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  1. Bugguy

    Cowboy Boots

    Great boots! Those will look nice with green scrubs. Blood shouldn't show when he goes to the cafeteria for lunch. We do refer to some of those surgeons as "cowboys"; not necessarily as a compliment. Snarky aside, those are spectacular boots!
  2. Bugguy

    How true

    Just came home this evening from a very large family pot luck (assigned dishes). Twelve 20-somethings and NO texting that I observed. They were in the present and engaged, as well as feigning interest in the parent's conversations. Now the male parents, however... how to pry us away from...
  3. Bugguy

    The Art of Manliness

    I work around quite a few 20'ish administrative residents and have taken on the chore of exposing them to some male rites of passage, like personally introducing them to Gus Miller at Batsake's in Cincinnati to try on fedoras, a field trip to Lowes/Home Depot to pick out real tools, a single...
  4. Bugguy

    "Addams Family House" for sale...

    This is a personal hot button... You don't have an exclusive on this in Sydney, in the US it's called "eminent domain" and cheap little municipal equivalents of banana republics are using it to force residents out, then turning around and selling the land to big-time developers. It is in my...
  5. Bugguy

    Oilfield Dodge................

    How did I miss this post? That was great! The moral of the story is when off-roading (sort of), go fast. Back when, I was told by an experienced jungle driver in Ecuador, he'd rather take a VW bug on a jungle road than a Land Rover. Less likely to get stuck.
  7. Bugguy

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    This thread got me thinking about the coal bin (small room) we had in the Chicago bungalow I grew up in that fed the big "octopus" gravity-feed coal furnace. This transitioned into the room we kept the heating oil tank in, then became unused when we converted to gas. My point... it...
  8. Bugguy

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    I just installed a pocket door in my main floor powder room for exactly this reason. Instead of opening into the hall, it opened against the commode such that you needed to be a contortionist to use it. [/FONT]
  9. Bugguy

    A man of letters in the digital age

    Tux - The link doesn't seem to be working... I was talking with my boss the other day, a PhD hospital chief operating officer. She commented how much she enjoys reading my e-mails as they're written like a letter. I mumbled something about needing to provide context and then she said that if...
  10. Bugguy

    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    My 93 yo mother is beginning to prepare for the next phase of life... decluttering. I was up in Chicago with her two weeks ago and came across two items that piqued my interest (I'm easily amused). The first is this 1950's-ish arithmometer (?) a.k.a. mechanical calculator.: We were...
  11. Bugguy

    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    I had a slightly smaller Atlas from my father that I sold before I moved. What a mistake - I could have since used it quite a few times.
  13. Bugguy

    Schlitz making a comeback............

    Quick aside... I worked in Raleigh 74-76 and great sport was going to the legislature building when they were debating liqueur by the glass. All those portly guys with white patten leather belts and shoes with red double-knit pants. (I was at UNC-CH, lived in Carrsboro).
  14. Bugguy

    Schlitz making a comeback............

    Schlitz is all my father drank (Chicago in the 50's), so I grew up on it. Later it started to taste like acetone and I switched to Strohs and Black Label. It made a brief come-back about 12-15 years ago, then disappeared again. The original Milwaukee brewery has given way to "constructive...
  15. Bugguy

    Who Did You Just See Live?

    I just saw Judy Collins this past Friday night at a small fund-raiser in Cincinnati. She sang for an hour... spectacular! At 75 she still performs and sounds just like her album years. Several of the ENT MDs at the dinner went on at great length about how clear her voice is after all the years...
  16. Bugguy

    What else do you collect?

    1890-1910 hallmarked English sterling napkin rings. The engraving is just beautiful!
  17. Bugguy

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Did you forget to turn it in when you checked out? They also stopped personalizing the ash trays... just the shampoo.
  19. Bugguy

    Do you have a vivid memory????

    My dad landed in France in a glider in WWII. I can't imagine what he went through, but I grew up watching him manage his PTSD with beer and Crown. He worked every day and drank every night. He was honest and beat his values into me. I've spent a lot of years and money dealing with those early...
  20. Bugguy

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Fluoroscopes (x-ray) for shoe fitting that left us with a whole generation of irradiated young boys and their mutant off-spring. Sounds like a Sci Fi concept.
  21. Bugguy

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    CNN... I'm tired of being fed what some editor thinks I want/need to know. Sound bites. Break for another commercial from a former IRS attorney.
  22. Bugguy

    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    Don't get me going about Dunkin Donuts... We owned an independent bakery on the Illinois/Wisconsin state line for a couple of years and my wife, a genuine, schooled pastry chef, had her heart set on operating the only first-class bakery in Antioch, IL. The competition was reheated DD donuts at...
  23. Bugguy

    Your favorite movie quotes

    You're absolutely correct. My error. It was a great line and has served me well in encouraging some cooling-off time.

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