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        <description>Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ... 

Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien 
existence! 

How's your dirty laundry?</description>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ You want shirt studs.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;page=1&amp;rh=n%3A3888381"  rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;page=1&amp;rh=n%3A3888381</a>]]></description>
            <dc:creator>tomierna</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I finally landed a Robert Graham shirt, and I find myself in need of asking how one dons it.<br />
It has a neck button with appropriately matched buttonHOLE.<br />
Then four or five matched buttonhole PAIRS... that is NO BUTTONS ON EITHER SIDE.<br />
Then the bottom two normally/expected button/buttonhole pairings.<br />
<br />
Uh, what does one do with two buttonholes? <br />
Buy something akin to cufflinks, but for shirt/fronts?<br />
<br />
I'll google, but thought I'd ask too...]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ You get your cheapest bid, and I'll do it for half what they are offering....<br />
(Said to the song from grease "Beauty school drop-out")<br />
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<img src="http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9577/screenshot20130522at557.png" class="bbcode" border="0" />]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>ddt</strong><br/>Trepination, anyone?</div></blockquote>
<br />
Zapotec or Mayan?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>porruka</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:02:22 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Ugh, so tired of being so tired and feeling like perpetual crap day in, day out.<br />
<br />
Just venting.<br />
<br />
Trepination, anyone?<br />
<br />
ddt]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ddt</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Today I attended a court hearing.  It was quite remarkable.  I called upon my long-lost high school debate team skills and took copious notes from which I wrote up a detailed story.  That story will be posted on TechDirt tomorrow morning.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Cloudscout</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Taking to the parlor...]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Mokers</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Totally forgot about <br />
Everybody's free to wear sunscreen<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq_A8nXMsQ"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq_A8nXMsQ</a>]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>El Jeffe</strong><br/>
<blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>John Willoughby</strong><br/>
The Robert Graham shirts are FABULOUS!</div></blockquote>
<br />
Been playing the 'low bid' game on eBay lately.<br />
Not Robert Graham, but I picked up a nice, new SIMILAR brand/style for $4 delivered! wearing it now. A bit swashbuckling in style...<br />
<img src="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9503/screenshot20130511at522.png" class="bbcode" border="0" /></div></blockquote>
<br />
Nice thing about being up at weird hours for on-call work... other half of brain can surf for deals....<br />
Got me a Robert Graham shirt finally.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I wonder what it is about Ellesmere Island which is more attractive to terrorists than Greenland....]]></description>
            <dc:creator>YDD</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Tony can/must feel the safest of us all. Map of 2013 risk/iest places.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.riskmap.aon.co.uk/Terrorism_Risk_Map.aspx"  rel="nofollow">http://www.riskmap.aon.co.uk/Terrorism_Risk_Map.aspx</a><br />
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<img src="http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6720/screenshot20130518at517.png" class="bbcode" border="0" />]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:18:50 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The prices right now have nothing to do with cost factors.  Oil prices have remained essentially flat.  This is a somewhat more sinister situation.<br />
<br />
Remember the Enron scam where traders would order power plants to shut down just so it would trigger a price increase?  Well, two separate refineries that serve this area suddenly decided to shut down for maintenance.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Cloudscout</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ True. And I should have thought more carefully about how I phrased things. I wasn't actually thinking of comparisons to other countries so much as what the price might be if the costs of "policing the Gulf of Arabia" were included. Things are definitely complex, and you can't completely separate out the individual costs.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>YDD</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ My point is the cost to the US is something that benefits many countries - some more so than the US - yet they often have higher gas prices, even though we're paying for the patrols.  Thus, how could anyone say that our gas is cheaper than other countries (subsidized) because we aren't accounting for the cost of our patrols, when nobody else is either?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>James DeBenedetti</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:30:59 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Yes and no. While the link certainly isn't as direct as I was suggesting - and is certainly more complex as you note - maintaining those sea lanes for oil (not to mention all the goods from China etc.) comes from general taxation funds, not from taxes targeted at the industries which benefit. In that sense, there is a subsidy. Of course, one could argue that that's a worthwhile price for not re-creating some modern East India Company.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>YDD</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:10:20 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>YDD</strong><br/>At the risk of running into politics.... what about the cost of protecting tankers coming out of the Persian Gulf?</div></blockquote>
<br />
That's the cost of being a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2012/12/03/what-happens-when-america-no-longer-needs-middle-east-oil/">global economic hegemon</a>, not a gas subsidy.  Taxes that raise the <a href="http://www.mytravelcost.com/petrol-prices/">price of gas</a> in other countries aren't there to fund our naval escorts, even though <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d33b5104-84a1-11e2-aaf1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2TV56bcpp">other countries</a> need them more than <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-get-oil-you-may-be-surprised">us</a>.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>James DeBenedetti</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:31:36 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong></strong><br/>If all the subsidies were removed, current gas prices would still be well below production costs. </div></blockquote>At the risk of running into politics.... what about the cost of protecting tankers coming out of the Persian Gulf?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>YDD</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I may be mistaken but I don't think regular gasoline is actually subsidized.  The oil companies get plenty of government handouts but they also turn record profits every year so it's highly unlikely that the subsidies directly impact consumer prices.<br />
<br />
If all the subsidies were removed, current gas prices would still be well below production costs.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Cloudscout</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ It's still a highly subsidized commodity in the States -- even that price doesn't represent the real cost. (Though of course gas stations and companies do gouge; so did the home heating oil company sicced the BBB on back in Boston.)<br />
<br />
ddt]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ddt</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ That works out to be AUS$1.13 per litre.<br />
<br />
While it's cheap compared to a lot of the world, it's the sudden increases that mess up people's budgets.  This is a 45% increase since January and they say it's going to continue rising until July.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Cloudscout</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ That's still, what $1.05 a litre?<br />
<br />
You guys have dirt cheap petrol compared to most places in the world.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Tony Leggett</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ buy a siphon. :)]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Gas prices around here were hovering around $3.89 per gallon yesterday.<br />
<br />
Today it has shot up to $4.19 at most places.  One place by my house is $4.25.  That's the highest I've ever seen self-service gas prices in the Twin Cities area.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Cloudscout</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>ddt</strong><br/>
We were talking about rents, rentals, and houses?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://theworstroom.tumblr.com"  rel="nofollow">http://theworstroom.tumblr.com</a><br />
<br />
ddt</div></blockquote>
<br />
I especially like the closet in Union Square.  Yes, $1000/month for the privilege of sleeping on a twin-size bed in a closet.  But it's an amazing location!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jeff Cooper</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ in one year some of those could buy entire houses in middle America.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <title>Re: Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ We were talking about rents, rentals, and houses?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://theworstroom.tumblr.com"  rel="nofollow">http://theworstroom.tumblr.com</a><br />
<br />
ddt]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ddt</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:56:45 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I have several and like the flip cuffs and contrast collars. You'll enjoy yours too.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Alan Lehman</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Correct. I've never seen or heard of them, but am now an owner/wearer of a whole big $4 shirt ! :)<br />
Something different for me.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>El Jeffe</strong><br/>
<blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>John Willoughby</strong><br/>
The Robert Graham shirts are FABULOUS!</div></blockquote>
<br />
Been playing the 'low bid' game on eBay lately.<br />
Not Robert Graham, but I picked up a nice, new SIMILAR brand/style for $4 delivered! wearing it now. A bit swashbuckling in style...<br />
<img src="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9503/screenshot20130511at522.png" class="bbcode" border="0" /></div></blockquote>
<br />
That's got to be an English Laundry, no?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Alan Lehman</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:11:02 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ <blockquote class="bbcode"><div><small>Quote<br/></small><strong>John Willoughby</strong><br/>
The Robert Graham shirts are FABULOUS!</div></blockquote>
<br />
Been playing the 'low bid' game on eBay lately.<br />
Not Robert Graham, but I picked up a nice, new SIMILAR brand/style for $4 delivered! wearing it now. A bit swashbuckling in style...<br />
<img src="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9503/screenshot20130511at522.png" class="bbcode" border="0" />]]></description>
            <dc:creator>El Jeffe</dc:creator>
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