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Tank covers?!?!?
Isn't that what the books are for?
I mean, a lot of my books and magazines do wind up living on the toilet tank (just popped into the bathroom to take an inventory: Last month's Via, a Russian-English dictionary, a textbook on language diversity in the classroom, and the book I spent all last night looking for. Durf). They keep the dust off it quite nicely.
sooper-sekrit p.s. to dutchess: I would have made the jaunt most likely (as I'm a huge NB fan) if I had not been stuck here in Sacto taking a bloody useless final for aforementioned language diversity class.
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Precious Moments! ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) I believe there's a whole chapel of it somewhere. Stained glass pics and everything. ...
There is indeed, not so very far away (as compared to, say, Manitoba) from here, and whenever we pass it, my husband threatens to stop and make me go through it. So far, however, my counterthreats (to actually buy and display, in our home, a Precious Moments collection) have proven effective.
LatA, my late mother-in-law once gave me one of those dolls. I believe that, tragically, it was lost in a move.
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Originally posted by .Gort:
Sine said: quote:
I always check out people's bookshelves. After I scope out their medicine cabinet.
As I have always respected Sine's opinion on these and other matters, I submit to you, through the miracle of digital magic, my medicine cabinet. [which I suddenly realize has no medicine!] Accessments please!
Sioni Sais said: quote:
[...] It's difficult to imagine any wall clock other than a purely functional one looking inoffensive.
I found this 75lb. functional Regulator at a flea market; now it hangs precariously on my bedroom wall. Whatcha think?
Another item on my bedroom wall is this print. I should have shared it on the fox hunting thread. Think it's too conservative for a bedroom?
Most of my tchotchkes rest on or near the mantle. Is this too cluttered or plain for for a comfortable evening of wine with friends?
Plain versions of that regulator clock can look OK. That one isn't as nasty as a lot I have seen though.
As for the boat I'm afraid only schooner rigged boats are acceptable, and then only if one has sailed.
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On the subject of books: An acquaintance once walked into my library, looked at all the books, and said, dismissively, "Oh, books for show," This was one of the more offensive comments I had heard in some time, but as she was a guest in my house (for the last time, I assure you), I just said, in as mild a voice as I could muster, "Well, actually, just about all of them have been read by one or the other of us."
These were not perfectly matched sets of anything, just a lot of books, paperbacks mixed in with hardcover, mostly history. Jeez, if I were trying to impress people, I'd have things like Sophocles in the original Greek, with clever notes in the margins.
Eventually the acquaintance moved to California, taking few, if any, books with her. We stayed in Williamsburg but moved to a bigger house in order to accommodate more books.
As for Precious Moments:
I know someone (much nicer than the aquaintance described above) who had a special glass case made so she could proudly display her precious moments collection in the living room.
Hummels are just as bad, IMHO. I loathe cutesy little statues of all kinds.
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A few years ago we went to visit some sort-of-long-lost relatives in Northern Ireland. A nice couple, quietly religious - very into bracing outdoor walks and the like, but otherwise very pleasant and hospitable to us.
Their living room was frighteningly tidy and there was no music in evidence. There was a bookcase at the far side, but only 3 neat books on it. The rest of the space was taken up with statues of elongated shepherdesses and the occasional big-eyed puppy dog.
After chatting politely for some time, our host asked if we'd like him to put on a cd. Phew, we thought, now we'll find out what makes these people tick (and hopefully encounter a fruitful topic of conversation too, since there is only so much you can say about bracing walks without the spectre of having to go on one raising its ugly head).
Instead of opening a cupboard or producing a cd rack from another room, however, our host trotted over to the bookcase and brought back the 3 books. They weren't books at all, but pretend plastic book shaped covers disguising the only 3 cds in the house. And the choice was - Richard Clayderman, Hooked on Classics, or Dire Straits. Now I quite like Dire Straits, but it was Brothers In Arms and, really, even a good Dire Straits album wouldn't have made up for the other two. Even if the plastic fake books hadn't already moved things beyond the pale.
I'm sure you'll understand, we had to get the next ferry back to Scotland. What else could we do?
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During my childhood an aunt of mine travelled abroad frequently and every time, she brought me back a doll in national costume. It never seemed to register with her that , tomboy that I was, I never played with or showed the slightest interest in dolls. They all ended up wrapped in tissue paper in a bottom drawer and my mum eventually gave them back to her.
Nowadays they are displayed in a glass-fronted cabinet in her hallway, rows and rows of them staring glassily and giving me guilty pangs and shudders of revulsion every time I go and visit her.
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Originally posted by Pânts:
Maybe they keep their books in a different room?
I don't think that there is a room in my house without a bookcase. Actually, I know that there is no place to put another bookcase.
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Originally posted by Coot:
I am tasteful. Really. Why, I have held off buying something to put my toilet rolls in because I just can't find the right something.
I keep mine in a pine CD tower from MFI. After taking the plastic rack out of the middle, of course. And I can stand a plant on the top.
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
I don't think that there is a room in my house without a bookcase.
OK, I'm wrong. Neither bathroom has a bookcase. Currently, there are no books in the bedroom bathroom. There are books in the main bathroom.
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
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Originally posted by Coot:
I am tasteful. Really. Why, I have held off buying something to put my toilet rolls in because I just can't find the right something.
I keep mine in a pine CD tower from MFI.
Oh dear. I didn't even know you were supposed to have a thing to put your toilet rolls in. I always just pile spare ones on the floor beside the toilet.
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I have spending quite a lot of time lately designing bathrooms for clients. They can range from ultra modern sleek to gothick horror, although we do tend to let clients decide on fittings and I just advise on where the pipes go.
This is an example of what I'd call .
And also for the client who has everything I might choose one of these.
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Originally posted by Rat:
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
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Originally posted by Coot:
I am tasteful. Really. Why, I have held off buying something to put my toilet rolls in because I just can't find the right something.
I keep mine in a pine CD tower from MFI.
Oh dear. I didn't even know you were supposed to have a thing to put your toilet rolls in. I always just pile spare ones on the floor beside the toilet.
With small boys in my house, that would end up as a pile of soggy toilet rolls! (Even with bigger boys, now.)
I went trawling through Google and came up with this as an example of what I've got - heavily modified to match coulour and lose the lace and embroidery (see middle picture). As I said, I also have a box for the rest of the pack of a dozen.
Whilst I was looking ...
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Originally posted by Spiffy da Wonder Sheep:
Tank covers?!?!?
Isn't that what the books are for?
I mean, a lot of my books and magazines do wind up living on the toilet tank (just popped into the bathroom to take an inventory: Last month's Via, a Russian-English dictionary, a textbook on language diversity in the classroom, and the book I spent all last night looking for. Durf). They keep the dust off it quite nicely.
sooper-sekrit p.s. to dutchess: I would have made the jaunt most likely (as I'm a huge NB fan) if I had not been stuck here in Sacto taking a bloody useless final for aforementioned language diversity class.
Girl, you should have blown off that useless final for stupid diversity class. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) There is no T in my name, but I forgive thee.
BTW, I will confess here, I love magazines so much and newspapers, I have a drawer next to my commode that I stick all the mags/news in for discreet viewing. Sad but true.
I have smelly candles too, plus dust collecting sea shells on dish...and weird big fish on tank.
Someday I may break down and get cabinet to go over that area, but probably not.
I needed to add, I put large 1000 sheet toilet rolls onto the toilet plunger. This means they are easy to find should company run out, plus they hide ugly toilet plunger. Very handy, I must say.
[needed to add one more thang]
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Sine Nomine*
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Originally posted by duchess:
I have a drawer next to my commode that I stick all the mags/news in for discreet viewing.
I can so relate. I have a similar drawer next to my bed for magazines I wish to be discrete about.
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Originally posted by geroff:
...And also for the client who has everything I might choose one of these.
What? No escape from the horrors of television even in the bath?
We have books and CDs in every room and hallway of the house except the bathrooms. But it's easy enough to stumble over them on one's way there.
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Originally posted by Ann:
Whilst I was looking ...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) At first glance I thought she was holding her nose! Now, that would really be tacky.
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
This set is nice.
People just let themselves down in the small details. I mean, what could classify as a folkart toilet becomes merely a repository for surplus material from the Playschool Useful Box.
The pearls are crooked. The cistern-top mat is irregularly cut. And the leopard skin lid cover is rumpled.
People have no standards.
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Originally posted by Coot:
The pearls are crooked. The cistern-top mat is irregularly cut. And the leopard skin lid cover is rumpled.
Stop carping. It's supposed to look like that.
It's not its fault it didn't win the Turner Prize.
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
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Originally posted by duchess:
I have a drawer next to my commode that I stick all the mags/news in for discreet viewing.
I can so relate. I have a similar drawer next to my bed for magazines I wish to be discrete about.
[pedantry]
I'm shocked that you would wish to be separate and distinct from your magazines. Did you mean that you wish to be discreet? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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I think he means he's using his discretion. Thus the question is of noun/adjective choice rather than word choice, which is slightly less heinous and only warrants a small fine and five grammar demerit points. See me.
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Thank you. I try. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sine Nomine*
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It has been pointed out to me privately that in the interest of full disclosure, lest I appear to be setting myself up as some sort of ghastly good taste maven, I should reveal I'm anxiously awaiting a set of penis refrigerator magnets currently winging their way towards me as a late birthday gift from another shipmate.
This shipmate, who has been in my house, kindly suggested I should also disclose the fact that there is not a flat surface in my house, either wall or table, not covered with something. (Mostly dust these days.)
There -- are you happy now? I wasn't trying to fool people. Really I wasn't.
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They do say that confession is good for the soul, Sine.
(Happy All Souls Day.)
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
It has been pointed out to me privately that in the interest of full disclosure, lest I appear to be setting myself up as some sort of ghastly good taste maven, I should reveal I'm anxiously awaiting a set of penis refrigerator magnets currently winging their way towards me as a late birthday gift from another shipmate.
This shipmate, who has been in my house, kindly suggested I should also disclose the fact that there is not a flat surface in my house, either wall or table, not covered with something. (Mostly dust these days.)
There -- are you happy now? I wasn't trying to fool people. Really I wasn't.
Sine, darling, I didn't say any of that. All I said was that I thought it was funny that someone had asked you about tasteful tchotchkes. What with the refrigerator magnets and all your other lovely things. The rest was, apparently, your own guilty conscience.
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Sine Nomine*
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Actually, I just wanted to brag on my refrigerator magnets.
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When my great great aunt was in the old folks home, they used to knit/crochet covers for coat hangers while sitting around waiting for someone else to fall off the perch.
Get this. They used to cut up plastic bread bags into thin strips, and crochet that. A lovely recycled gift, perfect for those who vote Green.
I think Mrs Brains made me throw it out when I explained what it was made of. I do still have a coathanger momento from great great aunt, made before times got quite so tough.
By the way, has anyone ever seen a real "live" concrete aboriginal? I gave one to a friend for his 21st once. And yes, it was a joke.
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In the 1960s, I got roped into cutting drycleaners' plastic bags into long strips, making the strips into pom-poms, and tying the pom-poms onto frames made of wire coat hangers to form "pom-pom poodles". Truly ghastly, both in the process of being made and in their sales value (nil) at the church bazaar, er, bizarre.
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"Tasteful" people can be tacky too.
I had occasion Monday evening to be at the home of a rich (3rd generation), recently deceased, prominent citizen of our city, expressing my condolences to his widow and children.
The family was receiving in the drawing room (yes, they actually have a "drawing room") and as I snaked my way through the line, I noticed a pair of 18th century chairs with decrepit needlework covering had ribbons tied across the arms so none of the hoi polloi would sit in them.
So I'm standing there thinking...who's going to flop down and get comfortable in the presence of the grieving widow anyway? Do they not trust the good manners of their supposed friends and business associates? Why didn't they just take the chairs out of the room for the evening? Did they want to be sure, sure, sure we all knew they had a pair of 18th century chairs? (Like, duh. Two chairs and about umpteen million dollars.)
After a suitable period of mourning I shall have to ask the daughter, who is my connection to the family, what the hell they were thinking.
(I must say the whole experience was such a cliche of Old South Old Money it probably deserves a thread of its own.)
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Re: the OP - I once moved into an apartment where the previous tenant had put one of those blue cleaner things in the tank. I guess I'm passively common, because I didn't remove it. It was OK; I never had people over.
Anyway, it turned out to be helpful. My landlord (company) was really good about sending maintenance over right away, but sadly, the maintenance guy was just plain dumb. For example, when my self-defrosting freezer wasn't defrosting, he told me that you just have to manually defrost self-defrosting freezers every now and then. I knew that wasn't true so had them send a professional (GE guy) over who fixed it.
So back to my toilet. (How often is that said?) I had a leak from the tank - I noticed water on the floor. The maintenance guy tried to tell me it was only condensation. But... it was BLUE! If that blue tablet thing hadn't been in the tank, I don't think I would've thought of coloring the tank water to prove to the dumb maintenance guy that it was a leak and not condensation!
Of course, in later apartments I've had less responsive landlords and have had to resort to fixing things myself, thus bypassing any dumb maintenance guys the landlord may or may not have hired...
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Originally posted by Viola:
Coat hangers bedecked with ribbons and lavender bags - you know the type of thing.
Viola, my dear, I'm rather afraid that I don't.
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Gracious rebel
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While we're on about tackiness and toilets, what do people think of those acrylic loo seats that are transparent and have colourful items set into them? My sister's downstairs loo has one with 'licorice allsorts' in it - normally she has excellent taste, but I really think she's lost it with this one!!
Edited to add - wow my 999th post! i'd better think of something profound to say next time!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
While we're on about tackiness and toilets, what do people think of those acrylic loo seats that are transparent and have colourful items set into them?
My ex-wife has one with barbed wire in it.
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yuk, I don't think I could bear to sit on that at all!!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Viola:
Coat hangers bedecked with ribbons and lavender bags - you know the type of thing.
Ooh yes. Are we talking about the padded coathangers?
Any minute now someone will say that plastic and wire ones are tacky and you should only have real wood ones. They will have to be made of a certain kind of organic wood from non-endangered renewable forests with wholesome non-toxic CFC-free varnish, or be antique ones.
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I protest some Shipmates' "no books/magazines in the loo" policy.
Barbarism!
Every room in the house ought to have books, especially the loo. What a disfavor to your guests, to deprive them of necessary reading material and forcing them to gaze undivertedly at your taste in bathroom wall decor and sink top accoutremont.
The KenWritez household loo features a lovely view of the newly de-papered east wall sheetrock, with the newest Clive Cussler "Dirk Pitt" novel (beyond wretched), plus a book on surviving the Chicago Commodities Trading Pit as a Christian, and Cook's Illustrated "New Best Recipe" cookbook guarding the wife's bathroom scales from overzealous use.
Upon the sink counter we have some lovely stacks of Cook's Illustrated magazines, a Coldwater Creek catalog for the Sturdy Wench, novels by such lights as Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Richard Cohen, Martha Grimes, David & Leigh Eddings (this one in case we run out of t.p.), P. J. O'Rourke, Constance Hale, an American Sign Language dictionary, speech therapy textbook, as well as home improvement magazines and catalogs.
All of which allow our guests education, entertainment, (pray, even enlightenment!), as well as comfort and necessary diversion during what would otherwise be unavoidable periods of ennui.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by KenWritez:
Every room in the house ought to have books, especially the loo.
It's about germs. Who wants to read a book that's spent its life in close proximity to your toilet?
Also, more crucially, if you have to share a bathroom you don't want to encourage anyone else to spend any more time in there than is strictly necessary.
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RuthW
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Do you really need that much reading material in the bathroom? Couldn't you just take Metamucil?
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I second the germs objection.
Although, an artist friend of mine used to have an old toaster as a book holder in his bathroom, and my first book of poetry was in it, and I took that as a compliment. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Hopefully no guests of his would come to associate my writing with any nasty toilet experiences they might have there, though. Let me re-phrase that: with any toilet experiences!
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Originally posted by RuthW:
Do you really need that much reading material in the bathroom? Couldn't you just take Metamucil?
Dunno. What's the plot like? Are there any pictures?
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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John Donne
Renaissance Man
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Um. If a non-reader in the toilet may enquire... do ppl reading in the toilet do same while waiting to... go, or is it more of a leisurely pit stop - read a few pages after you finish communing with nature?
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KenWritez
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For me, it's a matter of reading while going and then afterward for a few moments while the body makes its post-flight checks and ushers out any stragglers. After all, it's an automatic process and after about the age of 5 it's not that interesting. Hence, a distraction from the--excuse the expression--business at hand.
Germs oughtn't be an issue if you wash your hands with soap and water after each visit, as I was taught to do, and you don't store the books immediately adjacent to the commode; they're on the counter, a few feet away.
RuthW, it's not a question of reading material quantity but diversity, something I thought a card-carrying liberal such as yourself would appreciate.
Really, it's not that big a deal.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
"Tasteful" people can be tacky too.
Yes, indeed. Two examples (of a more earthy nature) come to mind:
- The perfectly spotless bathroom in the perfectly spotless apartment of a newlywed friend, whose wife had set a large can of air freshener spray in a fancy glass coaster on top of the toilet tank.
- The "pom-pom poodle" bottle cover. When my family lived in Iowa in the mid-1950s, the state was dry, or at least had very restrictive liquor laws, and if you wanted a drink in a restaurant you had to B.Y.O. So the ladies would knit or crochet these little poodles that would fit over a bottle of booze, and people would actually carry these when they went out. Like no one would guess what you were holding.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by KenWritez:
Germs oughtn't be an issue if you wash your hands with soap and water after each visit, as I was taught to do, and you don't store the books immediately adjacent to the commode; they're on the counter, a few feet away.
We're almost all brought up to do that but in practice not everyone does.
Combine that with the habit that some other people have of licking their fingers each time they want to turn over a page and it all starts looking fairly unsavoury. I sometimes wonder about just how many hands (and mouths) a library book has passed through.
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Sine Nomine*
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Any minute now someone will say that plastic and wire ones are tacky and you should only have real wood ones.
At the risk of sounding like you-know-who, what on earth would you hang on wire hangers except dress shirts back from the laundry?
Trousers go on slack hangers so they hang straight. Jackets and coats must be on wooden or molded plastic hangers so the padding in the shoulders doesn't get screwed up. Sweaters shouldn't be hung at all.
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Sine Nomine*
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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I think it needs to be stored horizontally on a shelf, much like the late Queen Mary's beaded court gowns.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
What would one hang this on?
Speaking of 'not geschmackvoll'...
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