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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    On my daily after-lunch walk, Blood Red Moon (5.5 x 54). I got 10, 3-packs at CigarBid.com for less than three bucks a stick. Good smoke, at less than half retail.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Where does the "ill-fitting ball cap with a suit" look originate from?

    Hell.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not with Mayor De Blasio. Has anyone heard from Rudy?
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's not too much of a stretch to imagine that your radio engineer might have been a jazz fan. After all, even in "the day" jazz records were played on the air. If he were a real aficionado, he may well have been a customer at nightclubs where black jazz musicians played. It seems like a...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I imagine men's underwear don't fit women any better than the ones Lizzie is describing. With respect to Zombie_61's contention that Duluth Trading comes pretty close to it with their cartoon. Seriously, though, I want to see the product on the package, not the model-boy's, uh, package.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    OK, guys, here's one that's been annoying me for some time. Underwear. Some time back, I found briefs and undershirts that I liked. I bought more than I needed, so when something wore out, I could reach into my dresser drawer and pull out a replacement. Eventually, I ran out, so I had to go...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    It was called "garum". Just reading the WikiPedia entry just makes you want run out and get some! No, not really.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    I remember at the candy counter at the front of Josephine's Market (one of half a dozen or so family-operated groceries in my home town). This was the early 1960's. The store was directly across the street from the elementary school. When you didn't have a nickel for a regular candy bar, you...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    That's life!

    Really?! Is that how it's done? I can see thousands of 13-year old girls twisting each others' arms starting tomorrow.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Show us your SHOES !!!

    I usually wear US 13 EEE.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Show us your SHOES !!!

    With a closet full of shoes (and more in boxes stuffed under my bed), I'm not really in the market for any more (especially in the price range of $850 +). If I were, the eBay site didn't seem to offer anything big enough for my dogs. Nice shoes, though.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Show us your SHOES !!!

    I was looking over my browser's bookmarks list and came across this page, Gaziano Girling, a London shoe manufacturer and merchant. Now I remember why I bookmarked it! At roughly US$1200, I won't be ordering a pair, but if a pair showed up on my doorstep from an anonymous benefactor, I'd wear...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Deco Deliveries

    They don't make'm like that anymore (mores the pity!) I'm always happy when something I've been waiting for arrives by UPS, but how much my enjoyment would be enhanced if it came in one of those. But I wonder if I'd pay extra for the thrill.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I remember many years ago, watching Bill Buckley engaging in an argument on "The Firing Line" explaining the difference. I miss that guy!
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Storm Pictures

    Nearly two feet of snow in northern Virginia at 2:00 this afternoon, and it's still coming down. The latest forecast has it ending at about 11:00 PM. I started shoveling the driveway this afternoon. I got about 10 feet cleared with another twenty or so to go. My back hurts. When I get to the...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In western Pennsylvania, it was Dad's Root Beer, when I was a boy. I think this one goes back far enough to be "golden age". Also, in the snack cracker world, we had Lance crackers. As a teenager, I had an after-school and weekend job driving a vending machine operator's truck (the owner or one...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Natty Custom Made Shirts For Only $29.99

    I got the shirts last week, per specs.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A quick Google turned up an apparently-reliable history of "Captain Billy's Whizbang". Definitely post-WWI. I've seen bits and pieces of The Music Man over the decades, from high school drama productions to TV broadcasts of the movie starring Robert Preston in the title role, but I can't say I...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I used to watch that show when it was in first-run. I remember thinking early on in the course of the show that House's accent was noticeably from "nowhere" USA, but over several seasons, it acquired an unremarkable middle-Atlantic USA sound, and I ceased to notice it, except how different it...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Jack Erwin Shoes, anyone?

    A pop-up ad appeared while I was browsing a news site today, for Jack Erwin Shoes. Being a sucker for shoes, I clicked on the ad. According to their web site (http://www.jackerwin.com/) the shoes are designed in New York City and manufactured in Spain. My attention was grabbed when I saw the...

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