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  1. Dr Doran

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    The taste-impoverished things I see daily are mind-boggling at the University of California, Berkeley. Someone was talking on his cell phone WHILE HE WAS SITTING IN A RESTROOM STALL yesterday. The (only) good news is, when I told my Latin students about it, they were horrified. Not one of them...
  2. Dr Doran

    Show us your suits

    I don't care about the suit. Who are those DAMES? Wow!
  3. Dr Doran

    Vintage styles: matching hat to suit

    No problem.
  4. Dr Doran

    Vintage styles: matching hat to suit

    This thread will answer many questions: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=18122
  5. Dr Doran

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I just yesterday found the two absolutely narrowest ties I have ever seen in my life at the local "Out of the Closet" thrift store. These are a MAXIMUM of an inch wide. I am assuming they are 1960s. $1 each. Not really my time period, but I have never seen such ties in a thrift store so I bought...
  7. Dr Doran

    U.S. Army considers new uniforms

    Ladies, gents, this is extremely interesting to a person as ignorant about military uniforms as myself. I have learned a great deal from reading this thread. Thank you.
  8. Dr Doran

    Manners - The NY Times gets it

    But back to the original essay, and to support Jack and Baron Kurz a bit here. I agree with most of you that the writer was at least somewhat pretentious and self-righteous. I agree with those of you who suspect that public manners were probably better before a certain generation came to the...
  9. Dr Doran

    My Head Got Bigger? What the heck?

    Awright, but I think I'll stretch them and then rebend them into PORKPIES.
  10. Dr Doran

    Does anybody listen to...

    That is all right, Der Mann. We Tom Waits lovers still like you just fine. I am a fanatic. I have never seen him play, but my ex lives in Sebastopol and has seen him around. My dear friend Morgan Guberman played with Tom Waits' saxophonist, Ralph Carney, in a Kurt Weill cover band in the...
  11. Dr Doran

    How vintage are we?

    This is extremely interesting. I am getting insights into all of you. I still recommend the book GENERATIONS by Howe and Straus(s). It tries and largely succeeds to explain American history by generations. I am always surprised that it has not been read more, as it is highly readable. Their...
  13. Dr Doran

    Anybody join me for evening coffee?

    A fine rule of thumb.
  14. Dr Doran

    My Head Got Bigger? What the heck?

    AGGH ... I hope it's not a tumah ... but up until that part, I loved your post (comedy is definitely your thing). I did stop smoking a week ago. Probably too late.
  15. Dr Doran

    Hats at the Restaurant

    Well, that's good to know, and I'll ask next time I'm in a top end restaurant, which doesn't happen often. Let's hope the medium end restaurants have experienced a trickle down effect of this excellent practice.
  16. Dr Doran

    Anybody join me for evening coffee?

    Wow, that sounds yummy.
  17. Dr Doran

    Show off your Porkpies

    Hat Head -- FANTASTIC pics. My wife was droolin.' No, but really, she liked them and now wants me to buy some porkpies. (And that's why I showed her them, besides that I wanted her to see how someone could look simultaneously pleasant, intelligent, stylish, cool, and neatly done up.)
  19. Dr Doran

    Anybody join me for evening coffee?

    At about 6 PM, no later or it will interfere with my sleep (I go to sleep at about 10 when I can) I have a Polish coffee. You grind the ____ out of the beans until they are like flour, generally Trader Joe's coffee beans or else Peet's, then add water which has just barely come to a boil, let it...
  20. Dr Doran

    How to get rid of silverfish?

    That is yucky.
  21. Dr Doran

    Californians Please check in!

    :offtopic: I have certainly never seen bums be more aggressive in normal areas of LA (i.e. not Skid Row) than in normal areas of SF and Berkeley. In fact, the bums in SF and Berkeley are the most aggressive I've seen in the USA (again, aside from places like Skid Row in LA). There is a reason...
  22. Dr Doran

    My Head Got Bigger? What the heck?

    It's not smarts. It's the squinting at texts and getting a bulge on my forehead. Or maybe it's the compliments. Actually, it cannot be that, because I don't get compliments except for the disgraceful humming of the Inspector Gadget theme song and some idiot humming the Godfather music yesterday.
  23. Dr Doran

    Hats at the Restaurant

    Genius idea. I love it. I was dressed up in 40s attire for a meeting of the San Francisco Atheists Society about a year ago and then went to a Japanese restaurant that specializes in Scotch for a colleague's birthday. I go to the Japanese place, which was very trendy and cool and full of...

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