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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    There's a difference between what the Army and Marines officially called those forces and what the public (and comic strips) called them. There was a certain propaganda/morale-building aspect to the title of some these specialized forces: "Darby's Rangers" in Italy (James Garner) "Carlson's...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    What got to me was the uncle or stepfather or whatever he is leaning against the wall huffing and puffing after having beaten the girl with some sort of wide belt or razor strop. This stuff is hard to read...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    A stand-up comic from some years ago agreed and made your point exactly: He is standing on stage with a paper bill in each hand - he says that one is a hundred-dollar bill and the other is a one-dollar bill - then he asks the question: "Why is one worth more than the other - Because we pretend...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don't be too critical of a perfectly valid term as used in certain applications. We engineers work in "teams" all the time. From first-year through senior-year and on into the real world, "Design Teams" are the standard organizational and operating method. I literally tell the first-year...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    As masters of a clandestine business, I'm surprised the moonshiners didn't find the needed ingredients on the black market. As for the TN Highway Patrol (THP) and liquor, I was able to find the photo that I had in mind in a local history book. I wish you could see it, but the caption will convey...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    "Sometimes the highway patrol comes up the valley, but nobody is worried to see men with badges." The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) in those days was heavily involved in the illicit liquor business. To the extent that they might be interested in the moonshiners at all, it was as possible...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    In his later life he could have been called "Nashville Fats" (sort of like "Nashville Cats"). "Fats moved into the Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in 1985, remaining there for several years. In 1992, while undergoing surgery for a knee injury, he suffered a massive heart attack...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Agree... Some years ago the Disney Channel was showing some early-Disney adventure stories with LN as the star. Before the show started, a voice-over announcer explained that these weren't comedies, and that LN was originally a serious actor. Despite that, I interpreted all his dialog the way...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The "learn to code" and life will be fine" mantra is said mostly by teachers and politicians who don't know how to code and have never done it themselves. Coding is the high-tech/IT version of the assembly-line worker, and it involves a lot of drudgery. I "coded" some myself, back when it was...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Dorothy Frothingham Wagstaff !! I thought Groucho must be involved here in some way. "The Supreme Allied Commander enjoys overall theatre control." They soon split the baby by having TWO Pacific theatres: Southwest Pacific for MacArthur (Army) and the Central Pacific for Nimitz (Navy).
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Better than Jimmy Carter's "nookey-ler" - and JC was a "nookey-ler" engineer. How Hyman Rickover let him get away with saying it wrong for all those years is a mystery to me.
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    I'm glad you folks recently started using your old cameras (and posted about it here), which prompted me do do likewise. I recently bought a 1938 Kodak Retina at our local flea market for $20, cleaned it up, and started taking test shots. Works perfectly... The second new addition was a Busch...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agree that it must be a New England thing... I have never seen anything like that here in Nashville. In fact, if you showed up in that sort of outfit here, people would think you were a David "Stringbean" Akeman impersonator: David Akeman (June 17, 1915 – November 10, 1973) better known as...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Tungsten is a VERY important strategic mineral for modern warfare. Aside from the obvious use of tungsten for light bulbs and vacuum tubes (by the millions) for radios and radar, very-hard tungsten goes into machine-tool cutters for making precision parts for guns, aircraft, torpedoes, etc...
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    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    It works well, but don't leave it in the bucket too long. It will turn into a dense brown goo. Right now I have a rifle part embedded in a cup of semi-solid mud.
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    The "lead salts" being warned against here come from cheapskate moonshiners who used old car radiators for their still components, instead of good-quality (and expensive) copper. Great poster...
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    Clean Jokes

    That was such a big hit, back in the day, that our grade school principal called a school assembly and played the record for all of us.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Vinyl is apparently selling very well, since a local (Nashville) record-pressing company stopped giving tourist-tours because they were too busy. Shortly after that they bought a new factory and doubled their production (and they were making a lot before that - records are a big deal in Music...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Well put, and I agree with your comments. I think that in Montana in the early 1900's the jerk brother would have sooner or later encountered someone (or more than one someone) who would have knocked him cold for some of the things he said and did. "Hypermasculinity" and "toxic masculinity" are...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    The editorial writers need to do some research before opining on Army helmets: The US M1 helmet (WWII style) was officially adopted by the Army in the first week of June, 1941. The physics flaw of Sparky Watts lifting a soldier who was lifting him is just one example of lack of...

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