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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    A few positive changes that may occur (and already have): I've noticed some shops that had negative political signs up for the past few years have pulled them down. :) I guess they can't afford to run off customers anymore. It may not be so hard to hire good help. The bad help might be...
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    A Crash Veteran's View From today's Wall Street Journal: A Street Longtimer Speaks By E.S. BROWNING Seth Glickenhaus, one of the few still on Wall Street who worked there during the Depression, thinks the stock market may be bottoming -- temporarily. Mr. Glickenhaus first worked for a...
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    What is a Lady?

    If you must smoke, Catherine Deneuve would be good to study. She must have lungs of steel. http://frenchsecret.com/blog/index.php?p=30
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    Estate sale?

    I never had that experience, or anything like it, at estate sales.
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    Estate sale?

    Looters don't pay and they don't bother to knock. Most of my house is furnished with goods bought at estate sales. Now, "friends" and family rummaging through someone's things unasked, or before the sale, is in the WORST possible taste.
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    Why don't we write letters anymore?

    Sounds like the reason I don't entertain anymore.
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    'Thin Man' picked for One Book, One Denver reading program

    According to the Rocky Mountain News, Dashiell Hammett’s classic crime novel, The Thin Man, is this year’s pick for the community reading program, One Book, One Denver. .... The Thin Man has been lauded for its spare realism and wit. It begins when former private detective Nick Charles...
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    No footnotes?
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    Just to be clear, I know from experience that it's possible to be a good worker and still be tossed overboard. "When good management meets a bad industry, the bad industry wins."
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    I'm sure he's a smart man, but TV shows select guests based on how well they do in that medium and how good they'll be for ratings. And there was recently a thread on how people can be misrepresented on TV. The chief investment officer of our wealth advisors company had this to say, among...
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    One of the partners at the CPA firm where I work has commented that most people in congress think the "bailout" is a good idea, but they don't want their opponents accusing them of corporate handouts or whatever. They all want other people to vote for it.
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    Just for some perspective, the average length of a recession in the U.S. is 10 or 11 months. Here's Ben Stein on recessions: Even in a recession, more than 90 percent of workers who want to work will be employed. Even in a recession, most businesses will make a profit. Even in a recession...
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    I'm trying hard to imagine what could be worse than a confidence game involving marriage.
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    Ironing Woes...Love the vintage Hate the ironing

    I steam my clothes. I have a Whirlpool steamer, but it stopped working, so I just put a hot pot with water in it, set the timer I've got it plugged into, and let it steam away the wrinkles. No rust spatters, no ironed-in wrinkles, no wrinkled parts that are too hard to get to. My mother...
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    It depends on what the government does. Some say they shouldn't have encouraged lenders to make subprime loans. Sounds reasonable to me. I'm not sure how we'd be better off if more of us were making circuit boards or cobbling shoes together.
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    True again. And even among people of your own kind, some of them might have been especially nice to you because they wanted something. The fawning young woman may have been trying to marry well to save her parents from destitution; the solicitous employee knew that jobs were scarce.
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    Good point. But who would long for a depression of any era? Yes, people were probably more generous and caring than they are today, but I don't wish for the tragedies that made their noble sacrifices necessary.
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    Calling all fans of the Great Depression

    I was just thinking today how much fun (in some ways, and if you had a good job) it would have been to live back then: to have seen Benny Goodman and the other giants of swing, the awesome Latin bands, to have danced with Frankie Manning as a young man...:arated: Without going into politics...
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    Show us your vintage patterns!

    I've also seen newer patterns that are throwbacks to the 40s. They tend to be very wearable stuff--to the non-vintage observer, they might seem vaguely old-school, rather than looking like a costume.
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    Outgoing Message for Voice Mail

    Music for a business phone My best friend teaches laughter yoga and her outgoing message is her laughing and laughing, and then, "Leave a message." Perhaps a good outgoing message for a business that deals with professionals would be something with no vocals, no screaming horns or drum solos...

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