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Had to renew my expired license today, which required presenting a birth certificate. At least I was able to verify that my parents were, indeed, my actual parents.

Registry clerk, a young woman, told me I needed a new photo. Here's the exchange:

"What a great photo. You look like such a badass."

"I was trying to look cuddly and kind."

"I don't think that's possible for you."

01-04-2019 , 06:14 PM

#178

Schlitz mmmm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mrbaseball

Which suburb? We lived in the city until I was 11 when we moved to Oak Lawn and Oak lawn was a no YO zone.

I lived one year in Hinsdale... my junior year of high school. was awesome

Man-made lake community, worked at the country club for a spell

u know Hinsdale?

01-04-2019 , 06:18 PM

#179

Schlitz mmmm

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"yo boyee" is to be used henceforth when seeking a fellow lounger's fellowship

wat

01-04-2019 , 06:49 PM

#180

kioshk

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John Cole

I grew up in Providence, RI, in a working class neighborhood. We typically sought out our friends by knocking on the back door. Rarely did we enter anyone's home through the front door.

You played street ball with the legendary Marvin Bad News Barnes if I'm not mistaken!

01-04-2019 , 06:55 PM

#181

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kioshk

You played street ball with the legendary Marvin Bad News Barnes if I'm not mistaken!

I did, but only a couple times when he was in ninth grade. He was a good kid then.

01-04-2019 , 08:15 PM

#182

Phat Mack

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Suburban all the way. Went to the back door. If I yelled from the street, the kid wouldn't be allowed out.

01-05-2019 , 05:36 AM

#183

Ray Zee

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no yoing at all. we might of yelled hey. but not yo.

but like mack i was in the suburbs.

01-05-2019 , 05:40 AM

#184

kioshk

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I grew up in the sewers of Paris, very little social contact. How I envy y'all.

01-05-2019 , 08:06 AM

#185

lastcardcharlie

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Back doors LOL. Luxury.

01-05-2019 , 01:18 PM

#186

NhlNut

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neighborhood kids lol
only family with same age kids within a couple miles moved away at an early age

01-05-2019 , 03:03 PM

#187

John Cole

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This Google Map view is my old neighborhood. I lived in the house next to the circle, a two family built in the 1930s by my grandfather. The vacant lots and buildings across the street was the former location of Gorham Silver Manufacturing, which was in business when I lived there. As you can see, we were bounded by a pond, and two main streets, Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues, along with railroad tracks defined this area, closing it off from outsiders. Only those who worked at the factory and residents ever drove the streets, which were empty of cars most of the day and night.

01-05-2019 , 05:17 PM

#188

Zeno

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kioshk

I grew up in the sewers of Paris, very little social contact. How I envy y'all.

Actually most of Paris is a sewer, except the tourist areas which are only 25% sewer because there are no public toilet facilities so you have to piss in the street and **** in the Seine. And the French are, in general, silly, slobbering, and dirty; just like their language.

Where I was raise we had no idea what a suburb even was. We just yelled at the hovels of our friends and hoped to not get shot. Then we went into the forest to build tree forts and play army.

Last edited by Zeno; 01-05-2019 at 05:34 PM.

01-05-2019 , 07:58 PM

#189

Phat Mack

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John Cole

you can see, we were bounded by a pond, and two main streets, Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues, along with railroad tracks defined this area, closing it off from outsiders. Only those who worked at the factory and residents ever drove the streets, which were empty of cars most of the day and night.

Skating on the pond in the winter? My old home town doesn't get cold enough anymore.

01-05-2019 , 08:03 PM

#190

John Cole

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Skating on the pond in the winter? My old home town doesn't get cold enough anymore.

Yes, we skated on the pond in winter, but my dad, who often took us skating, favored the nearby field the fire department flooded each year. I guess it was safer.

01-05-2019 , 08:06 PM

#191

jalfrezi

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeno

Paris in the 80s had the first free street portakabin toilets I'd seen for public use. It was amusing to see a local pissing against one of them in the middle of the afternoon.

01-06-2019 , 10:53 PM

#192

Ray Zee

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anybody into doc martin on pbs tv. he has come back with a new series this year.

01-06-2019 , 11:10 PM

#193

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Zee

anybody into doc martin on pbs tv. he has come back with a new series this year.

Yes. He's a bit like Zeno.

01-07-2019 , 03:14 AM

#194

kioshk

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My mom watches that. She's 82 these days.

01-07-2019 , 03:20 AM

#195

Ray Zee

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then you should too. great series. you can go back and see them all. this way you get to know all the characters in the town, otherwise if seeing just one show it loses everything.

kind of like northern exposure was.

01-07-2019 , 08:37 PM

#196

Schlitz mmmm

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You guys ever seen the John Lennon Documentary 'Imagine,' that was released in 1988?

it's good

available in full at dailymotion

01-07-2019 , 10:26 PM

#197

daveT

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There aren't many figures in music that I find so appalling as human beings that it causes me to eschew their music. There aren't many songs that make me shudder when I think of the bald two-faced hypocrisy it took to pass it off as something you represent.

01-07-2019 , 11:19 PM

#198

Schlitz mmmm

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yeah. that sounds like John, u bozo deluxe

01-07-2019 , 11:39 PM

#199

Schlitz mmmm

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At his bed-in, he talked about a Gandhi-like approach being the only way.

He said the following earlier in his career...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5a4dyg?start=2715

Sounds like a man full of doubt, short on absolute pronouncement.