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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    You're not alone. A little off topic, but several years ago, I was on a sales call. I happened to know that my prospect had been one of the test pilots on the B52. I took a coworker with me. My colleague had recently seen some History Channel special about how they chopped up the B52s...
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    What is your expertise?

    Expert? I don't know. I've been told by others I'm a pretty good pilot, and not half bad as a mechanic. I was considered an expert in telecommunications up until about 1995 or so, but the technology has gotten far, far away from me now. I'm a decent writer, even though you can't tell by my...
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    A Different World

    Dang! I never thought of it like that before. Got to be about the only race I ever won! Then again, I guess only half of me won it...naw, I think I got there first by outsmarting my millions of would-be siblings.
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    Are You Brave Enough to Share Your Prom Photos?

    I was a hood, in the vernacular of the day (a little too late to be called a greeser). We didn't go to the prom. We hung around the parking lot drinking beer and rolling the rich kids when they came out!
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    Relax...dont do it?

    Flying relaxes me - unless the engine makes that funny noise - the one that sounds like berrrrrappppth!. Then, I go for the stiff drink, and a good cigar (once I'm back on the ground, of course).
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    I hate birds.

    A friend of mine walked out of a convenience store with a cup of coffee one fine spring morning. He sat the coffee on the tailgate of his truck, removed the lid, and poured in the creamer from one of those little tubs. Just as he finished stirring, PLOP! - a direct hit.
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    A breakdown of Fedora Loungers by sex, location, age and marital status

    Why not? Near Washington DC, will be 51 in a few days, and married to a wonderful lady who doesn't mind having an airplane engine in the dining room (not too much, anyway).
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    Siriusly Monotonous

    HA! That explains it... I'm an XM subscriber, and a couple of months ago we lost a channel called "Frank's Place" that played alot of Sinatra. Now it's renamed "High Standard" and still plays the occasional Sinatra song. By the way, there's not much variety on XM either. I rarely if ever...
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    Where do you hang your hat?

    Since my wife and I tend to frequent the same handfull of restaurants all the time, I usually know going in whether there's going to be a storage problem. If there is, the hat stays in the car. Kind of a wimp out answer, but it actually doesn't happen all that often. We tend to go in off...
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    modern things you haven't experienced

    Like many here, no i-pod or similar device. Never used a VCR or DVD player. Bought my first TV a year ago when I was 49 years old. Never played any sort of video games. I thought this would be a really long list when I started, but I've already run out of things. I guess I'm more modern...
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    How we dress and what we drive

    My wife says it's a kind of krama thing...I'm always cursing Volvos and Saturns, so if there's one on the road it finds its way in front of me...
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    How we dress and what we drive

    You can add Volvos to the above group.
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    Panama Hat Help Please

    Hi Skybluewater, I've been traveling quite a bit so I haven't placed my order yet. I'm definitly going with Panama Bob. Right now I'm trying to decide whether I want a hat blocked in Ecuador or whether I want to purchase it from Robert and perhaps have it blocked by Art like the one that...
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    A couple of fountain pen questions

    I use a Waterman all the time, and when I'm not writing with it, it stays in my shirt pocket. Never had any problems with leaking, but I've never used the ink cartridge. When it was in your pocket, was the nib pointing up or down? When I was in elementry school, for some reason they made us...
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    Subtly Vintage Engineer

    Well, first thing you'll need is a slide rule.
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    Your comments on other forums

    Not exactly a clothes forum, but I briefly joined the badgerandblade.com shaving forum on the advice of one of the members here. Got into a mean sprited argument with some jerk and just said the heck with it and left. I like the sense of community and the manners of the typical FL poster.
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    two new hats - Stetson, and Cooperstown

    Cooperstown Caps Dang, you guys just keep coming up with new things for me to spend money on! Now, if I can just figure out how to keep my wife from finding out how much that 30s Yankee's cap cost!
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    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    I'm currently putting together a couple of vintage looking offices, one at home and one where I spend most of the business day, so this thread has been a great help. My IDEAL office is the left fron seat of the Staggerwing, though! I'd post a picture but never figured out the technical complexity.
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    Panama Hat Help Please

    Well, given all the recommendations here, and after some offline communication with Robert, I going with Panama Bob. I'll keep you all posted.
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    Panama Hat Help Please

    I've been wanting a Panama Hat for a while now. I woke up this morning thinking I'd look for advice here and the first thing I saw was the "New Panama Hat By Art" thread. Well, that catapulted my wanting into a full-blown obsession. Naturally, the thing to do would be to go right out and...

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