Great Photos: Commentary

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Very nice indeed, Costi!

Your tailor is superb.

Your pose dramatic and dark, you devil.

And congratulations on the weight loss. I think that we'd all look better carrying 10 kgs. less...how did you manage that?

[Costi]

Haha, thanks UC!
-10 with Michel Montignac (may he rest in peace...). In 6-8 months. Much easier than I thought it would be to go on a "diet". It's much less and much more than that - a wise and very reasonable way of eating WELL (which no other diet I know of can boast). Foie gras, fat fish, champagne, red wine, dark chocolate... sounds like a good diet, doesn't it?

[davidhuh]

Dear Costi,

gorgeous trousers you are spotting here!

cheers, david

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Haha, thanks UC!
-10 with Michel Montignac (may he rest in peace...). In 6-8 months. Much easier than I thought it would be to go on a "diet". It's much less and much more than that - a wise and very reasonable way of eating WELL (which no other diet I know of can boast). Foie gras, fat fish, champagne, red wine, dark chocolate... sounds like a good diet, doesn't it?

I would love a 'diet' like that...and I am not familiar with Montignac.

Perhaps we should start a seperate thread for those of us who, now and then, want to pay occassional penance for living the good, rich and indulgent life.

Such thread should ofcourse not interfere with the generally dissolute lives I am sure most LL members enjoy of eating, drinking, smoking, carousing and generally being reputely disreputable.

On further thought, perhaps such thread can wait until next year...

[Costi]

Thanks, David

UC, why hurry and start it next year? That's only 2 months away... There's plenty of time to pay penance for living the good, rich and indulgent life as soon as it's over. And THAT is the only certainty...

(a young patient asks: "Doctor, is it true that if I don't drink or smoke, eat only boiled vegetables and stay away from women, exercise 2 hours a day, go to bed at 8 am and rise at 5 am, I can live 110 years?". The doctor replies: "Yes, you might, but what for?!" - hello NJS )

PS: the beauty of Montignac (you need to buy the book) is that it is not a temporary penance, it is a permanent way of dealing with food that asks very little care in return for an excellent tonus. And looks, for those of us vain enough to care (apropos the "great photos commentary" thread). AND it doesn't promise eternal life (Montignac died at 65 or so last year - certainly not because of the diet), but it does promise to make one FEEL BETTER (about oneself, about food, about drink, about others), without much embittering giving up that takes away the joy of life...

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I also agree that this folio below is the proper size carrier, manner and method in which a gentleman should carry around his daily work.

Anything in excess of this is, well, lawyerly.

Why schlep around more than a folio can carry?

Again, Daedelus, thanks for the images. The Duke is clearly LL's favourite in all matters of dress and taste.

btw, is that the Duke's doppelganger in the photo below?

UC, why hurry and start it {a diet} next year? That's only 2 months away... There's plenty of time to pay penance for living the good, rich and indulgent life as soon as it's over. And THAT is the only certainty...

Yes, Costi, I agree; as long as I'm on the right side of the dirt, why pay penance now? Good point! There's time later.

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Thanks, Daedelus, for the photos! Bankers, et. al., very interesting.

[NJS]

Costi - I missed your post here of 23rd October - the essential truth of the matter makes the joke funny.
best,
NJS :o___ooo000OOO

[NJS]

I also heard a similar joke: two very disabled old men are sitting, dozing, in their wheelchairs in a nursing home, when one rouses himself to croak to the other "Joe, if we hadn't given up smoking thirty years ago, we'd have missed out on all this."

NJS

[Costi]

OOOO00oooooo...__^__^__^_^_^^^_______________ (sostenuto)

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What happened to Scholte's drape?

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wow, Daedelus, just saw the Clark Gable photos added. Fabulous! Gable really was the King.

'frankly, my dear, i don't give a damn' segment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RxWs60dRM


Daedelus, any new photos of Gary Cooper or Cary Grant?

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These guys were not only great stylish dressers but could deliver a line and dazzle a woman.

Here's Bogart from Casablanca.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3odtrWWc2A

[NJS]

They don't make 'em like that anymore! [Somebody had to say it].
NJS

[NJS]

Herbert Marshall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyfPOEwN_Ww

NJS