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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

    There's a great anecdote about officer Oliver Wendell Holmes that came out of his service in the civil war. During the battle of Fort Stevens, he saw a tall man with a hat standing on the parapet observing the fight and drawing fire from Confederate sharp-shooters. "GET DOWN YOU DAMNED FOOL!"...
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    The Wind that Shakes the Barley

    I saw it -- in Dublin actually -- back when it was in theaters. I thought that it presented the politics and conflicts of the time quite well and would have been a wonderful period piece -- if not for the horridly heavy-handed moral message they wanted to hammer through. My Irish relatives felt...
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    Dressing well returns?

    I think most of us here would enjoy the return of *some* degree of care and/or formality in the way people dress, but my experience hasn't shown that as yet. I took my state bar exam back in 2008 and found the variety of attire pretty interesting. The test takes three full days at the end of...
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    Digitizing alternatives

    Those USB turntables are decent and they make a pretty quick job of digitizing old albums. However, if you are digitizing older (pre-1955) albums, you may have more than just the 33-to-78 speed issue to deal with. This mostly just applies to that situation: If you're using the line-in on your...
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    Clip-on Bow Ties

    This thread is a hoot. Your reactions have me tearing up. I too really like the retro designs of a few, but the clip-on aspect is kinda appalling. As an engineer, I love bow ties as they don't get in the way when you are working on something hands-on. Such as, oh, getting caught in machinery...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Definitely Milk As several people have mentioned, there's just nothing quite as satisfying as fresh milk in a glass bottle, although for many years we had to make due around here with the merely adequate store bought milk in paper cartons. Tragically, over the past ten years, that too has been...
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    Malabar Farm, Bogey & Bacall's Wedding (w/ photos & video)

    I thought about resurrecting this thread, but figured it warranted its own. One of my favorite local-ish places to visit is Malabar Farm in Richland county, Ohio. It was home to Pulizer Prize winning author Louis Bromfield from 1939 - 1956. He was a local Ohio boy who went to Columbia...
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    Vintage Blu-Ray Users

    My understanding is that most of the films on TCM HD are just upscaled, not remastered in HD. It's akin to using an expensive photocopier to enlarge a photo print; you don't really get a better picture, but it also shouldn't be too much worse, despite the bigger size. Remastering from the...
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    Fountain Pens: Who uses them, and why?

    The day-to-day pen that I've used for the last 15 years or so is the Parker Vector cartridge-based fountain pen. They're really quite nice and also very affordable: usually found for around $6. They've become scarce in the big box stores here in the US, but I still buy them on eBay or on the few...
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    Vintage Blu-Ray Users

    I don't find that at all, among my 20-30 year old range of female friends at least. If anything, they want to commandeer the thing to watch their movies or play video games. The latter is the recent interesting phenomenon of active "group games" like Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, or...
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    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    Greetings all. I too am a lawyer -- in name at least -- although I haven't found any work yet since passing the bar last year. Pretty soon it might be digging ditches... As to the question of specialties, here in the US there are two traditional areas of law in which an attorney can claim...
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    What Are Your Favorite VINTAGE Song Lyrics?

    Hoagy Carmichael is my favorite songwriter, and of his songs, I love "Moon Country" most -- which I believe was also one of his early collaborations with the great Johnny Mercer. Moon Country (is Home to Me) -- Hoagy Carmichael I long for that moon country That possum and coon country That...
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    If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

    My pick I was thinking about this one night and had an interesting realization. My top 3 for beauty & charm 1. Grace Kelly 2. Irene Dunne 3. Ginger Rogers but my list of who I'd like in real life I think 1. Ginger Rogers 2. Irene Dunne 3. Grace Kelly My conclusion is that I adore...
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    Casablanca

    Also, if you get a chance to see the movie in high definition, do so. WB did a beautiful job remastering and transferring the film. The details I'd never seen before, after a half dozen viewings, were amazing; you'd almost swear it was filmed recently. It's the only film I have on VHS, DVD...
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    Weird Food Combinations

    This has to be the German in me. Potato pancakes, smothered in fried apples and onions. Another one -- and let me emphasize, this was pure serendipity as I never drink those energy drinks and rarely eat candy -- is Red Bull and Hot Tamales. Insanely complementary and good.
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    Movies you should have liked but didn't

    How interesting. I love Philadelphia Story, but High Society, despite having such a fabulous cast (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Louis Armstrong...,) always falls a little flat in comparison for me. 9/10 versus 7/10. The movie that didn't meet my expectations was Around the World in...
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    Actors Whose Careers Were Not Fully Realized

    Mine would be... Carole Landis. Quite a beauty and a pretty good actress, who never got a real break in the movies. She had a rough personal life and killed herself in 1948 after Rex Harrison -- with whom she was having an affair -- snubbed her. (Some claimed it was murder.) Dolores Moran...
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    Interest check: Antique radio MP3 players/iPod docks

    I have a couple of '41 Philcos that I have put off trying to restore for, oh, about a decade now, mostly due to the daunting effort of finding tubes, replacing a ton of wiring, de-corroding & de-rusting, etc. You may have inspired me to finally get them 'working,' even if it is a faux display...
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    Golden Era Classics

    My (mid-western American) high school certainly offered no Latin, nor did any in our entire county (except the Catholic high schools) I'd wager. When I went to university, I was able to fit in a year of Greek -- which was offered through the religion department, no Latin offered at all -- and I...
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    Royal Stetson and Bogart

    Silvereed - I use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) to play DVDs and other media on my computer. Free and non-proprietary. One of the features is "snapshot." You can then enlarge the image in your favorite image editor. I like to use TheGimp (http://www.gimp.org/) myself. Cheers Edit...

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