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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Of course, he IS an old man now, and sometimes gets confused. I saw him yesterday listening to his car engine with a stethoscope!" Maybe he's just a good mechanic... You can learn a lot by listening to the engine's internal sounds.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    As one who was there, this is nearly 100% dead-on... (and that means "correct"...) Car-brand loyalty was much closer to sports-team loyalty - San Francisco vs. Kansas City, etc. - No hostile "gangs" in the urban reality or movie sense... "...i loved blowing the doors off the Mustangs" - that...
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    The best PTSD-movies?

    WWI PTSD: "The Public Enemy" (1931), with James Cagney (Tom Powers). Cagney's brother, Mike Powers, enlists in the Army during WWI with patriotism and enthusiasm. When he comes back, he is completely changed: depressed, listless, and irritable. They called it "shell shock" then, today it's PTSD.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I thought of a few more car-culture "facts" from the sixties, especially relating to the original question about brand rivalry: There was a strong brand rivalry in those days: Ford vs. Chevy (GM) vs. Chrysler (Plymouth and Dodge). However, there was also a recognized performance "pecking...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    To get an excellent overview of the car-culture of the early-sixties to early seventies car culture you should watch "American Graffiti" multiple times. It was George Lucas' autobiographical story of car-culture in Northern California in the early-sixties. Why the line "Where were you in "62?"...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You are 100% right (at least)! I fit both categories, and being 20 in the 70's was like living in another world.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have been watching the Karen Read murder trial from near Boston, and I have to do an internal tape-delay translation to get it. A witness will say "He pocked the cah." and after a few seconds I say to myself, "Oh, "He parked the car.""
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm from the Mid-South (not Deep South) and I have some difficulty understanding those from far-off Yankee-land. I also have trouble with British accents in movies.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    YES! ABSOLUTELY!! THE ONLY ONES OF THIS STRIP THAT I READ ARE THE ONES WITH KITTY IN THEM!
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    One more Bill Mauldin:
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    For my part Bill Mauldin was the best of the WWII Army cartoonists and Willy and Joe were the best subjects. Get a copy of his 1945 book "Up Front" and I think you might agree.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    By pure coincidence I was recently talking with someone whose father was stationed in Northeast India during WWII, where Terry and his pals are now. As a sergeant in the Signal Corps, manning a radar station looking for a Japanese attack which never came, he had it pretty well made. She was...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Concerning the mention of Skeezix attending military school: I happened to find and buy at an antique store one of those "Little Big Books" (or "Big Little Books"?) - the ones about an inch and a half thick and only 3 x 4 inches wide and tall. "Skeezix at Military School". Well done as usual...
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    (Don't know if this has been done before but) Movies so Traumatizing You Could Only Watch It Once.

    Could not get all the way through "Eraserhead" the first time, so seeing it again is DEFINITELY out of the question.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It doesn't only occur in Northern States. Here in Nashville (mid-South) there were a LOT of dissatisfied electric car owners. I won't call them electric car "drivers" since they weren't going anywhere. Batteries lose capacity in the cold - it's called physics and chemistry...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    It's nothing short of amazing the small military details that he captures, and it's not big-issue plot points, but the smallest items that you can imagine. Recently when their revolver was shown, you could tell it was a *Colt* Model of 1917. (Not a Smith and Wesson, which also made Model of...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I have told a number of folks that the word "electronic" comes from the Greek word meaning "You can't fix it." Most people agree that the idea makes sense, even if not really true. (I have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and I can't begin to fix a modern car. My Electrical Engineering...
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Just saw "Twelve O'clock High", and Gregory Peck gives an almost exact version of Lt. Speirs' words to his flight crews.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I must have punched thousands of those cards back in my Fortran programming days, but I never saw one of those. An interesting item...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I built one as a science project in the 6th grade. You could barely hear it. Better than nothing, I guess, but not by much...

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