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    Caption Contest

    Father...the 23-7 lockdown is killing us, both of us, and you know that Father! I know you like Burt Lancaster and everything but can't we play something else for once?!?
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    Our own vintage town

    We need at least one town librarian..... But NO Spinsters! :p
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    If you said you looked like one celebrity from the Golden Era...

    I tried to save my collage but the application suggested I try later. Anyway, my male matches: Patrick Swayze: 75% Pierre Bouvier: 70% and Christian Slater: 67% The other matches were women. The women included Michelle Pfeiffer, Tori Spelling, Marg Helgenberger, Holly Hunter, Carmen...
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    Classic One Liners and Quotes

    Arnold Poindexter - Would you rather live in the ascendancy of a civilization, or during its decline? Revenge of the Nerds... Barry
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Paddy, Nice watch. I'd like to find a left-handed 40mm Panerai but I'm not having much luck. I think most of the lefty watches are 44mm/47mm. Barry
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    Boxing

    Cincinnati Boxing is coming out in September (you've probably already come across this). There is also a book on the history of boxing in Cleveland that was published about four years ago. Cincinnati Boxing (by Kevin Grace) "On August 29, 1885, Cincinnati was the scene for the first...
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    Show us your suits

    I told my grandmother that I bought an old Botany 500 suit and I asked her if she and my grandfather ever sold that brand. She really got a kick out of that and told me that none of her customers could afford anything like that. She thought the store up the road might have sold them - but she...
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    Health Insurance Rates?

    Sounds like we have a similar plan with the same provider. I need coverage due to illness as well. A lapse in coverage due to a job change could prove to be disasterous.... Barry
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    What Magazines do you read?

    Various news magazines... and The Washingtonian Reason (sometimes) American Libraries Library Journal The Comics Journal Gearhead Magazine (when they get an issue out) National Geographic Smithsonian Magazine
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    Health Insurance Rates?

    I have my own health insurance policy - not one through work. It's $450 a month with a high deductable. It does not include vision or dental. Barry
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    "Vintage" foods that are still with us today.

    Ok, I'm really bored today... So I referred to the 1942 edition of Statistical Abstracts. Retail Prices of Food No. 403. - Prices, average Retail, of Principal Articles of Food 1924 to 1942. Note: Pries in cents per pound. Looks to me like chicken might have been the #2 most expensive...
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    What type of knot do you tie?

    How to tie a bow tie... There's a video from Beauties.com: Beauties.com Video I would like to know how Ghos7a55assin tied the bow-tie in the picture. It looks great to me. Nice and neat. Here's a "batwing" style bow-tie from J. Press: Barry
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    Need a picture?

    Here are three of my favorites... I'll try and refer back to my class notes (from library school) to find some others. American Memory at the Library of Congress Gotta love the Archives... National Archives More From the Archives
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    How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Suit

    A hat suited for the outback or flyfishing. I see that all over DC. I'll see a guy in a decent suit or blazer and tie and he's got on a Tilley, Filson or an "outdoorsy" Akubra. Barry
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Nice watch, ZF. It looks great! Barry
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    Show us your TIES

    I just ordered these two bowties. I've recently been getting into bowties but I tend to go for the slims (batwing). I thought the first tie would be a nice match for a brown Hollywood jacket. Barry
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    Government Girls of WWII

    Thought some of you might be interested in this. They're showing it here in DC now (again?). From the website: "Spies, code breakers, strategic analysts, clerks. Young women, nearly a million strong by war’s end streamed into Washington filled with patriotism and enthusiasm to aid the World...
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    Cigar, Cigarette...

    I enjoy a cigar now and then. However, with the recent turn of events, it looks like I should curtail my bad habit. A neighbor in my condo building posted a note near the mailboxes (a central area) stating "I implore the individual smoking cigars to stop as it is seeping into my unit." It...
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    Manners & Etiquette

    I broke my left pinky toe a little over a week ago. I'm wearing a large cast shoe and walking with a big old hospital cane (the kind with the rubber handle). I boarded the bus this morning around 8:30AM to go to work. The bus wasn't jam-packed at all but every seat was occupied - including...
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    Jacks and Marbles...

    thank you... Thanks for bringing this up. When I was younger my dad would tell me stories about how he and his friends would go to a marble factory in their town to sort through piles of "seconds" and "toss outs" to find good marbles. He said the manufacturer would toss out lots of nice ones...

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