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Ingredients and recipe for HOT BUTTERED RUM?
dherrmann1 has it right. Hot Buttered Rum is simplicity itself. In a mug I put 1+ spoons of muscavado sugar, (darker than dark brown), and about a teaspoon+ of butter. (I may also slightly dampen the sugar with small amount of rum to aid dissolving.) I then add enough boiling water to...- Haversack
- Post #10
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Hidden Local History
I've always found that the roads that were the main highways prior to the advent of the freeway system to be 'interesting' places, particularly where they enter and exit towns and cities. Because they grew and flourished in the era of our interest, they bear examination. Much of the built...- Haversack
- Post #2
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
I'm currently in the middle of George MacDonald Fraser's last published book, The Reavers. Its rather like The Candlemass Road meets The Pyrates. The modern anachronisms are a bit overused. However if one has an ear for the Cumbrian and Kelvinside dialects and a passing acquaintance with...- Haversack
- Post #2,411
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Male Identification in Film
Fritz von Tarlenheim Haversack- Haversack
- Post #9
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Favorite Christmas movies
My wife is a great fan of the Christmas movie. Besides the original _Miracle on 34th Street_, she is particularly fond of _We're No Angels_, the 1955 version with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov. The one where the escaped convicts decide to help the family that took them in instead of...- Haversack
- Post #26
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Rum and Coke Question
A little hard to get stateside but Bundaberg, a rum distillery in Queensland makes both a decent dark rum and a cane sugar cola. They even sell them premixed in cans and kegs. Despite having gotten something of bad reputation as 'yobbo fuel' it makes for a good rum and cola. To take rum and...- Haversack
- Post #23
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Steampunk, Dieselpunk, etc.
A movie that I think portrays the "turn-of-the-last-century, science fiction, action adventure"* genre is _The Assassination Bureau, Ltd._ (1969), starring Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg. Its based on a Jack London short story, and, while played tongue-in-cheek, displays many of the facets of "High...- Haversack
- Post #310
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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1922 Menu
While engaged in some research, I recently came across online the menu from 1922 for a Chinese-American restaurant in downtown Sacramento. It can be seen at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flipomatic/cic/chs1228 There are several things about it which I think might be of interest to...- Haversack
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- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Last night we watched a couple of Warner Bros. cartoons, _Have You Got Any Castles_ and Hollywood Steps Out_, a newsreel on King George VI, and in honour of the evening, Preston Sturges's debut as a writer/director, _The Great McGinty_.- Haversack
- Post #2,819
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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German Feldmutze vintage shop bargain !
In southern Germany the feldmutze is pretty much the German farmer's equivalent to the American farmer's feed cap. I used to see them pretty frequently. I picked up a dark green woolen one myself at a clothing store in Nordlingen back in the early 1980s. I think it cost me all of 12 marks... -
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WWII Espionage
There is a new book out I am meaning to read. It is called: _The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington_ by Jennet Conant. It is about author, (then RAF Pilot), Roald Dahl's role in the UK's undercover, (literally!), efforts to influence the US to be... -
WANTED - Bay Area: a real WOOD book case?!
If you don't mind paying for quality, Stickley is still making oak furniture that uses no plywood. Even the backs of their bookcases are solid oak. For instance: http://www.stickley.com/OurProducts_Details.cfm?id=1933&Collection=Mission&cat1=91&view=all&finish= There are two or three...- Haversack
- Post #7
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Blue Max
I don't know. I rather think that Peppard's non-use of a German accent worked for his character. It emphasized his being a lower-class counter-jumper making his way among the Junkers. Haversack.- Haversack
- Post #6
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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mustard's no good without roast beef
Many different mustards. Many different uses. All good. (Yes, even the French's style. Use white vinegar and ground tumeric when grinding your own own to approximate it.) Let's see. Edmond Fallot, when I can get it, for general use. Trader Joe's Dijon when I cannot. Plochmann's for...- Haversack
- Post #15
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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ChooChoo Train/Silver Lining!
One of the best illusions of golden age railroad travel that I have ever seen is in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. They have a heavyweight Pullman open sleeper, the St. Hyacinthe, formerly of the Canadian National. The car is on static display but as soon as you mount...- Haversack
- Post #16
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The three greatest....
A couple of movies with notable dueling scenes I would like to nominate are _Scaramouche_, (1952), and _The Mark of Zorro_, (1940). _Sacramouche is set during the French Revolution. The final dueling scene between Stewart Granger and Mel Ferrer is set in a crowded Baroque Theatre and is a...- Haversack
- Post #12
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The wonderful Ice Cream Suit
When I hear the term, "the man in a white suit", my immediate thought is of Alec Guiness and the device that makes a rhythmic percolating sound..."Bloop-bloop Blip; Bloop-bloop Bloop; Bloop-bloop Blip; Bloop-bloop Bloop...; Haversack.- Haversack
- Post #6
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Reminder: Talk Like A Pirate Day
Miss Neecerie wrote: "There are scarier things then pirates in Portsmouth.......trust me" Such as the Andrew on a tear? Haversack- Haversack
- Post #8
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Favourite Movies From the 1940s?
Besides the afore-mentioned films of Preston Sturges, I greatly enjoy _Star Spangled Rhythm_, (1942). While it is an early wartime "Lets put on a show for the troops" film, it is also a studio satire with a great deal of inside jokes about Paramount Studio. (Just about everybody who was under...- Haversack
- Post #19
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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You know that summer really IS over when...
Speaking locally, Summer is over when the fog retreats over the horizon and the temperature climbs to near 90 degrees. Haversack.- Haversack
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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