Have a few...
...that my Dad started collecting in the 50's. That's him, 1950 <<< . Illinois had pairs, front and back, and I was told that the state's college and university colors were used. Brother and I shared Dad's part of the collection, I took even years to match 1954 birth. We...
Bar Keeper's Friend or Bon Ami are non-abrasive powders with weak oxalic acid. Removes stains and rust. At the store usually next to the Comet and Ajax scouring powders.
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/484fhquj.asp
Cool Chapeau, Man
Joseph Epstein, glad hatter.
by Joseph Epstein
09/08/2008, Volume 013, Issue 48
Earlier this summer, I was discovered to have a basal carcinoma, which sounds terrifying, but is in fact...
From the WSJ...
The Hydrox Cookie
Is Dead, and Fans
Won't Get Over It
Internet Campaigners Try
Without Success to Get
Kellogg to Reconsider
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
January 19, 2008
Robert Fliegel was craving a Hydrox. The 52-year-old computer consultant says he always liked the way...
Spring forward....
except it ain't Spring.
From 2006
Clock Wise?
By MICHAEL DOWNING
March 31, 2006; Page A16
This year is the 100th anniversary of the original British daylight saving law. It is also the last year Americans will spring forward. Thanks to the 2005 Energy Policy Act...
Just finished ...
Confederacy of Dunces, the only fiction I've read in years.
My Grandfather's Son by Justice Thomas.
Now on America Alone by the brilliant Mark Steyn.
Highly recommend all.
From the Wall Street Journal today.
The ridiculous Johnny Depp is photographed. Not sure if he and Brad Pitt are "hip".
URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119992922984379699.html
Q: I wear a fedora hat in the winter, and I get favorable comments from people on the...
How about them Wildcats
Kentucky over #9 Louisville, first time in four years. First victory over a top 10 ranked team since #4 Penn State in 1977.
It's not just basketball anymore.
From "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
"Your beauty is beyond compare
with flaming locks of auburn hair,
ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.
Your smile is like a breath of spring
your voice is soft like summer rain
and I cannot compete with you Jolene."
Boy howdy do those words paint a...
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