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Just switched on Tombstone from 1993.
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Riddle me this;
One got fat.
One got skinny.
One got old.
One got dead.
One hasn't changed.
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Riddle me this;
One got fat.
One got skinny.
One got old.
One got dead.
One hasn't changed.
There's a few of them at the Boise airport, not Mountain Home . Airport security?
Those look like B25’s. Are these the Doolittle Raiders?
My first car was a 69 Road Runner. I bought it with the money I made bucking bales, mowing lawns and shoveling snow. Imagine a 14 year old kid in 1974 driving around in a Red 69 Road Runner, 383, 4 spd, air grabber hood, with Magnum 500's and a factory AM/8-track stereo.
Yes that's the Doolittle Raiders.
Along a similar note, I was feeling somewhat disheartened earlier this week. I was on another site broswing a thread full of old photos and saw some old car ads. 1 was advertising a brand new nicely optioned Plymouth Superbird and the other was from Baldwin Motion advertising 427 swapped Novas, Chevelles, Camaros, and Corvettes. I ran the numbers through the BLS inflation calculator and they were all in the $30,000 range. What the hell happened?
The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th
Looted from an abandoned house, sold as junk for $35 – and finally mailed to the American author Mark Jacobson by a man who couldn't wait to get rid of it. It is the lampshade that drives its owners mad – but what is its macabre secret? Robert Chalmers investigates
www.independent.co.uk
I have not read the book... but it looks like there may be at least some truth.
Rumors and urban legends and even classical myths usually had some kernel of truth behind them.
It is quite easy to dismiss the lampshade as fanciful or propaganda. But it is also Possible that such things did happen. All it would take is one person with a macabre sense of humor and a whole lampshade industry is born. Is it implausible that a few were made? And from that becomes a story that everyone knows?
One also cannot discount the economic calculations being made by the SS on the value of holocaust victims. They calculated
To the Reichs-phenning what hair was worth... teeth... bones were considered for fertilizer. Fats for glycerine for explosives production. Would it be unusual for some reichs-chemist to examine the properties of leather?
Before making it into a black and white or did/didn’t issue... consider that there are always shades of gray and that absolutes are fraught with peril.
Personally, I think the evidence supports the idea that it did happen. Maybe not on the scale that some think. But In Dark evil times and places, dark, evil things happen.
Sirhr
First heard the story when I visited some of the sites in the period 1961 -1963, not good memories.
I talked with a 40 plus year retired industrial hygienist for Geneva Steel once about asbestos vs. fiberglass. He agreed that both were dangerous. However, asbestos was a cheap, easily mined mineral, mostly from Canada. Owens-Corning couldn't compete. They hired their own scientists to prove that asbestos was harmful and lobbied Congress to outlaw it so they could replace it with fiberglass.
It was 100% about money, nothing about public safety.
Here's the funny thing. The town in Canada with the largest asbestos mine has a constant background level of asbestos in the air that is many, many times higher than OSHA acceptable exposure levels, and they do not have any higher rate of lung cancer, asbestosis or mesothelioma than anywhere else, with the exception of those that worked directly in the mines. Just like working unprotected in a coal mine will give you black lung disease, whereas having a pile of coal in your yard and burning it in your furnace will not.
This is what this gentleman told me, and he would know.
My second car was a metalic green 1969 Caprice coupe with a 427. Drove it until I junked it and the motor and transmission sold for as much as I paid for the car....didn't know it was a classic.
A restored one just sold in the auction this weekend for $62K, maybe more than my 1st car, a 65 mustang with a 289 and 4 speed.
Now I drive small family SUVs.
A restored one just sold in the auction this weekend for $62K, maybe more than my 1st car, a 65 mustang with a 289 and 4 speed.
Now I drive small family SUVs.
Does anyone remember the gas lines???
Who the hell could deal with a 440 6-pack that got 9mpg if you drove it like a wuss.
Only able to get gas on even or odd days.
1-4 hour lines.
10-15% inflation
Who the hell could deal with a 440 6-pack that got 9mpg if you drove it like a wuss.
Only able to get gas on even or odd days.
1-4 hour lines.
10-15% inflation
This was my high school car. No it didn't look quite that good then and no it's not mine now.
Yes, it did have a LS6 and 4 speed. I sold it because I couldn't afford the gas and oil as a newly married 19 year old. Kept my Nissan Patrol though...
Yes, it did have a LS6 and 4 speed. I sold it because I couldn't afford the gas and oil as a newly married 19 year old. Kept my Nissan Patrol though...
"At least some truth" in .gov-speak translates as "nothing but a BIG LIE."
By what alchemy does the actual evidence—namely goat skin—support the BIG LIE of human skin…"personally" or otherwise?
Years ago when i was in my early teens, a neighbor was redoing the outside of his house with wood siding and i was making a few bucks helping him. Anyways we went to the saw mill that an old guy ran to get some of the siding. They got to talking about ww2 and the old guy said he had some soap that was black and made from Human ashes from the concentration camps. Dont have any idea how true it was but never forgot thatThe lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th
Looted from an abandoned house, sold as junk for $35 – and finally mailed to the American author Mark Jacobson by a man who couldn't wait to get rid of it. It is the lampshade that drives its owners mad – but what is its macabre secret? Robert Chalmers investigates
I have not read the book... but it looks like there may be at least some truth.
Rumors and urban legends and even classical myths usually had some kernel of truth behind them.
It is quite easy to dismiss the lampshade as fanciful or propaganda. But it is also Possible that such things did happen. All it would take is one person with a macabre sense of humor and a whole lampshade industry is born. Is it implausible that a few were made? And from that becomes a story that everyone knows?
One also cannot discount the economic calculations being made by the SS on the value of holocaust victims. They calculated
To the Reichs-phenning what hair was worth... teeth... bones were considered for fertilizer. Fats for glycerine for explosives production. Would it be unusual for some reichs-chemist to examine the properties of leather?
Before making it into a black and white or did/didn’t issue... consider that there are always shades of gray and that absolutes are fraught with peril.
Personally, I think the evidence supports the idea that it did happen. Maybe not on the scale that some think. But In Dark evil times and places, dark, evil things happen.
Sirhr
Not really. Frankly it's nose heavy. A lot of understeer. But it would really set you back in the seat. It was comfortable to drive as long as you weren't shifting gears. My left leg got bigger than my right. 55 mph back then was a good thing with no overdrive in them gears.I will bet it handled like a dream - the way it sticks to the road.
Finished my Dad’s car for him. He started restoration before he passed away.
And if you read the article (and I assume the book) the DNA came back as human. Does that mean it's true? Well, an author can lie about a DNA test. A lamp made in some faraway land might be passed off as Nazi. The whole thing might be fake. All plausible.
As I said above... personally, I think that the evidence supports the idea that it probably happened. But I doubt it happened on a huge scale or that there was a Gestapo-run Pier-One Imports running a lampshade division and filling every good little bund household with a lampshade made from Red Sea pedestrians. That said, I think that there are likely to be a handful of 'real' ones out there. Produced somehow.
I am not a fan of absolutes and to say "They are all goatskin... " is as tenuous, historically, as saying "They are hanging from every ceiling in Bavaria."
Remember, London is full of mummies... of adults, babies, cats... anything that the 19th-Century Egyptians could sell off to British Colonial tourists as ancient mummies during the Egypt-craze of the late-Victorian period. They were happy to wrap granny in a cloth, let her dessicate out in the desert for a few weeks and sell her to Lord Blivetsphincter for 30 pounds... as an ancient Pharoah. Did I mention England is stuffed with the things?
So one can't write off the macabre or the dark or the disturbing any more than one can write off any other part of history.
My opinion... is that there are real ones out there. And probably a lot of goatskin ones. That does not mean that something is a total myth and more fodder for bat5h1+-crazy Holocaust deniers.
Cheers,
Sirhr
If you swallow watermelon seeds, a watermelon will not grow in your stomach.
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