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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Very few... The point to be taken from this is that the support infrastructure for the gasoline-fueled car has had 115 years to grow gradually. The "environmentalists" have this strange notion that an equivalent infrastructure for electric cars can be built in less than 10 years (by 2030)...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    You and the kitty made a wise purchase. I watched an episode on late-night TV last night and it's still funny. Good casting, good acting, good writing, and good directing... Speaking of directing, one of the directors who worked on a lot of the Barney Miller episodes was Noam Pitlik, who was...
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    Deco Deliveries

    You are 100% correct. Drag (and power required) goes up VERY non-linearly with speed. However, even if you aren't going all that fast a good portion of the time, having that streamlined look makes it look fast, even sitting still.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    The fact that we Baby-Boomers do control so much wealth prompts the local TV market to operate on two parallel paths. (kid-stuff and B-B classics) There are several local independent stations with programming devoted to Baby-Boomer-era sitcoms, movies, Westerns, dramas, etc. These include...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Can you explain that last part, about Baby Boomers going out in their cars during rush-hours "just because they can"? As a proud card-carrying Baby Boomer, one of the great benefits of being older is that you can almost completely avoid getting out in rush-hour traffic. Maybe it works that way...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Very well put, but I'd add a few comments: You know it's time to stop watching "Saturday Night Live" when you have literally never heard of the "Special Guest Host" or the latest "Hot Musical Group". This is also true of network commercials - you can tell that the people in them are "Somebody...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "There's a Scout Troop short a child..." "Khruschev's due at Idlewild..." I can see Toody and Muldoon involved in a lot of these odd NY-cop escapades.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I agree 100% with the "let it grow" philosophy when it come to grass and yard cutting. Almost everything in my life has higher priority than cutting grass, so when it gets "pretty high" (variable/subjective term) it gets cut, but not before. In this Southern climate - plenty of rain, plenty of...
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    Favorite '30s and '40s photos?

    If you haven't seen the movie "The Dambusters", you need to do that. Your grandfather looks a lot like the actor who played Guy Gibson, the squadron leader of 617 Squadron. (Also, it's an excellent movie.)
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    Need a quick “Should I Buy This?”

    It's in the typical price range for here (mid-South). A Hart, Schafner, and Marx coat is about as good as it gets in terms of quality. There doesn't seem to be a lot of material in the coat for letting out, but you need to decide that by seeing it in person. Can't tell about the pants. If...
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    Prom Night?

    Yes! Graduation and Prom: 1966 - Maplewood HS - Nashville, TN Car: 1965 Impala two-door fastback, 327/300 HP, 4-speed, shiny black Date: Beautiful and Smart Marilyn, looked like Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island", only better Shortly after, we went our own ways to two different colleges... So it...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I'm surprised everyone didn't catch the distinctive Bettie Page hairstyle. At the real-world time of this comic strip Bettie would have been a freshman in college, so she may have seen it then and gotten the idea. (She is from Nashville and graduated in 1944 from Peabody College of Vanderbilt...
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    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    It's not the damage to the watch that workers are concerned with - it's the potential SERIOUS damage to themselves. If a watch, ring, gloves, tie, sleeve, or hair gets caught in a lathe or milling machine or any other powerful machine the result is that you get pulled into it. The damage can...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    No Shermans there. Soviet T-34/76 was the oldest model represented. We gave the Russians some Shermans during WWII, but they would not have admitted it in a propaganda setting like that. When I was a kid, our next-door-neighbor made a tank out of plywood that we used for playing Army. It was...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    A lot of sports stars and other famous people showed up on the old TV shows. Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, and Red Barber were in the same episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" in 1957. In the Yogi episode, Dick Van Dyke plays a baseball player in Sgt. Bilko's platoon whom the real...
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    What Films Do You Quote Like "Scripture"?

    "Tombstone" is a great source of quotes. When the Earp's are in their wagons and are about to head out of Tombstone, Powers Boothe/Curly Bill says, sarcastically, "Well, Bye". "Bye" comes out almost as "Bah"... I tend to say that when anyone is leaving. In "Tombstone", Val Kilmer/Doc alone has...
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    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Your description is *exactly* what Printer's Alley was like a long time ago, and all of those things you mentioned are exactly why we got our female-viewing entertainment a few blocks away. Was one of your Printer's Alley "haunts" "Skull's Rainbow Room"? "Skull", the owner of the place, was...
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    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Printer's Alley was then and is now a good place to go, but the locals in those days went to other such places about three blocks away, which in our opinion were better in all respects. Along with their positive qualities inside, they were located less than a block away from my office. After...
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    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    If you have some interest in and/or involvement with the music industry, this is your place (Music City, USA). The proportion of Nashville's economy involved with music is less than it once was, but that's mostly because other things such as health care, automobiles, and manufacturing have...
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    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Ten years or more ago I would have suggested Nashville (as one person did in a one-word recommendation earlier). At that time it was *exactly* as you described - low taxes, reasonable home prices, good medical facilities (multiple large hospitals and a Top-10 Med School (Vanderbilt)), low...

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