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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    A long and comprehensive study of history has taught me one invariable fact: The world is run by wealthy old men. Definitions of wealth have varied. Sometimes it's livestock, other times it's land, or public prestige or, as now, money. The vast bulk of whatever it is becomes concentrated in the...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I read somewhere that the worst moment in life comes when, after a lifetime of integrity, you finally decide to sell out, only to find that nobody is interested in buying.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    So a cake eater is equivalent to a lounge lizard?
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was in grade school we were taught how to use a telephone and always first say hello, then identify ourselves, but I lived for many years in southern Appalachia where telephone etiquette had never quite taken hold. The phone would ring, I'd pick it up and someone on the other line would...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    What will come next to our society?

    Or that my arthritic, 68-year-old fingers could tap the tiny icons on the teensy little screen.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    What will come next to our society?

    I want to see a time when older people can make use of the new technologies as effortlessly as the young. We're slowly getting that way, but still far too much tech assumes that you got your first computer in fifth grade.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    What will come next to our society?

    Toilet paper will probably soon be 3-D printed right in your bathroom. You'll never run out again and you'll be able to specify your own design. Whoever you're mad at gets their portrait printed on each sheet.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    "Tha Stunt Man"(1980) is a sort of hate hymn to movie-making, with powerless actors n the grip of a literally godlike director (Peter O'Toole). His name is even Eli Cross, and he's a deus ex machina, always being lowered by a crane into whatever scene is being filmed. The movie being shot is a...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a teenager in the early '60s our elders thought we still said "daddy-o"" and "see you later, alligator."We thought it was almost painfully hilarious. Woody Allen got some mileage out of this sort of cluelessness in "Bananas"when the FBI director says of the supposed communist...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The lower left corner of Lizzie's photo set off a train of thought. Once, there were candies you only saw in movie theaters: Good n' Plenty, Dots, Crows, Jujubes, Junior Mints, Bon Bons, a number of others. They were usually small candies that came in a box. The point is, you hardly ever saw...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Strangely, Pall Mall is the name of a fashionable street in London yet the British (who have never learned to speak proper English) insist on pronouncing it "pell mell." Not only that, but as early as Dickens the term "pell mell" is used to mean chaotic or haphazard. As to the cigarettes, it...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    When my wife and I lived in Scotland in the early '70s, "brown sauce"was the standard accompaniment to fish chips, pie & chips, chicken & chips and all other & chips dishes. we went down to London and the fish & chips were wonderful, but nobody seemed to have any idea what brown sauce was. You...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Spinning off from the Worcestershire sauce discussion on the unchanging things thread, one product that I really miss is pickled walnuts. Here in the States you used to be able to get them in "gourmet" shops i.e., imported foods shops. They came in small (about 4 oz.) jars and you ate them as a...
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    I'm delighted to learn that strike-anywhere matches are still made. I thought they'd been outlawed. I never did master the art of striking them ón the seat of my Levis, though.
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Those Diamond matches are no longer strike-anywhere. You have to strike them on the box. They've joined the ranks of Things That Have Vanished.
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    Philosophical: Life just consists of episodes.

    S**t happens
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    "After we came out of the church, we stood talking some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that, though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    As a compliment to the "Things that have disappeared" thread, I'm introducing this one, about those things that seem unaffected by the passage of time. I don't mean simple tools like clawhammers, but products that were new within, say, the last hundred years, and have defied change ever since...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    For clarity, it should be noted that the Scottish Mars bar is nothing at all like the now-vanished American Mars bar. That's another one I miss.
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    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    Okay, you did it. I just had to go out and get a Moon Pie. I probably haven't had one since I was 10. Now taking a bite. Reasonably chewy, but not as much filling as I remembered. Could be moister, but at least not too sugary. Chocolate coating is undistinguished. Fourth bite now. Can't really...

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