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  1. Haversack

    What Are You Reading

    Another set of mysteries, (police procedurals, really), set in Egypt are the Mamur Zapt series by Michael Pearce. Chronologically, they run from 1908 up into WWI. The protagonist is Welshman who runs the Khedive's secret police on behalf of the British Residency. If that sounds convoluted, it...
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    "Vintage" foods that are still with us today.

    I'll submit a proper classic food...Hangtown Fry! Eggs scrambled up with bacon and oysters. Said to be concocted in Hangtown for a miner who had struck it rich and wanted a meal made with the most expensive ingredients. (Back then, eggs were over a dollar each.) Locally, I'm a bit spoiled...
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    Jello, A golden era treat!

    I think the reason why the Jello company made celery flavoured Jello is because most dishes that traditionally used aspic have been savoury dishes and not desserts. Things like chicken aspic. Cooks have been making aspics from meat broths since at least the 14th C. What Jello, (and Knox's...
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    Question about the late 1960s-mid 1970s

    Well, I found the two Herb Caen columns I mentioned above and they do record the thoughts of a fellow born in 1916 confronted with 1960s-1970s change in men’s fashion and his subsequent retreat from them. Appropriate to the topic of this thread. However, before I go and transcribe them here...
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    Question about the late 1960s-mid 1970s

    In one of Herb Caen's columns written in the 1970s, he describes the moment that he decided to shave his sideburns and return to a more traditional wardrobe after about tens years of indulging in contemporary men’s’ fashions. It juxtaposes nicely with a column he had written about ten years...
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    Anyone up for a little Celebrity Gravehunting?

    The three cemeteries up this neck of the woods that are particularly good for name-spotting and sightseeing are the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, the Old Sacramento City Cemetery, and the necropolis of Colma just south of San Francisco. The Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland...
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    Do you own a Tux?

    I was extrordinarily lucky when I was last in London two years ago. I found a vintage peak-lapel, double-breasted dinner jacket and trousers that fit like a glove. Being a 48L, this was especially surprising. The only alteration my stateside alterations tailor thought necessary was to shorten...
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    Living in America: The BEST place to live and work?

    Miss Elise wrote: "i wouldn't mind living somewhere where the tap water is really quailty...as in clean, crisp, clear drinking water... any such places in the US? Well, the three US places where I've spent most of my life all have excellent tap water drawn from watersheds derived from...
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    Stuffed boar's heads

    When I saw the title of this thread, my first thought was someone was looking for a recipe... On the other hand, if you are looking for an Old World boar's head to mount on your wall, I might recommend the following site. http://www.frankonia.de This is a department store chain in...
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    Gilbert and Sullivan

    _The Mikado_ is the most popular and most performed of the G&S canon. As such, it has also been the most tinkered with. Back in the 1930s, there were both _The Swing Mikado_ and _The Hot Mikado_, [Both jazz versions with all-black casts. -...
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    If you knew tomorrow was your last day on earth, what would be your last movie?

    The Stanford, (restored movie palace owned by the Packard family), in Palo Alto shows _Its Wonderful Life_ every Christmas Eve to conclude its run of classic Christmas movies. http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/stf/ Haversack.
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    Bespoke military uniforms?

    Back in the late 1970s all of us ROTC cadets who were looking forward to graduation and commissioning were visted by a tailor from a firm that specialized in military uniforms. This was for our Class A uniform. Measurements were taken and the clothing was delivered several weeks later. (So it...
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    If you knew tomorrow was your last day on earth, what would be your last movie?

    It would be a toss-up between either _The Man Who Would Be King_ or _Sullivan's Travels_. The first on the transegence of life and the value of good friends. (Not to mention Jarre's wistful, melancholic twist on "Will Ye No Cam Back Again?" combined with "The Minstrel Boy") The second...
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    Charlton Heston Gone at 84

    My favourite role that Heston played was that of Cardinal Richelieu in Richard Lester's _The 3/4 Musketeers_. Elegant, pragmatic menace. Its too bad that time is out of sync for Heston to similarly play Vetinari. Added to this is his role as Chrysagon in _The War Lord_. Haversack.
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    Dueling phrases

    Another post regarding flats and apartments in San Francisco usage: "Flat" is a physical description of particular type of living unit in a multi-unit building. A flat is a living-unit which take up an entire floor of the building. In some cases, (like the building I live in), there is a...
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    The Evidence of Old Lovers - Keep or Destroy?

    The letters I have exchanged with friends and lovers going back to High School are all, (more or less), neatly bound and boxed. I could no more burn or discard them than I could burn a book. They are a record of who I was and how I came to be me. Mistakes. Joys. Regrets. Happiness...
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    1930's 'The Lone Ranger' Remake

    I seem to recall that George MacDonald Fraser, (Flashman, The 3/4 Musketeers, et. al.) wrote in his book, _The Lights on at Signpost_, that he had written a screenplay for a Lone Ranger Movie back in the 1970-80s. If I remember rightly, there was some problem with some of the historic detail in...
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    songs that make you shiver/cry

    Eric Bogle singing his song "No Mans Land" Any bugler playng "The Last Post" Just about anyone singing or playing "The Flowers of the Forest" Haversack
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    The Over Medium Egg

    dhermann1 wrote: "I iwent through a phase when I was in my teens of eating fried egg sandwiches. I did them pretty well done, and with lots of ketchup. Something about the combination of salt and vinegar. Ah, the good old Egg Banjo. Favoured staple of the British Squaddie. 'Cept they...
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    Best Underdog movie

    Any number of the late 1940s comedies from Ealing Studios. _Passport to Pimlico_, _The Titfield Thunderbolt_, etc. Of this lot, I would nominate _Whisky Galore_, (or _Tight Little Island_ as the Hays Office had it called in the States.) Haversack.

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