Years ago, I used to embroider handkerchiefs with appertaining quotations for ever-who I felt needed one. If I were still doing that, I'd have one for you--personalized with that quote (& maybe a monogram)...hell, I still might make one anyway (to keep in-practice), & create your monogram later on

I unboxed hi--Oh, riight--NOW I see why certain relatives so "generously" gave TubSanta to my parents...

That explanation suffices, actually (I wish you could've heard my "Ooooh!! Yess--that would woorrk!" realization upon reading that reply)...outstanding piping, by the way--but I know I would still be absolutely wowed if you showed me how you did it--your cakes are wondrously decorated!

That's delightful--almost too good to eat! How did you get the snowman's nose to stay pointy? (His wreath is a joy of detail!)

Oh no! Are you one thru whom it passes quickly? (Hopefully--2 of my sisters have varying sensitivities--the younger one has a terrible 3-to-4-day-ordeal)

...at that time [2001-2ish] you could also buy "Hier stehe ich" [here I stand] dress socks as a gift for your favorite Protestant minister (sadly I never made it up there to snag a pair!)

That's where Marty Luther hid for almost a year, & he reportedly threw his Tintenfaß at a chamber wall when he claimed the Devil came to taunt him (an Innsbruck professor told me 20+yrs ago that docents of the on-site-museum sometimes "touched-up" the stain on the walll...)

"Lost April" (released as a flip-side to Nat Cole's "Nature Boy"--& featured in AN ACTUAL CHRISTMAS MOVIE [The Bishop's Wife, 1947, Sam'l Goldwyn/RKO; dir. Henry Koster]) has better creedence as a "Christmas" cut...

This is much safer than the steel pans (painted green) that offered both a reservoir for tree water RIGHT NEXT TO hot electricity (I don't have a picture of the one we had in the old garage, but here's a similar model for sale on eBay for a ridiculous figure)

Hope it's not too terrible--maybe your fmr co-worker will feel better just being around someone who "got out"... I used to have a rollicking good time with my old work friends, talking shit about incompetent folx who somehow still held their positions after a reorganization

I REMEMBER THIS! Almost replied when you posted it w/ a couple shots of mine, but--at that time--I'd forgotten where I'd stowed it (didn't end up finding it till just before Memorial Day this year)...I like yours better, 'cause it has a direct family history connection

Its previous owner used to load the cigarette-portion with some "home-rolled" smokes for house parties back in the '70s...

I can see the "March of the Wooden Soldiers" sequence re-shot as "Parade of the Soldiers' Woodies," even with the original Leon Jessel tune behind (perhaps re-interpreted in a more post-modern-theme)...

One of the best photos I've seen of myself in the last ten years (taken by a 4-yr-old-kid on film that expired when his parents were still in Kindergarten)