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#98358 - 03/11/03 01:08 PM How did I let this happen???
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	Saturday night Peggy and I hosted a total of 13 people for dinner at The Fort, a wonderful (and expensive) restaurant near Denver, in celebration of my retirement. It had been originally scheduled a month earlier, but I changed it to March 8 so everyone could show up. Someone in the party told the waitress that the next day was my birthday, and the next thing I knew the wait staff came out with a buffalo headdress for me to wear while the staff and patrons gave three cheers. The picture is posted on The Fort's web site: http://thefort.com/2348/thefort.nsf/MainFrame!OpenFrameSet Click on photo gallery and then look at the pictures displayed. My picture is currently on the first page, the first column, third picture down from the top. They apparently add new pictures at the top, so this order may change. If so, look for March 8, 2003 on the picture. I have a graying beard and am wearing a blue buttondown oxford shirt, no tie. TEd _________________________ TEd
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#98359 - 03/11/03 01:30 PM Re: How did I let this happen???
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	I think it may have been the frosty beverages that let your gaurd down. (You look a little *starry-eyed) Congrats on both dates.
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#98360 - 03/11/03 01:43 PM Re: How did I let this happen???
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear TEd: Have you a special pun for the occasion?
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#98361 - 03/11/03 03:24 PM Too much Coors light?
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Hey, TEd, for a minute there I thought (hoped) you were the mandolin player on the front page!
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#98362 - 03/11/03 03:36 PM Mary Ann
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	from the restaurant link: "It's clear that Sam Arnold's zest for living stems not from a sprinkle of grated lemon rind, but from the roasted whole chile of life"
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#98363 - 03/12/03 01:55 AM Re: How did I let this happen???
stales old hand Registered: 11/13/00 Posts: 866 Loc: Perth, Western Australia	Congrats TEd. As I said once before, now you're gonna get REAL busy!! So what's an "oxford" shirt? Why? What other name would I know it as? A "business" shirt perhaps? (Gotta be a word topic somewhere here folks....) fashiondope stales
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#98364 - 03/12/03 03:26 AM Re: How did I let this happen???
Rubrick addict Registered: 05/18/00 Posts: 679 Loc: Somewhere outside New York	Someone in the party told the waitress that the next day was my birthday, and the next thing I knew the wait staff came out with a buffalo headdress for me to wear while the staff and patrons gave three cheers. Ted, as we say in this neck of the woods - Jaysus!
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#98365 - 03/12/03 04:52 AM Re: How did I let this happen???
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	Congratulations on your graduation into real life, TEd. (and thanks for the advance warning of what you look like - at my time of life, sudden shocks aren;t too good for me )
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#98366 - 03/12/03 06:02 AM Re: Oxford shirt
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	An oxford shirt is made of a heavier coarser cloth, called, surprisingly enough, oxford cloth. http://www.virtue.to/fabric/07_Weaving.html this site says it has white threads going one way and colored the other but I've seen white oxford cloth.
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#98367 - 03/12/03 08:35 PM Re: How did I let this happen???
modestgoddess old hand Registered: 02/18/02 Posts: 833 Loc: Eastern Ontario, Canada	TEd, but how cool! I have a graying beard grey...ING? [kiss-e] you silver fox you!
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#98368 - 03/12/03 11:10 PM Re: Oxford shirt
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Is this oxford cloth the same as what I know as cheesecloth? Where are you of troy? Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#98369 - 03/13/03 05:51 AM Re: Oxford shirt
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	what I know as cheesecloth Dunno what you know as cheesecloth. What USns call cheesecloth wouldn't work for this kind of shirt. Would you wear a shirt made of it? And go to work in that shirt? It's a little more casual than your standard dress shirt but not so much to stop you from going to work.
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#98370 - 03/13/03 09:20 AM Re: Oxford shirt
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Helen's already been here on that one, Bingley. In response to Jo asking about what she knows as cheesecloth blouses, of troy said: the blouses Jo defined--(circa 1960) sheer to almost sheer-- in this country that fabric would be voile, or lawn.. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=55220 Here's a site where you can view cheesecloth weaves: http://www.alphasourceintl.com/cheese/cheesecloth2.htm Finally found a good close-up of oxford cloth (scroll down): http://store.yahoo.com/phoenixtextiles/l-117.html
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#98371 - 03/14/03 09:33 AM Re: Oxford shirt
stales old hand Registered: 11/13/00 Posts: 866 Loc: Perth, Western Australia	Thanks Jackie - looks rather like our work uniform shirts. These are referred to as chambre - 100% cotton but. Are we talking chambre ~/= oxford?? drivinghomethefashiondopetag stales
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#98372 - 03/14/03 03:14 PM Re: Oxford shirt
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	Ted, I keep getting a note that the link doesn't work. Is there something special I should be doing?
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#98373 - 03/14/03 03:17 PM Re: TEd's link
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	It must be down for the moment, bel! Maybe they're adding new pictures. But be patient; it's worth it
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#98374 - 03/15/03 10:34 AM Re: TEd's link
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	Ha, welcome to buffalo lodge TEd. C'est cute. I had to double-check your post though since I just looked at third picture and thought, hmmmm, doesn't look like that would be him. Looks kinda like Jimmy Durante. Then I went back and saw you said third picture down. How neat, now I'll recognise you in Ireland. Are ya bringing the hat? I know how you guys do love your tatty accessories.
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