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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    My father's given name was Edward and my grandfather, (Man of Kent), always called him Ted, (much to my father's dislike). Other names I have heard for the 'necessary' are privy, biffy, jakes, and turdis -(specifically for those plastic outhouses at events and construction sites). Biffy is...
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    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    Well, looking at your calendar, I'd be telling my broker to sell everything.
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    There's regional variation over here. Some parts of the country wait in line, others wait on line. I think 'on line' is an East Coast idiom. Growing up in Central California, it was always 'in line'.
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    Animated Cartoons in the Golden Era

    In the Terrytoon above, Tropical Fish, some of the critters depicted look quite Seussian. I don't think Geisel ever work at Terrytoons but was of the right age. Both drank from the same well I suppose.
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I once took part in a analytical paper that examined the difference between jargon, buzzwords, and slang within particular communities. To generalize, jargon and slang develop organically within communities and indicate one's membership of that community. The difference between the two is that...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That sounds rather like ghee, the South Asian clarified butter used for cooking and medicine.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have fond memories of the Gebackener Camembert I would sometimes order at one of the Gasthauses that I used to frequent. A small round of Camembert cheese breaded and fried until it is crisp and crunchy on the outside, and runny and mouth-searing hot on the inside. It was served with...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was five years old growing up in central California, my experience of cheese was in four types. First, 'Rat Cheese' as my Scots grandmother referred to extremely sharp, almost crumbly, yellow cheddar. Second, Monterey Jack which was sliced for sandwiches or eaten as a hunk with apples...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ChiTownScion wrote: "Three trips to Germany (planning our fourth) and there's one thing which we've never experienced: a bad meal." A rule of thumb I found useful when I lived in Franconia in southern Germany back in the '80s: When driving through small villages and towns, if you see a...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Dinner tonight is Salmorejo Cordobrese, (a Cordoba refinement of gazpacho - just tomatoes, garlic, dried bread, and olive oil), a salmon and chicken paella, grilled figs wrapped in coppa, and home-made ice cream. A friend is coming to spend the night and work on building hat blocks and blocking...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pikers. This is a Spite Fence: Inside that 40' tall fence is the house of Nicholas Yung. He wouldn't sell to allow Crocker the own the entire block so Crocker had the fence built to all-but-completely shut out sunlight from Yung's house and garden.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I know that scene in After the Thin Man extremely well as I rode the train into the City every day for 13 years. The view outside the window looks to the south west towards the Baker & Hamilton building with the northwest slope of Potrero Hill in the background as the train makes the final bend...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Regarding train travel in old movies. I've not seen it written about anywhere, but I have noticed that in what seems to be Every Single One of the movies Preston Sturges wrote and directed there is at least one scene depicting travel by rail. Whether it is shooting soda crackers in the Ale and...
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    Golden Era Landscaping

    In looking at my reprint books of 1920s & 30s small house and garden plans*, (thank you Dover Editions), some common trends in landscaping emerge. First is that garages were rarely connected to the house. The garage was either tucked back behind the house and entered from a driveway along the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've had something of a soft spot for They Drive By Night ever since listening to an LP my college roommate had that had dialogue excerpts from a lot of classic Warner Bros. movies. In this case Ann Sheridan's sharp, snappy put-downs to the leering men at a truck stop. Now owning the DVD, I've...
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    Summertime then and now ...

    Bill Watterson wrote it best: Or as Ozies say, "Nothing to do and all day to do it."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They are actually quite an old idea. In the German National Museum in Nürnberg, there is tall wooden washstand and cabinet from the 16th C. On the side of the cabinet are two round wooden towel bars spaced about 6' apart. Running between them is a continuous loop of linen towel. The end caps...
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    Vintage roadside

    Also neither buttermilk, sourdough, nor cornmeal for the basic pancake.
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    Fashion Faux Pas, what would you not be seen dead in?

    What are now called capri pants are actually nothing new for men. Back in the late 18th C. they were known as slops and were part of the working gear of sailors. To wear them ashore pretty much identified the wearer as a working sailor and given a hot press, one could find oneself...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    A couple of examples of stage-to-movie censorship, (or not), that comes to mind are: First, the final scene in Arsenic and Old Lace where Mortimer Brewster is ecstatic to find out he is in fact Not A Brewster. As performed on stage, he yells, "I'm a ba***rd! I'm a ba***rd!" In the movie its...

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