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Ahhhh,,,,so you're saying if you quote a post with a vid embedded, the vid doesn't come with the quote?

let me try that....

 

I just quoted this to see if the vid will come with the quote

Edit: Ok, so a live link comes with, I suppose you can just copy/paste the link in your new post....

 

All this technical discussion is just making me feel old...

 

Put that 'carbon paper' in a Mimeograph or Ditto Machine and make all the copies that you want.

Jason

 

:cornut: My son was an AW in HSL47, HSL37, and others

Jason

 

Talking about smell. What about the old mimeograph machines. After cranking out 50 copies of the morning report, I had a headache from the alcohol fumes.

Jim

 

Remember the first fax machines where you loaded the single sheet of paper to be faxed on a drum.

 

Pointed Black Wing Tips on the guys who carried switch blades

Jason

 

Out here in CA I never knew that type of gangster to wear wing-tips..... :lol:

 

We used to call those pointy shoes, "Fence Climbers"!

Dave

 

We didn't have a warehouse district, therefore, no gangsters. But, we did have a few hoodlums. They wore their hair in a duck tail, black leather jackets, blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up and engineer boots. I remember watching a fight between a couple of them in an alley a couple blocks from school. One of them is now a highly respected building contractor near retirement. Another of that crowd was our county sheriff for well over 20 years. Go figure.

 

:cornut: A 3ft gold watch chain being twirled by a guy in a 'Zoot Suite'.

Jason

 

:cornut: BUMP. Come on guys. Management says that I can't post 2 in a row.

Jason

 

Zoot suites, 20's - 40's, before I had a memory.

 

So...nobody remembers how many zoots were killed to make one suit?

Groan if you wish but I couldn't resist.

 

AKA "Winkle pickers"...................no, I have no idea what it means either.

Edit: Wikipedia to the rescue - see, I didn't either make it up!

Winklepickers (also known as winkle pickers) are a style of shoe or boot worn from the 1950s onward by male and female British rock and roll fans. The feature which gives both the boot and shoe their name is the very sharp and quite long pointed toe, reminiscent of medieval footwear and approximately the same as the long pointed toes on some women's high fashion shoes and boots in the late 2000s. The pointed toe was called the winkle picker toe because in England periwinkle snails or winkles are or were a popular seaside snack, which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to carefully extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell, hence the phrase: "to winkle something out", and from that, winklepickers as a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.

 

Walter Winchel

 

Studebaker

 

Golden Hawk

 

My Mother the Car