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  1. Mid-fogey

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Souns like... ...we need a cell phone designed like a pocket watch.
  2. Mid-fogey

    Thin ties...any thoughts?

    Been there... ...done that. God help me.
  3. Mid-fogey

    "Take your hats off, you are indoors".

    Where to put the old... ...hat. I've become quite adept at finding new places to put it when I dine. One place I go to has a shark on the wall. Usually there the hat goes on his nose. I haven't been stuck yet. There seems to always be some place to put it in sight such as ledges...
  4. Mid-fogey

    My new Akubra Fern Green CEO is here!

    I think... ...you'll find the green goes with lots more things than you realize. Good choice.
  5. Mid-fogey

    Show us your vintage home!

    Not exactly vintage... ...but traditional. Here is our place a few springs ago. Here is the pedimented portico I decided to build. At this point I'm half way done, and haven't painted it. Here is a closer view. Still unpainted.
  7. Mid-fogey

    Who Will Draw Me My Tattoo?

    You really... ...want to consider having the tattoo artist do the draft. You don't want a drawing that the artist can't execute.
  8. Mid-fogey

    What makes a proper haberdashery?

    Having said... ...what I think is the classical definition, I'll say that the more comprehensive view is probably more current. The term "clothier" (whatever that means) seems to be much used these days.
  9. Mid-fogey

    Your signature cocktail.

    Hmm... ...not sure. Let me try them all and get back to you.
  10. Mid-fogey

    Halloween Costumes

    I thought... ...I was going to be a pirate, but as we near the party in question everybody is going whiskey delta on me. Mrs Fogey isn't keen to be the only couple in costume.
  11. Mid-fogey

    The Strangest Thing

    The Russians... ...have an expression: "the tall nail gets hammered down." Sounds like a lazy person wants you to join her in her mediocrity. Her blandness is her own punishment.
  13. Mid-fogey

    What makes a proper haberdashery?

    Bows is probably right... ...about the change in meaning over time. Harry Truman was a haberdasher, and his biography by McCullough (pages 145-147) goes into great detail on the Kansas City shop, which is basically everything but suits, outerwear, and shoes. You don't get more American...
  14. Mid-fogey

    Show us your cigarette lighters and such!

    Sterling Silver... http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd146/Mid-fogey/th_Lighter.jpg ...Blank. Hand engraved in 1955 as a present from my mother to my dad. Replaced the zippo interior with a torch. Great for lighting cigars.
  15. Mid-fogey

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Interesting... ...notion. I've seen some articles about the demise of watches also. I guess I understand it. Time devices, many tied to the atomc clock waveform, are everywhere. Being that I'm so old fashoned in so many other ways, I don't suppose I'll be giving up mine anytime soon.
  16. Mid-fogey

    My Knox finally came...

    Great grab... ...congrats.
  17. Mid-fogey

    Happy Birthday, Daisy Buchanan

    Happy Birthday... ...and many more.
  19. Mid-fogey

    SUFFERING For Your STYLE

    Boy ain't that the truth... ...I saw part of a show on the singer "Pink". "Oh she's such a rebel." "Oh she's so original." Oh brother. What a self obsessed stinkin' little clone. Now, if she was a torch singer with no "tats" and good manners that would be original.
  20. Mid-fogey

    Home Owners Associations

    HOAs... ...Bah. I've been in three, and now I'm not. They are supposed to protect your property value from your neighbors. Hah!! This is the best kept neighborhood we've ever been in.
  21. Mid-fogey

    Another Work of Art -- Trackside Philly-style

    It's amazing... ...the way Art matches up colors. Beautiful.
  22. Mid-fogey

    Silk escape maps - perfect for scarves and pocket squares

    A close cousin... ...of the escape map is the "blood chit." Blood chits have the US flag on them and usually have a message in all the major languages of a region. They usually identify the airman as an American and offer a reward for protection and safe conduct of him (now her too) back to...
  23. Mid-fogey

    Fedoras Getting Popular Again?

    Fedoras getting... ...popular again? Probably not. Having a few bored celebrities wearing them won't bring them back. The forces of practicality that created the felt fedora drove them from everyday use long ago. For those of us who wear them, they are our thing of uniqueness as opposed...

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