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  1. dr greg

    Spit and polish

    After a couple of years in and around this forum, watching who says what, I have begun to wonder about the relationship between an appreciation of vintage or retro 'culture', and an awareness of military...issues, for want of a better word, now I don't know how one sets up such a thing, but a...
  2. dr greg

    Battle of the Bulge Reenactment - Big Lake, MN 19 DEC 09

    Disgraceful Care to enlighten those of us with merely a casual interest in such matters, what is so wrong with the picture, apart from what looks like partly-finished roof framing in the background, no doubt an unlikely sight in the Ardennes at the time......
  3. dr greg

    Dry aging beef

    black jack A famous restaurant in Sydney apparently used to leave the beef sitting in the fridges until it went BLACK all around that's dry black not rotting black, which took a couple of weeks, then cut off the outer layers to reveal the still-worthy meat inside and then fry away.....or so...
  4. dr greg

    *Many Pics* Original 1938-39 Royal airforce Jacket and pants

    walkout Without claiming any expert knowledge beyond what I've been told by actual veterans, I believe that once Hitler started Op Barbarossa, the Russians very quickly realised that it was all hands required and the Polish prisoners who had been forced to surrender to them in 1939 might be...
  5. dr greg

    Remake of The Big Sleep

    All Power Powers Boothe already did Marlowe quite credibly IMO when he was a lot younger, I haven't seen the series since though http://www.amazon.com/Philip-Marlowe-Private-Eye-Collection/dp/B00013F2KO http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096677/
  7. dr greg

    Give me tattoo ideas

    look hard What about the FL logo?..... but just quietly, my father was ex-military and he said he'd disown me if I ever got one..why? If you need to be somebody else, somewhere else, in a hurry, you can dye your hair, change your eye colour, but with tatts, no go....your skin will do you in......
  8. dr greg

    Cleaning a white linen suit...

    how u look at it Didn't the French fleet have something to do with it? (Been watching the John Adams HBO thing) At the time most of our ancestors were on prison hulks waiting to be hanged for stealing snotrags......
  9. dr greg

    Cleaning a white linen suit...

    first date Not at all, you see, Americans write their dates utterly and completely WRONG! That date is the 6th of January, which is a reasonable turnaround in the holiday season I would say, I think Ben Franklin changed the way dates are written over there to differentiate from the original...
  10. dr greg

    Best way to age an A-2

    Patina At the risk of being facetious, why not just wait.....a truly broken in jacket has an effect that can't be replicated and only achieved by time and the elements.
  11. dr greg

    james cameron's AVATAR in 3-D

    Corn but sweet Look, I thought it was DWW in Space before I came to this thread, but is that a bad thing, this is an epic effort from a filmmaker out to ENTERTAIN people...I've never spent $20 seeing a film before in my life but every cent was worth it and every second was of value, not a dead...
  13. dr greg

    Remake of The Big Sleep

    not all bad Then of course as has been mentioned before in other threads, there's the 70's remake of Farewell My Lovely, which I consider Mitchum's finest hour, and one of the great Noir films.
  14. dr greg

    Remake of The Big Sleep

    Bad idea I remember the contemporary 70's attempt at it...it wasn't much good, but better than the LONG GOODBYE with Elliot Gould around the same time...that STANK
  15. dr greg

    chest links?

    Found this old shirt (40's?) with no buttons, were there cufflinks for the main placket back then? Ther differing alignment of the button holes is interesting too I think....
  16. dr greg

    Best doggie names ever

    staggering bloke I met in the outback had a whippet/bull terrier cross, they are known as 'stags'..its name was CHAINSAW...very impressive animal.
  17. dr greg

    Ecperience a WW2 POW Camp

    YOU VILL HAVE FUN! I mentioned this once before, but apparently there is/was a mock concentration camp on some horrible windswept island off Norway where wayward jewish kids were sent to get some idea of what their grandparents had gone through....read it somewhere but don't know the details.....
  19. dr greg

    Summer set

    Does anybody here have an example of the item of clothing called a "stengah shifter" so frequently referenced in the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham?
  20. dr greg

    Dave Brown Hats

    frack to bunt No, they were probably dills following a thankfully short-lived trend of wearing fedoras backwards intentionally like some forgotten pimp rapper.....my sax player did it once, until I took the hat off him. As to the main issue here, hyperbole is the bedrock of the film business...
  21. dr greg

    Mad dogs and Englishmen

    apposite Is the next line..go out in the midnight sun?
  22. dr greg

    Crazy driving in 1939!

    Miles A guy not far from me has a 28 Dodge I think it is, original motor, 1 million plus miles, and he still takes it round australia on rallies across the desert and so forth, things were made to last back then.
  23. dr greg

    So when did the boater sink from popular wear?

    They Live With the toffs round our way at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Boys%27_College

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