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    Your favorite movie quotes

    At the time that the cartoon was made, most people would catch the WWII military references - today, probably not one person in 1000 would - unfortunately.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here in Nashville we have several drive-in's but they are all part of a chain/franchise. You place your order via speaker from your car and then the car-hops bring your food and pick up the money. I eat at one of those occasionally. As for diner's, we have one here that is locally famous...
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    Tramps and other characters

    No matter how sympathetic you might be to a hobo's plight, it wouldn't be wise to hire one to cut your grass or chop wood in the modern world. If they cut off a toe they would sue you for a million bucks...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I thought that the janitors were trying to fool the principal into thinking they were doing more work than they actually were by putting down fake dirt and then sweeping it up. I couldn't think of any other reason for doing it. "I used to think you could buy anything imaginable from Sears."...
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    Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?

    One Zippo isn't enough to count as a collection, but by coincidence I bought it just last week, for only $5.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "He and his *consultants* believed...'' Now there's the problem: As Dogbert (from "Dilbert") says, "I like to con people and and I like to insult people - I'm going to become a "consultant".
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Fred Silverman and the Boys from Marketing missed that one for sure in terms of demographics. Somehow they didn't get the idea that the Baby-Boomers (not-middle-aged!) grew up on "Mad Magazine" and then went on to "National Lampoon", so we were perfect customers for the surrealistic humor in...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    LizzieM has this "Green Acres" situation well figured out. My main enjoyment of the show - which was a lot - was the total surrealism of the humor and situations. If you haven't seen it, think "Twilight Zone" meets "I Love Lucy". Two of my favorite examples: 1. Oliver comes in to the kitchen...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I rented a new Ford a couple of years ago and was driving down the road and just wanted to turn up the radio volume. I hit the wrong button and it started to recite the satellite radio menu - station by station. I tried to get it to quit but could not. I pulled over and stopped and starting...
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    Name the Actor...

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    Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!

    I vote for (or against) Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Evil, scary, creepy...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    It's not really age-related, but on the subject of acronym misuse you can't beat government science or environmental agencies. I worked for one for a while. I remember one case in which there was an acronym (ABCD) whose third letter C was the first letter of a second acronym (CGZ) whose last...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I feel the same way about George Lucas and "American Graffiti". He was four years older than me, but since there was ~ 2-4 years of time-lag for the California car-culture to diffuse to the middle part of the country, he was my contemporary in terms of attitudes and activities. To paraphrase...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I have read on several occasions that Mel Blanc was combining Bronx and Brooklyn accents. To a Southerner, there are no identifiable internal differences in Bugs' speech. Bugs Bunny just talks like a Yankee... On the other hand, I can name and usually identify at least a dozen regional...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    As an amoeba - I have no problem with that definition. (There was even a movie that we Baby-Boomer kids liked that fits that analogy well: "The Blob" (Steve McQueen, 1958)) As for opinions - yours or mine - I have no problem with those, even if they are opposite in nature. However, I will...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    "It was the specific desire of broadcasters to narrowcast to Boomer teens in the late fifties and early sixties that really started the transition to rigid "format" radio -- again as I said before, commerce and marketing started that ball rolling." We (Baby-Boomer teenagers) wanted to listen...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Very well put! The key sentence here is: "It wasn't even about liking it, it was just always there." This fits very well with the movie "American Graffiti", which was about George Lucas's autobiographical experiences growing up in California, and my experiences growing up in Nashville a few...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As a long-time NASCAR fan I would mostly agree, but there is a sub-group that does have particular driver loyalty - such as for Dale Earnhart, Jr., but a lot do care about the car more than the driver. There is also a contingent (me included) who are brand loyalists - any Chevy is better than...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I wonder if there are plagiarism issues involved with the Harry Potter wizards' attempts to mingle with the ordinary folks. Arthur C. Clarke wrote a similar great story ("Trouble with the Natives", 1951) about alien diplomats trying to deal with the human residents of an English village, using...

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