I've Got Friends in Low Places

[sparker69]

Maybe the whole question of hi-brow/low-brow has nothing to do with the object or interest in question. Maybe it's more about if you really care what others think about it and the impression it makes on others, more so than your actual interest in it.

 

[canucklehead]

I used to love playing my Nintendo Game & Watch when I was in high school. It was a simple LCD screen, but so entertaining! People would jump out of a burning building and your two firemen with a net had to bounce the jumpers offscreen to safety. It would get so stressful juggling multiple jumpers back and forth, but was so much fun. It’s in a box somewhere and I hope it still works.

Have you seen the Game & Watch anniversary limited editions? They made a Mario one and a Zelda one.

Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[sparker69]

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I'm not gonna post a picture of my massive Tiki collection because it's too hard to photograph all at once but you get the idea.

'72 XS650? My dad had one.

 

[sparker69]

I have a few packs of Toscano cigars stashed and given how many recommendations they've received in this thread I'm starting to dread the idea of trying one because it might make my horde of pipes obsolete.

Mmm - Toscanos - cut ammezzato! A great smoke. I really like the Extravecchios - great cheap smoke. Tucking the second half behind your ear really gives you the look though!

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

This is all sociological experiment set up by @telescopes & @Briar Lee to see how quick we can consume ourselves debating over which cuts of the cow are best, or how a $5 per pound bag of delicious sawdust makes it over Edgeworth Sliced any day. Both are more than likely laughing their asses off. ️

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

My only advice ,keep out from the estate collector watches, servicing them back to life can be quite spendy business.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Have you seen the Game & Watch anniversary limited editions? They made a Mario one and a Zelda one.

Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I have not, thank you! Apart from my Game & Watch by Nintendo, I never really got into the brand (I favoured fighting and shooting games and had an Atari 7800, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation as a result). I never had a Nintendo system until Susan bought me a Switch a couple years ago. She loves Zelda and I will have to look for this.

 

[BulaBeans]

Uni-brow here.

Being in the fly-fishing world as well for over twenty years and finer tobacco for ten, I've run into both types. At the end of the day, it wasn't the posers who caught all the fish just because they bought the most expensive fly rod, wore the nicest waders, and bought all the latest and greatest trinkets, but those who actually fished often, knew the lore, studied their favorite fishing spot, and put in the time.

Just yesterday, the wifey and I travelled to a quaint village in our mountains and visited a used bookstore. We went to the "Local Artists" and "Classics" section, and I proceeded to pick out a local novella and read it in my best Shelby Foote voice. The proprietor overheard my recitation and proceeded to ask if I would come back and read to the local gathering someday. I replied, "Ma'am, only if I can bring my pipe and smoke it forthwith."

She smiled demurely.

I also scored a dog-eared copy of Twain's "Puddin'head Wilson."

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

'72 XS650? My dad had one.

It's a bit of a mash up of years, but mostly 81.

 

[PA Piper Mike]

I used to love playing my Nintendo Game & Watch when I was in high school. It was a simple LCD screen, but so entertaining! People would jump out of a burning building and your two firemen with a net had to bounce the jumpers offscreen to safety. It would get so stressful juggling multiple jumpers back and forth, but was so much fun. It’s in a box somewhere and I hope it still works.

Oh man, I remember that fireman game! I don't think I had it, but I do remember playing it.

What sucks for me is I have so many memories trapped away in my head that I can only remember if someone brings it up. I can't tell you how many times friends of mine would reminisce about grade school and high school memories and I'd sit there racking my brain until I came to the revelation of, "ohhhh yeah! I remember that...I forgot all about it."

 

[burleybreath]

Trust me, I do love being a prick:

Highbrow - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow

 

[UB 40]

The one I really like is one from Italy - the Inspector Montalbano series from Andrea Camilleri - who was inspired by a Spanish detective. Really good stories that build a universe of characters and places around the them. I also really like the Simeon stuff that I read in French - just great stuff. Always something else to discover!

Try some „Carvalho“ stories of the Spanish author Catalonian novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Or go to the birth of Swedish crime literature and Nordic Noir with Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö and there cycle of Martin Beck novels. Ten books written in ten years, first in 1965, a new very society critical stage of crime story. Or try crime from a complete different (somehow Zen) perspective with Janwillem van de Wetering of the 1970s.

 

[sparker69]

Try some „Carvalho“ stories of the Spanish author Catalonian novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Or go to the birth of Swedish crime literature and Nordic Noir with Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö and there cycle of Martin Beck novels. Ten books written in ten years, first in 1965, a new very society critical stage of crime story. Or try crime from a complete different (somehow Zen) perspective with Janwillem van de Wetering of the 1970s.

Inspector Montalbano was named after Montalbán. I read one of his novels - they're good. I actually read an interview with the two authors who met together for an interview- they both hated what their characters ate and Camilere

 

[sparker69]

Inspector Montalbano was named after Montalbán. I read one of his novels - they're good. I actually read an interview with the two authors who met together for an interview- they both hated what their characters ate and Camilere said that he tried to get into an online fan group for Montalbano and failed the entrance quiz!

 

[sparker69]

"The upper crust was not for me, I could see that..."

 

[Scottmi]

I never considered Tiki Bars to be 'low' but anywho, just came across this little gem

 

[telescopes]

I've been to them all. But the Tiki Ti has so many fond memories.