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  1. Dr Doran

    Nutty Neighbors

    Not quite in that class, no. They are comfortable and their houses are worth a lot, but none of their houses are big enough to accomodate servants, and none of these people have enough income for that either -- they are simply sitting on valuable real estate, but on this street there are no...
  2. Dr Doran

    Nutty Neighbors

    Blind people operating lawnmowers. That just about takes the cake. Dangerous, too. Can't they pay some kid $7 an hour for a few hours to clear the crud, and then an hour a week after that for maintenance?
  3. Dr Doran

    Nutty Neighbors

    2 years later ... the return of this thread Wow, Paul, thanks for resurrecting this thread. I may have mentioned this two years ago when I last saw the thread, but just in case I didn't: Berkeley neighbors can be annoying. Everyone is a wealthy highly educated busybody Baby Boomer wearing...
  4. Dr Doran

    What are you listening to?

    Laibach "Leben heisst Leben."
  5. Dr Doran

    New Bond Film - Quantum Of Solace

    I agree with you, Amateis. I have read only one or two. One was Dr No. That's the one on Jamaica, right? Personally I don't think they are well-written novels in the literary sense, but that's not necessarily the point. The point is, Ian Fleming wrote Bond as a dark, amoral, somewhat sadistic...
  7. Dr Doran

    What are you wearing today??

    You mean "a pleasure and an honor" don't you? Because "a duty and an honor" sounds as though it's rather onerous; and that's the last thing you intended to say, if I understand your gracious post correctly. Lovely outfits, by the way.
  8. Dr Doran

    New Bond Film - Quantum Of Solace

    I agree with you, Sam Marlow. I think that's about right. And no, I don't think that reply was too long!
  9. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    Thanks, Wolf. Too bad about the DEFECTORS.
  10. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    ... Especially after seeing all the nice events listed for Southern California ...
  11. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    I'd like to see some more events in Northern California, folks. The Art Deco Society events are just too damned expensive.
  13. Dr Doran

    suit salesman's cases

    I'm grading tons of papers and final exams for two classes, so it will have to wait a day or two, but I shall post a photo of mine shortly. I have only one, but it's nice -- very similar to the later ones you have.
  14. Dr Doran

    New Star Trek

    :offtopic: Just show up a month before it supposedly happens in the town where it is thought to have happened, and ask if there are any triple crucifixions scheduled, I guess. Supposedly big crowds were there, so no tickets necessary. A short story called "Behold the Man" (I believe)...
  15. Dr Doran

    New Bond Film - Quantum Of Solace

    Great villain, perfect casting, amazing face. I want to see more of him. On a parallel note, what ever happened to big fat impressive well-tailored villains? Like Auric Goldfinger or the one in Maltese Falcon? Big fat very confident shrewd highly cultured (i.e. not anyone Jack Black could...
  16. Dr Doran

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    If you would be willing to post photos of the inside of your cases, I'll post a photo of the inside of my case.
  17. Dr Doran

    New Star Trek

    At least we know that in this dimension (i.e. our own, the one we are presently occupying and writing in) -- in its future, I mean -- time travel will never be invented. Or if it will be invented, that will create different pasts than the one we know about. Because if it will be invented, then...
  19. Dr Doran

    New Star Trek

    I just saw it last night, immediately after reading Anthony Lane's review in the current New Yorker. I liked the film. I didn't care about the plot as much as I was impressed with the characters. I grew up on the 1960s Star Trek (I was born in 1970, so watched reruns of it, along with...
  20. Dr Doran

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Do yours have a cool picture of a man in a suit on the inside of the cover? I have one that does (but no fabric samples -- it's empty).
  21. Dr Doran

    When is overdressing acceptable?

    A very confusing argument. Or perhaps simply confused. 1.) I know you can't possibly be arguing that he could not have done all these things (which I do, too) and also have dressed beautifully, can you? But the way you have phrased it, you have left that open as an (utterly illogical)...
  22. Dr Doran

    How often do you dry clean?

    THE MINUTE I GET HOME I put on jeans and a t-shirt for this PRECISE reason.
  23. Dr Doran

    When is overdressing acceptable?

    Nope. If I obeyed the local standard, I'd look like garbage 100% of the time. I would not look like the "normal" people whom Spitfire invokes and who presumably exist in some parts of urban France. No, I'd look like garbage. I live in Berkeley, California, where the PROFESSORS dress in...
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