Duchess

If you the home improvment boning route, and I've known many who have with great success, go by a can of plastic dip too. This is the stuff that tool people dip their tool handles in for a rubbery coating to protect their hands. Dip the ends of all your boning/busking in this, that way it's less likely to wear through your material.

Not that I'm aware of. But I really like that idea. Duchess

Hmm. When ever I used to read your name I would slur it together and come up with "Dee's Ass in Danger" Sort of like reading a personalized liscense plate and rather the opposite of what you intended I think. My nick name is related to when I was about 10 years old and learning to fly. At that time in life I thought the Beech Duke was the best plane ever (an opinion I've since revised, my tastes run to older airplanes and a different sort of flying, though it's still a great plane) and I wanted to be the Duchess and the Duke. Ah me 10 year old brain thought that was great. And me parents teased me to no end about it. Duchess

Good on you, for writing you own!

Check out some local antique stores for jewelry. Also ebay. My taste tends toward the more ethnic flavor (in case you couldn't tell ), and here is a site I like. http://www.exoticofferings.com/catalog.html Duchess

Hmmm, by saturday puts a damper on most of my ideas. What about a special silk sash? A take off on the various english orders. Could be worn as scarf, sash, arm band, leg band etc. Each colour or pattern etc, for each prize. If it were a yearly thing, you could kind of induct new "members." Duchess

What a wonderful idea for a press ganging! How many prizes would you like to give and does the total need to be under $25 or each prize? Duchess

The dreaded hornies. Sometimes I feel like my life and the dreaded hornies just don't mix!

Congratulations! I will certainly visit if life takes me San Fran. The Duchesss

Hmm. Patrick O'Bryan talks of flags, latterns and guns. And since he's been so damned thorough in other historical aspects, I'd tend towards trusting him in this as well. The Duchess

Well, can't help on this one. It is more biology than physics. The Duchess

Oooo. Do please allow me to shed some light on this subject. The cigarette smoke is very fine particles floating in the air. These particles cause any light hitting them to diffract. Since blue light has a shorter wavelength it is more prone to scattering than red wavelength which occupy the opposite end of the spectrum. Thus while all the red/orange light passes through or is only diffracted a very small amount, the blue is scattered all over the place and we see a blueish tinge to the smoke. It's all physics. The Duchess

Do they have style they practice or affilliations?

Oh my. Do they actually refer to themselves as "black belted ninjas" or is this something you call them?

Following Phil's lead from yesterday, I'm starting today off with a little Baroque music. Correlli Op. 1-12 The Duchess

Possum Dixon, the first cd. But I'll be switching soon to something more angry. I've just been informed of something which I should have been told several weeks ago, that is really agravating. The Duchess

Tim Malloy's, If you were walking. I'm working on a mix tape, well really a cd. The Duchess

Sounds like he's just a touchy-feely flirty kind of guy (all the men in my family are this way) who likes you as a friend. But friends need to call occasionally too. It sucks to be the one who has to make all the outreach gestures, even if you're only friends. The Duchess

Good to hear. I was thinking of ordering one for meself. But my wee little brother is being treated like shite by his girl friend, so I think a present for him is a better idea. I greatly enjoy the comic too... The Duchess

No more than I dated myself! but, then I find myself much better company than so many other folks. The Duchess

Well, Phil, isn't that what the rest of us are here for? To voice those dirty little inner thoughts? oh yeah, and song references? The Duchess

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/index...shtml#buccaneer

Adjusted lyrics to a Randy Bachman song.

Ye have a choice, Ye be my valentine, or ye be dead.

Why, it is entirely my pleasure. It always makes my day, to make someone elses! The Duchess