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Alvin Tostig (Alvin_tostig)
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Username: Alvin_tostig
Post Number: 79
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 9:04 pm: | |
Miss Lisa,
I must admit, my actions are indefensible, and not like Alvin Tostig. I’m a good, kind and gentle person, just ask my buddy Navin. I open doors for ladies, and help the elderly across the street. But I have a hardwood shop floor soaked with a months worth of my tears, my floor is warped! I have equipment and tools with surface rust from all my crying. I ruint my good pair of buttercup ostrich boots, stained from all my crying. I have nightmares of Illa Rue seeing a photo of another handsome bootmaker, and dumping me again. There may not be many bootmakers as handsome as Mr. Dailey, but she’d dump me for someone as purty as Mr. Candela or Mr. Ross.
When she came in sashaying in like every thing was hunky dory and asked me to take her back, I lost it. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t think straight, so I had to take it out on the boots. Perhaps she will put them to good use this summer when its 100 degrees and she is chasing wild dogs in Hamlin.
I apologize for my actions, but hopefully I will never go thru this again.
Down to My Last Teardrop
Respectfully,
Alvin Tostig
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Mark C. Candela (Mark_candela)
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Username: Mark_candela
Post Number: 193
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 10:15 pm: | |
You know Scratch you probably just need to go out to www.bootmakerescorts.com. Women who can pull a last with...well, its a talent you'll have to experience for yourself.
It'll dry your tears and put you in a right spiffy state of mind.
"Rooooxanne, you don't have to put on the red light..."
Mark C. |
Alvin Tostig (Alvin_tostig)
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Username: Alvin_tostig
Post Number: 80
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 2:15 pm: | |
Mr. Candela,
Thank you for you advice, but my good buddy Navin installed some type of software that prevents seeing those type of sites. Anyway, if I do need help in the shop, its a top stitcher, not a last puller.
There are so few available single women in this area, I may have to move to a big town like Haskell or Post to find love. I don't want to get to far away from seeing my godson Navin Jr. though.
I wish Mr. Dailey could give me some advice, he seems like a man of the world. But I guess he is awol.
Love me tender
Respectfully,
Alvin Tostig
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Alvin Tostig (Alvin_tostig)
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Username: Alvin_tostig
Post Number: 81
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 6:29 pm: | |
Howdy Everybody,
You know some things just make no sense at all but somehow they seem to work out just fine. A couple of months ago, here I was in the dumps over losing my old girlfriend what’s her name to a photo of Mr. Dailey. Well, a couple weeks ago a real pretty lady walked in to discuss ordering some boots. Never saw her in all my travels around here, and I know most everybody in these parts. We got to talking a little about boots and one thing let to another and we’ve had about three dates at the Dairy Queen in Anson. Of all things she is from New York City, her name is Cynthia Frances Von Ladenburg de’ Symington. Luckily she lets me call her Cindy for short, cause I can’t say all that without getting a few words out of order. She moved down here a few months ago to Roby, she thinks it will be an “artist’s colony” just like Santa Fe is now, and she wants to be ahead of the crowd. Her specialty is “Re-cycled Duct-Tape Sculptures,” she gets a whole bunch of used duct tape out of city trash bins and dumpsters, slings it together and gives it a fancy name, like “Breaking From Security.” Don’t mean anything to me but she says it is popular in the big city, and she studied it in college. I knew they had a boot making college, but didn’t know there’s a duct tape one now. She has people that she pays to send her trashed duct tape from dumpsters and bins all over the country. She bought a building in downtown Roby, and put in a loft for her to live in. I haven’t seen it yet cause that wouldn’t be proper, but I am sure it is nice. She drives me around he her fancy four-wheeler, and even pays for our diners at the DQ. She always wears nice clothes and has a lot of jewelry, and the boots she ordered from me will be the most expensive pair I’ve made. She even wears perfume, and old what’s her name never did that. She is even thinking about making a duct-tape sculpture of me making boots.
Don’t know how long this will last, but at least it is nice to have a female to talk to and go to dinner. Talking to Biscuit is nice, but there’s not much conversation coming back from him.
I've Got a Tiger By the Tail
Respectfully,
Alvin Tostig |
Mike Karnes (Jmkarnes)
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Username: Jmkarnes
Post Number: 112
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 4:20 pm: | |
Alvin,
It's good to hear that things are looking up for you now. It always makes me uneasy hearing about a bootmaker getting down in the dumps, what with all the sharp knives and what not laying around in easy reach. Miss Von Ladenburg d' Symington sounds like just about a perfect match for you and I can sure see why it would be interesting to her to think about changing a handle like that for something with only six letters (but I guess that is getting a little ahead of ourselves). I'm a little out of practice in the courting line since it's been about thirty years but I'm pretty sure the ladies like a good hamburger as well as they ever did so if you both get tired of country baskets and go to looking for some place nice to go on a day trip, try the Herdburger over at Jacksboro. They have the best hamburgers in the state of Texas and maybe the atmospere won't be so romantic as to give a young lady the wrong idea of your intentions.
Glad to be of help,
Mike |
Emmett Dwyer (Emmett)
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Username: Emmett
Post Number: 56
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 4:59 pm: | |
Mr. Tostig: I too am happy for you. This Cindy Von Ladenburg d' Symington sounds like she is a very sophisticated woman, and she might open up your horizons to new experiences for which you should be prepared. She might want to take you to see foreign films; the sort of movies where you'll have to read words on the screen to figure out what the actors are saying to each other . . . of course if it is a romantic story you should know that a moan means the same thing in Italian, French and Swedish as it does in American. Anyway, you might want to carry around your reading glasses when you go out on a date with her, that is, if you use 'em.
But one thing I am curious about concerns her affinity for duct tape, and that is whether or not you will be including duct tape details into the boots you are building for her? Have you considered duct tape foxing, finger pulls, or a duct tape collar? What about a duct tape stacked underslung heel? I bet it would be real easy to whip her up a matching duct tape belt, course it might not be so easy to get it off once she puts it on her jeans, but, as we know, there is a lot one can do with duct tape and I am curious to know if you have any such plans for her boots.
Emmett
ps. if she wants to take you to see a movie called "Das Boot" I want you to know it's got nothing to do with making a Norwegian welt. |
Alvin Tostig (Alvin_tostig)
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Username: Alvin_tostig
Post Number: 82
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 4:28 pm: | |
Mr. Karnes,
Thanks you for the suggestion of the Herdburger, I have a cousin who makes boots in Bryson, TX, Eric “Elephant Skin” Tostig, (he stayed out in the sun to long) mention it to me several times. We may try it next Friday or Saturday night. I don’t want to give Cindy the wrong intentions, I am an honorable gentleman, and she is a kind, sophisticated honorable lady. She’s even offered to buy me a brand new pickup truck if I’d get rid of my 64 Ford truck. I’ve politely refused, cause I’m getting nearly 100 mpg in that thing with the 1952 Nash head gasket. Who needs to go green or hybrid with that?
Mr. Dwyer,
Thanks to you too. I stay away from foreign films, ever since one of my uncles, Plato “The Pervert” Tostig showed a foreign film to the Chamber of Commerce in Post, TX back in the 1950s. One scene showed a dress above the knee caps and they put him in jail. It didn’t matter that is was a guy in one of those kilt things. We banished him from the Tostig family too. Last I heard he was selling celastic up north in Oklahoma and Kansas. Only the good Lord knows what my daddy would do to me if I watched one. Besides, since John Wayne died, there ain’t been too many good movies.
Miss Cindy’s love for duct tape came by honestly, her uncle invented it during WWII. He became rich, didn’t have kids and Cindy was left a large amount of money. She feels her duct tape art is a way to honor him. I’d never use duct tape on or in boots, it reminds me of celastic. But I do use it for seat covers in my truck and to keep my my radio antenna together.
Hello Darlin'
Respectfully,
Alvin Tostig
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Spider Dailey (Spider)
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Username: Spider
Post Number: 88
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 3:21 am: | |
Geez, Scratches, you really gotta start chaining up them girlfriends of yours, I got enough troubles tryin to stay ahead of my own, last thing I need's some gal showin up babblin about celastic right as I'm explainin to some other gal with a weapon and a scowl that me and that waitress are just old friends.
Oh, and Candela, something's wrong with that link, I can't get it to load.
Spider
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Alvin Tostig (Alvin_tostig)
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Username: Alvin_tostig
Post Number: 83
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 3:17 pm: | |
Mr. Karnes,
I took your advice on the Herdburger in Jacksboro last Friday. Cynthia and I drove there for dinner. It must be a good place, cause there was a line out the door and around the building. They had a 90 minute wait. Cynthia couldn’t wait that long cause she had a duct-tape sculpture “setting” in her gallery, and who am I to argue with a duct-tape artist. So we found the Sheepburger just down the road. It looked like a good place, they had steaks, fish and burgers on the menu. I was hungry for a hamburger and ordered one, Cynthia ordered the Santa Fe Tilapia Quiche`, whatever that is. Our food comes out and we commenced to eat. Everything was tasting good and we were enjoying our evening. Well, right after we finished desert, (Rocky Road ice cream), of all things, my ex-girlfriend whats he name, Illa Rue Mosley comes out with one of those chef’s hats on. I start to stutter and can’t get a simple sentence out of my mouth, so she introduces herself to Cynthia, as my ex-girlfriend. She looks at me and tells me that she took some cooking lessons (finally) and moved to Jacksboro to take a job as an assistant chef at the Sheepburger. She went back to the kitchen, but turned around and said, “I hope you enjoyed the tomatoes on your burger, I saved them for a special occasion. I was clueless to what that meant, but I was soon to find out.
Well, Cynthia and I got up and left, I was relieved that there wasn’t a cat fight or shouting, but Cynthia is too refined for that. We’re driving back west on 380, and my stomach starts to rumble like a stampede. I never felt such a thing before. I asked Cynthia to stop and I hurled my guts a few times, thought that was over with and got back in, and we took off. Well, it repeated about every 15 minutes, a couple times Cynthia didn’t stop in time and I didn’t get the passenger window down in time and I made a mess on the inside. I kept looking for the window crank handle, when did they invent electric windows in cars?
We finally got to Haskell and stopped at the emergency room. Doc Blanchard was there, and said he suspected salmonella poisoning and asked me if I had ate some tomatoes recently. If that don’t beat all, Illa Rue was trying to kill me! Doc gave me some iv fluids a couple pills, and charged me a pair of pigskin boots with a flame stitch pattern. Health care sure is getting expensive. I still owe him a pair of gator belly boots from last year’s porridge explosion.
We finally got back and Cynthia dropped me off at my shop and hurried to her duct-tape sculpture in Roby. Luckily I had some of the Tostig family porridge left over, I took some of that and my stomach felt better, I’m weak but better. I am well enough today to clean up the mess I made in Cynthia’s four-wheeler, but she said she’s gonna trade it in on a new vehicle, since her old one needs an oil change and an interior cleaning. I hope she can forgive me for getting sick.
Mr. Dailey,
It was nice to hear from you again, but would it be okay if I encouraged Illa Rue to find you again? I’m afraid she might kill me the next time. Just think, if you can keep her away from bad tomatoes, she'll be a good cook.
Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good
Respectfully,
Alvin Tostig
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James Ross (James_ross)
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Username: James_ross
Post Number: 161
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 9:43 pm: | |
Spider is back??? I thought he was in Mexico living in a bacanora bottle!!! Well nothing new for me i am fast becomming a strager to the forum! Night classes, dayworkin and a little bootmaking has kept me away from the forum longer than i like to be. Hope everyone is doing well (yeah even you Candela)!! Adios......JR |
Mark C. Candela (Mark_candela)
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Username: Mark_candela
Post Number: 198
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 10:34 pm: | |
Ross I am so touched that you and Dailey still have all that love in your hearts for me.
I was starting to feel like the red-headed step child over here. Ever since Tex got rid of that rotary dial phone last month and got caller ID I can't get him to answer my calls. I think Lisa S. finally figured out how to reject certain emails into Junk Mail??
Heck I was so lonely the other day I almost had to call Ol' Man Thomas just to have someone to talk to, but I figured he was in the middle of dinner.
Lee and Carrlyn still talk to me but I think that's because last time I was in their shop I stole Lee's CD collection and I think he wants them back. He said something about the police. I went through the whole collection and didn't see anything from Sting.
I was thinkin' about calling Karnes but if he reads this post before I call he'll be on the lookout.
"Oh, Hear that lonesome whippoorwill,
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry."
Mark C. |
Mark C. Candela (Mark_candela)
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Username: Mark_candela
Post Number: 199
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 10:43 pm: | |
Oh, Spider,
Those girls were doing some custom boot work for a Senator Vitter out of Louisiana a while back. Now their website is shut down and their phone is disconnected??? Must be a pretty complex pair of boots for such an important man. So complex they had to shut down their whole operation.
Mark C. |
Tex Robin (Tex_robin)
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Username: Tex_robin
Post Number: 1710
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | |
Candela,
Yeah that caller id is really something! Gets rid of a lot of people...Hey Lonesome
Whiperwill ain't Sting. That's real music with a real melody..Some of which us a older than some who post here! Here is a good one and this guy was just getting started good when this was recorded in 1969...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59g3pX-C_s ...TR |
Mark C. Candela (Mark_candela)
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Username: Mark_candela
Post Number: 200
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
Tex,
You're going to think I'm kinda twisted for this...well you probably already do...but I record the Beverly Hillbillies and on one episode Roy Clark is just a kid and he plays "Under the Double Eagle"...AWESOME!!! Jethro was a Hollywood talent scout and recruited him from Bugtussle.
In the youtube video he is with Porter. One of my all time favorites. I used to watch him on Saturday nights with my Granpa. Wisperin' Bill Anderson had the show right afterwards. HeeHaw started the whole night, Roy Clark and Buck Owens. I actually like Roy better than Chet Atkins.
Hank, Sr. is my favorite of all time. He defines life for me.
Mark C. |
Tex Robin (Tex_robin)
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Username: Tex_robin
Post Number: 1711
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 3:59 am: | |
Mark,
I would like to see that video...I saw him once on the Hillbillies but he wasn't a kid unless you would call a fat 25 old a kid. He was pretty chunky in the Porter Wagoner episode. Roy was here in Abilene 2 yrs ago and my daughter took me to see him. He was 73 but stood for an hour holding a heavy guitar and singing and picking his heart out. He wasn't quite as cocky as he used to be though. The years have took that away from him. He was probably the best guitar picker of this century with Chet tying with him. Chet was good but he always bored me with his style.. I am a flat picker like Roy Clark and love that style. There have been some other good pickers of this century, several in fact but Roy is my favorite...TR |
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