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  1. Pompidou

    NY Times Article: Oldest/Longest-Serving Paperboy

    The paperboy in this article has been delivering the same paper on the same route since the 40s. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/us/a-93-year-old-paperboy-still-making-the-rounds.html?smid=pl-share
  2. Pompidou

    Historic homes rent free for those willing and able to restore them

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tlc-needed-no-rent-historic-120613453.html might be interesting to some of you. The gist of the article is this: There are lots of historic homes falling into disrepair - some possibly near the condemning point. This is bad for everyone, as I imagine TFL is most...
  3. Pompidou

    Golden Era coin operated arcade predecessors for your iDevice

    I thought a few of you might enjoy this sort of thing on your iWhatever. It's a collection of those old mechanical arcade style games (but not pinball). http://toucharcade.com/2011/10/27/penny-parlor-review/ Penny Parlor is the game. Seems like a match made in heaven for this crowd.
  4. Pompidou

    What do our hats really say about us, and more importantly, are they right?

    When I asked Art to make my hat, I had a specific statement in mind. I wanted a hat that shouted, "Stop what you're doing and look at me!" I believe the specific phrase used in the phone call was, "I want people to know who I am from two blocks away". Since I only have one hat, and it's in any...
  5. Pompidou

    What do you want out of life?

    I'm in one of those moments where it seems like everything I want in life is at my fingertips - self employment, a log cabin, a Mini Cooper, and a relationship. I suppose it's sort of a variation on the American Dream, if that was ever more than a hyped up catchphrase. Does everyone else have a...
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    Hat disaster, but all worked out

    Last night, I was stocking cans of Pepsi in the refrigerator. Our refrigerator happens to have a vertical can holder/dispenser that keeps about seven or eight cans colder than the rest of the fridge, and I was loading that. It's got these twin shark-fin plastic guides running down the inside...
  8. Pompidou

    Snow White 2.0

    A friend of mine found this Snow White decal for iPads and I just had to have it, but I don't have an iPad. I've got an iPhone 4 that's too new for me to want to experiment with, and a Macbook Pro just ripe for a makeover. Found the very decal on eBay in my size. Great stuff. There's not much...
  9. Pompidou

    Adam Savage of Mythbusters and the Maltese Falcon Youtube

    If you're only interested in the Maltese Falcon part, you'll have to skip in a bit, but essentially, Maltese Falcon fans might like this movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SopXQfc_s&feature=channel
  10. Pompidou

    The Most Famous Hat

    I did a Google search for "World's Most Famous Hat" and I got two results that were worth posting, though neither were what I really expected. I was hoping to find a specific hat of a specific person, just for the sake of curiosity, really. But, all wasn't lost. The first link is "He made the...
  11. Pompidou

    Some of my favorite beer resources

    Hey, here's about an hour of two distinguished lady beer experts (The Beer Chicks) talking about beers of all types and how to enjoy them. I've read that book they wrote and display between them twice now, so I can't recommend that enough, but I figured since there are a lot of beer fans here...
  13. Pompidou

    A NYT article about Frank Sinatra and cigarette culture of his heyday

    I get the New York Times emailed to me daily. This article wasn't a headliner, but people here might like it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/opinion/14greene.html
  14. Pompidou

    Is time running out for the wristwatch? BBC Wonders...

    Here's the link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11634105 I have to agree. I don't know why I wear one. My phone keeps better time, doesn't leave tan lines, and I don't have to manually adjust the date every other month because the unvarying 31 day dial is only accurate a month at a time...
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    World's oldest known hats

    27,000 years ago, people wore nice woven hats. The article I'm linking to is from the year 2,000, but I just discovered it and thought it was pretty neat. A while back, I noticed that the "ice man" mummy was wearing a relatively nice leather brimmed hat and it piqued my interest. If anyone else...
  16. Pompidou

    Pinball and golden age arcade goodness

    If there's one crossover from the golden age to the present, and probably the one I relate to most, it's the arcade, and no arcade can be complete without a pinball machine. It's becoming harder and harder to find good arcade halls these days, and when you do, you're oft shocked at the dollar to...
  17. Pompidou

    Would you, if you could?

    Naturally, a community like this is home to a lot of nostalgia for the good old days. I'm just sort of curious how many of you would actually rather live back then - in the decades The Fedora Lounge caters to mostly - I'd say, the 20s to the 60s. Would you give up the advancements in science for...
  19. Pompidou

    Ear Flicking, Hat Manhandling, Hat Tips, Boy George, and Hat Crushing

    It's been an interesting two days for the Art Fawcett hat. I was sitting at the bar the other day, waiting for people I knew to show up, and all the sudden my ear got flicked. I just ignored it - didn't even turn around, figured, surely there's some way it could've been an accident. A few flicks...
  20. Pompidou

    Selecting the right hat cleaner

    I went on google today to browse hat cleaners, and they come in two varieties - dark hats, and light hats. At first, I thought, "No problem, cabernet red is a light hat," but then I got to wondering... Why would there be a need for two different types of hat cleaner? I fear discoloring my hat...
  21. Pompidou

    "I could never pull off X"

    I see that a lot. I'm not sure it's true. I was at the bar Friday and a friend said, "It takes a certain type of person to pull off a hat." On the boards here, I've read, "I could never pull off a hat like that." I have to wonder. How many of you could pull off a fedora at all before you decided...
  22. Pompidou

    Art's hat in about a month, planning two more

    I'm getting excited for my new Art Fawcett cabernet red western porkpie. So excited, I've come up with two consecutive followup creations. I'm going to want a forest green homburg looking hat with some sort of twist, and an oxblood fedora of some sort. Typically, I've given away an old hat...
  23. Pompidou

    Recreating the Casino Royale Vesper

    The closest I've gotten is: 3 shots of Tanqueray No. Ten gin (to remain close to the original Gordon's proof) 1 shot of Stolichnaya vodka blue label for the 100 proof 1/2 shot of Lillet Blanc white wine Lemon peel I haven't been able to get ahold of actual Quinine powder. Using...

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