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  1. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    Merv Griffin... Hoooi've gotter loverly buncha cocanuts... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqEmAsUXVJY
  2. Shangas

    Monocles.

    I have crappy vision in both eyes, maybe I should throw out my glasses and buy a pair of monocles! Hahaha. I actually bought a simple, gold-tone monocle at a shop in London a while back. I should start carrying it around with me again. It's more like a small magnifying glass on a chain...
  3. Shangas

    Monocles.

    What ho, Mikey! I shan't be at the August Meeting of the Pen Club. But I will be available for the October meeting, and the Pen Show in November. I hope to see you and your monocle soon!! :)
  4. Shangas

    Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

    I remember that. You gotta give them credit. That was actually pretty ingeneius.
  5. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I had a red, wind-up clock during my childhood, and a blue one, which my father gave me. I forget what happened to the blue one...But the red one, I recall, broke from metal-fatigue or something. HOW, I have no idea. All I recall was that one day, I was winding up the bell-spring, and...
  7. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I liked the look of the dial, and it worked, which was why I bought it. It's clean, easy to read and with a dash of style.
  8. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    This cashbox my father gave me years ago. He thought I'd find it cute. It's handy for storing stuff in, but there was no key! And it continued not having a key for several years. I didn't LOSE it...it just never had one! This lack of a key frustrated me and I'd been meaning to find...
  9. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Today, I bought an original Singer Model 99 owner's instruction-manual! Now I can chuck out that big, bulky, computer-printed, scanned-copy one, and use an original manual from the...1930s...I think this is!! I also bought this neat little box of SINGER needles: It's about...
  10. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Much like the first video, yes. When I was in Rome (2003, December), the traffic was absolutely CRAZY! You didn't know WHERE to walk and where not to. You could enter market squares which you think are automobile-free zones (5,000 locals can't all be wrong, eh?) and then suddenly some nutcase...
  11. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Rome is a crazy, crazy town! The traffic is absolutely insane! I mean I know every big city has its issues, but over there, you could set your watch to the number of ambulance-sirens you could hear every day. Not one or two, four or five...I was counting dozens every single day! And I was there...
  13. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The key to Rome is RUN LIKE HELL! Trust me! The traffic in that town is freakin' CRAZY!!
  14. Shangas

    The Crown Barber Shop

    That is quite a shop!! Very colourful and vibrant! I love the "coat of arms" on the doors!
  15. Shangas

    Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

    Maybe if the candybar came with nitro-filled centers, it could serve as a grenade of sorts... Break off a piece for yourself, and then share the rest with the Jerries...
  16. Shangas

    Help me choose my next pair of shoes

    They both look interesting, but I agree with Isshinryu101...I don't think either really 'works'. Brown and biege, black and white...maybe...but to my eyes, at least, the colours are too similar and of too dark a shade to have any real distinction...
  17. Shangas

    What to do with this fabric?

    If my mental measurements are correct, no. You probably won't get a suit out of that. I'd say you'd get either a waistcoat (quite possible in my opinion) or a jacket (might be a bit tight). But I don't know about a whole *suit*!!
  19. Shangas

    3 piece double-breasted suit with belted back

    That would almost certainly fit me. But I don't think I could pull off a double-breasted 3-piece...
  20. Shangas

    Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

    Perhaps, but I don't see a one-pound candybar NOT looking incredibly suspicious. Don't forget that RATIONING was in effect at the time. Where would they get the sugar and cocoa?
  21. Shangas

    Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

    http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/nazis-planned-assassinate-winston-churchill-exploding-chocolate-055149196--abc-news-topstories.html *nibbles cautiously on his Cadbury's*
  22. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    That sounds delicious, but if you'll pardon my asking...what are butterscotch cookies?? Tonight's dinner was roast pork and crackling, with rice :) Simple, but delicious.
  23. Shangas

    does it ever bother you that vintage clothing is a deceased person's clothing?

    "...No place hides a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling countryside....You look at these lonely homesteads, and are impressed by their beauty. I look at them and think of what deeds of hellish cruelty may go on in such places, year in, year out, and no-one the wiser..." -...

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