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What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?
One thing that impressed me when I first met country music artist Vince Gill in a Nashville music spot I used to frequent, was his phone. Obviously Vince could afford any of latest and greatest new "smart" phones on the market, but instead he carried a very simple old-style flip phone. I think...- Matt Crunk
- Post #1,064
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
The current Principal of my high school alma mater was a schoolmate of mine who was a couple grades ahead of me in high school. He was a star player on our basketball and baseball teams, and a typical jock athlete who lived for PE. After high school he went directly into college where he got a...- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,541
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
I'm not sure if it's the same way for kids today, but in my day kids, especially boys, learned the basic rules of those games (football, baseball, basketball, even soccer) on the playground in grade school - during recess, not PE class, which didn't come until junior high.- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,536
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
There are always some kids who love and excel at PE - the natural athletes who usually also participate in team sports. But there are also kids (among which I was one) who hate being forced into structured physical activity, had little to no interest in team sports, and had much rather sit out...- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,535
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Too few credits in PE. Isn't that a load of crap! What a reason to not let a student graduate. PE should not even be a credited course. I somehow managed to get out of PE all through high school. I took study hall in the Art Department instead, and used the time to gain more art skills and...- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,517
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
I was in the exact same boat. After going to school for 12 years and making excellent grades, I came up one math credit short (I'd never taken a math class past the 9th grade) in order to graduate with my class. I could have gone to summer school or back the following fall for one semester, but...- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,492
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
The Graduation tradition in my neck of the woods usually consisted of a short trip down to the Florida Panhandle - Panama City Beach, or some other party spot along the "Redneck Riviera".- Matt Crunk
- Post #5,491
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Tonight at Crunk Manor: Lasagna, a double helping. No sides. Didn't have room for them. Sometimes lasagna is all you need.- Matt Crunk
- Post #9,221
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?
. . . . as in, "shoulda's full."- Matt Crunk
- Post #1,039
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Two 1930's cream color/off white men's suits, coming to my eBay store!
Why are there never any vintage suits that pop up in a size 48R?- Matt Crunk
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- Forum: Merchants
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Anyone have a maid when growing up?
Very well put, and very true.- Matt Crunk
- Post #34
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Yeah, it's about time for a pot of vegetable soup around here too. Will probably make some this week. Speaking of mom & pop burger joints: I've been kicking around the idea lately of producing a web series showcasing local dining spots, kind of like Guy Fieri's Triple D, but without an...- Matt Crunk
- Post #9,210
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What's for Dinner?
Tonight it's an early dinner of Nesmith burgers. Four hamburgers for me. Four cheeseburgers for the wife. In spite of being called "jumbo" burgers, they are actually quite small. NeSmith Hamburgers (pronounced Nee-Smith, not Nez-myth like the Monkee) in Moulton, Alabama, is one of those...- Matt Crunk
- Post #9,208
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
This name probably won't mean a lot to those living outside of Northern Alabama and the Tennessee Valley, but legendary radio and TV personality Benny Carle passed away October 2nd at age 89. He's most famously known for his early 60's acting role as the telegraph operator, Amos, on TV's The...- Matt Crunk
- Post #2,655
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
I will always remember Geoffrey Holder best as VooDoo Priest Baron Samedi in the Bond film Live And Let Die.- Matt Crunk
- Post #2,654
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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suit color for wife's black and white dress?
That is one horrible suit. Not just the stripes. but the cut as well. All I can say is, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!- Matt Crunk
- Post #10
- Forum: Suits
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suit color for wife's black and white dress?
I believe that mixing brown with black and white was a much more accepted color combination in the Golden Era than it is today. Popular even, just as was mixing brown and blue. In fact, it screams Golden Era if you ask me.- Matt Crunk
- Post #9
- Forum: Suits
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Anyone have a maid when growing up?
Well, we were definitely a working class family and, like I said, we had a maid that came in two days per week. Now this was in the 1960s and '70s, and my parents didn't pay her a great deal. About $30 per week, cash, as I recall. Adjusted for inflation that's about like $150 today. I believe...- Matt Crunk
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Yes, it would be. Unfortunately the only meat we have in the house at the moment is a frozen roast. However, I do have a bit of leftover chicken stew for later.- Matt Crunk
- Post #9,203
- Forum: The Connoisseur
