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Actually, the only time I ever saw "pinkie" used was in New Yorker satire on table manners, citing the affectation of having the pinkie ostentatiously uninvolved in grip on teacup.
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What? Never seen a reference to a pinkie ring, then?
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The only jewelry I have eveer worne is my wristwatch.
I leave ostentation to the gypsies.
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So, in your book, wwh, anybody who wears jewelry other than a wristwatch is a gypsy? How very funny!
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I believe in conspicuous underconsumption.
Like Cal Coolidge: Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, do without.
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Did Cal really say that? [Actually, I thought Cal had more of a reputation for saying nothing.] I'm going to bed, but will try to google him tomorrow...
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Cal Coolidge began his career in Northampton, MA. He patron;ized a saloon that sold two shots of whiskey for a buck. Cal would plank down his buck, take one shot, then come back in evening for his second shot.
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it." -Calvin Coolidge
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." -Calvin Coolidge
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 Anybody read a definitive, entertaining biography of Silent Cal?
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As a tragic paradox. lithic Cal was destroyed by the death of his son, who died of a streptococcal infection of a blister on his heel from playing tennis.
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