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  1. dr greg

    Distressed Akubra

    A Stetson Whippet, I got it in a swap with another FL'er some years ago.
  2. dr greg

    Distressed Akubra

    That sounds a bit bizarre, i live about 10 miles as the crow flies from where that series is filmed, and my hats take years to get beat-up ACTUALLY working on a farm...i think the set-dressers might be involved somehow!
  3. dr greg

    The White Mouse - Aussie War Heroine Nancy Wake dies at 98

    Her book was a good read, she really lived her life.....
  4. dr greg

    Slap hat

    My father told me that as a young lad in the east end of london, he'd have a flat cap with razor blades sewn into the visor, so in a brawl you could take it off and use it as a slashing weapon, I remember thinking you'd want to put it on carefully tho.....
  5. dr greg

    Roughneck Oil Driller Goatskin Jacket by Cockpit

    I'm no leather expert, but I thought goatskin was a soft premium leather, wouldn't an ACTUAL oilworker's jacket have been made of something a bit more robust like Steerhide? Correct me if I be wrong....
  7. dr greg

    Rare one

    Nice one Dr Greg that's a beauty. I'm just interested to know what Australia's version of Florida is... Byron Bay? Port Macquarie? Well I haven't been to Florida actually, but if you want unrestricted housing development on top of old swamps, flash cars everywhere full of criminals and their...
  8. dr greg

    Rare one

    Long time since I added to the collection, but I couldn't pass this up for $20, it was squashed etc, but some needlework and a gentle wash..voila. A rare pastel colour I haven't seen in a LONG time.
  9. dr greg

    Forbidden items in my home...

  10. dr greg

    The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Weapons Ever Built

    To the best of my knowledge the German infantry in WW1 used reverse rounds to the same effect against the first tanks, and could penetrate the armour with them....
  11. dr greg

    War Art

    This guy is considered our finest, I've loved his work for 50 years or so now http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2005/12/ivor-hele-great-war-illustrator.html
  13. dr greg

    Underbelly Razor - Sydney Razor Gang Crime in the 20s and 30s = new TV series

    Ad agency-speak for the sort of toothsome smiling youth one might see in a Coke ad....and rarely handling the door of a pub full of punks and psycho-billy ruffians in a time of rampant speed abuse and concomitant aggression....
  14. dr greg

    Underbelly Razor - Sydney Razor Gang Crime in the 20s and 30s = new TV series

    Back in the 80's I auditioned for a role in a film as a bouncer in an inner-city nightclub, because that's what I was actually doing at the time...I was told I wasn't "coca-cola" enough
  15. dr greg

    The Closet Door is Open - Lavender Ladies & Gents of the Golden Age of Hollywood

    Homophobia has always puzzled me, because for every two guys doing whatever, there are approximately two women going 'spare' which surely ups the odds for your average guy out playing the field....and I do know quite a bit about this subject: at the age of 15 I was accused of being a fag by...
  16. dr greg

    Mother-in-Law's Scathing E-mail Goes Viral

    I'm with the Mum-in-law on this one, Heidi sounds like a bit of a pain quite frankly, but this is just a classic example of the pitfalls of modern social communication: even 20 years ago such a letter would have been private, kept in the family, and only would have surfaced after someone's...
  17. dr greg

    The return of the NKVD overcoat

    If I had to stand guard outside in the weather on a winter's night in Russia somewhere while the bigwig had a vodka orgy in his dacha, I'd be wanting a good leather coat too....
  19. dr greg

    World War Leather

    Well, back in the early 80's. there was a HEAVY DUTY gay leather shop in Sydney called the Link, that made things you don't wanna even think about....however. their 'brando' jackets were exceptionally well constructed of the best hides available, were not in any way, shall we say, exaggerated...
  20. dr greg

    SPAM and the Second World War?

    SPAM? Never eaten the stuff, it's like McDonald's...just don't look right, but anyway, ever wondered why the world is divided into those who eat the pig and those who don't? Pigmeat is pretty much a Christian/Confucian thing....the rest don't touch it.....and it can't be a climate thing because...
  21. dr greg

    ALL ORIGINAL Irvin RAF type Jackets - Loving that Wolf in sheeps' clothing!

    Here's a project for some net nerd...how many authentic RAF flight jackets turn up on ebay or similar sites every year, multiply by the number of years the internet has been in existence, compare with actual numbers of issued in WW2, calculate % still surviving, calculate average life and...
  22. dr greg

    Does anyone own the "Indiana Leather Adventure duffle"?

    The important thing is...is it within COL dimensions? It would be close by those measurements....
  23. dr greg

    Don't you hate it ...

    NEVER had an Akubra bleed on me, and I've worn them in some serious weather on the road, and even just here on the farm.....

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