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TangoPony: May 2012
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Thursday, May 17, 2012. It's Coming . Vacation Detritus. Have you noticed when you are on vacation, it is absolutely impossible to return home without a souvenir tucked safely away in your suitcase? Vacation trips are magic carpet rides into different worlds. I think we have a primordial need to possess at least a little piece of that magic. Look at the choices you have in the souvenir shop. The cup and saucer. So wher...
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TangoPony: June 2013
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Sunday, June 30, 2013. Jonathan Swift, The Mark Twain of the Late, Great 18th Century. Vintage Majolica wall pocket features a gentleman perched in a rose tree playing a golden flute or fife. He is wearing breeches and stockings, the manly dress of the 18th Century. Antonio Stradivari made violins. James Audubon painted his birds,. Gainsborough painted his creepy people,. And Goya painted violence. Swift stands as the ...
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TangoPony: Jonathan Swift, The Mark Twain of the Late, Great 18th Century
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Sunday, June 30, 2013. Jonathan Swift, The Mark Twain of the Late, Great 18th Century. Vintage Majolica wall pocket features a gentleman perched in a rose tree playing a golden flute or fife. He is wearing breeches and stockings, the manly dress of the 18th Century. Antonio Stradivari made violins. James Audubon painted his birds,. Gainsborough painted his creepy people,. And Goya painted violence. Swift stands as the ...
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TangoPony: May 2013
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Sunday, May 26, 2013. EVERY MURDERER HAS M.O.M. One of America's favorite board games, was created in 1944 in England by Anthony Ernest Pratt. Pratt received a patent for the game, which he named CLUEDO. He sold the game to Waddington Games, but it was not launched until 1949 due to post-war shortages of various materials. Parker Brothers obtained the U.S. rights to CLUE from Waddington's in 1949. After 60 years of Per...
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TangoPony: Are Fair Isle Sweaters Knit by Ponies?
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Sunday, July 7, 2013. Are Fair Isle Sweaters Knit by Ponies? Fair Isle sweaters are named after a tiny island in the north of Scotland. The island is part of the Shetland Islands, famous for little fat, hairy ponies like this pair. I don't know if they knitted their own sweaters or not, but they are fine examples of Fair Isle knitting. I call my washer, dryer and sewing machine power tools. Doesn't everyone? I feed my ...
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TangoPony: September 2012
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Monday, September 24, 2012. Republican Elephant and Democrat Donkey have outlived their usefulness. The cute mascots, originally sketched by Thomas Nast in the 1800's seem worn out and not. Particularly descriptive of either party. Let's pick something new, like the Republican Rottweilers and the Democrat Dalmations. Both run around making a lot of noise and neither is very good at getting things done. 8226; White wine...
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TangoPony: April 2015
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. I have always been a collector. I inherited the tendency from my dad and his carefully catalogued collection of transportation tokens. Dad caught the collecting bug from his mother, who had a vast and stunning collection of salt and pepper shakers. They were displayed on shelves below the big kitchen window in the ‘breakfast nook’. Like salt and pepper shakers. Funny to a kid). Fat is No Fun.
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TangoPony: Sometimes a Choir Boy is a Girl
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Saturday, November 30, 2013. Sometimes a Choir Boy is a Girl. We've all heard the bad jokes about castrati …. That the man who has an unfortunate injury to his private parts will soon be singing soprano in the choir. That story is for another day. The Boys Club of the Choir, where all parts are sung only by the male species, can be traced back to that most famous misogenist of the Bronze Age, Saint Paul. Fat is No Fun.
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TangoPony: April 2012
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Why Do I Have A Face? The previous post about dolls with no faces ended like this. Besides, if you have ever made a doll, you know hard it is to make a decent looking face. I will now provide the evidence that sometimes it is much better to not have a face. I rest my case. Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Why don't Amish dolls have faces? This makes no sense. The Amish are not alone. By wrapping pie...
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TangoPony: So Where's the Chair, Raphael?
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Learning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuff. Shop TangoPony on Etsy. Sunday, March 2, 2014. So Where's the Chair, Raphael? Madonna of the Chair' was painted in 1514 in Rome by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, aka Raphael. Try not to confuse it with the painting 'Madogga of the Chair' from Australia. We know Raphael is a famous artist because we refer to him by one name. Like Madonna on her chair. Madonna' is an old Italian word for 'lady', which I doubt Madonna ever was (see gross photo).