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  1. Shangas

    Couple Dies after SEVENTY YEARS of Marriage

    My grandparents were married for 40 years. Grandma and grandpa married in 1943 during WWII. Grandma was born in 1914. Grandpa was born in 1907. Grandpa died in 1983, of cancer. Lung cancer, I believe. He was a smoker. Gran died in 2011, nearly 30 years later.
  2. Shangas

    Vintage Police Uniforms

    Haven't you watched that Walking Dead episode where they find the prison? I don't think riot-gear is going to help.
  3. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Thanks!! I've wanted it for ages. It just sat there on the top shelf of the office bookcase for week...after week...after week...month after month... It became fairly clear to me, it was never going to resume its former duties as a counter-bell (despite the boss's probable intentions that it...
  4. Shangas

    Couple Dies after SEVENTY YEARS of Marriage

    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/04/10/10/44/couple-married-for-70-years-die-week-apart This is something you don't see every day.
  5. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    For several months, this antique brass desk-bell sat in the back office of the charity shop where I work: Someone had donated it ages ago, and the boss stuck it up on a shelf with a sticker on it, and just left it there. I asked what was going to happen to it, and nobody seemed to have a...
  7. Shangas

    Mickey Rooney (1920-2014). Died age 93.

    As Michael Corleone said: "The ink on your divorce-papers ain't even DRY yet, and you're getting MARRIED!?"
  8. Shangas

    Vintage Police Uniforms

    The Shanghai Municipal Police ("SMP") operated within the confines of the Shanghai International Settlement, from the 1850s until the 1940s, when the Settlement was disbanded during WWII. They were originally modelled after the British Metropolitan Police ("Scotland Yard"). The SMP had one of...
  9. Shangas

    And if you were to do a modern North by Northwest with a female lead?

    NBNW is one of my favourite movies. I would be intensely skeptical of any cinematic director being able to pull off a successful remake. That said. Why is a remake even necessary?
  10. Shangas

    Mickey Rooney (1920-2014). Died age 93.

    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2014/04/07/13/15/actor-mickey-rooney-dead-at-93-reports I didn't see too many of his films, but he was still one of my favourite actors. Rooney as a young man in the Donald Duck short "The Autograph Hound", from 1939; one of my favourite Disney short...
  11. Shangas

    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    You make me wonder if anyone on the Lounge has ever bothered making cucumber sandwiches on a hot, summer's day.
  13. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    If the answer's that simple then I don't see why it has to remain.
  14. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    Then this thread can be locked and deleted.
  15. Shangas

    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    Sandwiches I love: Smoked Salmon. Tuna. Ham &/ Cheese &/ Tomato. Club sandwiches. Steak sandwiches.
  16. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    Thanks for the replies. I knew it was a long shot, anyway. But that said, I've always wanted a pair of blue trousers, so at least I have that. But it'll be a long time before I get another suit.
  17. Shangas

    Vintage Police Uniforms

    From the 1850s until the 1940s, the International Settlement of Shanghai was policed by the Shanghai Municipal Police, staffed by both White and Chinese officers, to handle the Settlement's international residents: Here they are, in 1930. The SMP lasted until 1943, when the land of the...
  19. Shangas

    Vintage Police Uniforms

    Seeing this thread again reminded me of an article I read a few months ago, of Australia's last police tailor finally retiring from his job: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/australias-last-police-tailor-to-transition-to-new-job/5311088
  20. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    The colour is very similar, the weave not. That's what made me wonder whether I could pull it off.
  21. Shangas

    Any writers?

    I may finally be living out my dream of being a published author. As yet, it's a voluntary position (the company I'm working for is very new. Not even a year old), but it's a magazine publishing firm churning out magazines on various topics (Theatre, films, books, computer-games, fashion...
  22. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    Here are the pieces. The jacket and waistcoat are 2/3 of a suit I bought second-hand, which didn't come with a pair of trousers. The trousers were something I bought last week. I didn't occur to me until after I got them home, that they were the same shade as the coat and vest. The blue on...
  23. Shangas

    Piecing Together Solid-Colour Suits?

    Okay, thanks for the reply.

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