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  1. MisterCairo

    60 Years of Bond on Film

    Not sure if this posted elsewhere, but on the 5th of October, 1962, Dr. No premiered. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/james-bond-60-1.6607001 Looking for Bond 7 on the big screen (non-canon films do not count, except Never Say Never Again, for obvious reasons).
  2. MisterCairo

    60 Years of Bond on Film

    Not sure if this posted elsewhere, but on the 5th of October, 1962, Dr. No premiered. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/james-bond-60-1.6607001 Looking for Bond 7 on the big screen (non-canon films do not count, except Never Say Never Again, for obvious reasons).
  3. MisterCairo

    Fedora Jokes

    Been a while since posting, military duty keeping me away from home and busy! But while away on TD, a colleague, in a context involving philosophical debate on inherent right and wrong (we are JAG officers), regardless of what written laws said, offered an example I admit I laughed out loud at...
  4. MisterCairo

    Shackleton's Ship Endurance Found - 100 Years to the Day After He Died

    This is cool: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/antarctic-explorer-shackleton-s-ship-found-after-a-century/ar-AAUQb2X?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531#image=1
  5. MisterCairo

    Five-Year Cycling Tour of the World - 1939

    In April, 1939, two young lads from Streatham, South London, 19 year-old Eric Wiseman and his mate, 18 year-old Kenneth Raper, with 70 quid between them, embark on a five-year cycling tour of the world! Leaving behind their ho-hum 30/ a week jobs as clerks, they hope to be able to earn a bit of...
  7. MisterCairo

    RAF Uniform Found - Cute Story

    You can read: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/world-war-ii-raf-uniform-found-preserved-in-70-year-old-mystery-parcel/ar-AAMKkoD?ocid=iehp&li=AAggFp5
  8. MisterCairo

    What the Actual Hell is This?

    Minty fresh is how ESPN describes this look. I have another phrase in mind. Have fun with your thoughts!
  9. MisterCairo

    Lost A/C Found - RAF Flt BK 716 Found in Netherlands Lake

    Yet another touching story of a Second World War aircraft being found, decades after being lost. A Royal Air Force Short Sterling bomber with a crew of seven, five British and two Canadian, was shot down over the Netherlands on 29 March 1943. Some wreckage was discovered in 2008 by accident...
  10. MisterCairo

    Golden Era Anathema

    Is there something about or from the Golden era that is an anathema to you? Something, some one, a film, anything, you truly dislike from the era? Particularly if it is something generally beloved. I will lob the first grenade: The Three Stooges. They are not funny. They have never been...
  11. MisterCairo

    Boston Cocoanut Grove Fire Disaster Documentary

    I confess I had not heard of this terrible disaster from 1942, when nearly five hundred people died in a fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston. In addition to overcrowding, several doors were locked to prevent people from leaving without paying bills, and the revolving doors that were...
  13. MisterCairo

    75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord - D-DAY

    As the 75th anniversary of one of the greatest battles in history approaches, memorials are popping up. The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing several coins, one limited edition showing an iconic (to us) image of a soldier looking back while a mate pats him on the back. The identity of the soldier...
  14. MisterCairo

    Richard Overton, Oldest US veteran, dies at 112

    https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/richard-overton-oldest-man-and-wwii-vet-in-the-us-dies-at-112.html
  15. MisterCairo

    Farm House Demolition and New Build

    My inlaws have given my wife and I the opportunity of a lifetime - to move onto one of the family's farms and build our dream house. The original farm house, circa 1910 and long-since moved from the rear of the 100 acre property (site of the original well) to the front (and loooooong since its...
  16. MisterCairo

    Celebrity Look-alikes

    Earlier posts about the striking resemblance between Paul McCartney and Angela Landsbury, and a recent one I did about Valerie Bertinelli (long story) got me thinking about celebrity look-alikes. Two examples of folks who look almost identical and in fact were married come to mind. Are there...
  17. MisterCairo

    USS LEXINGTON Discovered

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/uss-lexington-1.4563812 https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/970721650969755648
  19. MisterCairo

    For Remembrance Day - Colourized Photos First World War

    I know this is the thread for the second of the "great" wars, but here is another set of black and white photos of the Canadian Army, etc., that have been colourized. I am not a fan of this process for films, but I do find that doing this for photos tends to make the images look recent, thus...
  20. MisterCairo

    1930s Autograph Book - Creator Found?

    I came across the first article the other day, someone using the CBC and web to locate, if possible, the creator of an autograph book, which also contained messages, poems and drawings, between 1929 and 1936 from "Hilda"...
  21. MisterCairo

    What was the last play you saw?

    I could not find a thread on the theatre/theater (please merge if I missed one!), and as we just saw Stratford's production of HMS Pinafore (which they have set during the First World War), thought it might be fun. This was incredibly my first time seeing a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. The...
  22. MisterCairo

    American Civil War, not Second World War, but...

    This is a cool story. The first submarine to sink another vessel with a torpedo, the Confederate sub H.L. Hunley which sank the Union ship USS Housatonic, itself sank because, get this, its own torpedo created a shock wave that came back to kill the crew...
  23. MisterCairo

    Vintage Finds Renovating Vintage Homes

    I could not find any thread like this, but barkeeps, please merge if I missed something. I will shortly start posting pics from several old newspapers and one partial copy of LIFE magazine discovered under old carpeting removed from my house three years ago, while we were having new flooring...

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