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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    "1950's Half Belt Deluxe" Fur Collar for sale

    I have a size 44 brown Aero 1950's Half Belt Deluxe with detachable fur collar FQHH. I'll be moving to the Gulf Coast of Florida in the near future, so I don't foresee much in the way of opportunity to wear it once there. I see that new, they sell for $900 at today's exchange rate. Aero web...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    At least it wasn't required that you go pantless.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And it's turtles all the way down.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I mowed my yard for the first time this year on Saturday (between sleeting). I'm looking forward to a move to Florida where I will hire someone to do it. As I approach my 69th birthday, I'm planning on a single-story house where stairs won't be a challenge when I pass my 80th (God willing).
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Add Tyr's day Thor's day, Freya's (Freyr) day
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That was Ike's pronunciation.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Explain the 3-Sphere to me.

    Here's an explanation of Planck length: If I understand it, there is no distance (in the "real world") shorter than that. While mathematics can posit an infinitely divisible distance, physics says it ain't so. No clock can ever be more accurate than the time it takes light to travel a Planck length.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Explain the 3-Sphere to me.

    After giving this about 30 seconds of deep thought, the only understanding I can get is that light is a phenomenon of space-time. That is, it exists in space-time. In some way I can't articulate it seems to me that things that exist is space-time have a set of rules to obey, but space-time...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A drop of water on the head can be startling and mildly annoying. A series of frequent drops is known as "The Chinese Water Torture". Please excuse the term if you see it as AAPI, it's just the common parlance description.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    Sounds like this post belongs in the "missing members" forum.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Return of the spade

    I'm looking forward to your starting my boots. The shine on these shoes is astounding! It looks like the toes have been shellacked.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Bridge Collapse in Frick Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    No, the "political" part comes in when you decide who pays for it. Who built this bridge, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or Uncle Sam? If the bridge isn't on an interstate highway (where the federal fuel tax is imposed to maintain it) then just who is...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So, nobody actually plays a flaut? This vaguely reminds me of a continuing bit on "The Smothers Brothers' Show". A regular cast member was the deadpan comic Pat Paulsen. In 1968 there was a "Pat Paulsen for President" schtick that went on for weeks. During one of his monologues he remarked...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm told that musicians refer to flute players as "flautists". Go figure.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    For my father, it was "If the little dog hadn't stopped to void his bowels, he would have caught the rabbit." But he really didn't say "void his bowels". It was words to that effect.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Bring me baggy trousers!

    All I need now is just the right hat, and I might have found it, or at least, fellow Lounger has found it. Borsalino Amiata (thanks @PanosChris ) I might just have a word. tonyb will make you one. He's made a few for me. His web site is https://tumwaterhat.com/ and one of the hats he made for...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That reminds me of Idi Amin, who styled himself "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hajj Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I was in the fifth grade. We were lining up to return to class after the morning bio break when I heard someone say, "Kennedy was shot in the head." I didn't know any student named Kennedy, so it didn't make an impression on me. This was in Pennsylvania. We didn't get the rest of the day off...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Note that Reagan's lawn jockey is painted with a white face. Compare that to the traditional lawn jockey painted to look like a minstrel show performer. Now, it doesn't take much imagination to work out why some portions of the audience might find that offensive.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Hasn't seemed to affect Mick Jagger.

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