DesEsseintes

[Conager]

Stop talking to yourself, connie. It's creepy.

And you talking to hashtag as hashtag while having trouble deciding whether I am you as Skiddles or Hashtag trolling Hashtag as Hashtag57 is sane?

I keep telling you, just because you got away with this for years when the general board was much more crowded doesn't mean you have any facility for it. Get yourself some index cards draw yourself up an outline and try to make some semblance of sense out of this mess that you orchestrate.

 

[hashtag34]

Although I agree with that, it made me laugh because this is starting to sound like a wake.

He isn't dead.

Haha. I missed that.
True.

 

[Ms_Ann]

And you talking to hashtag as hashtag while having trouble deciding whether I am you as Skiddles or Hashtag trolling Hashtag as Hashtag57 is sane?

I keep telling you, just because you got away with this for years when the general board was much more crowded doesn't mean you have any facility for it. Get yourself some index cards draw yourself up an outline and try to make some semblance of sense out of this mess that you orchestrate.

They always slip up, Connie.

 

[Lyricalli]

I figure he inherited an actual bacchanal room filled with dusty volumes and he hasn't worked his way up through them as of yet.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Been acquiring boots in addition to the books.

Boots? How many? And why?

 

[Jennifer]

Bad things happen to good people. I hope Des is well.

 

[Conager]

Yeah, that sounds about right.




Boots? How many? And why?

Well I came to town with some beat-up farmer-style round-toed Justin's. I also brought my favorite Sunday-go-to-meetin' (Saturday-to-the gent's) boots. Tony Lama black snakeskin. They hadn't q u i t e worn through but I need to consult a bootmaker. Ditto for the black lizzardskin of indeterminate origin that were fillin' in for the Tony Lama's until the heel seperated in the m8ddle and got lost in a scuffle.

So...

I found an extended length pair of gen-u-wine ridin' boots by Tony Lama. Great scuffed-up patina. Got ledges on the heels for spurs. I didn't actually know what that was for but it does make it easier to get kicked the boots off. found out about it from my friend who's a beating up retired Rodeo Cowboy. 81 broken bones including his neck twice will do that.

The boots fit right in the little town I spend most days in.

Having still not fixed my Tony Lama snake skins I acquired a pair of fairly plain, ruddy-brown, pointy-toed Justins for my infrequent visits to Church and the Gent's. I've now got to get them into a shop though because I've worn them out stumbling through the rocks in the desert and the points are a bit scuffed and not taking to the saddle soap like I expected. Needs some touch up but I don't want to mis-match the color.

I considered some grey faux ostritch with semi-cheesy silver tips, until I realized the imprinted ostritch was imprinted on vinyl! it was really weird the calves were solid leather the soles were steerhide, but the uppers were plastic. Who does that?

I had my eye on a pair of (rattlesnake?) boots, but it was to be 1/2 off the next day, and being a cheap bastard, I put it off. I didnt get around to going back.

Oddly, the riding boots have a tapered heel that works great for driving, which I do a lot off. The others, not so much, so I switch it up with some nice dresss shoes. My feet like being tortured with variety. If I stick to the same thing some part of my foot or right leg complains.

None of the above are much good for walking any distance or dancin'

 

[Conager]

They always slip up, Connie.

True dat, boo.

 

[Lyricalli]

I forgot how thorough you can be.

 

[Debbie]

1.Exactly

2.That.
And the creation of the Lounge compunded the problem too.

Because the GB became too over- the top political and Trump-esque for a while.
And it lost it's charm for a short while( the mix of leisurely threads, politics and asshat threads was great).

But now I see that the interest in the Lounge is starting to decline and more people are returning to the GB, so I hope that it will gradually come right.

The gb will never be right.
It will always be as it is now.
The players might change.
But the game will still be the same.

Diverse, full of opinionated posters who will call a spade a spade and if you don't want honest opinions then don't come here and ask.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Some have been playing for 15 years. Maybe mandatory retirement is in order.

 

[Ms_Ann]

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Bad things happen to good people. I hope Des is well.

I know he's doing well. No bad things to worry about.

 

[Conager]

I forgot how thorough you can be.

Query the time, and I'll explain the history of timepieces and take you the steps of constructing sundials to pocketwatches...

 

[HisArpy]

Well I came to town with some beat-up farmer-style round-toed Justin's. I also brought my favorite Sunday-go-to-meetin' (Saturday-to-the gent's) boots. Tony Lama black snakeskin. They hadn't q u i t e worn through but I need to consult a bootmaker. Ditto for the black lizzardskin of indeterminate origin that were fillin' in for the Tony Lama's until the heel seperated in the m8ddle and got lost in a scuffle.

So...

I found an extended length pair of gen-u-wine ridin' boots by Tony Lama. Great scuffed-up patina. Got ledges on the heels for spurs. I didn't actually know what that was for but it does make it easier to get kicked the boots off. found out about it from my friend who's a beating up retired Rodeo Cowboy. 81 broken bones including his neck twice will do that.

The boots fit right in the little town I spend most days in.

Having still not fixed my Tony Lama snake skins I acquired a pair of fairly plain, ruddy-brown, pointy-toed Justins for my infrequent visits to Church and the Gent's. I've now got to get them into a shop though because I've worn them out stumbling through the rocks in the desert and the points are a bit scuffed and not taking to the saddle soap like I expected. Needs some touch up but I don't want to mis-match the color.

I considered some grey faux ostritch with semi-cheesy silver tips, until I realized the imprinted ostritch was imprinted on vinyl! it was really weird the calves were solid leather the soles were steerhide, but the uppers were plastic. Who does that?

I had my eye on a pair of (rattlesnake?) boots, but it was to be 1/2 off the next day, and being a cheap bastard, I put it off. I didnt get around to going back.

Oddly, the riding boots have a tapered heel that works great for driving, which I do a lot off. The others, not so much, so I switch it up with some nice dresss shoes. My feet like being tortured with variety. If I stick to the same thing some part of my foot or right leg complains.

None of the above are much good for walking any distance or dancin'

Wait, you only have 4 pairs of boots? What is WRONG with you?

I have 2 pairs of Olathe boots with the spur shelf (complete with spurs) for riding only, 1 pair of custom made English tall boots (with spurs), 2 pairs of Tony Lamas and 1 Dan Post for wearing with my suits, 2 pairs of Justins for everyday. Plus hiking boots. And I'm still down 2 pairs from normal.

Going to the boot place this week. I need a new ranger belt in black. And some more boots.

 

[Conager]

Some have been playing for 15 years. Maybe mandatory retirement is in order.

I'd chip in for a sheetcake and do what I could to help him feel his time here actually meant something. To anybody.

 

[Conager]

Wait, you only have 4 pairs of boots? What is WRONG with you?

I have 2 pairs of Olathe boots with the spur shelf (complete with spurs) for riding only, 1 pair of custom made English tall boots (with spurs), 2 pairs of Tony Lamas and 1 Dan Post for wearing with my suits, 2 pairs of Justins for everyday. Plus hiking boots. And I'm still down 2 pairs from normal.

Going to the boot place this week. I need a new ranger belt in black. And some more boots.

Well for me.. it has to do with poverty, and only (fairly) recently acquiring the habit.

My ex grew up around ranchers and farmers. She was a copperminer's daughter. There's not, to my knowledge, a corresponding song.

I acquired the Justin's first because on the windswept place I bought and briefly held on the NM side of the border otherwise filled my socks with grit.

The Tony Lama's were an impulse at a Tucson vintage shop. I had my doubts about a used pair of boots but whoever had them before me had the same foot as mine and they were broken perfectly for me.

I've seen some Dan Post boots around witb some very nice stitching. I like leather in general. My dad was briefly a volunteer prison chaplain at Louisiana State Penitentiary, one of the largest prison farms in the nation. Sometimes, in the morning, there would be a freshly-minted ex-con slumbering on our blue velvet couch before Dad drove, or sonetimes flew, him home. I remember meeting tge guy that tooled the leather clutch with an Arizona Roadrunner that my Mom used for years. Dad would buy Tandy leather kits and have the inmates tool and assemble them for pocket money.

When I was about 12, he got me tbe big Tandy kit. I've wondered since whether he assumed I might need those skills on the inside at some point or whether the point was for me to realize how much freaking work it is to make a few dollars when one is inside.

 

[Conager]

Oh, and what's your preference on the toe? My ex always assured me the pointy ones are a vaquero affectation and despised them. She likes the round ones.

I like the pointy ones. Seems like it would be easier to negotiate a stirrup, and hence more authentic?

 

[Queersetti]

He's probably dead. His heart was bad.

I got better.

 

[Ms_Ann]

I got better.

Thank God.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I got better.

Hey there!!

 

[Adre]

I got better.

This is a good thing.

 

[Queersetti]

People think I wasn't posting because I had a heart attack. I didn't have a heart attack because I wasn't posting.

 

[yossi]

.....

 

[Queersetti]

I was almost desperate enough to pull a Queersetti name blitz, like when pookie went astray. You must have read my mind and realized I'm far too lazy.

I was going to make up a new name, claim to be my cousin, and tell everybody that I was dead, in broken English and Italian malaprops. But then I realized, I was the only one who would think it was funny, and I wouldn't be be able to reply.

 

[Queersetti]

I was going to make up a new name, claim to be my cousin, and tell everybody that I was dead, in broken English and Italian malaprops. But then I realized, I was the only one who would think it was funny, and I wouldn't be be able to reply.

He was gonna say I fucked Wings,and that pussy was so good, I died of a broken heart at the realization of what I'd been missing all these years.