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post #16 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:23pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
Baby seal? Unicorn? House cat? Sperm whale?


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I love house cat. I just can't finish one by myself.
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post #17 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:25pm
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Aside from human skin, I can't think of a single leather that would make me less comfortable than elephant.

Dogs?
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post #18 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:29pm
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Dogs?
I could totally see some of the SW&D brands making a Shar Pei boot.
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post #19 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:29pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
Baby seal? Unicorn? House cat? Sperm whale?


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It's probably fine if you took it out with a bowie knife while it was in the process of upturning your 4x4, stomping on the tents and chasing fat American tourists. Mind you, the water buffalo is a formidably dangerous beast - shoot a wounded one in the long grass and you can do what you like with its skin!
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post #20 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:30pm


He approves.
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post #21 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:36pm
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post #22 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
Baby seal? Unicorn? House cat? Sperm whale?
Nope, they went extinct in 1819, nope and nope

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Dogs?

Nope
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post #23 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by PTWilliams View Post
I can think of no better purpose in life for a cow to end up as a pair of shoes. Horses ar OK too (there are too many in Nevada). However, I really am opposed to lizard and many of the other exotic skin shoes. The elephant may have come from a two-bit shithole like Zimbabwa (formally the great country of Rhodesia), and lizard is probably tegu or monitor captured with no though to the impact on the lizard populations.

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post #24 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:44pm
I just saw your sig & almost spit up my coffee. Teh pinile skin wallet threak was seriously the funniest thing I ever read on SF.
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post #25 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:52pm
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I just saw your sig & almost spit up my coffee. Teh pinile skin wallet threak was seriously the funniest thing I ever read on SF.

Rub it and it turns into a suitcase
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post #26 of 165
3/16/11 at 6:01pm
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I just saw your sig & almost spit up my coffee. Teh pinile skin wallet threak was seriously the funniest thing I ever read on SF.

hahaha. I wonder what became of him/her. hope the "process" went well. hehehe
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post #27 of 165
3/16/11 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by gladhands View Post
......I can't think of a single leather that would make me less comfortable than elephant.

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Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley View Post
Why? - I assume Marcel obtained the elephant hide legally under international law (forget what its called - CITES or something).

I don’t have any problem with elephant leather in principle: after all, they are used as beasts of burden in Asia
and they must die from natural causes.

I do have a problem with elephant leather in particular: it’s just so unbelievably ugly.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, why, oh why, try to make shoes out of an elephant's ear?
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post #28 of 165
3/16/11 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by Eustace Tilley View Post
Yes, cows and horses serve no useful purpose, unlike lizards

Also, nice bit about "Rhodesia"


I think you missed his concern of poaching vs. harvesting domesticated livestock. Not saying I agree, but you should always be charitable when interpreting someone's viewpoint.
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post #29 of 165
3/16/11 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by DerekS View Post

I think PTWilliams point is that cows & horses are killed to be eaten. Don't recall the last time I've seen elephant tenderloin. I'm sure the tusks were removed first.
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post #30 of 165
3/16/11 at 6:15pm
Have we started wearing rhinos yet?

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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
Now? 11.5 D (US)
Then? Don't remember. Probably 10.5 D (US)

That's a frustrating post-adolescent spurt, I'm sure. It's also frustrating because I'm closer to your present size than your past size and was cheekily planning to ask after the boots
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