a synopsis of the novel the secret project of sigurd o leary.
the lyrics to the songs of Stereo Skyline during their early years.
A rootbeer vodka/grain recipe.
Someone gave me a bottle of rootbeer concentrated “soda pop base”. She mixed it with vodka (or maybe it was grain alcohol) and we drank a bit of it one night. She gave me a bottle of the concentrate, but never got around to telling me how much, etc. We have since lost touch.
Google has been tried. The problem is, there are rootbeer vodkas sold commercially. And there are many sites that discuss making rootbeer. And there are various rootbeer drinks.
The location of:
Lord Lucan
Shergar
Dan Cooper
Erika Chambers
If I had a first born son, his pink-slip would be yours! Thanks. 
The cups from Lego pick a brick. Just the cups to hold classroom supplies.
Leaded stained glass butterfly garden stakes. Not those cheap plastic things from the Harriett Carter catalog, we ordered these heavy yellow and green stained glass ones years ago from I know not where. They look so elegant out around the birdbath. I can’t find anything like them anywhere.
We have a “what’s going around” illnesses report once a week on our local news channel: north, south, east, west, doctors offices tell what they’re seeing the most of.
Unless I’m missing some toggle switch or other, GoogleMaps (like similar sites) is terrible with labels of small rivers and large streams. It’s really odd – to me, it’s the biggest difference between them and real maps. A typical scene at about, say, 3 cm = 1 km scale, will label towns, villages, many roads, etc., but never even pretty large waterways… And zooming in almost never helps.
The name of an obscure Australian spy TV show, probably a failed pilot, circa 1987.
eta: oh, and a recipe for low-sugar ginger beer.
That reminds me of something I’ve long wished were out there on the intertubes – a database of failed pilots, preferably with video. Some never-picked-up shows were actually pretty good.
And with that, the curse obscuring all the good ginger beer recipes has been lifted.
Hi, this is my first post here, so please take it easy with me. 
I am a member of the 76-million strong baby boomers, and find it surprising that there are very few forums for us old peeps. The ones I have found are DEAD, like a few posts a week.
I stumbled into this place, but am not sure of what goes on in here yet? 
Hurk, oldsters like you and I are useful here so as to serve as founts of bygone wisdom, nattering about the olden days, and explaining antiquated customs and mores. Sort of living history, so to speak. Offering advice, sometimes being educated ourselves, and offering up stories about how when WE were kids, we’d leave the house on our bikes at 8 a.m. and be gone all day long…There’s almost always an answer to any question you might put forth!
Get off my lawn!
Thanks for the reply! Yes, I also have a lot of (unwanted) advice from having been through the proverbial mill.
So have you wondered why nearly all active forums are for young’uns?
Welcome to the Dope Hurk. In this thread we are discussing information that is hard to find on the internet. Advice, both wanted and unwanted, is rather plentiful on the internet.
One thing that is hard to find, though, is a version of the Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” that has horns. I hear it on the radio all the time (usually classic rock stations) but I cannot find it online.
From what I gather, it came out as a sampler from the record company that went to their fan club or something. But the Crowes decided that they didn’t like the horns and the version that made the disc was without horns.
I found a version of the song on youtube that shows the Crowes performing with a horn section, but it is not the same and doesn’t sound as “tight” as the recording I’ve heard on the radio.
That’s when you turn to ArcGIS Online’s Topographic Maps theme or their deployment of the actual USGS topos.
Not exactly it, but pretty: http://www.plowhearth.com/Shimmering-Mosaic-Butterfly-Stakes_p12669.html
My mom used to get the Plow and Hearth catalog and it made ME want to garden. I hate gardening!
Oooo, shiny! Thx, jsgoddess.
I hope this won’t derail the thread, but wasn’t that a Twilight Zone episode?
I vaguely recall a young Ernest Borgnine (or maybe it was Lorne Greene) and a bunch of other guys standing around a dirt flat with a tree and a tombstone arguing about “Who killed Jeb?” (I dunno if that was the dead guy’s name.) Each guy blames someone else for finding, following, or dragging the victim out to the site where an Indian (Native American) was buried and stabbing him to death. The episode ends with the last guy saying Jeb wasn’t murdered; he went to the Indian’s gravesite on a saloon bet over whether or not he had the guts to face the ghost of War Eagle (I dunno if that was the name in the story) alone and weaponless under the full moon in a windstorm. Jeb cheated and brought a knife, and clearly got scared and ran away, tripping over the headstone in the darkness and falling on his blade. Fade out showed a skeletal hand protruding from the ground, pulling back to show that the bootprints and the body impression in the dirt [yeah, I know: “In a windstorm!?”] have the hand between them, not the tombstone – to suggest War Eagle’s remains reached out to trip Jeb.
—G?!
Help! I’m steppin’ into the Twilight Zone…
. --Barry Hay (Golden Earring)
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I don’t know if you’ll find to many forums specifically for boomers on the net. I don’t think you’ll find many forums for any particular age group. In my experience, on the net, people tend to gather based on interests and inclinations rather than age. The Straight Dope isn’t oriented to any one age group, but you certainly will find some boomers on here, and you’re certainly welcome to hang around and join in the fracas.
And you are of course welcome to start threads based on boomer topics. We’ve had plenty of threads about 60s and 70s rock, for example.