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Blog re-boot: Tweed in the City

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Originally Posted by RJman
How did you find out about the ivorymongers in Paris? Did you fill out a CITES declaration on re-entering the US?

1. Our hotel was nearby and we stumbled upon it on a walk.

2. Err . . . "maybe" would be the most truthful unincriminating answer.

Originally Posted by RJman
Perhaps on a future visit you can hit Maison Bonnet. Their tortoiseshell cufflinks and collar stays are sold at Arnys and Halary.

Maison was too far away from anything else we were interested in, and I didn't want to drag my wife all the way to see a bunch of stuff I'd probably not want to pay for. Arnys, however, was very cool.
 

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Originally Posted by RJman
How about:

The Man with the Golden Tweed?
Octotweedy?
You Only Live Tweed?
On Her Majesty's Tweedy Service?
The Spy Who Loved Tweed?


You should have been there for the brainstorming session.

Originally Posted by dopey
Why do you have a blog?

Because I don't actually know anything about anything.
 

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Originally Posted by RJman
How about: The Man with the Golden Tweed? Octotweedy? You Only Live Tweed? On Her Majesty's Tweedy Service? The Spy Who Loved Tweed?
If he had a sympathetic co-author it could be tweedle dee and tweedle dum
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Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff
If he had a sympathetic co-author it could be tweedle dee and tweedle dum
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Are you volunteering?
 

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
For some of you, an NSFW link to a giant pic of a brunette in tweed lingerie, specifically, a Shepherd's check.

For the rest of you, it will be completely safe because (a) the jumblies are covered and (b) you are reading StyleForvm from a poorly monitored state prison.


- B


So much airbrushing these days
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good pic though.

I expect better from you next time.
 

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An excellent start! Now the only thing you need to do is to maintain this level of quality.
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One nitpick, though: IMHO, the world is already fed with prescriptive blogs. (ASW alone is more than enough.)

Andrey
 

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Will you have an RSS feed?

--Andre
 

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Originally Posted by andreyb2
An excellent start! Now the only thing you need to do is to maintain this level of quality.
smile.gif


One nitpick, though: IMHO, the world is already fed with prescriptive blogs. (ASW alone is more than enough.)


Fair enough--I'm not in any position to be presribing anyway. I'm still trying to get a feel for what tone to take and what direction to go in.

Originally Posted by A Y
Will you have an RSS feed?

I don't even know what that is . . . mind educating me?
 

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Originally Posted by mafoofan
I don't even know what that is . . . mind educating me?
It's a way to subscribe to the blog. As soon as something new shows up, it shows up in my RSS reader so I don't have to check the website itself. I know Wordpress supports it, so maybe you just have to activate it. RSS is one standard, while Atom is another. For example, the main Wordpress blog has two links ("Recent Posts RSS" and "Recent Comments RSS") near the bottom for RSS: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ --Andre
 

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Wait, is it a play off "Sex in the City"? Will your catty blog friends be vox, rj, and fnb?
 

TheFoo

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Originally Posted by oshinex
Looking forward to reading this. I hope you get our old stuff up also.

It will just be a matter of time. It's a pain ********** to reformat everything.

Originally Posted by A Y
It's a way to subscribe to the blog. As soon as something new shows up, it shows up in my RSS reader so I don't have to check the website itself. I know Wordpress supports it, so maybe you just have to activate it. RSS is one standard, while Atom is another.

For example, the main Wordpress blog has two links ("Recent Posts RSS" and "Recent Comments RSS") near the bottom for RSS:

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/

--Andre


Gotcha--thanks a lot. Sounds like something I should incorporate.

Originally Posted by robin
Wait, is it a play off "Sex in the City"? Will your catty blog friends be vox, rj, and fnb?

Well, it's more a play off the 'no tweed in town' rule (it's "Sex and the City," anyway), but Vox, RJman, and FNB can still be my catty blog friends.
 

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