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    Screen Names...

    A few years ago I had a boyfriend who read all of the "Stainless Steel Rat" books - Harry Harrison I think? Apparently the main character in the books referred to the female interest (named Angel?) with variations on the angel theme. "Angelicious" was one of them, and said boyfriend called me...
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    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    I turned 26 almost two months ago. I like being 26, and unlike many of the ladies who have commented so far, I am looking forward to growing older. :) Practice makes perfect, after all...
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    Vintage Daily Wear

    It would be nice to be able to choose to dress vintage whenever I liked, but there is just not much of it around here. I have yet to see even a specialty retro/vintage shop in this country that has more than one or two items (not garments! Items!) from earlier than 1950. (Most focus on the...
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    Fedora Lounge Mousepad

    I still like the first mousepad. Nice & straightforward.
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    Would you rather live then or now?

    As many have said so far, I'd like to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there... If I'd been born there, great. But going back..? I'd lose much of what gives my life meaning. 1) Assuming everything is transported "as is", with no magic fairytale wand that makes everything perfect, I'd...
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    Golden era food.

    Yes, that was one thing I found odd living in North America a few years back... The eggs looked anaemic! Such a pale, pale yellow... They looked nothing like the bright golden-to-orange I was used to at home - even the farm-raised eggs I eventually saw seemed pale to me. I'm told it has...
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    Fedora Lounge Merchandise

    What's the ETA on the mousepads, and could I get delayed shipping on matchbooks to combine the two? Would shipping outside the US be a problem? [huh]
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    A new photo of the day.

    Thanks, Root! That's quite a service you're providing there. :) You're an inspiration to us all... :cheers1:
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    I've also heard about marijuana referred to as "jive", and of course it was called "hashish" way back. I don't know about the US, but I hear cocaine was THE drug of choice in the UK in the 20s/30s.
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    Fedora Lounge Mousepad

    Yeah, he does look a bit dodgy. :)
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    Doolally - meaning "crazy". My mother still uses that one... :) This is apparently how it originated, in about 1944 in India: I found it when I was hunting out info on Dubbin for MudInYerEye... :)
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    Rough-Outs Dubbing.

    Some info on using Dubbin in WWII Me neither. :) My experience of dubbin relates solely to embarrassing school shoes (I had "sensible" leather, while my friends had cool sneakers and pretty dress shoes!) and reading the newspaper underneath my shoes while I polished them. :p Here is...
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    How Old do You Think She is?

    Best intentions, huh, JP? :) (Or should that be "fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?) ;) Thanks for posting it though, it made me think at least... (Rare, I know...) :cheers1:
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    Life in NZ in the 30s, 40s, & 50s

    A while back, the public museum where I live had an exhibition on what it was like to be young in NZ in the 1930s - 1950s. The NZDL has a link to the collection of oral interviews, photographs, and so on that people volunteered to give for the exhibition. These were later collected by the...
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    NZ aircraft photos

    Here's a link to a collection of aircraft images from NZ. I'm not sure that they're all WWII, but some are. You can search the database by several options. I haven't checked it out in depth though. http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=aircraft (Check out more of the NZDL...
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    Rough-Outs Dubbing.

    I notice you're talking about putting it on suede... I've not done that before; in fact I've generally been told not to do anything to suede shoes. [huh] Did you get that from stories of the time? Waproo (the makers of Dubbin) suggest glycerine soap to clean suede. But it seems strange to...
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    Rough-Outs Dubbing.

    Are you sure you don't mean "dubbin"? :) Dubbin is a sort of shoe wax/polish, available in neutral, pale or dark brown. It's more like a gummy light wax than that solid stuff they sell as shoe polish now. (Lets leave that silly stuff in the plastic bottle with the sponge on top out of it...
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    All those niggling questions...

    All those niggling question you may have had about life in the Golden Era may now be answered! Well, some of them at least... In a stroke of utter genius, I just realised that two of the dozens of antique and vintage books that are staring me in the face as I sit at the computer are in...
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    Nice GAMS...What a DISH...

    What about the term "viper" for a woman? Especially the, er, less trustworthy ones... ;) Examples: The song "Youse A Viper" by Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys, or the line "...Vipers like that don't stay for long! ..." in "Here Comes The Man With The Jive" by the same band.
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    What would your name be? (Gents too!)

    That's one of my daughter's middle names. :) She's Tabitha Rowan Grace, AKA Tabby. Actually, her last name is Irish too... Funny, since I'm a NZer-raised-by-Brits and her dad is Canadian...

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