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  1. Insp. Bumstead

    Who has Hotel recommendations for Chicago and New Orleans?

    For Chicago, try out Longman and Eagle tavern. It's one of the city's best pubs, with extremely reasonable whiskey prices, and just happens to rent out a suite of rooms above the dining floor. The food is upscale without being pretentious. The room comes with preferential restaurant seating...
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    whats your favorite ethnic cuisines and whats the least liked ethnic cuisines?

    Love: Vietnamese – emphasis on fresh herbs, grilled meats and pungent sauces Mexican – unbeatable flavor combination of lime juice, onion, cilantro and fresh griddled corn tortillas Chinese-American – greasy strip mall classics like BBQ pork lo mein and cabbage egg rolls Taiwanese – fresh...
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    My hat is gone and I feel like I've lost a friend

    Thanks for listening guys, and for sharing similar stories. It's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it felt good to let out the story to like-minded folks.
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    My hat is gone and I feel like I've lost a friend

    I lost my hat a few weeks ago. I don't know how or where it happened. I just woke up one day, reached for it on the nightstand and realized I couldn't remember the last time I had seen it. I realize the title of this thread is mawkish. After all, hats are bits of fur and cloth, not people...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I'm not much of a rifleman so i won't post an embarrassing group here, but yes in capable hands or from a rest the CZ 452 has got to be the best .22lr rifle out there in term of cost/accuracy ratio.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Hello all I really admire the themed collections in this thread. It's nice to have a place to talk about guns without seeing black plastic everywhere. I personally am not much of a collector; whether it's hats or guns or any other hobby I don't like having a lot of *stuff* laying around so I go...
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    Take the "Time Travel Challenge!"

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    Take the "Time Travel Challenge!"

    I would have to spend some time studying Greek and Aramaic (and maybe Latin) then I would like to be transported back to the time and place right after Judas Iscariot killed himself. Those dropped pieces of silver will help my $50 go further. I mean Jesus was pretty important so I am gonna...
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    I love the Fed IV!!

    Jappa, the last picture looks good, i wouldn't change it. I have this theory that fedoras look good on people when the taper continues the lines of the face. You have kind of a long oval-shaped face so the slight taper looks good on you.
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    Your personality traits~ best and worst

    Best traits: Honesty, intelligence, literacy Worst traits: Laziness, pessimism, impatience with people. I am also very independent and don't usually seek out the company or approval of others, and that can excaberate both my good and bad characteristics.
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    why do hot dogs & popcorn from the movie theater smell better than home made?

    A childhood friend of mine worked at an Indiana movie theater, and he said the popcorn butter contained 0% dairy product, but was actually soybean oil with a cocktail of added chemicals. That's might be part of what you're smelling, and good luck making that at home! Also, don't forget that...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Actually, I can't remember a single negative response to my fedora, all the comments from random strangers have been good ones. The best one though was on a flight was San Francisco to Beijing. I was sitting in the aisle seat when this extremely good-looking, stylishly dressed Black guy came...
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    Should I shorten this brim?

    Hey, thanks for all the replies. Personally I am right on the fence about this so I think I will go with the majority and just leave it alone for now.
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    Time Warp

    That's a really great story. I would love to walk into an old-school police station, with wood panel office dividers, frosted glass interior windows, typewriters clacking, rotary phones jangling, and detectives smoking at their desks. Or, when traveling by train, I'd like to pass from the ugly...
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    movie hats that inspired you...

    Once upon a Time in America is the coolest fedora and vintage clothing movie I've seen. The film's timeline jumps between the 1920s, the 1930s, and the 1960s, and the fedoras get stingier as the characters get wrinklier. There are New York street scenes set in the 20s with hundreds of extras in...
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    FAVORITE WILD ANIMAL

    I think ants are the most fascinating animal on the planet because their behavior is so close to ours. They form organized societies, specialize in labor, fight wars over resources, undertake mass migration, keep slaves, and practice agriculture and animal husbandry. I love the fact that there...
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    Should I shorten this brim?

    Hello, I don't post much, but the most important thing I've learned at the Lounge is that for a hat to look right, the dimensions have to be matched to your face shape and body type. I've worn my Akubra Federation for about 2 years and I have mixed feelings about the brim length. Sometimes in...
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    Gents: Do you feel comfortable with a woman who is taller than you?

    I'm 5' 9" and yes, it would be an issue for me. I tend to be attracted to women who are 5' 4" or so
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    Formalizing/Small Pleasures?

    Making a good gumbo is a real pleasure. Every so often when I've accumulated enough bones for a decent stock, I know it's time to spend the better part of a waking day to make a gumbo from scratch. The beautiful thing about gumbo is that you can't cheat and you can't rush it, you just have to...
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    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

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