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HELP!!! For reasons unknown, I am not allowed to click on to some of the subject entries. No reason for my exclusion is given, nor any remedy. Since so many of you reading this are old hands of the BoB, I'm hoping you can give me some help here. At least, tell me what my crime was and how to...

Even we Americans could see/hear that! Van Dyke said he had an accent coach for the part, and that poor coach can never live it down.

We coastal New Englanders (in my case, Rhode Island) have a speech that some "outlander" Americans think sounds on the British side. "Aunt" is pronounced like "aren't" without the R. Your rear end is your "bum." And ask a real R'd Islandah to say "I parked my car by the curb not far from a...

Your France-French ex was betraying her ignorance of the language. The brand of the language used in Quebec did not develop as did the one in France and is consequently the older, and dare I say purer, article.

I recall Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady assuring Colonel Pickering that he, Higgins, could identify London dialects, sometimes within a few streets.

Very artistic arrangements, Sid. The beads remind me of a time when I entered a Greek restaurant, where there was such a string hanging on the wall, except it was huge. I remarked jokingly to the lady in charge that they must be used for very important prayers. She told me that it was not a...

Well, you youngsters, I hit the big eight-oh last February. Been a pipe smoker since 1961.

Yes, I've read Twain's book---he said it was his best and was the only one that required extensive research. The tone of it is very different from Twain's other works. It is a great read, and my reaction to the quoted critic is the same as yours!

Joan of Arc has always been a heroine of mine (one of my daughters took the name Jeanne d'Arc as her Confirmation name). It is amazing how this uneducated, almost illiterate peasant girl made fools of this gang of scholars and bullies, who could not convict her fairly, so they just declared her...

My parents gifted me with two pocket watches that belonged to my grandfathers in September 1965 as I entered law school. I have never worn a wrist watch since then.

Try getting out of the clenching habit. Sitting in the house or on the porch, it is easy and natural to hold the pipe in your hand, in or out of the mouth. If you engage in the practice of "lunting" (this is a real word, originally Scottish; it means taking a walk outdoors while smoking a...

I bought my first pipe in early September 1961 as I entered my freshman year of college. For one dollar I received a briar pipe, a pouch of Sir Walter Raleigh, and a booklet by the same company on how to smoke, care for, and clean a pipe. In spite of the informative booklet, I must have made...

Yes! Edgeworth has been one of my favorites from early on. Since production has ceased, I smoke Sutliff Ready-Rubbed match. If you like burley, you should like this.

I bought my first pipe in September of 1961, my first purchase as I matriculated as a freshman in college. For one dollar, I got a pipe, a pouch of Sir Walter Raleigh, and a booklet (also by Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco company) on how to smoke and care for a pipe. Started me off, and here as I...

In Vietnam, I was told that some peasants did indeed eat rat. A major who had spent much time in the boonies, informed me that these were not those nasty bubonic plague-carrying vermin that wiped out a third of Europe, but "rice rats," which fed on the rice plants and were therefore considered...

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Boone's son said that Daniel did not like the coonskin headgear and never wore one. On the other hand, Davy Crockett's daughter wrote that Davy did wear one at least some of the time.

Welcome back! Your problem with finding a convenient place to smoke is very common, but hang in there.

I too gave various lighters a fair trial before finally going to wooden matches. To each his own.