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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anyone still use "crackerjack"to mean "first class"? I never could figure out that one.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I think there's a sense that the 50s were the true Golden Age. Everyone understands how crappy the Depression and WWII were, and that there was a rough period of readjustment right after the war, then things settled down and the incredible postwar prosperity began. Mom and Pop had a house in the...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Where do these characters come from?

    The extreme left rear guy should be called "Ëarp Brother."
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Anyone else interested in the ancient world?

    My avatar is a Roman senator holding a bloody fist behind his back. I'm a lifelong student of the classical world and since the early 90s I've written a series of mysteries set in the last years of the Roman Republic.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    When, before you go out for a walk you check to make sure you have your ID, so your body can be identified.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I'm another of those early Boomers - born in '47. My memories of the '50s are pretty clear from '53 on. For one thing, almost all of our parents were born in the early '20s and grew up in the '30s. Their shaping experiences were the Depression and WWII. That means we heard almost zero nostalgic...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Powdermilk biscuits give shy people the strength to get out and do what needs to be done.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    What's For Breakfast...

    Buttered bacon grits. A long life is overrated.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    When one day you understand that you did, once, live in a different world.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Jeremiah Johnson Del Gue (Raving as he rides toward the mountains): The Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the whole world! Out here, there's no jails for the brave ones nor no asylums for the crazy ones! By God I are a mountain man!
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Probably the greatest ever depiction of crippling shyness was in Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie."
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    A great weird Golden Age immigration story is that of the actor Duncan Reynaldo. He was actually a Greek sailor who jumped ship and made his way from the east coast to California. He arrived in Hollywood and, blessed with extraordinary good looks, got work in the movies. It was just when every...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    I can't believe people are into coveralls

    Consider that what now constitutes men's clothing: button-up shirt, ankle-length trousers, jacket and lace-up shoes was at one time considered workingman's clothing. Gentlemen wore wigs, cutaway coats, weskits, knee breeches, silk stockings and pumps. The Sans-culottes of French Revolutionary...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In my great-aunt's house in Texas in the early 50s she still had an old "daffodil"-style phone attached to the wall with one of those zigzag expansion units, but it was attached to the phone itself. There was no platform.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    Cagney grew up in one of those neighborhoods where everybody who lived on one side of the street was Irish and everyone on the other side was Jewish. He said all the Irish kids became at least semi-fluent in Yiddish. Now a dying language, alas. In the 20s there were scores of Yiddish newspapers...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Pretty weird & unsettling...

    This is a terrible problem we will have to face within the next decade or two. Robots are taking the minimum-wage jobs. The people being put out of work are not skilled workers who can learn new skills. They are the unskilled who won't be able to find another minimum-wage job. There is now a...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I'm an early Boomer (b. 1947) and I hated gym class but endured it. In my high school years my family moved from Michigan to Texas, where phys. ed. was much more emphasized than in the North. My Texas gym teacher ran it like a boot camp and the girls had to wear these awful bloomers that...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Things I'll miss when retired

    Retire? What's that? I am a writer, subcategory, freelance novelist. There is no retirement program for people like me. You write until you die. I'm okay with that. At least my job can't be outsourced to f#%$ing Bangla Desh.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    My grandma fought bandits and Comanches for sixty years. She choked to death on lemon pie. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My maternal great-grandfather was named Levi Elah Maddox. His youngest daughter, my grandmother, was Emma Elah Maddox. She had a sister named Leona. Their married names were Emma Scarborough and Leona McGoldrick. You just can't hardly get more Texas than that.

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