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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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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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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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...