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Kid and Play

Funny thing. I looked her up and then realized she looked a lot like Sydney Sweeny.

edit = I didn’t do a deep dive, but from what I saw the two could swap outfits and 'dos without anyone noticing.

Not exactly iconic.

Back in the day, John Kennedy killed the fedora when he went hatless to his Inauguration. James Bond had a hat in the gun barrel sequence of Dr. No and had lost it by the time they did Goldfinger.

Miami Vice’s look was widely copied.

Like I said, I haven’t seen any true fashion icons in years.

It seems to me that the age of the fashion icon has passed us by.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a lot of people imitating any star’s looks.

When was the last time there was a Rachel haircut?

This is my favorite fashion story.

King Edward VII was at a country estate and decided to play tennis.

His valet pulled out his tennis outfit, but was shocked to find that there was a sharp crease in the pants from being folded so long. The King told the servant not to bother ironing the creases out.

The King went down in creased pants, and it’s been a sign of a well dressed fellow to have a sharp crease in his pants ever since.

Doc Savage’s pulp adventures inspired Superman, Indiana Jones, and Batman. One of his assistants was Johnny, who loved using polysyllables. “I’ll be superamalgamated!” was his favorite exclamation.

Cartoon legend Jack Kirby created The Newsboy Legion. One of the members was ‘Big Words,’ who tried to live up to his name.

Fats Waller was a singer/song writer. In his comic, “You’re Feets Too Big” he explained that ‘your pedal extremities are too obnoxious.’

These days, any scientific explanation in fiction is apt to be followed by “slower and in English.”

This is why you don’t play music so loud that you can’t hear a siren.

Impressive effort for such a small reward

Seriously, don’t.

There are no sidewalks.

Fine. Nuclear powers England and France were on board.

Be realistic.

If the USA goes down, it’s not going to be a soft landing.

The USSR was a smooth transition, and there was massive genocide in the wake of the fall. Ukraine gave up its weapons when the EU and USA promised them help.

Think places like North Dakota are going to peacefully surrender their nukes?

A lot of older actors were actual combat veterans.

Lee Marvin hated doing this scene, because he knew it was completely unrealistic. The director told him that by the time the audience got to this part they’d accept anything.

https://youtu.be/J31uAcmpteU

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Best cookbook for a beginner is “The Joy Of Cooking.”

Breaks everything down, even boiling water.

Alex Trebek said that gambling had no appeal for him.

If he won $100.00 it didn’t make any difference in his life, and if he lost $100.00 he felt like an idiot.

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Back in the day, girlie magazine ‘High Society’ single-handedly created the phone porn industry.

The editorial staff was looking for a way to raise interest. Someone suggested that the publisher, X-star Gloria Leonard, record a phone message about the next issue.

The number got approximately 20 billion calls in the first 90 minutes.

The rest is history…

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https://epdf.pub/waldrop-howard-the-ugly-chickens2.html

The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop

A riveting science fiction story about the search for the last dodoes.

https://historyfacts.com/science-industry/fact/the-first-known-vending-machine-dispensed-holy-water/

Marx wasn’t predicting, he was reporting

A paragon of taste and refinement!