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  1. dr greg

    Hitler reacts to the result of the Australian Election

    closer than you might think Let’s look on the bright side though, Bob Katter is probably going to be the most powerful man in the country, and if that isn’t surrealism in action, I dunno what is.
  2. dr greg

    Borsalino Bother

    The thread holding the sweatband of my old Borso has started to go, but unlike akubras and others, there seems to be no structural band at the rim to sew to, in fact it seems that the thread goes diagonally THROUGH THE FELT, now I can't picture a needle that is easily available that would be...
  3. dr greg

    "Sherlock" BBC series.

    storytime Or for that matter, a samurai story set in Mexico? Or High Noon on an asteroid with James Bond as the sheriff... I must maintain my position however, that with Holmes the locale and time is immutable, go for a stroll down Baker St and see how a fictional address had to be created to...
  4. dr greg

    "Sherlock" BBC series.

    revision That is what proves my argument I think, people still love the originals because it is the time and place as much as the characters that fascinates, as with any classic, who'd want to see The Maltese Falcon set on Mars wit Seth Rogan as Sam Spade? Even in 3000 AD there'd be limits to...
  5. dr greg

    "Sherlock" BBC series.

    o dear Not shown here yet, but I'm an unashamed traditionalist, I loathed the WW2 stuff with Rathbone, and thought the Jeremy Brett version (on TV here again now) pretty much unbeatable...thought the recent movie was bollocks too. I can't imagine Holmes' deductions and insights on human...
  7. dr greg

    Any writers?

    hard sell Let me tell you, If you really want to spend your days wiping spit off your face...publish your own work! I've spent 40 years in shobiz and that's got nothin on publishing for watching no talents get treated like royalty and decent people treated like scum..the contempt I've...
  8. dr greg

    Drizabone alternative to Belstaff/Barbour

    history has many faces a couple of conflicting views here http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=20346 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belstaff
  9. dr greg

    Always Coca-Cola? Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing!

    not too sweet I remember reading that the Kennedy administration had something to do with it as a way to hit the Cuban sugar industry and earn their campaign donations from exiled sugar barons...and that's history not politics IMO ;)
  10. dr greg

    Always Coca-Cola? Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing!

    the experts tell us http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/fructose_dangers.html Don't drink anything fizzy that isn't fermented naturally maself, but it's a minority position I believe. I lie there, I've been known to consume tonic with gin occasionally but the exception makes the rule!
  11. dr greg

    Drizabone alternative to Belstaff/Barbour

    lineage I might be wrong but didn't the Belstaff people set up the original Drizabone company back in the dim darks?
  13. dr greg

    A rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante found

    if I had the money This would be in serious consideration...
  14. dr greg

    Golden Era Aircraft

    Interesting but not very spruce http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2235898/posts
  15. dr greg

    Irvin/B3/A2 inspirations... Burberry aviator jackets

    the look I think this is a classic case of the argument over form vs function. I have a couple of 'dress' leather jackets that I would wear to dinner in a decent restaurant for instance, where I wouldn't look right in an old bike jacket. So I dress according to the environment, but I wouldn't...
  16. dr greg

    Need help dating a Vintage Denim Jean Jacket :)

    time frame The buttons and lack of label indicate it's not one of the big 3, and since Janis died in 1970 the best you could hope for is that it was made between her breakout performance at Monterey in 67 and the year following her death. As the man said, 'fruitpockets' on levi jackets came in...
  17. dr greg

    Irvin/B3/A2 inspirations... Burberry aviator jackets

    the eyes have it I always thought the flying eyeball was a Rick Griffin thing......and that jacket would only worn by people prancing about in nightclubs...I wouldn't want it on crawling around under a truck trying to fix a busted exhaust in the middle of nowhere on a rainy night.....
  19. dr greg

    "Discovery of U-Boat Wrecks Rewrites the History Books"

    WHOSE TRUTH IS IT ANYWAY? I addressed some of these issues in an essay about 10 years ago, it might be of interest... Fact and Fiction in Film In the case of: ENEMY AT THE GATES (Saving Private Ivan?) There is a trend in big-budget films made with US money in Europe. It involves the...
  20. dr greg

    Jimi Hendrix Hussar pelisse

    The keepers of the flame There was also the great Frank Marino, who was undoubtedly a Hendrix clone in his early years, but those first 4 albums stand up surprisingly well today IMO. http://www.mahoganyrush.com/
  21. dr greg

    WWII Pea Coats

    the rot sets in can't really blame the seller for this then http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Vintage-Schott-Leather-Peacoat-Jacket-US-740N-/120603158521?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Men_s_Clothing&hash=item1c148227f9
  22. dr greg

    Jimi Hendrix Hussar pelisse

    do tell the one on the left
  23. dr greg

    WWII Pea Coats

    leather hosing I just saw a Schott 'leather peacoat' on our local ebay, nice coat, but did the USN really issue leather peacoats? I would have thought that the constant moisture onboard a ship would be unsuitable for leather garments....

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