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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I know that Dan-Dunn-world is almost completely disconnected from reality, even for a comic strip, but the idea of cleaning a plane with gasoline in a closed building scared me just by reading it, even though D-D and idiot-Irwin don't really exist. Back in my hot-rod days the often-quoted...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I agree with Harp and FF about Lana's excellent qualities (looks and brains) and that she should be paying zero attention to the idiot Harold. Since she is obviously beautiful to us outsiders/readers - glasses or not, there must be more to what's happening in the comics-universe. Related to...
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    Most overrated movies?

    A joke from the "Avatar" era: Person A: "Have you seen "Avatar"?" Person B: "No need to - I saw it when it was called "Dances With Wolves."
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    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    Translation, please...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Definitely no criticism of the 101st was stated or implied. If anything, they were some of the victims of the higher-level intelligence failures, since they had to fight hard to fix the situation. I was a civilian volunteer at the 101st Airborne Museum for about ten years and I/we told a lot...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    As an aeronautical engineer, I can say that most of the aircraft/piloting information presented so far is very close to being dead-on correct. (I am in a state of shock that *anything* in Dan Dunn makes sense.) Adding one more bit of aeronautical information, planes don't crash due to ice being...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was 90-95% sure that the hot-dog/ketchup controversy was a regional thing, but it seemed so serious. My own examples of regional food differences tend to run North-South instead of East-West (Chicago-New York- Boston in the case of ketchup on hot dogs). For example - Properly-made tea: brew to...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Can someone explain why anyone would care what another person puts on their hot dog? Or worse, have the temerity to actually say anything negative about it to a ketchup-using hot dog eater... Hot dogs are such a low-priority food item here in the South that it was a surprise to hear that...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    My dad would not describe any of the serious combat situations he was in - despite my best kid-style interrogation: "What did you do in the war, daddy?" He would usually divert the questions to innocuous or humorous "war stories" such as how bad the food was or how he got seasick on the way...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Very well put! Did you know my dad?? Your description sounds just like him. He never told conventional jokes of the "Three salesmen went into a bar..." type, but his general demeanor and way of talking was almost always humorous. I wonder if living through a Depression in poverty, and later...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Your phrase: "most non regulation in the US Army" reminded me of my Dad, a WWII combat vet, who in his Army photos had his cap so tilted at an angle that as a kid I couldn't figure out how he kept it on his head. I asked once why he wore it so tilted and he said, very succinctly, "Because they...
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    World War Greatcoats

    The fact that it's "camel-colored" makes it more likely that is a WWII Officer's Overcoat. WWI coats were mostly a dark brownish green and WWII enlisted overcoats were dark brown. Look at the neck, inside the pockets, and at the tail to see if there is a small white Quartermaster (QM) tag. If...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    The only thing that saved the day was that really good high-octane gas was only 29.9 cents/gal. I feel like a real outlier with my big vintage V-8's - it seems that a lot of people here in FL Land had VW's.
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    That old cliche about Good-News/Bad-News applies directly to vintage cars. The Good News: You can easily work on them. The Bad News: You have to work on them. Since my vintage cars of choice were 50's and 60's muscle cars and hot rods (400+ HP), "keeping up with the Joneses" on the road was...
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    Enlisted vs. officers at social dances

    "Officers with enlisted: no way no how I imagine." Just one example to show that with millions of people involved, some "aberrations" on that issue happened... The mother of one of my former girlfriends was an Army nurse (1st Lieutenant) serving in a hospital in Hawaii during WWII. One day a...
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    Vintage Cars

    Just for curiosity - how much did they want for that? I have no place for it, but it sure would be fun to have (or to wish about).
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    Old gas stations

    Except when the term "patina" is used by gun collectors - they often call light oxidation/rust on an old gun as "patina". It may not be metallurgically correct, but it's the common usage of the term. It make a bad situation sound less bad.
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    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    The guy in the video (and others here) who assert that the purpose of the "fuller" is to maximize strength and minimize weight are exactly right. There is an engineering term for this physical situation: the "parallel axis theorem", and mechanical engineers learn this in their sophomore and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I spent the early years of my life in Detroit - one of the prime nuclear targets in the whole country, and we had regular "duck-and-cover" drills. I guess we accepted at the time that it would do some good, but obviously later knew better. The best part of the Civil Defense stuff was that all...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

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