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  1. Dr Doran

    Had anyone ever been tempted to stop hat wearing?

    After reading this entire thread, it is two statements in your first post that I feel are the problems, to wit: I would say first: yes, witty comments are the right thing for friends: say something snide, but friendly and confident, back to them when they say obnoxious nonsense about your...
  2. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    It's wrong on several levels. 1.) Lack of basic manners 2.) Shows lack of class 3.) Highly passive-aggressive 4.) Judgmental -- well, many of us are judgmental, but we don't make a scene. 5.) Disrespectful
  3. Dr Doran

    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Yesterday, some seven and a half hours after an execrable comment on campus (see "The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard" thread), I was at Berkeley Bowl, the greatest grocery store in the known world, with my daughter sitting in the shopping cart. I was bagging my own groceries, as is my wont. At...
  4. Dr Doran

    Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau - NOW AVAILABLE!

    The heavy, high-gloss paper is a wonderful touch too, and will increase the chances of this being a collector's item.
  5. Dr Doran

    Angostura bitters dearth

    :p lol ;)
  7. Dr Doran

    Angostura bitters dearth

    Offtopic perhaps but -- I prefer my martinis with a healthy dose of vermouth. I am not one of those people who says "the smallest drop of vermouth" or "pour in vermouth and then pour it out" or "just wave it in the vicinity of the vermouth."
  8. Dr Doran

    Show us your vintage home!

    A highly plausible explanation.
  9. Dr Doran

    Angostura bitters dearth

    I still have a bottle. It has been with us since before we got married in 2003. It cannot go bad, can it? I rarely use it.
  10. Dr Doran

    Cleaning up old Opera Glasses: Brass and MOP

    Chasseur, might you repost the photos of those opera glasses? I have never seen them, and they are no longer up. I have a pair of mother of pearl and brass opera glasses as well. I'd like to compare mine to yours. I also have bakelite ones.
  11. Dr Doran

    Ascots

    Does anyone else find this illustration rather difficult to understand?
  13. Dr Doran

    The Lost Art of Manliness

    But that is the rub, isn't it? They don't take disrespect. In the case of Master Lee, he can look at a potential disrespecter, and part of his power is based on a very fundamental ability to intimidate because even on a cellular level, other men know that he could, if necessary, smack them into...
  14. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Annoying overheard statement The world is full of idiots who deserve a retroactive abortion. (Bartenders: I will not be offended if you deem it fit to remove that rather ugly, nasty statement. But the below should be fine.) Today whilst walking across campus toward a study session wearing a...
  15. Dr Doran

    Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau - NOW AVAILABLE!

    I second that motion! Nice work!
  16. Dr Doran

    Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau - NOW AVAILABLE!

    just received it ... ... and it's a winner. Greatly enjoyed the articles on Zelda Fitzgerald, King Kong, The Fedora, Janet Klein, and the two cocktails which I shall make posthaste (I need maraschino cherry liqueur, which I ran out of after some Aviations or Aviators or whatever those are...
  17. Dr Doran

    Circa 1900 - 1910?

    Well, this is useful to me too -- often I think about "going earlier."
  19. Dr Doran

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    "Thy"? "Thine"? Lovely words -- but "you guys's" with the horrid double Z sound at the end (interrupted by a schwa: "yu gaizuhz") is very unpleasant and undeserving of entry into the acceptability canon of our lovely and versatile language.
  20. Dr Doran

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I have noticed it there, on the very few times I have gone there. I am still a bit bemused by the term "trad" in that context. I only knew of the word "trad" meaning a kind of skinhead: a "traditional" skinhead who was not a Nazi skinhead, and who had slightly longer hair (not bald) and wore...
  21. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    Sounds superb to me, but won't your boyfriend be jealous? ;)
  22. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    True -- I'm originally from Santa Monica (603 11th Street, to be exact) and it was never hot there. When I was 16, though, my folks moved to Van Nuys. A more horrible place I have never seen in the First World. Boiling hot all year. No culture. No esplanades with fountains. No statues. No...
  23. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    Sure do! Was at the Cicada Club not long ago at all, where I met Idle Dame, Widebrim, Johnny Danger, and a host of other luminaries. Stayed with FedoraGent and Magneto. Had a ball. I love LA when it isn't hot. I HATE HEAT. HATE. HATE. HATE.

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