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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Tramp Steamers

    On this subject, many of the sci-fi authors of the 40s-70s used the tramp steamer setting for their interplanetary stories. Andre Norton's "Solar Queen" books took place on such a vessel. In E.C. Tubb's "Dumarest of Terra" saga the titular hero knocked about the galaxy in unreliable tramps...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I really want a Stevens double-hump 520 shotgun, in riot configuration. Something about that gun just says "brute force" to me.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Tramps and other characters

    I should have said above: If you go to Google Images and type in "Dancing-master's kit" you'll bring up pictures of a bunch of them.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Tramps and other characters

    I believe the fiddle you describe is what used to be called a "kit." Dancing-masters who went to their patrons' houses in the 18th century used them, since they had to visit several houses each day to deliver lessons. Upper-class people didn't go to dancing schools, the tutors came to them. They...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    One of the great things about the old department-store candy counters (that and the wonderful roasting-nuts smell) was that around Halloween, you could get sacks of just orange and licorice jellybeans. Those were the only flavors I really liked. I still do.
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    Tramps and other characters

    When I was a boy in Kalamazoo, MI, one year the town hosted a convocation of the Knights of the Road, i.e. hobos. The president of the convocation was interviewed and he explained some definitions. "Hobos" were migratory workers. "Tramps" were migratory nonworkers. "Bums"were stationary...
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    Hey Lizzie...Any of Your Belongings Missing?

    He had his priorities straight, then.
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    1920s footage of New Orleans

    Watch the Elvis film "King Creole" (1958) especially the opening "Crawfish" number. It's prized among N.O. aficianados because it was filmed in the French Quarter back when poor people actually lived there. Very different from the Quarter now.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Name the Actor...

    I guess it was the "millionaire" description that tripped me up. Eddie Andersen was a smart businessman and became famously wealthy.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about this sign-off that everyone was using in the 60s? "Good night, Chet." "Good night, David."
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    The hell with Mission Impossible. It was Mancini's music for "Peter Gunn" that kicked ass.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Speaking of rural California and obsolete terms, in the small towns of the California farming zones the word used to express what the rest of the country calls a "redneck" is still "okie."
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In British theater there is a "dialect"called "Mummerset." It's a sort of generic Brit-rural speech that is not exactly native to any region but just sounds sort of vaguely countrified to urban audiences. Hollywood and television use a similar rube-redneck-hick rural accent that's sort of...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    No matter how attractive I might find nubile young women, I could never get past knowing how carnally disgusted they would feel about getting it on with me. Sociopaths, of course, don't suffer from this disability.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!

    Skydog757's post reminded me of the ultimate Mother From Hell, Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). In a movie full of despicable people, she was a standout.
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    Name the Actor...

    Eddie Anderson. Not sure about the movie. "Topper Returns,"maybe?
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I think it would be more correct to say, "born in the 1800s." Technically, 1900 was the last year of the 19th century and there may be people still alive born in that year.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I remember when that happened. I was too young to understand, but after that my grandmother, who usually babysat us, would never watch Godfrey again.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anyone still say "In like Flynn"? It was still common when I was younger but seems to have disappeared.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Was she the last? Does anyone know of any other Casablanca cast member still alive? I doubt it. She was only 19 when she played that role.

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