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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    I loved anything dinosaur-related.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I saw the Globetrotters play In Kalamazoo, MI around '60-'61. Meadowlark and Curly were among them. Althea Gibson gave a tennis demonstration at the same event. My God, that was 55 years ago! It can't be!
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Many of the Christmas songs are actually seasonal, having nothing to do with the Nativity. I mean, "Frosty the Snowman"? Gimme a break. "Winter Wonderland,""Jingle Bells" and many others are about winter and snow, but you only hear them during the Christmas season.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I was always puzzled by the "Round young virgin."
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    On this Christmas eve I'll share a thought that has bothered me for many years. As every other Christmas, children are hearing traditional Christmas songs and even being made to sing some of them. They must be mystified by so many of the references, which are long obsolete. Few have ever seen...
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    "Star Wars" Episode VII Cast announced/revealed

    Haven't seen it yet (nearest theater 55 miles away), but my memories of the series go back farther than most of yours. I was at the World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City in 1976, a brand-new SF writer new to the fan scene and conventions. On the last day of the con I wandered into the...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    On Vonnegut's Alias Kilgor Trout in Venus on the Half Shell....

    In Sirens of Titan there is a chapter called "Tent Rentals". This is because a snare drum on Mars goes "rented a tent, a tent, a tent." What can I say, it's Vonnegut.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Dean Martin used to say: "I believe in drinking moderately. I keep a case of moderately behind the bar.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anybody still use the term "the birds and the bees" for explaining to innocent kids (hah!) what sex is all about? I never had any idea how that expression came about until I read the lyrics to the impossibly beautiful 19th century folk song "Near the Lake Where Droop'd the Willow," familiar...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    A few years ago I was in a department store and caught a whiff of perfume and was instantly transported to a certain back porch in Texas in 1963. It was the perfume worn by a girlfriend of that day. I'd climbed over her back fence to be with her and that scent remains lodged in my medulla or...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The last pay phones I've seen were in a Wal-Mart and I don't remember when that was. Pay phones were never a money-maker for the phone company (there used to be just one) and they were a public service. Maintaining them cost more than all the nickles, dimes and quarters. Plus, they were a place...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Stearman's dad was on the QM when it was a troopship. This was a unique time of maritime history. Those ships crossed the Atlantic unescorted. Their speed was their protection from U-boats. That was the theory, anyway.
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    On Vonnegut's Alias Kilgor Trout in Venus on the Half Shell....

    Pgirl, I do not want to get all intimate here, but have you ever.....rented a tent?
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    When I was in high school, some of our teachers were only 6 or 7 years older than we were, but they seemed like godlike seniors. Now, 50 years later, we're all contemporaries. I recently attended my 50th year reunion and a couple of our teachers were there and they seemed like classmates.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I spent my summers in the '50s in the Linda Vista neighborhood of Pasadena. I still remember the music played by the ice cream truck that caused a Pavlovian frenzy among the neighborhood kids who came out frantically to buy fudgesickles and dreamsickles. A few years ago, here in the tiny town in...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You might want to give Abeuelita and Ibarra chocolate a try. They're Mexican brands, now available in US supermarkets. Sold in cake form, they're pure, unadulterated chocolate, the recipe unchanged for generations. You break off a triangular chunk, grind it up and use it in whatever recipe or...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    After WWII an uncle of mine went to UT Austin on the GI Bill. It paid full tuition for four years, books and school supplies issued free, plus a generous stipend. That's the difference between a popular war and Vietnam. When I got back from Vietnam and went to college I got a stipend of $250 per...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    On that subject does anyone remember the phrase, "Turn your head and cough"?
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    In all the outrage over student loans in recent years, the thing I find most depressing is the seemingly unanimous agreement that the only purpose for higher education is a high-paying job. Do people who fail to obtain such a job actually regret that they are educated? Do they pine for their...
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    Past Lives and Einstein's Theory of Spooky Science at a Distance...

    If we truly create our own reality, you'd think I'd have created a better reality for myself than this one.

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