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    Favorite Uniforms

    They (the M42's) do look good from a distance, so are great for walking around town impressing the girls, parades, and also jumping out of airplanes, but not so good for life in the field or combat. The paratroopers liked the looks, but they only lasted through the first battle before being...
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    Favorite Uniforms

    This is a comment on an old post, but here goes... There is a post above commenting on the good looks of the US M42 paratrooper uniform, and while it does look good, it's not a practical field uniform. I did quite a few years of 101st Airborne reenacting and found the M42 to be too cold in the...
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    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    I know you're a WWII expert, so just consider yourself as Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth put together to all of us guys here.
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    9mm or 45cal

    I have two Hi-powers, so I don't need another, but I hate to hear they are not making them anymore. Proves that anything worth having will be discontinued. One of mine is a mid-70's Belgian and the other is a Nazi-marked WWII production.
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    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    Ironically, the Chevrolet brothers made speed equipment for the Model T Fords, most famous of which were the overhead-cam Frontenac cylinder heads. The results were referred to as "Fronty Fords".
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's Hollywood for you... Sgt. York actually carried a 1917 Enfield which doesn't have any windage adjustment. Also, his accent is some sort of Hollywood-version of Southern. The people from the area he came from (Jamestown, Pall Mall, TN) have a very distinct accent, but not at all like...
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    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    Well, a great thing about FL is the learning of "regionalisms". I have been working on race cars, hot rods, sports cars, etc. for over 50 years and have never heard the term "gow-job".
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    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    I give up - what's a "gow-job"?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I can only speak from the specific information I have, which relates to engineers. For them (us), the debt burden is almost exactly the same now as when I went to school (a long time ago), at least it is at this university. (I don't think we are unique for that profession, it's just that I'm...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Burns always lets his bias show. Would say more but that would get too close to modern politics.
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    DC-3 / C-47

    It was - at all of the major airborne operations (Normandy, Market-Garden, and Operation Varsity (Rhine crossing)).
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    Favorite Use of a Song in a Golden Era Movie

    One of the best lines from the "Seinfeld" TV show was said by Elaine when Jerry was trying to impress some woman with his knowledge of classical music: "All you know about classical music is what you learned by watching "Looney Tunes". My own situation also... I know a couple of Professors of...
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    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    As an engineer, and one who teaches young engineers, I can say that I tell all of them that the "people issues" in their future are far more difficult and important than the technical issues. I can't guarantee that they believe me but I can guarantee that they have been warned. The way things...
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    Dinner or Supper?

    I spent a few of my kid-years in exile in the North (Detroit), and we would drink Vernor's ginger ale as a multi-sensory experience. If you gulped down a slug of it, it would explode upward and burn up the inside of your nasal passages. It was so carbonated, so spicy, or so something that it...
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    Movie locations

    Agree... I think it was more of a local joke about people mysteriously disappearing and then appearing at distant points than a serious misunderstanding of how movies are made. On slightly related topic, in the movie "Nashville" there is a huge car-crash scene on the Interstate, so that's...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I'm curious where this "red neck area" was...
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    Movie locations

    Since Robert Altman filmed the movie "Nashville" in and around the city, it's hard to go from place to place without seeing some sort of movie location. The final and most crucial scene was shot at the city's biggest urban park, so multiple thousands of people go there on a regular basis...
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    Old gas stations

    Having never read the book, I suppose that it was written in the early '50's when Cadillac engines were an improvement over the stock Stude engines. In the latter '50's and onward no one would swap in a Cad engine - just Chevrolets and Chryslers.
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    BATTER UP!

    Insults between friends are in a different category than insults to persons you don't know (as with Babe and the other baseball players). When I was in grad school the custom was when you came in the office you would greet the other grad-students with something like: "Hello all you commie-pinko...
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    Old gas stations

    The white car with the Rock Hudson look-a-like in front is a '53 Stude. They were far more streamlined than anything else from that era and were often re-powered with Chevrolet and Chrysler engines to set top-speed records at Bonneville.

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