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  1. dr greg

    Do your children follow in your vintage foot steps?

    close enough My 14 yr old nephew does, I take him out with me when I go bargain hunting in small towns and he already wears some vintage jackets and my father's hat
  2. dr greg

    "America: Freedom to Fascism" Moved from The Motion Picture

    mayerism? "Mayerisms." Ya gotta love the man! At the risk of being pedantic, I think you'll find that was a 'Goldwynism' along with others such as 'include me out' Sam Goldwyn mangled the language fabulously, and is probably more famous for what he said than what he did, which was: (along with...
  3. dr greg

    My first non-Indy...

    australian view I like it and it doesn't look like a classic Aussie block to me, I'd be putting beads of silicon or small iron ons inside those corners tho, because in my experience they'll wear very quickly BTW 'pleated' hat bands for Digger's hats are known as Puggarees
  4. dr greg

    Kenneth Lay died last night!

    the same all over We got ourselves a scumbag here ripped off 300 mil from mum/dad investors, still driving a Rolls and getting something like 2 grand a week 'expenses' from all the money in his brother's name while his victims sell their houses or hang themselves. The French Revolution had a...
  5. dr greg

    What keeps you awake?

    nothin I sleep the sleep of the just. And I live in the country, so the only noise we hear after dark is wildlife..unless the hillbilly across the ridge's dogs are playing up.
  7. dr greg

    Your favorite Scotch? Your Favorite liquor in general?

    other end of the spectrum There's a drink from New Zealand called Kirov, which is a combination of white wine and kiwifruit liqueur. Unutterably sickly accordiing to the one mouthful I tried at a promo. Dubbed Chateau Legopena by the dipso barmaids at the pub where I worked for a while, it was...
  8. dr greg

    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    synchronicity I think that's the right word..I just got a red Magnum jungle bird my size for 4 bux in a junk shop...hadn't seen one before anywhere, soon as I discuss it here...bingo.
  9. dr greg

    Your favorite Scotch? Your Favorite liquor in general?

    late call the most morish drink I know of:Zubrowka...utter heaven, but dangerous because you can't stop until the bottle's gone...as you should do with Scotch according to tradition
  10. dr greg

    Belts or Suspenders?

    fast clip what I want to know is: is it acceptable to wear the modern clip-on suspenders exposed on a pair of trousers that have belt lugs: I have two pairs of vintage buttton braces that are just too short for the modern cut of trouser, and i hate belts in my old age.
  11. dr greg

    "Kids these days" threads...

    kids not all to blame I was recently at my sister's house. It's in a leafy suburb, quite gentrified. A friend of my nephew was there and it was time for him to go home. His mother drove over to pick him up...he lives about 1/2 A MILE AWAY!!!!! They were too scared to let a 15 year old boy...
  13. dr greg

    Depression Era Frugality

    you haven't lived until you've had the poor man's sweet and sour: an onion, a tin of baked beans and a tin of pineapple all stewed up, or bush chutney, which is plum jam and Worcestershire sauce. The best depression story I know is that my mother used to buy boiled sweets from a shop, take them...
  14. dr greg

    Squatter review?

    it'll all end in tears As you can see with the photo I posted above, I just go for the basic teardrop crown, done by hand after a good soaking with warm water while in the shower, you also need a soft brush to try and erase the line of the old block..not something done for a Borsalino or...
  15. dr greg

    Squatter review?

    mist thread This one is what I call a pie-block, and is the one invariably worn by city slicker politicians and other dickheads who wish to make a flying visit to the country and look authentic, our PM is famous for having one: ergo they are relatively common in op-shops, and I reblock them...
  16. dr greg

    What did you used to do for fun?

    dummy Apart from playing footy in the park, or hanging around the railroad tracks, when we were about 12 me and a couple of mates got an old pair of overalls, filled them with rags, sewed a sort of rough head on with a hat, and JOE was born, we would take him down to a street corner and kick...
  17. dr greg

    Squatter review?

    Local This a Featherweight Squatter I blocked maself, I had one for nearly 20 years before that, they are more a workingman's hat than dress number, but a fine hat indeed
  19. dr greg

    Worst insult

    Jackleg? heard of blacklegs=strikebreakers, but not that...still nobody knows the answer to my original question as to that behaviour tho.
  20. dr greg

    todays flea market finds: early bicycle lamp and prison cell key?

    spooky I always know when something is 'calling me', I'll just get a feeling to go to a particular junk shop or market, and something will be there. I got the call down in Sydney for a funeral two weeks ago, left the wake, went for a drive in the howling wind and rain against all counsel, and...
  21. dr greg

    Worst insult

    nope as in good or would should could
  22. dr greg

    Worst insult

    slango In this country it is pronounced poonce with shortened vowels, as in NOT soon boon or loon, you know i can't think of another word that rhymes with it...
  23. dr greg

    Worst insult

    As a writer of period fiction I'm always keenly interested in the slang of the past: an English friend of mine was telling me his father's worst insult was to call a man a 'ponce' which meant a man who lived off the prostitution of his wife/woman, as distinct from a pimp or brothel owner. The...

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