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  1. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Today at Trader Joe's This morning at Trader Joe's in El Cerrito I was wearing a 1940s flat cap, a modern rough-weave light green two-piece suit, a dark red shirt, yellow 1950s tie, black dress shoes and a yellow pocket square with black stitching. The woman who was sampling out coffee to...
  2. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Al Niente: beautifully put.
  3. Dr Doran

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    Brilliant lamp and club chair, Schwaiger.
  4. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Or look at them, sneer, and narrow your eyes, then walk away. That will shut them the ___ up. In my experience, when in situations like this, it is better to seem actually dangerous and a bit psychopathic than to joke around. UNLESS you are in a jocular mood, in which case joking is...
  5. Dr Doran

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    A delightfully bizarre author.
  7. Dr Doran

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    Ha ha, thanks. Yes, the chair at my desk is my study chair. It has arms and is very comfortable. I often study on the black early 1960s couch, though. Its arms can lie flat and thus make it a longer couch, or go vertical, making it a love seat, or go at any angle. It is a most ingenious piece of...
  8. Dr Doran

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    Glad you like it! Thank you!
  9. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    EXACTLY. And always remember to "reward" them when are civil to you: be particularly attentive to them, courteous, respectful. This is how I try to act all the time: I reward people who are civil, and I am vaguely unpleasant to people who are uncivil (without, of course, disgracing myself by...
  10. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Yes. The point is, give them an unpleasant experience so that they begin to automatically connect giving you a hard time with unpleasantness for themselves. Once you create this connection in their minds, they'll think twice before bothering you.
  11. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    At least he said the truth. That's good. So in other words, when they annoy you about it, they are expressing their opinion too frequently, rather than minding their own business. Perhaps the only way to get them to shut up and leave you alone is to get them to the point where they are...
  13. Dr Doran

    Magnoli - How About Socks?

    maybe like these, but cooler How about something like the plaid ones Paul fredrick makes, but cooler: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=48678
  14. Dr Doran

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    jesu, it took me about 50 years to find this %*(*#$(&@ thread. Here you go, poetman. My current vintage inspired office:
  15. Dr Doran

    BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO) - Everything you wanted to bootleg about the Show!

    Could be great. At least it's HBO which gives a fighting chance that the scripts will be good, the acting good, and the sets and costumes decent. I'd be worried if it were NBC.
  16. Dr Doran

    PLAID SOCKS. HERRINGBONE SOCKS.

    I bought over-the calf LONG socks from Paul Fredrick: Plaid socks and Herringbone socks. http://www.paulfredrick.com/Catalog/PFCategory.aspx?rootcat=24|Socks&rcount=1&refinement1=STRING|Clearance|No The socks are quite nice, though not as thick as some other socks. I like them. They are...
  17. Dr Doran

    Obsolete Occupations

    That's grody.
  19. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    I was in full fedora and suit at Trader Joe's and a tall, young, quite hot chick with very long hair said, "Are you here to kill me?" I gave her my sexiest smile but kept walking.
  20. Dr Doran

    Current fashion

    +1. One of my best friends is still very punk and she is so creative I love her looks. I had to explain to her "you know, just because I love the 1930s and 1940s doesn't mean I think everyone else needs to do it." +1 again. There are people (well, only two or three half-people) at U.C...
  21. Dr Doran

    Favorite Vintage stuff that just hangs around.

    First of all -- the truth is out. You are only 7 years older than me. Second -- the Spain troubles didn't turn out well. Hate to tell ya. Francisco Franco won, Juan Carlos came into power.
  22. Dr Doran

    Favorite Vintage stuff that just hangs around.

    Several years ago, the Journal of Irreproducible Results predicted a continental shelf sinking problem precisely because of the storage of National Geographic magazines in garages: http://www.jir.com/geographic.html
  23. Dr Doran

    Obsolete Occupations

    Linc, there is a spritzer WATER delivery service that delivers to SF. The SF Church of Sinatra gets the spritzer water delivered as does my friend Stookey. How about Escalator Boy? My father did this before WW2. He had to stand at the bottom of escalators at a department store in case ladies...

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