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Anywho, how many ways could I go with this.

Don’t know that I can keep up, but I’ll pedal as fast as I can!


"Bourbon, tequlia, and the can of Lone Star speaks volumes"



Remember the ol "What's My Line".

Care to play?












Hate to be a spelling/Grammar Nazi, but IIRC the correct spelling is Pilgrim.

BTW, I don’t remember BP wearing cufflinks on Trafalmador while engaged with the nubile Montana Wildhack nor on the train!

And so it goes. Neither Nihilism, nor Existentialism are world views which I embrace (except when I absolutely have to).



"Then there's the polyester shirt with the cargo pants or the two-button suit."



My maternal grand-mother's second husband was a barber. Kinda grew up in his barber shop in the 50's and early 60's. He had a sign above the entry door, inside, said "It pays to look well". Pretty much always wear pressed pants and a shirt with a collar in public.

Since we are name dropping, perhaps you remember the line from that flick of some renown, "Zorro the Gay Blade" where George Harrison played a double role as Sir Bunny Wigglesworth and a gay Zorro!



Just before encouraging the "pipples" to engage in "La Revolucion" he uttered the famous epitaph, "There is no crime in being poor, only in dressing poorly"................... Ah, words to live by!


"Those things are very class revealing. Does that imply shaming? It could to a snob that looks down from something they think is better."


Maybe a cop-out, but IIRC, I read somewhere a wise man once said.....

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

So in all things I strive not to judge, but, the same source as above also is reported to have stated [with amplification in brackets)]......

"By their fruit you will recognize them [that is, by their contrived doctrine and self-focus]. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?

Consequently I strive to be a fruit inspector?



"What I want to know is whether the piece is itself also class defining?



I'd say that would be subjective, as yours and my perspective would most likely fit within the definition of an antinomy.

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
( Yah, I know I mentioned that I was not a fan of Nihilism, but what the hey. if I can use the word antinomy in a sentence, perhaps one will indulge the transgression)



"I know some people think an Ed Brown is classier than a Hi Point. There's that intraclass snobbery".


Years ago, I mentioned more than once, when it came to rifles, if the only thing i was interested in was accuracy, all my rifles would be "Savage". Twenty years ago if one had told me that I'd own European Single shot rifles with iron sights and wispy thin barrels, I'd ask what they'd been smokin!

I will make the caveat, that I have seldom been sorry that I invested in quality goods.



"I wonder rather just how strong a class signal carrying (not just owning) anything really is"


Once again, ball is in your court as that would be subjective and a matter of perception.

I've heard it said that "the sleep of the laborer is sweet, but the rich man counts all his possessions.

I do know that I find that knowledge and experience accumulate.

I believe that it was John Barrymore that is reported to have said......A man is not truly old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Over the years my ambition has been to achieve the status of a 'professional small boy' and maintain that joie de vivre. After a lifetime of enjoying toys,I've deiced that there are those that give a lifetime of enjoyment, and those that tend to go away.
The key is to not let them own you!



Best,

GWB