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  1. filfoster

    Cigar, Cigarette...

    Smoking: the death of me? Not yet. I began smoking in 1965, age 12. Snuck into the laundromat where we could buy a pack of Ralieghs or Marlborough for 35 cents. Smoked every damn one of them before sleeping. Quit when I had a family in 1987. Only the occasional cigar since. Cubans in Mexico on...
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    Gin Lovers Unite!

    Gin vs Vodka This is common: The 'botanicals' (the folderol for all the juniper, berries and floor sweepings supposed to be in it) in gin are rumored to be responsible. Still, I stick with gin, because of its history and I feel sorry for it. I have not 'searched' it but wonder if any thread...
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    What am I drinking tonight? No one cares but Mrs Foster, but to start while I cooked the best chuck roast of my life, ( potatoes, -note the 'e', Dan Quayle, carrots, onions, two cups wine and a jigger of Worcestershire, 4 tbsps Kosher salt and 3 of coarse ground black pepper, all in a Dutch...
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    Porfirio Rubirosa-The Last Playboy

    larger than life Well, even those of us with modest means can dream.
  5. filfoster

    Pocket Square Emergency

    Pocket square I hate to be a sheep and agree with one particular prior poster but yes, the 'flat' square looks best.
  7. filfoster

    Porfirio Rubirosa-The Last Playboy

    Rubi the gem Thanks for the tip on this book. I am after it now for a spring read.
  8. filfoster

    Black Suit

    Once you go black,.... I tend to agree with Max Flash. I wear a suit daily for business and no one in my industry (finance/banking) wears a black suit. There are undoubtedly functions such as a funeral where you might prefer black, or perhaps your work place requires it for some reason but I...
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    Help! What Color Tie?

    Vintage ties AVC is a favorite website. I have gotten some great hats there, and a suit.
  10. filfoster

    What makes you feel vintage?

    War Time! What did you think of "1940's House", the PBS production of the family who chose to live 'authentically' in that time, in London?
  11. filfoster

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Trader Vic's Not to go too far afield on this thread on Trader Vic's but there was also one in the Palmer House in Chicago.
  13. filfoster

    Gin Lovers Unite!

    Pedestrian: Ordinary; boring; quotidian; Gordon's Gin I admire all the wonderful, expensive gins but honestly, I think Gordon's makes a fine Martini. And I think Martini & Rossi dry vermouth is perfectly acceptable and from what I read about Noilly Pratt's recipe change for their dry vermouth...
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    What do You Styling People Drink?

    Nomenclature I am new in town. What is meant by "styling people"? I am guessing that it has to do with wearing vintage clothing on a regular basis or is it a subgroup of the Board who are in the industry?
  15. filfoster

    What makes you feel vintage?

    What makes me feel vintage? 1. Draft card and driver's license 2. Memories of steam locomotives (N&W ran steam through my town until 1960) 3. The mirror 4. Memories of the great 40's and 50's cars I grew up with 5. Programmed from childhood disdain for most PC things.
  16. filfoster

    Help! What Color Tie?

    shirt tie I like the combination and note also that these go together so well they were US Army class A since Vietnam until recently. Well, whether the Army shirts were 'mint' is arguable but they were of that general shade.
  17. filfoster

    How NOT to stretch a hat

    Hat Expansion or head shrink? What is the practical limit that a good felt hat can be enlarged? With our without resewing the band?
  19. filfoster

    New Cap

    flat caps This looks great on you. I share the opinon that these are difficult for many of us to pull off, not looking affected when we wear one. You manage to make it work for you.
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    Showcase of Non-Indy Federations

    Abramoff
  21. filfoster

    Where did your user name come from??

    Username Mine came from age. I'm 55; can't remember spit. I admire all the clever monikers you posters use but mine is just a phonetic bastardization of my name. If you get to know me, the 'bastardization' will become quite understandable.
  22. filfoster

    The "Two Martini Lunch"

    A lesson? I wonder only half facetiously, how much better American business would be if more senior managers got buzzed at lunch and laid low in the afternoons. In 34 years in the corporate workforce, I have observed much mischief careerism and gamesmanship that would have been beneficially...
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    The "Two Martini Lunch"

    Radio Marti ni Born too soon. Many references to Mad Men in this thread and how many of us wish we had livers that could tolerate that level of alcohol consumption? Yes, quite a few hands up. Ah, I have both mine in the air, sorry. Don Draper was a Korean War vet but his his pal Roger may...

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