This or That

[2jakes]

 

[vitanola]

Brass.

Carbide or electric?

 

[Fading Fast]

Brass.

Carbide or electric?

As is usually the case with vitanola's way-smarter-than-my-small-brain-can-handle posts, I had to look up carbides on the web and based on that (and a truly boring Wikipedia page I read), I vote for electric.

hairbrush or comb? (notice the "small brainess" of my "this or thats")

 

[Trenchfriend]

Comb.

1st Dire Straits-album or 2nd?

 

[vitanola]

As is usually the case with vitanola's way-smarter-than-my-small-brain-can-handle posts, I had to look up carbides on the web and based on that (and a truly boring Wikipedia page I read), I vote for electric.

hairbrush or comb? (notice the "small brainess" of my "this or thats")

That was a response to the "brass or chrome" Automobiles; "Brass era" 1896-1915, "Nickle Era" 1915 (with a couple of exceptions as early as 1913)-1929, and "Chrome Era" referring to post '29 stuff. Brass era cars are generally found fitted with carbide headlamps, electric lamps only coming into use with the installation of electric starters, except on Fords.

 

[Fading Fast]

That was a response to the "brass or chrome" Automobiles; "Brass era" 1896-1915, "Nickle Era" 1915 (with a couple of exceptions as early as 1913)-1929, and "Chrome Era" referring to post '29 stuff. Brass era cars are generally found fitted with carbide headlamps, electric lamps only coming into use with the installation of electric starters, except on Fords.

I am always impressed with your esoteric knowledge and there is always a logical connect to your "this and thats -" I just need to look them up most of the time.

 

[vitanola]

Comb.

1st Dire Straits-album or 2nd?

1st, I suppose, for "Sultans of Swing" is the only record of theirs that I recall. I do have fond memories of a frat party where that single was played over and over again, but that is another story.

Sorry, forgot my "This or that"!

Arch Oboler or Norman Corwin?

 

[vitanola]

I am always impressed with your esoteric knowledge and there is always a logical connect to your "this and thats -" I just need to look them up most of the time.

That is what comes from living in the Great City and spending ones time in useful pursuits. By leading a useful life one seldom has the time or energy to immerse oneself in the minutiae of a long-dead past, even should one be so inclined.

I too often use the passive voice, don't I?

 

[LizzieMaine]

1st, I suppose, for "Sultans of Swing" is the only record of theirs that I recall. I do have fond memories of a frat party where that single was played over and over again, but that is another story.

Sorry, forgot my "This or that"!

Arch Oboler or Norman Corwin?

Oboler. Corwin's prose tended to go just a bit too purple for my taste.

Lots of sound effects or minimal sound effects?

 

[vitanola]

Minimal. I have lots of sound effects records, so if I want to hear "Traffic at the Corner of State and 3rd", or "A man demolishing a piano with an axe" I can play the records myself.

Oddly enough I rather like Corwin's purple prose, but then I would...

Burns and Allen or Bergen and McCarthy?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Enjoy them all, but I have to go with Edgar and Charlie. The 1937-39 Chase & Sanborn Hours are a revelation.

Married couple Burns & Allen or park-bench flirtatious Burns & Allen?

 

[2jakes]

park-bench.

Bob Hope or Jack Benny doing stand-up comedy?

 

[vitanola]

Jack Benny.

Wallace Nutting or Charles Sheeler?

 

[2jakes]

Jack Benny.

Wallace Nutting or Charles Sheeler?

I like both but, would give the edge to Nutting. (His landscapes)


Oil painting brushes;

Red sable ?
or
Camel’s hair ?

 

[vitanola]

I like both but, would give the edge to Nutting. (His landscapes)


Oil painting brushes;

Red sable ?
or
Camel’s hair ?

"Camel Hair" (squirrel hair, actually). I occasionally restore old paintings, and repair chinaware. The cheap squirrel hair brushes are just right for this work,





So, "Captain Billy's a Whiz-Bang!" or the "Smart Set?

 

[2jakes]

Captain Billy's ~ Whiz-Bang!


George Herriman or Winsor McCay?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Herriman. McCay seems too aware of his own genius.

Barney Google or Moon Mullins?

 

[2jakes]

Barney Google.

General Grant ?
or
General Lee?

 

[vitanola]

Grant.

Lee was a great man, but he was Secesh.

Robert Frost or Edna St Vincent Millay?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Edna. She's a local girl, after all. Her house, a rickety old duplex up the street here, just got sold for historic preservation.

Genevieve Taggard or Amy Lowell?