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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Now we need a thread for great movie/tv geeks. I nominate Wally Cox first.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I was 155 lb. from high school until my 30s. then to 165 mid-30s to '40s, 175 in my 50s and now, at 69, I'm trying to stay under 190. I'm 5'7". But all my life I've enjoyed ridiculously good health. I had the usual childhood illnesses: measles, mumps, chicken pox and then, since 14, nothing but...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    Fall is definitely in the air here in high desert New Mexico. Stepped outside this morning and it's cool and cloudy. Summer is winding down and that's fine with me.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I recently found a bottle of English Leather in a dollar store. It was the stuff to wear when I was in high school half a century ago. I had no idea they even still made it. I bought a bottle just to smell that scent again. It took me right back.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Remember the adage: "If the service is free, you're the product."
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Passenger trains during WWII

    When I was growing up my family would every few years get together in New Orleans. We always stayed at the Hotel Monteleone, in those days the only hotel located in the French Quarter. A few years ago we did it one last time. All that was left of the family was me, my brother and our elderly...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Surely he got at least a cameo in the immortal Seinfeld "Assman" episode.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Probably why they got rid of those life insurance machines you used to see in airports. I think I mentioned them earlier in this thread.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Unfortunately, sociopaths have no problem with that.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I can remember in the '60s traveling by air from, say, Albuquerque to Dallas, or from Dallas to L.A. What you did was, you went to the counter and handed them your money. They handed you your ticket. You checked your luggage if you had any and you walked out onto the tarmac and boarded your...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Moonshine making during WW2?

    My mother spoke of taking a bus from San Antonio to Corpus Christi during the war. The road took her right through Sugarland, TX, which has that name for a reason. She passed miles of giant warehouses and sheds, all of them stacked to the ceiling with bags of sugar. That was when she understood...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You want a surreal movie about tobacco? See if you can find "Bright Leaf," about a guy who invents the cigarette-rolling machine. I mean, it's got Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal and it's directed by Michael Curtiz. With a stellar cast like that you'd think it would be a legend...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    40 is when all your warrantees expire. After that the parts keep falling off and the manufacturer won't replace them
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The metaphorical expressions for drunkenness are outnumbered only perhaps by those for masturbation.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    If you think Wagnerian opera is rough on the audience, think what it must be like for the singers. I believe it's in "Die Gotterdamerung" where Wotan has to stand in one spot for about two hours.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time you heard someone called a "heel"?
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Moonshine making during WW2?

    Moonshining was difficult during wartime because of sugar rationing. I remember hearing old 'shiners in the Appalachians talk about it. A group would have to pool all their rationed sugar to make a batch.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fun fact: "Lucky Strike" was a tobacco trademark dating from the 1850s. At that time the California Gold Rush was all the rage and innumerable products were marketed with Gold-Rush-themed names. In the goldfields a "lucky strike"was exactly that. Liggett & Myers must have owned the trademark...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    Aside from the fact that there are no theaters within 50 miles of me, one thing that keeps me out of theaters even when traveling is the brain-rattling sound systems. I'm losing my hearing but even I don't need sound that loud.Theaters now seen to assume that all audiences are deaf.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Guy won an Oscar and still does commercials. Talk about a workaholic....

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