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Hope this town needs a gun dealer.
WW2WaltUSMC said:As soon as I get certified and sworn, I would be happy to accept a position as a Policeman in this lovely town! Someone has to keep Otis the town drunk in line, right? And ensure that the children can cross the street safely on the first day of school! I have always wanted one of those spiffy double breasted coats the NYPD used to wear! But I must insist I be allowed to wear breeches and boots!
Shangas said:Please to be explaining the fear of police-station basements to one ignorant of the reasons behind your fear?
Mr Vim said:Nope, I just do the broadcasts.
The Electricians Mates joke that we break em, they fix em.
I've got it, I'll write for the paper, I do editorials here, well I try at least, they rarely get published, mainly because I write to complain that men don't dress as nice as they should.
AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED WHAT WE WOULD NAME THIS PLACE! I'M WRITING IN CAPS TO DRIVE HOME THE POINT! I'M ACTUALLY SHOUTING THIS AS I AM TYPING!
I think we should call it something simple... One word, catchy, maybe just Nostalgia. Or Vintage-ville. Or that place that a bunch o'crazy Vintage Folks put together.
Mr Vim said:I found it,
the episode was called Walking Distance, and the town was called Homewood... that rings doesn't it?
But James' suggestion is just as good, if not better.
Originally Posted by Mr Vim
How do you keep the outside influences of the modern world? Or do you even try?
David Conwill said:I've read a couple different places that during the Golden Era, beating suspects and vagrants with rubber hoses was quite common: Especially if there wasn't enough evidence to press formal charges against them.
Kiri said:Willoughby sounds good.
I don't think we'd much have to worry about that, since everyone living there would live there because they loved vintage things. Of course, we might get obnoxious tourists coming to watch us living our lives. That could get annoying. What would we do about that?
Unless of course this is a Twilight zone type thing and it's not like that.
LizzieMaine said:It was sometimes said during the Era that the official crest of the New York police department should be two rubber hoses crossed on a field of shamrocks.
WW2WaltUSMC said:Sometimes one might lament it's not still that way. It's like Connery said in the "Untouchables": "One of theirs pulls a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. That's the Chicago way. That's how you get Capone." There is something to be said about the older, tougher, less PC style of policework.