Tools of a gentleman

[The Buddha]

Not me - I love scotch. Thankfully I think its too pompous to be drinking scotch unless @ a celebration of some kind ...
I prefer beer or a thrown together cocktail, like throw in what you have - vodka, lemon juice, ginger ale ... actually I make long island ice tea with sugar, lime and ginger ale instead of coke + the liquor mix that comes in a bottle - quite good if you ask me.

The jokes about buddha's cheap ass beer aside, I really like hefeweizen, used to love shiner hefe, till IMHO, Trader joe upstaged that.

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buddha.

[Firewalker]

I get into the amber ales/porter/stout........

There is a brewery here that makes chicken killer.  Two pint max heavily enforced.  I was thinking c'mon now.  Lemme tell ya something.  I had a ale......then two pints of CK...... took a 3 hour unplanned nap.

I think it's 11 or 12 percent.  (it's just below the level where beer won't carbonate)  Classified as a  barley wine ale.  If you see it grab a bomber or two.  Stay home to do this!!!

Enjoy.

[spc]

Firewalker:  It was a properly aged 1980 vintage Cohiba from THE island.  Absolute bliss.   For more frequent, quality, I alternate Gurkha Warlords and Joya de Nicaragua Dark Corojos.  The JdN dark corojo is a serious kick in the pants if you're a neophyte cigar aficionado.

As for beer, my guilty pleasure is Duvel.  It's a Belgian concoction and ridiculously smooth.  They sell it by the 750ml for ~$10 per.  One of those and a JdN dark corojo is all you need to make your night calm.

Scotch:  I keep wondering what Amex would do if I ordered a bottle of the 55 year Macallen in the lalique bottle   I bet it's smooth as butter, but I could buy a well sorted 996 for the same price...

[bettingpython]

Trappistes Rochefort  #10 or Westmalle tripel Are my beer guilty pleasures.

[The Buddha]

There was a super cool beer thread, we prolly need to add these to that, though its spc's thread, so I'd just let the idea out there and hey ... this is O & E, besides searching and breaking it and adding etc etc sounds like real work.
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Srinath.

[spc]

Well, sold the dunhill.......for $200, then bought a tortoise shell one on ebay for $50...  Just bought the super fagdeluxe 16 sampler on Thompson as well, a 16 count long fill sampler of Gurkha, CAO, RP, etc.

[The Buddha]

Nice, very nice, much like the 10 buck reel to reel I unloaded on friday for 250. Better yet, I have 2 others that work. Better pic them and sell em. I got 2 more tha tdont work but they got these insane tube pre amps in them and one have effects with tubes, though it got a bunch of hard to find tubes in the effects, the 12ax7 I got but there is a few I have never heard of.

In any case ... keep on trucking SPC.

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Buddha.

[spc]

I picked up a small set of Naval Aviator Wings today.  Paid $5 and was a little hesitant to pay that.  Get 'em back and do a little digging.  They're Balfour, gold plated, pre-WWII and worth about ~$100
Those came from the same shop where I got the personal scrapbook of Frank Buchanan.  Any old school aviation buffs here should know the name.  I've got pre war letters of reference, tons of photos and even the telegram he received informing him of his father's death.  Also have a small plaquard reads "Frank Buchanan      Happy Landings     The Crew"  Made out of sheet 1/8" steel

[The Buddha]

Oh, love it when you tell Idiots something and they "get" the exact opposite.

Today I walk into one of my old favorite hole in the wall thrift stores. Gone is the 6ft 6 southern dude called reverend and his brit wife I believe called flower, and there is a southern lady. Now get this, the store looks just like my friend except 1/4 of the stuff was there and it had been rearranged. So I ask her, where is the reverend ... she said, oh, he still does wood and auto out in the other 1/2 but we're just moving in. I say, but this looks like the stuff he had, same old furnitire, tv and bs and assorted stuff from local yard sales. She goes ... nope, this was all hers. I tell her, well there was all of this and 3 X more ... and after checking her prices, I told her, I bought some coffee tables form him for $10, this and that for $1, or records for 50 c etc and he still had trouble getting rid of this crap, and she is 3-4 X more ... she goes, oh now that I know you're a collector I'd get some more. I repeat to her, no that's not what I'm saying, he was selling this same type of stuff and had a lot more of it, and he managed to sell very little. She goes, great, I'll get more when I find it. Some people are stupid. It was a junk store with low prices. It flopped, now a junk store with high prices, yea that's gonna work.

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Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

Very nice, but I wonder why this is on a motorcycle forum.  Something tells me your lighter is a knock-off.  That's too cheap for something that retails for six bills.  If you paid three hundred I'd be inclined to believe it's the real thing, but not for fifty bucks.

He attends many auctions. items like htat dunhill. (ive got one,  was my grandmothers) as well as a 14k gold pocket watch ( maker yet unidentified unsigned, its a mystery)

[yamahonkawazuki]

Haha, don't do it.  They're like potato chips and crack; once you get one, you get 9 more!!  Same thing with AR-15's mine keep multiplying.

Aint that the effin truth   but it can be a good thing

[spc]

Dammit yama, take care of yourself.  If you were here, I'd refer you to a VERY good free clinic that would get you the care and even surgery you might need.


Brighter note:  a guy from my church gave me a few 'La Gloria Cubanas' today and they're not made in the DR.

[spc]

Just got this little Beauty in the mail a few days ago.
She's a 1942 Rolex Oyster Essex 15J hand wound.

I also ordered a box of Gurkha's from Thompson that should be showing up tomorrow 

[The Buddha]

Ooooo I got an omega for my wife ~2 years ago @ a yard sale, $10 for a jewellry box with 1/2 full of jewellry. 2 days later when opening and clearing it I come across this beauty. My Wife said its "not real" very dismissively. But ... as a proud owner of a drawer full of fake watches ... I tell her, no way this is a fake. Correct I was. Not very valuable, maybe a 40-50 buck fleabay item in the condition it was in ... but very real and well worth the $10 we forked for the thing and the box. The rest was rhinestones and junk. We handed it off to the fruity wanna be music producer along with a "Prince naked on the cover record " ... ewwwww ... ghastly. I loved hiding it in something like a book or news paper/mag and handing it to my friend to "read".

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Buddha.

[Twisted]

Just got this little Beauty in the mail a few days ago.
She's a 1942 Rolex Oyster Essex 15J hand wound.

I also ordered a box of Gurkha's from Thompson that should be showing up tomorrow 

That is a nice watch SPC

[spc]

I'm loving the watch.  As long as you keep it wound, it keeps perfect time as well.  War era Rolexes aren't exactly common either.

[Twisted]

I'm loving the watch.  As long as you keep it wound, it keeps perfect time as well.  War era Rolexes aren't exactly common either.

What is one worth thereabouts? Or I should say, what should I be expecting to pay for one?

[spc]

I paid $1k though it's worth about twice that.  You can find older oyster hand wound models for $1500 all day and perpetuals pretty reliably for $2k.

[The Buddha]

Wow dude ... a G ... anyway the old had wound rolexes are pretty good, personallt I'd stay away from any automatic tha tuses a 28 series movement. Especially a 2824. Oh a 2896 too, many bells and whistles but no better reliability. New 28 series ones were going to 300-400, tissot and tag especially. Now rolex and omega buy the movements and mod them heavily. Some others like tag and tissot do not. You need to get a 75 series auto if you're getting one ...
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Buddha.

[spc]

I went down to the watchmaker with it looking for a new band (17mm is an odd size and it's a beotch finding long bands)  My future landlord (new business I'm starting) was there with his ceramic bezel GMT II, said it usually comes in every 6 months   I'm not sure which movement the GMT II uses, but I've heard of a lot of people having issues with the newer ones.
I'm pretty sure a 70's Omega Constellation and  a Gruen Curvex are coming to my jewelry case pretty soon.