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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Present company excepted..."
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Also it had Ward Cleaver as Agar's co-adventurer, before he settled down with June, and had Wally and The Beaver.
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    Vintage neon signs

    Take it from a long-term Nashvillian, no "Star" has stayed at the Drake Motel for the last 50 years. However, that area of town was on the local news just this past weekend: A man was shot dead on his front porch about a half mile away, as the bullets fly, from the Drake. The Ideal Liquor store...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Paul Fussell has a section on WWII obscene acronyms in his book "Wartime" and FUBAR is mentioned. As for SNAFU, it was such a common word that the Army made a series of animated training films starring "Private Snafu", who always did everything wrong. (looked a bit like Lou Costello...) In...
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    Military style pants

    I do reenacting of various eras so I have US military-style pants of several time periods. The ones I used to find most comfortable in the summer were the rip-stop lightweight Vietnam-era pants. I stopped wearing military-style pants (except when reenacting) when they became associated with...
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    WWII Khaki Officer Crusher Cap by Society Brand

    My latest contact with Society was in mid 2017 when I received a WWI Officers hat and we e-mailed each other about that. It only took about two months to get the hat made. A first-class hat... Based on his communications with me I'm surprised that he is not communicating with you. The email we...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    You are right about the spy issue. It was risky to take photos of trains during WWII. You could get arrested, and some people were. The major exceptions were the more prominent train photographers who had established connections with the railroads pre-war. (I like the black and white shots...
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    Any Patent Lawyers here?

    I'm not a patent attorney, but I teach engineering design and work with our university Technology Transfer people on Intellectual Property issues. I suggest that you should do your own patent search before consulting a patent attorney. They are EXPENSIVE and so is the overall patent process...
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    Today in History

    That looks and sounds like a "National Lampoon" parody of "Superman".
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    Today in History

    A bit odd that two of the three Germans are using US weapons. Also odd that Bucky's "mask" looks like a pair of "cat-eye" glasses. I knew several people who wore cat-eye glasses and I could always recognize them whether they were wearing their glasses or not. Clark Kent/Superman glasses...
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    Do women hate men's hats?

    If you can get hold of them, promotional (baseball-style) caps are really good if you get them from the right companies. Holley Carburetors was a sponsor for our student motorsports team and gave away "Holley" caps to the team and associated faculty. They actually fitted a normal human and...
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    Public information films/Public service announcements

    Blasting caps were a sort of combination of reality and urban legend here in Middle Tennessee. The reality part is that the geology here consists of about six inches of dirt on top of limestone that seems to go to the center of the Earth. If you wanted to put in a road, a building, a water...
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    Public information films/Public service announcements

    I thought I was the only one who remembered that annual "Aliens" announcement. Saying that it was in a stern voice doesn't do it justice - it was more like: "A-li-ens" in a deep and echo-chamber-sounding voice. Being somewhat older than LizzieM, I and my friends weren't creeped-out by the voice...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Let me STRONGLY "second the motion" concerning seeing "They Shall Not Grow Old". As good as Worf says it is, it's even better. To give one more example of the attention to detail, the original footage has a scene showing a Lieutenant reading something to his men before battle. Jackson's team...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Unfortunately Printer's Alley has gotten "Disneyfied', sort of like Times Square. Not worth the effort, and is almost only for tourists these days. Once upon a time it was a pretty good "Den of Iniquity". The guy with the black poodle in the picture was "Skull" Schulman, a genuine character...
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    Do women hate men's hats?

    I was never in the military myself, but I agree with the notion of Roadkill that choosing the headgear of the French for your Army is not a great idea. From the John F. Kennedy Library website: "On October 12, 1961 the president visited Fort Bragg and the US Army Special Warfare Center, home of...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    For the non-Tennesseans among us (most everyone) our license plates from 1936-1956 were shaped like a map of the State. Or as some used to say: "Tennessee: The only State shaped like a license plate." Also, license plates for many years had a county number that was proportional to it's...
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    Celestial Navigation

    Suggested reading: "Longitude" by Dava Sobel It discusses the early navigation problems (determining longitude) and the development of the marine chronometer by John Harrison as a means of determining longitude. A good and informative book...
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    Today in History

    Harp is an attorney and may be interested in this Law Review article on this topic: The Imaginary Connection between the Great Law of Peace and the United States Constitution: A Reply to Professor Schaaf American Indian Law Review, Vol. 15, p. 25, 1991 16 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2009 Erik M...
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    Today in History

    "I'd like to close this out by pointing to the fact that the U.S. Constitution itself was primarily sourced from the understanding between the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca Nations, aka the Iroquois Confederacy." It seems odd that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, et al, would...

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