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    Awesomely Bad Prose!

    The best/worst pulp I know is the books about Jonas Fjeld, written in the 30s-40s by a Norwegian writer. The hero, doctor Jonas Fjeld, is an extremely strong, tough, intelligent, semi-fascist adventurer, fighting evil anarchists and such scum. He is described in one of the books with the...
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    What Are You Reading

    Guide books to Mexico! Me and my man are going there for three weeks at a delayed honeymoon this July.
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    Strange Superstitions and The Superstitious Among Us

    The only superstition I have: Whenever I am trying to do some difficult fixing, building, escaping, breaking in or such, I always hum the "McGyver"tune believing that it makes success much more likely to be the result.
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    Don't try this

    Your really like mj??d? Oh my.... I have a big wine balloon with the stuff sitting in my cellar for years. My parents made many liters for me as a birthday present once. I have tried to donate it to friends, but not even my swordfighting medivial reenactment buddies want it. It tastes better...
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    The future of style.

    In the future, everything will be hairy!: I'm no fashion expert either on fashion or future. I did once write an annual paper on interior design in the Star Ship Enterprise and the Borg ship. But I didn't care about the clothing. Real geek!
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    Don't try this

    Whats the english name for that flower: Its violet, called fiol/viol in scandinavian languages, nice smell much used in soap. Anyway, the french make a liquor out of it. Don't try it. It tastes like soap smells, like drinking a perfume smell. Not exactly bad tasting, just a bit to surreal for a...
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    That is some clever thinking! Now I am really tempted to try sometimes, just to see what happens!
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    The Paradox of the Well-Dressed Man

    In certain situations, yes, one has to dress to the occasion. (If the quote is not meant as a general observation, I misunderstood it and apologize.) I was offended myself, when a guest shoved up in a friends wedding wearing army pants and a t-shirt! And I do not mean that the non-vintage...
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    The Paradox of the Well-Dressed Man

    I'm not trying to step on any toes here, and I do not want to pick on you, poetman, just using your post as a good example to illustrate my point: Generally speaking, this thread puzzles me a bit. Many of the good folks here complain about disrespectful remarks and peoples stupid assumptions...
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    In "Travels with Charlie" that I just finished, Steinbeck describes how he puts the white and the shells of one egg in the coffeepot while making coffee. Claims it makes it better. I am a bit reluctant to try it, but maybe it's a good argument towards your mom?;)
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    Thanks for the clearing up! (I was writing my post when you posted this information the first time, so I missed it. )Well, Chandler called it a percolator too i think, so I'm in good company!;) But then I guess a Bialetti coffee put is really not a percolator either, since it the water...
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    Don't try this

    Sambuca, period. It's not called "the devils liquor" for nothing!
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    Cold Cream- Brands and advice!

    Why is it called "cold cream" anyway. Is it made by cold fusion or what?;)
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    I have always wanted a percolator after I read the word for the first time, (it`s not common in Norwegian,) in a Raymond Chandler novel. (I can't remember which one right now.) There is this amazingly detailed description of the percolator making the coffee, how it slowly rises in the upper...
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    I agree with your definition of the genre, 50Styleline. But, according to that, "The murder of machinbuilder Roolfsen" still bits Poes books by a year. I wonder if there are any earlier books fitting the definition?
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    Should I straighten my hair before pin curling?

    Thank you, Miss Neecerie. So "spoolies" is the word. Would never have guessed!
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    Thank you for the marvelous real-life story, LizzieMain. Wonderful! It reminds me o a similar experience when I was a child- we investigated an old, abandoned house in the neighborhood, convinced it was the head quarters of a kidnapping gang. We snuck in to investigate, and found all kinds of...
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    Cold Cream- Brands and advice!

    At least some of the arguments against mineral oil seems a little daft. The claim that it is "foreign to the human body", for instance: Of course it is! So is aloe vera, it is not a part of your skin. It seems to me that the claims against of mineral oil is part of a bigger, popular idea...
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    Should I straighten my hair before pin curling?

    I found this hair spools and thought they may be an easy way to make pin curls. Wha do you think, ladies, would it work?
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    We are four kids, all in different detective clubs. There were so many little detectives crawling around the house, that my mother wrote one of her first books: The detectives handbook. (A wonderful, useful guide for detective clubs.) Nancy Drew made an imprint in my soul. First, because i...

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