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  1. Beaubeau

    Do You Feel Old, CNN Article

    What I'm saying is your "better times" wasn't any better than right now. They were exactly the same sort of existence that goes on right now, only with different pictures and different issues and different players. As for whether or not the article is being derisive, it is. It's implying that...
  2. Beaubeau

    My pimp roll biker boots. Is it yours? Attention: No vintage!!

    See, I live in an area where they actually live and work. The boots are wonderfully cozy, but I rather not get stopped every five seconds to ask if I just got hired by the Mormons (The LDS church owns a huge ranch out here) or So and So's family, or to be asked if there's a snake in my boot when...
  3. Beaubeau

    My pimp roll biker boots. Is it yours? Attention: No vintage!!

    Cowboy boots are back in fashion? Here they never left, but I would never wear them, for I would hate to have the actual cowboys (Or as the local ones like to be called, Cow Hunters) have to come and hunt me down. Especially the historical reenactor ones, they have whips and dogs. But those...
  4. Beaubeau

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    Get thee to a Kosher Deli or an area with a lot of Jews then. This is considered one of the essential drinks to drink with a proper pastrami and rye, and is very popular amongst the sort of people who are old enough to actually remember the golden era very well. The company makes cream, black...
  5. Beaubeau

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    Jones soda is made with pure sugar, if I remember right. Kosher For Passover Coke (Yellow caps), Kosher for Passover Pepsi, Throwbacks, Heritage Dr. Pepper, Dublin Dr. Pepper, Virgil's. Basically, go to a Whole Foods or other natural store and ask the customer service desk if they can send...
  7. Beaubeau

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    It's also to compete with Coke for the Jewish Market: We're not allowed to have corn or other grain based products besides Matzoh during Passover, so Coke for years made a yellow capped with Hebrew lettering on the cap Kosher for Passover Coke that's pretty hard to find outside of certain areas...
  8. Beaubeau

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    I always tip excessively. I'm not like Frank Sinatra, who started tipping at $100, but I figure if I want good service, I will have to pay for it. The motto of me in service situations is: Keep out of the way of the person doing their job as much as possible, be excessively polite always and...
  9. Beaubeau

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    People hate those boxes and the throwback cokes (although the Pepsi company's doing it, it's still all the retro packaging). I think because it throws off their mental grove of what the products look like. Personally, considering that when we explained to people what the hell "throwback"...
  10. Beaubeau

    shopping rant

    It's also been my experience that people have ridiculously high ideas of what I, low on the totem pole Frontend Service Clerk, can actually do. This is my job description, verbatim: "Help customers, bag groceries and take to cars without tip, retrieve carts from parking lot, some cleaning"...
  11. Beaubeau

    Back to School

    I lived in an area that started school that to most people were extremely early. Fine example of this was the first time I tried to read the first Harry Potter book: I started reading the first Harry Potter book the first day of school in 1999. I read up to where Hagrid gives Harry his Hogwarts...
  13. Beaubeau

    Italian Americans persecuted during WW II in the US

    They also detained Germans as well. We weren't above locking anybody up if we could help it.
  14. Beaubeau

    Edumication

    Went to high school. Graduated towards the middle because not only it was a good school (Valedictorian had a GPA of 6.0 weighted and two college degrees by dual enrollment), but also due to my view of K-12 education. To Put it simply: "I know that you know that I know something, and I do know...
  15. Beaubeau

    Removing underarm stains

    I say test on a very small portion of the stain near a seam so you can fix it if it burns a hole in it or whatever. You don't need to mix up nearly as much stuff and you'd essentially spot-treat it, but it sounds like it might work, provided you go easy on the acid. Oxiclean is sodium...
  16. Beaubeau

    Bed Bugs and Safe Collecting

    We had a rash of bedbugs recently in my mother's bed. They're finally gone for a while, if not forever, but I've always been one to wash a lot of things extremely carefully when I buy from people I don't know well. If I'm not sure of the fabric of clothes and how to launder it, I figure dry...
  17. Beaubeau

    Miami (ad)vise

    Last time I was in Miami, we didn't do any vintage shopping, but a place you'll certainly like to visit is Vizcaya, one of those old gilded age winter houses prior to the land bust of the 1920s that they're restoring. You might also enjoy the Wolfsonian. Sorry I can't be of more help.
  19. Beaubeau

    The Accursed "Boomerangers"

    I live with my parents because their health is really starting to fade a little too quickly for my liking and I'm taking care of them. While they can live alone, their bodies aren't what they're used to be and this is what I can do for them. I don't really like them, but they are my parents and...
  20. Beaubeau

    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    I work for the grocery store company you're referring to with the signs. The company hires baggers or our official term is "Front End Service Clerks" starting at two dollars more than minimum wage. They're not supposed to take tips unless you demand they take it more than three times, and...
  21. Beaubeau

    Vintage mens Bathing Suits and Swim Trunks

    I don't particularly care for swimming, to be honest. It reminds me too much of forced school trips to the beach as a reward for finishing the county's How To Not Drown program every year. I keep a suit like this so I can do laps in hotel pools while on vacation, but it's not a "vintage...
  22. Beaubeau

    What are we missing...?

    I agree. I think that I would like to sow some of my own clothes (I used to help make some of my family's rekelech, bekishes, and frock coats, so the tailoring shouldn't be that much difficult) for practicality's sake and a resource on fabrics so I can match up more efficiently what items were...
  23. Beaubeau

    What are we missing...?

    Yeah, I like to think too much. Sometimes, it's not so much of a great thing, but that's what growing up is for. Good Night. Pleasure to meet you.

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