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  1. martinsantos

    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    Como vai? Octopus is a really strange food. The aspect, specially. Sometimes you must close your eyes to try some food... What i did with octopus - and loved it. And it is something very difficult to conveniently prepare, indeed! (by the way, never experimented protuguese's way to cook...
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    Film Noir?

    Agree with you about photography, etc. Maltese Falcon isn't the quintessenial noir. But couldn't we call the story with a hard-boiled private eye, with a complex story (OK, Chandler's stories are far more complex) where who-did-it really isn't the most important thing, as some of the greatest...
  3. martinsantos

    Are you a fickle lover like me?

    Certainly. Old radios is an example with me. But I was compelled to forget new pieces because my apartment became small. And I really prefer those big radios!!
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    Vintage televisions, anyone? Post pics here!

    And this ever before the advent of LCD. The sets aren't projected to have such a long life. There is que qustion of price, too. A fine wood cabinetry is expensive when compared with plastic. Why to put so much money in something that won't last? A neighbour had a factory of really nice...
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    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    But sometimes the market value isn't a good way to evaluate a thing. Some objects have the value of a kiss - for some, it's well worth 1 million. To others, it doesn't mean anything. For example, again, 78rpm records. Their usual price here is around 25 to 40 CENTS of dollar. (once I bought a...
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    What Are You Reading

    The version Stone give to Socrates' refusal to scape is very interesting and makes sense. Socrates didn't agree with the democracy in Athens; to him, just those who really know something must do this. At his trial he was, in fact, offending the judges and really looking for the death penalty...
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    Film Noir?

    Agree about Maltese Falcon. But it is a iconic noir with Bogart as Sam Spade and so on. The publicity photos made for the film had a much more "noir mood" than the film itself!
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    What are you listening to?

    Dorsey has the most beautiful, romantic and warm trombone praying I've ever heard! Sometimes make me to want Sinatra stops singing... Here I'm listening a very different and interesting orch, Sauter-Finegan (a LP called "The Return of the Doodletown Fifers" - an absolutely untransladable...
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    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    Of course is just stuff - and not always these must have a place in a museum. Ever a stuff that here isn't so common, and sometimes can be pretty expensive. (And now I'm understanding why so many folks go to US and come back with lots of things! If this is so common and unexpensive, it can be a...
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    What Are You Reading

    Yes. He shows Socrates as a philosopher who had a very authoritarian idea about how the perfect State would be. The democracy as the wrong way. And the teach this is the trully meaning about "to corromp the youthness" - Critias among the youth.
  13. martinsantos

    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    Agree with you!! I would ever add that the marketplace can make things very strange. I know a man who is a heavy old camera collector, with thousands of pieces. Don't make a single shot with them. But his cameras, if sold, would make a true fortune, specially those boxed models from factory...
  14. martinsantos

    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    Fred, I wouldn't say nothing about WWII stuff - here this is pretty rare - but I don't see this as the point. If we admit turning this in little pieces for watches, then necessarilly we MUST admit when a highly apreciated piece is destructed by others. If we say "OK" because certain...
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    What are you listening to?

    Back to classics... The Messiah, by G. Haendel. By conductor Hermann Scherchen.
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    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    There was a fried macaroni, with a mixture of eggs, cheese and a few more things. It was showed as a "picnic food". Italian recipe - bus just terrible. I really prefer the usual way about my spaghetti - this one a preferred food (specially when made at home. And those machines to make it are...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I'm too "acustic" to believe in music made by electronics. Who can make music is the musician - and with the instrument he must be able to play it. So I agree with you now. I can't see real value in something created electronically, only in the recording tape, and impossible to happens live.
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    More than one twisted cross?

    Once I readed that the swastika is a symbol you find in several civilizations - except between Jews. I don't know if this is true or not - but makes sense as a symbol of nazi arianism. Anyway, I think today any kind of Swastika would be linked with nazism. If somewhat different (another...
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    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    I believe so, Fletch. When I was a kid nobody talked about salmonella, and never heard about anybody getting sick about eggs. There was too a kind of chantilly, using eggs... Very very good. :essen:
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Because this I had a hard job trying to help my nephew with a school work. He got "information" with internet - a trully collection of conspiracy theories - perfect example of pure junk. So I had the chance to show how to use an encyclopedia. I really don't know if liked or not this new...
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    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    Dave, If everybody would agree about everything, this world would be extremely boring! I personally enjoy a lot talking and discussing - specially between friends and tons of coffee. I just assevered that we can't destroy an object just because it is old. Why we could destroy something...
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    This sort of thing makes me furious...

    Make me sick, too. And saw a lot of similar procedures. From radio cabinets converted in shelves for bottles, the radio itself throwed away (I rescued a GE 7 tube this way). To a fine spring camera by Voigtlander turned on a "decorative piece" - painted in white. Old 78s records turned like...
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