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#OTD in 1942, USS Nautilus (SS-168) conducted an unusual mission by rescuing a group of refugees in the Solomons that included fourteen nuns in white habits who had evaded the Japanese for nine months. The nuns spent three days on the sub and were impressed with the hospitality offered to them by the sailors. Though they never figured out how to operate the complex flushing procedure for the head, the nuns did learn how to play cribbage. The four "Submarine Sisters" of St. Joseph of Orange returned to the Solomons after the war.
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"At the age of fifteen, Louise Brooks began her career as a dancer and toured with the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. After being fired, she found employment as a chorus girl in "George White's Scandals" and as a semi-nude dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. While dancing in the Follies, Brooks came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract with the studio.
Dissatisfied with her mediocre roles in Hollywood films, Brooks went to Germany in 1929 and starred in three feature films which launched her to international stardom: "Pandora's Box" (1929), "Diary of a Lost Girl" (1929), and "Miss Europe" (1930); the first two were directed by G. W. Pabst.
Brooks recalled that "when we made 'Pandora's Box', Mr. Pabst was a man of 43 who astonished me with his knowledge on practically any subject. I, who astonished him because I knew practically nothing on every subject, celebrated my twenty-second birthday with a beer party on a London street."
Brooks claimed her experience shooting "Pandora's Box" in Germany was a pleasant one: "In Hollywood, I was a pretty flibbertigibbet whose charm for the executive department decreased with every increase in my fan mail. In Berlin I stepped to the station platform to meet Mr. Pabst and became an actress. And his attitude was the pattern for all. Nobody offered me humorous or instructive comments on my acting. Everywhere I was treated with a kind of decency and respect unknown to me in Hollywood. It was just as if Mr. Pabst had sat in on my whole life and career and knew exactly where I needed assurance and protection."
When audiences and critics first viewed Brooks' German films, they were bewildered by her naturalistic acting style. Viewers purportedly exited the theater vocally complaining, "She doesn't act! She does nothing!" In the late 1920s, cinemagoers were habituated to theatre-style stage acting with exaggerated body language and facial expressions. Yet Brooks' acting style was deliberately subtle as she knew the close-up images of the actors' bodies and faces made such exaggerations unnecessary. When explaining her acting method, Brooks posited that acting "does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation." This innovative style continues to be used today by film actors but, at the time, it was surprising to viewers who assumed she wasn't acting at all.
Film critic Roger Ebert later noted that, by employing this acting method, "Brooks became one of the most modern and effective of actors, projecting a presence that could be startling."
The result of her appearances in the two films by Pabst was that Brooks' became an international star. According to the film critic and historian Molly Haskell, the films "expos[ed] her animal sensuality and turn[ed] her into one of the most erotic figures on the screen—the bold, black-helmeted young girl who, with only a shy grin to acknowledge her 'fall,' became a prostitute in 'Diary of a Lost Girl' and who, with no more sense of sin than a baby, drives men out of their minds in 'Pandora's Box'."
Brooks is regarded today as a Jazz Age icon and as a flapper sex symbol due to her bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. (Wikipedia)Happy Birthday, Louise Brooks!"
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Keeping the tooling around and maintained for 40plus years with nothing to do except wait just in case it is needed would have been an enormous expense.
It's not the tooling that's the issue, it's the actual capability to make such things now.
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I'm trying to think of instruments that I don't like. I can't really think of any. I might not care for some styles of music on some instruments - a lot of classical piano comes to mind, same for classical violin, because it is too random for my taste, sounds like a cat wandering on the keys for half an hour.
Don't care much for bagpipe ceòl mór aka piobaireachd.
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Just now, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
I learned to sharpen knives in my late teens. My Mom used to get mad because her kitchen knives were too sharp. She kept cutting herself.
At least it was a clean cut rather than a mangled tear from a dull knife.
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I interpreted the request in the OP as,. "I want something simple that doesn't take half an hour to set up, has 87 parts to assemble, and can be used without having a degree in machining." Also to me "chef sharp" is a step below "butcher sharp" or "meat cutter sharp." Unless you're talking about the mystic arcana surrounding the knives of fugu chefs. Those people seem to think "razor sharp" is about like a butter knife.
I used to do the whole 4 whetstones, crock sticks, and a few leather and polishing compound contraptions I used to finish the process. Plus crock sticks or a steel every time I used the knives. Now I'm not quite so particular. The one I suggested above is small, easy to use, and will get me to "sous chef sharp" in just a couple of minutes. If that.
One thing is that I don't let my knives get dull. A couple of times when I've taken my knives to use for cooking at church I've apologized to people as "I let them get a little dull" and they thought I was kidding. Some wouldn't use my knives because they were "too sharp."-
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I don't think I've used one in half a century or more. I prefer a hat. Less bulky and leaves your hands free. My only real concern is keeping rain off of my glasses.
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4 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
Mulled Un-Wine. MMmmmm....!
Hmmmm...Full Bodied Spiced Purple Cider.
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Steve Martin is no slouch on the banjo.
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35 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
After the Iowa turret explosion in the 80’s, the physical capability to repair it didn’t exist anymore, even if they had the personnel.
Which is a sad comment on the state of American manufacturing.
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We all know that Santa lives at the North Pole.
But have you ever stopped to consider the implications of that?
It means that Santa is North Polish!
Lordy! Sometimes I just sleigh myself!
Thank you, thank you! I'm here all week. Try the veal schnitzel. Remember to tip your waitress.
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Hot Spiced Grape Juice.
We got 2 big bottles of concord grape juice at the food bank last week. What to use them for....hmmmmm...
https://www.food.com/recipe/shaker-spiced-grape-juice-146797
Grape juice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and sugar (I used honey). Put it in the crock pot.
DANG! That's GOOD!
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Seen here the late actress Honor Blackman once spoke about how The Avengers launched her as "a pin-up as the smart, sexy, gun-wielding, judo throwing anthropologist Cathy Gale. 'I really did go to judo classes,' she says. At the age of 38 she was cast as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger", and if you ever wondered if she really was a natural action star: “When I was in the Civil Service I became a dispatch rider, because all the men were at war they asked girls to volunteer to learn how to ride a motorbike and go from hospital to hospital in an emergency carrying blood. Sadly I never got to because no-one ran out, but we used to ride across London- it frightened my mother to death. I was known as Top Gear Tessie. I remember riding on the A4 from London to Oxford with my feet on the petrol tank singing at the top of my voice, quite a gal was our Honor.
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Deconstructing "Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam."
in SASS Wire Saloon
Posted · Edited by Subdeacon Joe
Deconstructing Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam usually abbreviated to Carthago delenda est:
"The phrase employs the gerundive, a verbal adjective, of deleo, delere, delevi, deletum, "to destroy",[2] (delendus, -a, -um). The future passive participle "delenda" (meaning "to be destroyed") is then combined with the verb sum ("to be"[3]) or parts thereof, adds an element of compulsion or necessity, yielding "is to be destroyed", or, as it is more commonly rendered "must be destroyed". This then forms a predicative adjective.[4] This construction in Latin is known as the passive periphrastic. Carthago, -inis being a feminine noun, the feminine gender of the gerundive is applied. The fuller forms Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam or Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam use the so-called accusative and infinitive for the indirect statement."