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    I can't believe people are into coveralls

    Just for curiosity, are there differences in what country or region you live in concerning definitions? Around here "coveralls" are what Lizzie was wearing and "overalls" are what the race driver was wearing. Are the terms interchangeable in some locales?
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    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    Actually, you're right about that. I live in Nashville and volunteer at the 101st Airborne Museum at Ft. Campbell. I have gotten to know a lot of past and present 101st guys, and they really are "distinctly personable". (going all the way back to WWII vets) Also, historically the 101st has...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Tell me more about the 1895 reference book. I have three of those (two original, one recent) and would like to read more about 1895's.
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    What Happened....

    As someone who has been involved in engineering education for close to twenty-five years, I'm concerned about all these engineers who can't solve problems. Coming up with creative solutions to problems is the very reason for the existence of engineers. My first reaction is wondering why the...
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    What Happened....

    This is only a small slice of the college-grad/debt issue, but it's my part, so I'll relate it here. As a member of both our Departmental and School Career Committees, I know what the average debt-level and average starting-salaries are for our 4-year engineering grads. The absolute debt level...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As someone who grew up in a Southern suburb in the '50's in a big new brick house, on an acre+ lot with trees and grass, and with a creek at the rear of our lot, and with woods within walking distance, seeing the Kramdens on TV was like watching people from another planet. No one and nothing I...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I have a '79 Cutlass and people come up and try to buy it like people used to do back in the '70's when they encountered a 1930's "classic".
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Ever since we've been trying to reconstitute the distinctions with varying degrees of success with "y'all" vs. "all y'all"..." As a very-long-term Southerner, I would perceive a difference in friendliness and intent between "y'all" and "all y'all". In the first case it's friendly - "Y'all...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Nehi Orange and Grape were once really big here in the mid-South (as was RC). I haven't seen any in a long time and don't know if they still make it. It was Southern enough that I'm convinced that John Sebastian used it as a pun in the lyrics to the song "Nashville Cats". Yeah, I was just...
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    What Happened....

    I have always been amused and a bit mystified by the role-reversal concerning hair-length in the late sixties and beyond. I clearly remember in the late sixties that the "hard-hats" would criticize and even attack long-haired hippies. After a few years the construction workers had the long...
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    Men's Adventure Magazines

    My dad in the mid-fifties bought those "Men's" magazines ("True", etc.) and I'd get to read the ones that didn't have too many pictures (that came later). I remember that there were a lot of WWII stories in those - many were made-up hooey, but some were at least somewhat fact-based. I was...
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    What Happened....

    Another unnecessary shot at us Baby Boomers. As one who was there, jeans were bought for us Baby Boomer kids by our mothers. We wore them first because we had no choice, and second because they were practical and would not be so quickly destroyed by our rambunctious play habits. We transitioned...
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    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    We liked the WWII-era Popeye cartoons, which we watched during the fifties and early sixties, and which were *very* "insensitive". Since they were made as wartime propaganda, what would you expect? As for live remote radio broadcasts, they do them almost every weekend here in Nashville (at some...
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    Vinatge Racing and Vintage Cameras

    Definitely agree that they were taking too many chances and not doing things in the best way. That car, and the other "wheelstanders", were none too stable even on a straight flat dragstrip.
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    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    I also agree with P51's comments and might expand on them a bit. The characters in "The Pacific" seemed totally interchangeable, unlike BoB which had a collection of readily identifiable (and more likable) individuals with distinct personalities: Winters, Nixon, Webster, Bull, Malarkey...
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    Vinatge Racing and Vintage Cameras

    I saw that car run numerous times back in the sixties. Never turned over back then....
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    Does your name date you?

    Does anyone know any females from the WWII era who went by the name "Pete"? One of my aunts was named Elise, but went by the name "Pete" on a regular basis. One of our next door neighbors went by "Pete" to the extent that I can't remember what her real name was.
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    Does your name date you?

    Lizzie has hit upon something here, as she often does. I have a game I've been playing for years which I call "Name = Destiny". As I read the paper, watch TV, look at ads, etc. I always note whether the person's name fits with the story, ad, occupation, or whatever. I noticed this first in a...
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    Does your name date you?

    I never heard him called anything but "Fate", but a quick bit of research showed that our sheriff's full name was Lafayette C. “Fate” Thomas.
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    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    I remember doing that - coming in at any old time to a movie as a kid with my parents and waiting for the, "This is where we came in..." (1950's), but it seems so odd to me now that I almost don't trust my memories of doing so.

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