinese Gooseberry and they couldn't give them away. Americans weren't about to eat something that looked and sounded so funny...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Where the Beatles excelled at songwriting was in writing songs that nearly everyone could sing. Sinatra and Dean Martin and Perry Como and everyone with a recording contract in those days all sang "Yesterday." You'd hear the Mantovani Strings version playing in every elevator in America. Most...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    The difference between the Beatles and the Stones is that the Stones were primarily performers while the Beatles were primarily songwriters. How many people and bands have covered "Satisfaction"? (Jagger and Richardson) How many have covered "Yesterday"? (Lennon and McCartney) or "Something in...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    It was an era so drenched in pop culture that even the hangers-on could acquire a certain fame. Who remembers Cynthia Plastercaster?
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The biggest fans of the juvenile delinquent films of the '50's-'60s were small-town and suburban kids like me who found it all very exciting.

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