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    Show us your TIES

    Yes - well, one of them anyway! :D ;)
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    Show us your TIES

    Yes, that's right, the scene where Jessica Rabbit pays him a call after he's just come out of the shower. Only Hoskins could pull of a bold look tie and hairy chest! In another scene there's a nice bit of animation when Jessica pulls on Eddie's tie then lets it slowly slip through her fingers...
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    Show us your TIES

    Yep, stumbled onto it. I'd been on the lookout for one since the movie came out, but had pretty much given up and forgotten about it. Years later at the end of the '90s I was visiting a friend in Scarborough on the north-east coast of England when I happened on this one buried amongst a load of...
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    Show us your TIES

    My tie of the day is a little tribute to Bob Hoskins... "Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant? I heard you changed your name to Jack Daniels!"
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    What do you guys use on your shoes/boots?

    Parade Gloss (and spit) for shine, Sno-Seal for waterproofing.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Last night I went to a Vincent Price double bill: The Tingler and The Pit and the Pendulum. I thoroughly enjoyed them both. The venue was my favourite 1930s cinema, the Stockport Plaza. Before the movies began, the organist regaled us with a fine selection of Baroque favourites, including (of...
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    What do you use to shave?

    I have very thick wiry facial hair, a-la Desperate Dan, and I spent a long time (from my teens to my late 30s) looking for that perfect shave. Then for Christmas in 2010, my girlfriend gave me a Merkur Adjustable. It's absolutely the best razor I've ever used. To get the best out of it I use...
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    Denim repair in UK

    Aha! This is the place on Cross Street near the Royal Exchange Theatre! I have some items that need repairing and I knew there was a place in town, but couldn't remember the name or the exact location. Thanks for jogging my memory.
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    Cuffed Jeans

    I've been cuffing my jeans since about 1984. Being on the short side, I usually do it for practical reasons, but I also liked the vintage vibe right from the get-go. I would've been about 13 when I started, and was just getting into the vintage styles of the '20s > '50s. I'd usually do my...
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    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    :D My partner, who's Spanish, has been reading the Rebus novels recently. Most of my evenings over the last few months have been spent translating lots of Scots (and English!) words and phrases for her. :rolleyes:
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    Terminology: US vs. UK - 1942

    To confuse things further, in Scotland a close is the ground floor hallway in a block of tenements, or a small passageway between buildings and courtyards. Think Edinburgh Old Town.
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    What is your favorite Scotch Whisky?

    I visited Islay last week. While I was there I popped into Bruichladdich and picked up a bottle of a one off blend created by Jim McEwan. It's called Symphony Number 1: Conception, and it's a blend of Islay, Speyside and Highland malts that were knocking around in the warehouse. It's absolutely...
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    1940's England

    Passport to Pimlico. I re-watched it at the weekend for the first time in years. I'd forgotten just how witty it is. "Blimey! I'm a foreigner!" Oh and Two Types, you may have already posted on this in the suits section, but I noticed that "That Jacket" (you know the one - as worn by Dirk...
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    Favorite Vincent Price film

    The Abominable Dr Phibes is one of my all time favourite movies. I've watched and re-watched it many times, yet I can pop it in the DVD player any time, and it never fails to raise a smile. It's especially fun to watch on these long, dark winter evenings. You can keep Citizen Kane! ;)
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    St. Andrews Day

    :cheers1: Slainte mhath! Or, as we Lowlanders say "lang may yer lum reek"!
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    Oxford Bags

    Yes, his memory could've been playing tricks on him! 1926 was the year of the General Strike (in which he also claimed to have robbed a train!), so I don't see how he could've afforded Oxford Bags! :D However, he certainly was a dapper wee man in his day, so I think I can assume he was wearing...
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    Oxford Bags

    This seems like a good example of the "genuine" style, and you make a good point. The trousers pictured aren't monstrously wide, but in comparison with trousers from the end of the 19th Century right up to the middle of the '20s, these must have seemed very wide indeed, especially those worn by...
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    BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO) - Everything you wanted to bootleg about the Show!

    You beat me to it, I was about to post this! I live 5 minutes walk away from here and pass it every day on the way to work. I think it's an amazing building and would love to see inside it (I'd also like to see more photos of it in its hay-day). My partner hates it though! Supposedly it's...
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    Dunkirk

    Thanks, will do!
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    Dunkirk

    This'll be in my dad's Christmas stocking this year! A friend of his (his pipe-major in fact) was in the 51st Highland Division and was captured at Dunkirk. Co-incidentally I just bought Blitz Kids the other day, mainly for the chapters on the RN and Merchant Navy. My grandad joined up when he...

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