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  1. "Skeet" McD

    The best films no one has ever seen.

    Fantastic film, which--besides being hilariously funny, even if you aren't English--manages to say something quite serious about the [editorial comment here] horror of the '60s coming to an end, personally and culturally, while doing justice to all parties. I will carry the line "How do we...
  2. "Skeet" McD

    Happy Cinco de Mayo !

    There must be a story there...and I hope it's a happy one. Oh well: the rest of us will just have to take up the slack, even the Irish-Americans among us (ahem)....¡Viva la Brigada de San Patricio! (insert Grida here) ;) "Skeet"
  3. "Skeet" McD

    Happy Cinco de Mayo !

    Fletch, you know what the traditional saying is about someone who would stoop to a pun...there must be an even lower level for those who stoop to....visual puns. Great. I think I need a Michelada now. Or maybe a few, until the searing image is expunged from my cerebral cortez. Oh, sorry...
  4. "Skeet" McD

    Life as it was lived then

    Mario Batali, well-known NYC chef and an early proponent of regional Italian cooking frequently makes the point that polpetti (meatballs) are spoiled in American--and Italian American--cookery, because they are usually made with...all meat. Once the immigrants got here and began to participate...
  5. "Skeet" McD

    Ruffed Grouse

    I'll bite: and I wish I was biting into some pa'tridge RIGHT NOW. Call me a heretic....with this most delicious of game birds, for my money: simplicity is of the essence. Lightly seasoned and floured, pan fried quickly and not too much...and drunk with a dry white wine. What more could you want...
  7. "Skeet" McD

    The Occult, are you a believer?

    Now, where did I put that pitchfork? :rolleyes: But quite seriously, as a Roman Catholic, you (and ol' Cardinal Newman, although I believe he wrote this before coming to Rome, yes?) are dead on. While it is (perhaps?) :offtopic: , in my own opinion, the Roman Catholic Church ain't called that...
  8. "Skeet" McD

    The Occult, are you a believer?

    Oh boy, Vi: here's a can of vipers! There's a good deal of rough truth in your "my religion/your superstition (and vice-versa!)" dichotomy, no matter what you make of it. Even those of the "Truth is a trackless land" school are unlikely to find all beliefs equally valid, no? (and yes, that's...
  9. "Skeet" McD

    "Too much crown"

    Dear CB, I couldn't agree more: but I'm a relative newcomer here, and the tone of the place was set long before I arrived. It was formed, and is maintained, by many, many folks like yourself (I think particularly of your thread regarding being grateful for the FL, and your posts regarding the...
  10. "Skeet" McD

    "Too much crown"

    Dear Art, Thank you so much for your very generous post, and I assure you: no offense taken, and so happy it does boil down to nothing but a misreading, leaving only those small differences of opinion--perhaps nothing but semantics, as you say--that give reasonable people something to talk...
  11. "Skeet" McD

    "Too much crown"

    Dear Art, I think you have misunderstood me...and my comments were certainly not meant to be insulting; neither do I think that they are. I can't, of course, guarantee that you--nor someone else--won't be offended. Remember that I am responding to the post that Fletch forwarded, and in that...
  13. "Skeet" McD

    Show us your most precious vintage item .

    Just to say something you already know :rolleyes: : this is some pretty serious "amateur" art of its period....if it is, in fact, amateur. Professionals, or just quite talented? Great stuff under any circumstances! Thanks for showing it to us. "Skeet"
  14. "Skeet" McD

    "Too much crown"

    Fletch, Your posts--and those you choose to send on, like this one--are always well worth reading. May I jump in with a thought? I've spent a good deal of time around excellent craftsmen--old-school, direct from the master/apprentice system your anonymous poster describes, as well as...
  15. "Skeet" McD

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Dear LD, I should have read more closely...the woman I mentioned (as looking like a charming person) in my previous is your GREAT-grandmother, not your grandmother. Did you ever meet her? But your family ALL look marvellous: you clearly have good genes! Keep on posting 'em. "Skeet"
  16. "Skeet" McD

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Not only an obsession: an eye! Quite a collection. I hope we'll see more of them. This sort of documentation is priceless (as well as....fun! :D ) "Skeet"
  17. "Skeet" McD

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    The other possibility, perhaps, is...at the train station; then the style--so very much apparent--is perhaps less "odd"...and this looks like dress for a fairly cool day. Just a thought. "Skeet"
  19. "Skeet" McD

    Watch Chains

    Probably time to do this... Before someone trots out the USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES...two thin chains, most likely 1930s, from my collection. The first is a family piece, my wife's grandfather's watch and the chain he wore it with...
  20. "Skeet" McD

    Watch Chains

    Absolutely true...Very, very typical of mid-19C, but petering out through the 2nd half of the century. The chains (or watch-guards, as they were more commonly called at the time) can be identified by how ornate the cross-piece is; I thought about mentioning all this in my earlier post...but it's...
  21. "Skeet" McD

    "Too much crown"

    Great case in point. Seriously. I'm no hat fetishist, nor Beau Brummel...but, if you take the angle from the point of your chin to the swell of the back of your skull...the angle of your hat, from front to back, matches it. Exactly. I don't know if this was intended....or is just the result...
  22. "Skeet" McD

    The best films no one has ever seen.

    Perhaps I'm reading the tone of several posts incorrectly...it is so very easy to do so. If so, apologies beforehand. But surely an (if not THE) issue here is....relative age. Speaking as a 55 year old: many of the films that have been mentioned--and replied to as "oh, yeah: EVERYBODY's seen...
  23. "Skeet" McD

    A truely unique photo.

    Dear FM, You can buy the DVD set through the link I posted. Speaking for myself, I'm waiting a bit until they can be had cheaper. But two of the films here--OTHER MEN'S WOMEN and WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD--are really worth the price of admission even at full price for folks like us: tremendous...

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