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  1. Paisley

    Why the South?

    Judith Martin said in Star Spangled Manners, I think it was, that southern manners came from Africa, not England.
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    Cads on the subway

    I wonder if many of them would accept it. [huh] I'd like to see more people get up and move from their seat in the front to make room for a wheelchair or baby stroller without being chased off by the bus driver.
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    Square fingernails

    Me, too. Since my nails are thin but sharp, I keep them short partly out of consideration for my dance partners.
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    Cads on the subway

    Sounds reasonable to me. I don't see why a healthy, able-bodied woman is more deserving of a seat than a man is.
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    Public Displays of Affection

    I think there was a thread on this that is now closed.
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    Indoor House Paint?

    :eek: My mom would have tanned my hide if I'd drawn on the walls. She said none of us kids ever did that.
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    Indoor House Paint?

    I use liquid dish soap and baking soda to clean painted surfaces. When I was a kid, my mother always told me to keep my hands off the walls. Since it's just me and my dog now, my house doesn't have many painted surfaces that need cleaning. :)
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    How not to look like Indiana Jones?

    Yesterday, somebody said I looked like Indiana Jones. (Yes, my avatar is a photo of me.) I was wearing a cream colored Tilley hat, a form-fitting blouse with ribbon tied in a bow, and brown slacks. Being with my best friend for the first time in a couple of years might have brought out something...
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    The Art of being happy.

    Well said! Of course, sometimes we need to leave where we are and what we're doing because it's untenable. There's no simple test for knowing when that's right--we have to think carefully, knowing that, as you said, we have no reason to expect perfect bliss.
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    Who Does Without TV?

    For me, there's a lot of difference between what I self-program and what I'd see on TV if I randomly turned it on. I don't like angsty, disheveled main characters or predictable jokes or people behaving badly on "reality" shows. That's mostly what was on the last time I tuned in.
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    Golden era door to door solicitors

    An Answer for Everything A friend and I were talking about salesmen today. (She used to work in retail.) She explained that part of selling was to have an answer for everything. If you don't read their paper, they'll tell you why you'll read it if you have it. If you can't afford it, they'll...
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    The Art of being happy.

    After a point, more money and more stuff won't make you happier. A lot of people have become very unhappy going into debt to buy stuff they couldn't pay for and didn't need. Those people don't need more money, they need to look elsewhere--in friendship, family, work, themselves, for...
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    The Art of being happy.

    Some of my employer's clients have seven-figure incomes. The accountants here who I've talked to about it have said those clients are no happier than the average person.
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    Who Does Without TV?

    You mean like this guy ("Area Man Constantly Mentioning he Doesn't Own a Television" from The Onion): http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 "I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring...
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    The Thread to end all Hair Advice Threads

    Try this thread: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=42602
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    Who Does Without TV?

    I seem to have more time since I've been without reception. I never watched much anyway, but now I don't find myself at 10 p.m. still needing to take a shower and pack a lunch and pick up around the house.
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    Golden era door to door solicitors

    I find that anything other than saying "no" and shutting (not slamming) the door is seen as negotiable.
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    Golden era door to door solicitors

    One day when my father was a kid (c. 1940), he and his brother kept knocking on the door to their house and hiding. It began to irritate their mother. Then a salesman knocked on the door and she inadvertently clobbered him. I just say no and shut the door. I used to have a no soliciting...
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    The Art of being happy.

    Yup. It's hard to fly with the eagles when you're hanging around the turkeys.
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    Sun protection in the golden age

    Barbara Stanwyck wore shades in Double Indemnity. She was meeting her boyfriend at the grocery store incognito. The odd thing was that the arms of the glasses were outside her hair.

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