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    A Lot o' Mottos: What are your words to live by?

    "I won't be wronged, insulted, or laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." And one that was listed earlier, "Measure twice, cut once" Works...
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    Accelerating The Break-in Process

    Sleep in it.
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    Funeral arrangements

    Just stand me up in a corner somewhere. I guarantee that inside of a week, somebody will be along to take care of me.
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    What type of knot do you tie?

    I tie something I've heard called a Shelby. Ties very much like the Pratt described earlier. One starts with the seam facing out. Makes a very nice triangular knot, not too large. When you untie it, only the narrow end comes out. The knot remains and must be untied separately.
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    Classic One Liners and Quotes

    "Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup." Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd. or.... I always liked this one. "CandyGram for Mongo"
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    Pipes

    I own 1 Dunhill pipe. I purchased it from an estate for $90.00. Considering the pipe new cost $360.00, I got a deal. Take my word for it, it is a fine pipe, a superb piece of briar, flawless. I do have other pipes that also smoke well, (my current collection contains about 80+ pipes) some of...
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    The comfort of a fireplace

    We had a very nice fireplace in our first house and while the ambiance was nice, it did nothing to warm any other room except the living room. It pulled a great deal of air through the house, keeping the other rooms too cool. When we built our present home, I had a woodburner installed. It has...
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    Deerskin - The Troublesome Hide

    I have an unlined pair of deerskin gloves that are 25+ years old. I wore them, years ago, as warm weather motorcycle gloves and since then, whenever my hands were too sweaty in warm weather for a good grip on the wheel or when the weather was just a little chilly. I cleaned them by simply...
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    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    Lock, Stock and Barrel's #22, Italian Nightmare, submarine. There is so much meat on this it must be seriously compressed to enable one's lips to wrap around it. Gotta have the hot peppers with it.
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    Post-Mortem Photography

    Our family photo archives holds a photo of a man in his coffin, probably taken in the early 1900's. We have still not been able to identify him. Fascinating photo. I once used it in a still life photo I made, along with several other items, to make a statement about death. My own father...
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    Proper wearing of a belt?

    I thread mine from the left side to the right, simply because I'm right handed and pulling the belt tight seems most natural with my right hand. Besides, I've always done it that way.
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    Wifebeaters?

    Paul Newman looked great in a wifebeater AND a fedora in one of the scenes in The Sting.
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    My Camp Draft arrived !

    Ahh yes, I see what you mean about the taper on the Wentworth. Thank you, Russ, for that side view. I'm not sure that would suit me. One 3/4 view of a hat on a web page makes it very difficult to ascertain what that hat is going to look like on my head from all angles.
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    My Camp Draft arrived !

    Hmmmm. I've had my eye on several new hats from Hatsdirect, namely the Leisure Time and the Wentworth. But seeing the Campdraft is cause for a rethink here. That is a nice hat and I love the bash, RBH. It is available from Everythingaustralian in the fawn. BTW, anybody have any experience...
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    Akubra CEO

    I have the CEO in fern green, which I chose because I thought it would be versatile with jackets in brown, black, gray, etc. Very nice hat, very comfortable. Mine is not as straight sided as the Feds when facing straight on and, of course, does not have as tall a crown. Don't forget, also, the...
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    What you say drives me crazy.

    I think one of the things that bothers me is when people use a preposition to end a sentence with.....i.e "Where is it at?";)
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    WARNING! Controversial poll ahead,...

    Agreed, and IMHO, when "man" was created was when God gave him a soul.
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    Hats and Baldness...settle a dispute for me.

    I didn't wear any hat at all when I was in my teens and twenties and my hair was falling out like crazy. I'm not completely, bald but I do have the traditional male pattern baldness which has been slowly thinning over the years. I wear a hat now, partially to protect that area from the sun. But...
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    New Hat Just Arrived

    Really? I haven't been over there for a while. Well, I stop in briefly, but I haven't had a chance to read all the threads, especially the long ones. What was the verdict?
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    New Hat Just Arrived

    And it's ongoing discussion of whether the hat Indy wore on Clipper plane was gray or brown.

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