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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I like to look at YouTube clips of Russian and Eastern European historical movies just to read the comments below. When the Russians and the Poles get into it, watch out! The Czechs and Hungarians and Romanians and such aren't far behind. These people never heard of PC. A typical Hungarian post...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Condemned by The Catholic Legion of Decency

    Several versions of "The Three Musketeers"made the B list, meaning that kids couldn't see it. Apparently they figured adults understood that Richelieu was a politician, not a churchman. Note, however, that in the 1948 version, starring Gene Kelly, Richelieu (Vincent Price) is referred to only...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I'll bet Navy signals trainees are still taught those. The military is all too aware that an atomic war or EMP burst can fry all our electronics and put us back in WWI mode for communication. They still teach Morse code, too.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Condemned by The Catholic Legion of Decency

    I was raised Catholic in the '50s when the LoD list was still posted prominently in every church. I remember looking at the "C"titles and thinking that these films must be unspeakably evil. Years later seeing them on tv, I found myself asking, "What in hell were they seeing?" Almost all were...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Believe it or not, my mother and her twin sister (b. 1922) were named Dotsey and Dimple. These were not uncommon names for girls in Texas in the 20s.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    After an absence of several decades, Old Testament names seem to be back in fashion. I've encountered kids named Caleb, Joshua Omri and Jeremiah recently.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Pretty weird & unsettling...

    The robot is anthropomorphic, so we unconsciously identify with it. What makes it upsetting is that the guy with the stick looks and acts like every schoolyard bully I ever encountered.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    DC-3 / C-47

    When I was a college student in Albuquerque in the mid-'60s I'd fly home to Dallas by way of Trans-Texas Airways, which still had some DC-3's. We called TTA "Tree Top Airways" because they flew so low, making short hops to little airports like Midland-Odessa, Van Horn and others before getting...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    On TV, labs return DNA evidence within hours. In reality, the evidence can sit in evidence lockers for months or even years before going to the lab. It might be expedited in a super high-profile case like terrorism or a political assassination, but the labs are swamped and the procedure is...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    If you could be born in any year

    I rode the Sunset Limited from San Antonio to L.A. in 1956, when I was 9. It was a fabulous way to travel. As to the draft, there were all sorts of deferments to be had. Scions of wealthy and politically connected families never had to worry about being drafted. Being young and dumb, I...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    GMO's - Scientific and Economic 'realities'???

    We may not have government subsidized agriculture in the States, but our Western farmers sure get subsidized water, provided by taxpayer-funded dams and pumped to them by taxpayer-funded water systems, for which they pay zilch. After more than 70 years, it's become their birthright.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I hope nobody will be disillusioned if I point out that young women know that older men usually have more money to spend on them.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    New Bronze age archaeological finds....

    But what kind of hats did they wear?
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    That song has an interesting history. John Gay wrote "The Beggar's Opera" in 1728 as a satire on the then-new Italian grand opera coming into fashion in England. Instead of princes and kings, it relates the misadventures of England's rogues, whores and lowlifes. Chief among them is the...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But were the comics stacked on top of the true confession magazines or vice-versa?
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    A while ago I realized that I'd reached the age at which, if I should drop dead suddenly, while some might be saddened nobody would be surprised.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Mark Trail still exists? I haven't seen him in decades. Loved him as a kid.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Speaking of fondue warmer, my local grocery still sells Sterno. Even the can label is unchanged from my boyhood.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was raised largely in south Texas. There, guests come in by the front door and didn't remove their shoes. But you, and your kin and your filthy kids came in by the back door, where you entered the "mud room,"there, you removed your mucky boots and went on in. the first room you came to was...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My best advice for this is----don't get old. Our taste buds deteriorate like our eyesight and all the rest. That's the reason for the old saying that brandy isn't for people under 40. When you're young your tastebuds are too sensitive for it. In middle age, you need the extra stimulation.

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