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  1. Shangas

    Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

    The results are moderate, but it's not entirely gone. I'm gonna try a couple of other things and see what happens.
  2. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Mike you lucky ba***rd! I want that! I have it on my computer...but still...it's not quite the same...
  3. Shangas

    WWII Carrier Pigeon and Secret Message Found in Chimney

    I'm amazed that there isn't a thread on this forum about crazy wartime inventions. Exploding pancakes, anybody?
  4. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    He looks like Poirot's little brother!
  5. Shangas

    Detachable Collars

    I learned about it in a documentary on the Victorian era. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century, celluloid collars were popular (or were at least manufactured...dunno about popular!), but that this had pretty much died out as soon as it arrived, in favour of the more traditional...
  7. Shangas

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    Oooh I can't STAND Political Correctness. And I make no efforts to be politically correct. Ever. People have become far too oversensitive about that stuff. YOU CANNOT PLEASE EVERYONE. Don't bother trying. That's all Political correctness is. Haven't these people heard of the story of the...
  8. Shangas

    Detachable Collars

    If I'm right, celluloid collars were more common in the Victorian era. Would that be correct? For the most part, I believed that collars were just cotton, made rigid with copious amounts of starch.
  9. Shangas

    Detachable Collars

    Old-style celluloid, such as the stuff used on straight-razors, and fountain pens in the 20s-40s, was indeed very flammable. That video is an excellent example of just how combustible it is. I've heard stories from pen-collectors who destroyed vintage fountain pens like that. They heat the...
  10. Shangas

    Detachable Collars

    High hats and Arrow collars, White spats and lots of dollars, Spending every dime, For a wonderful time... If you're blue and you dunno, Where to go to, Why don'tcha go, Where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz... I did a bit of research on this company for a blog-posting I did once. I doubt...
  11. Shangas

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    I've eaten in places like that. Can't stand them. It's supposed to be "romantic". What, so that you can have sex on the table and nobody else can see you? Lighting like that, or the lack of it, rather, just boggles me.
  13. Shangas

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    I greatly LOATHE and DESPISE rap and hip-hop in all its variations. It gives me headaches. Literally. I also can't stand those "celebrities" which seem to have fame for no discernable reason. I'm yet to understand the attraction of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, that "Friday" girl (I forget her...
  14. Shangas

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    Dance-Dance-Revolution. iAnythings. Segways. Autotune.
  15. Shangas

    61 Year Old Computer Restored, Turned On

    Can you surf the internet on it?
  16. Shangas

    Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

    Yes, we have Vanish laundry detergents etc, down here.
  17. Shangas

    Display your Display Cases?

    My pen display-case at the recent 2012 Melbourne Pen Show, displaying an array of early 20th century fountain pens:
  19. Shangas

    Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

    Thanks for the help, guys. I'll reexamine the stain and see what I can use to shift it. Hopefully with luck...
  20. Shangas

    Sweet nicknames for your fella and you?

    According to the researchers and producers of the film "The Queen", Prince Philip's pet-name for Her Majesty is "Cabbage". They thought it was such a fascinating intimate detail, they included it in the final movie. There's a scene where the prince and queen are going to bed, and the prince...
  21. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Thanks! Clay, you look like John-Boy Walton.
  22. Shangas

    Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

    The shirt isn't synthetic, it's cotton. I'll try and get a photograph of the stain sometime today.
  23. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Pen show is tomorrow!!! Sunday :) That's what I'll be wearing :)

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