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- Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:17 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: Sushi and the Mikado
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1808
Sushi and the Mikado
My Japanese neighbor is teaching me how to cook Japanese. My California rolls look like something Cheech and Chong would roll ](*,) But she is proud how well I make rice with a old fan with cranes and cherry blossoms ( 1977 San Francisco date with this redhead) I raced to my apt and donned my old bl...
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: 4711
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5384
Re: 4711
4711 was kept in production during WW2 and issued to Unterseeboot crews to counter the stench. I met a U boat veteran many years past. He hesitated to admit his service, 3 generation naval family carried more at 18 (BTDT) than political maturity.He said the combination of B.O. fuel, stale water and ...
I'm back
Hello to everyone! finances, or the grave lack of same kept me offline. In truth, I experienced how people can become invisible and disenfranchised. I am still without a car. However, my brothers both suffer diabetes from obesity and I weigh @ what I did in my 20s. The TeeVee went and I actually rea...
- Sun May 06, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why I shave
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7447
'My' squirrel' showed up this A.M. a bit skittish and wondering where 'our' tree had gone. It took several minutes of quietly sitting buddha like on the grass before he approached. I swear he smell the Alt Innsbruk and was soon siting on my knee eating peanuts again. Meanwhile; a dolphin stayed in t...
- Sun May 06, 2012 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: CANADIAN FUNNY MONEY
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3621
- Sun May 06, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: quality teapots?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1787
I believe current brown bettys are made in Malaysia. You can find lots of lovely vintage ones on EBAY. The maker was SADLER and theh name actually came from the dark orange clay and not the borwn slip most often seen. If you chance on a vintage one conisder testing it for lead. The kits are @ home s...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:20 pm
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: 4711 Original Eau Du Cologne
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7274
I was the last coxswain on the last SAR run of the last 36' MLB still in commission. They had a forward crewman cockpit little bigger than a 55 gallon trashcan called 'the glory hole.' It was SOP initiation to take a new crewman so postitioned out over the northwest coast 'bars' and hit big breakers...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Looking for Input - Buying 2 or 3 New Soaps
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7066
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 1290
- Views: 262411
The Napolean of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton. I've long read Gilbert: He is easilly the most overlooked writer today and incredibly current on so many topics. I just finished rereading my collection of Earnest Shackelton materials. I first read about Endurance while on a southern patrol in those ...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: 4711 Original Eau Du Cologne
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7274
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: New internet threat, thousands could lose the internet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2268
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: A perfect game
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1194
A perfect game
Saturday, White Sox,Phill happy, buy lots of kit, make his week.
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:48 pm
- Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
- Topic: 4711 Original Eau Du Cologne
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7274
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My shaving world up- ended
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3974
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:52 am
- Forum: Safety Razors & Blades
- Topic: What's the Best Value for a DE Blade?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8588
Financial economy was a major reason I returned to double edge blades. The rewards of my frugality? An assembly of products that constitute a significant place on my personal property manifest and 'disposable income.' I don't even calculate cost per shave. It's akin to my rationed Lagavulin whisky a...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Difficulty with dress shirts
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1384
There is the option of a custom shirt $ or taking chance with semi custom which is similar to Made to Measure suits. With both you could specify an extra long body and reduced upper sleeve circumferance. Barring that, try tucking your shirt INSIDE your underwear or do a military uniform search for '...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: THE tea thread
- Replies: 77
- Views: 13904
There was a wonderfull place in London called the Brahma Tea Museum, sadly closed @ 4years past on the owner's death. I learned proper tea drinking there. If you drink a british tea the SADLER Brown Betty is a must. And none of his current Malaysia made stuff either! Go on EBAY and find one properly...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:33 pm
- Forum: Shopping
- Topic: BullGoose Shaving -Spring Updates
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1706
Squire-remember your history. The Tonic and Gin* was created by Army officer's to make anti malarial quinine more palatable combined with the other medicinal mainstay Gin. Any negative comments would receive the retort of 'service illness caught during the punitive campaign to revenge Gordon' as you...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Cutting down the trees
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3230
I better not start with my past involvment in Redwood Summer. A more hopefull story is a true anecdote. One of the colleges in England-perhaps BASENOTES knows- had a magnificant chapel. The oak roofbeams on inspection were found in advanced dry rot and imminent collapse. The college owned lands with...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:03 pm
- Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
- Topic: Kent vs MWF
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5549
Friendships on this forum would be as bent and broken as the bronze weapons of Achilles and Hector fighting beneath the walls of EBAYllium. Those that the God's would destroy, they first make mad with reformulation. Chills down my neck,runs to bathroomcounts pucks and corrects wish list to include m...