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  1. Nobert

    (Don't know if this has been done before but) Movies so Traumatizing You Could Only Watch It Once.

    "Dancer in the Dark" I really think Von Trier enjoys making audiences feel bad. "Yellow Submarine." Like giving a seven-year-old kid a bad acid trip.
  2. Nobert

    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    The memoirs of Bill Mauldin, and Jean Shepherd (Christmas story only gives you a tip-of-the-iceberg variation)
  3. Nobert

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    Protestant guilt is going about your life feeling vaguely guilty that you're not sure what you're supposed to be feeling guilty about, so you hedge your bets and distribute it around to more or less everything.
  4. Nobert

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    Well, that makes even more sense. One design element I'm fond of the the curly-cued metal plate on my old Hoover. Apart from being aesthetically pleasing, depending on how you let the peg on the side go through the slotted paths, it allows the vacuum to tilt at a regular angle or extra low, to...
  5. Nobert

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    I have a notion that working-class people used pocket watches for a period after the wristwatch gained ascendance, though this is based on naught but casual evidence and speculation. The evidence being, as you mention, the watch pocket on denim dungarees, and the fact that I keep coming across...
  6. Nobert

    Dentist Woes!

    An ex-girlfriend's mother had a weird condition wherein novocaine had no effect on one side of her face. When she was a child, no one believed this and she grew up with a paralyzing fear of dentists. She lost all her teeth quite young. I guess I've been lucky, the truth is I haven't seen a...
  7. Nobert

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Well, that's kind of sad. If I'm honest, I never could abide most of his stuff (which I found vile for no other reason than shock value), but when he dialed it back he could make some eerily interesting comics. A great talent, if not to my taste.
  8. Nobert

    How do I stretch my hat?

    I was kidding inasmuch as this is something I did do accidentally, and it did shrink and warp the sweatband. I thought it was obvious that this was facetious, but if not, then no, don't really do that.
  9. Nobert

    How do I stretch my hat?

    Something I've used with moderate success is a spray-on thing called Shoe Stretcher. I don't know what it does, chemically, but it elasticizes the leather a bit, to facilitate size nudges. If you want to shrink a hat band, that's easy. Just give it a good steaming over a tea kettle, think to...
  10. Nobert

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Yeah, it's colder up there. When I was a baby/toddler my family lived in Montreal, and since then I've been to Carnivale in Quebec a couple of times. in addition to the latitude, you get those bracing blasts of hypothermia coming in off the St. Lawrence. In seriousness, one place to consider...
  11. Nobert

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    You could always come to northern New England. You'll be surrounded by impressive snowy peaks, as you attempt to traverse the sidewalks after the plow trucks have some through. You may think the winters intimidating, but there are many mechanisms and compensations for it. Believe me, there is...
  12. Nobert

    WTB Fairisle Sweater Vest/Tank Top 3xl or 4xl

    Darcy clothing sells them in XXL (U.K.), I don't know how that translates in actual inches. https://www.darcyclothing.com/collections/mens-knitwear/products/shetland-wool-fair-isle-slipover-kn145
  13. Nobert

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    I've always been a bit confused as to the Continental style, what makes it what it is. What I used to think it was turned out to be Ivy League. This is probably at least in part from trying to learn from those quickie, history-of-fashion overviews that you find in books on menswear or...
  14. Nobert

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    "Power Look," bleah. I hate that whole concept. Just wear a loincloth of animal skin if you're so set on alpha-male dominance, and may your B.M.W. blow a tiny part that costs your entire bloated yearly bonus. And yea, huzzah to brown. I do feel like, in some of these ads, I can see the Bold...
  15. Nobert

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    Well, apparently he's had more than one affair. Who but a jerk would do that?
  16. Nobert

    Christmas decorations.

    Some things I learned about vintage Christmas lights: In case you were ever interested in getting some old-fashioned, festive little fire hazards of yore, I recently got some of my, and here's some things I know now that I wished I'd knew then. They come in a variety of sizes and shapes, but...
  17. Nobert

    Show Us Your Pens

    You might already know this: the interesting things about those Esterbrooks is that the nib is interchangeable, so if you're not entirely happy with it, you can find a replacement in a different style or width.
  18. Nobert

    Double cuffed shirt with attached buttons

    I have a shirt, admittedly single-cuff and not vintage, that has both buttons and holes so that you can wear it either with flinks or as a regular barrel cuff. I would expect that for military purposes, buttons might be the more practical sleeve fasteners. Nobody wants to go back on the...
  19. Nobert

    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    Snow in Vienna. Something to put on the bucket list.

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