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Money on your Mind

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:22:24 +0000

Money is the most direct form of power most people ever get to enjoy. Power comes in many forms: Political, Social, Military, etc. While most of us may never sit in Parliament, or hob-nob with celebrities, or command vast armies, money is something that’s within all of our grasp. And yet, many of us spend it as quickly as we acquire it, due to bills, expenses, and just our own wanton need to spend just to feel good, because there is a sense of pleasure in it. It’s something of a stigma to say that the pursuit of wealth is a form of greed, but often those who hold to that conceit aren’t rich, are they? There’s nothing wrong with the pursuit of one’s self-interest especially where money is concerned. Everyone wants more of it, except ascetic monks and maybe the Amish in Pennsylvania, but you know they wouldn’t turn down a few extra sheckels in their pocket if it were offered. Wearing these Pound Symbol cufflinks on your sleeve just makes you a bit more honest about it. Formed in the symbol of the mighty British Pound, these silver cufflinks keep your mind on your business’s ultimate pursuit – money. Without money, there can be no business; without a business, fewer people are working, and that doesn’t benefit anyone. These are most certainly work related cufflinks, perfect for any line of work where you do, in fact, make money in what you do, so wear them with pride. And may you enjoy as much success as you can!

Drop The Flowers

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:21:26 +0000

Ladies, there are going to be times when you have to present a more professional, less, well, feminine image. We all like flowers and hearts and rainbows and kittens on occasion, and there’s nothing wrong with a woman adorning her wardrobe with these motifs from time to time. But what if you are going to give a serious business presentation to a bunch of clients who, shall we say, probably wouldn’t care that you had pink bunnies on your sleeves. Would you go into an important sales meeting for your company with silver cufflinks that seem to come out of an anime convention? True, it depends on who your audience it; they may enjoy that kind of thing and feel perfectly comfortable with it. The point is that there are going to be times when you need to convey a more serious image, while at the same time maintain your feminine charms. You don’t have to lose the pink in order to do that, but you may have to lose the flowers. A set of these Striped Pink Cufflinks will give your suit a decidedly feminine look that conveys a feeling of professionalism you’re looking for to give your ensemble the motif you want. Ladies cufflinks don’t always have to have flowers and cute bunnies on them, and when it’s time to ditch them for the more business-like approach you’ll be happy to know there are designs out there for you, just for this kind of occasion. Don’t lose the flowers, though, just put them aside until you’re done.

The One-Armed Bandit

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:20:36 +0000

It’s no wonder why slot machines are known as “one-armed bandits.” It’s a form of gambling where the player has no way of knowing for certain just what his odds of winning actually are. So why do so many people play the slots when there could, conceivably, be no chance of winning at all? It’s because slot machines do pay out. People do end up winning, and more often than not. If they never paid out, it wouldn’t be long before nobody played them. Slot machines also don’t require a dealer, and they don’t require another player. You’re playing against a machine, and it’s a form of lottery. You’re betting on a good combination of results to come up every time you put money in the slot. Slots can make up a large portion of a casino’s daily revenue and it’s no wonder why they put hundreds on the floor. If you like to play your luck and you wouldn’t mind a little extra, a set of these beautiful Slot Machine Cufflinks wouldn’t hurt. These silver cufflinks feature the one-armed bandit losing to you, coming up with three cherries on the face. While it may not pay out in chips or money, it pays out in style, and gambling cufflinks ought to look presentable when you wear them at the slots, or at the tables, or whatever game suits you at the present. Whether or not you have a good day at the slots, at least you know the one-armed bandits on your sleeve always pay out. Who knows? They may bring you just enough luck you need to break better than even.

Legend of Britain!

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:19:21 +0000

The heroic Supermarine Spitfire is an aviation legend. Together with the Hawker Hurricane, which was in service longer than the Spitfire and therefore saw more action, the Spitfire found service everywhere Britain fought in World War II, from Singapore to North Africa. Over the skies of Britain during the Blitz, the Spitfire would make that legend happen by downing Germany’s aircraft in the desperate Battle of Britain. Outfitted with the powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin II engine that would later go into the awesome and outstanding P-51D Mustang, the Spitfire easily outmatched most German aircraft in the sky. It’s distinctive form and features make it, in the opinion of this humble writer, the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, which only adds more service to the Spitfire’s icon status. Whether or not you’re a pilot, an aviation buff, a World War II vet, or a combination of all three, these Spitfire Fighter Plan Cufflinks will look excellent on your formal wear. These silver cufflinks feature the Supermarine Spitfire in all its glory complete with the Royal Air Force rondelle on each wing, in mid-flight as it ought to be. They will be instantly recognized by anyone who has seen a Spitfire, because it has become one of Britain’s icons of the Second World War, and airplane cufflinks such as these will make great gifts to the aviators in your life who, while they may not fly a Spitfire, brave the skies in their own way. Aviation has come a long way since the Spitfire, but its legend and its beauty has never faded from memory.

Little Reminders

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:59:34 +0000

Life’s tough sometimes. It’s difficult to keep track of everything, such as days of the week, which children belong to you, stop signs, which flavor is vanilla, or whether you’re a he or a she. Tough. You only know what you like and what works and you don’t care what they’re called. Similarly when someone tells you when something’s to your right or left, well, it’s awkward having to ask just which is right and which is left. At least there’s a way of reminding yourself of something without the awkwardness of pulling down your pants at a meeting. These Left and Right Cufflinks will keep your bearing straight throughout the day provided someone at least puts them on for you correctly. After that, you’re going to need a way to remind yourself which cufflink goes on which sleeve. A suggestion would be to place a card on your dresser with the words Left and Right on it, and place these novelty cufflinks where they go corresponding (that is – goes with) the word that’s written on them. With these silver cufflinks you won’t have to get another tattoo telling you what colors red and blue are, since you’re probably running out of skin to give yourself mementos of what other things are, such as when it’s time to walk when crossing a street. You need all the help you can get and these cufflinks can help, but only if you use them. Remember, they’re there to help when you get confused.

Get Hammered

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:58:01 +0000

Sometimes being a construction contractor is a lot of fun. You get to do something you’ve been doing since you were a kid; building stuff and tearing them down, and building even more stuff. It’s fun and exciting to see a project come together to completion, and even more exciting to get paid for it. On the flip side, however, you have to be an office guy instead of a hammer and nails guy, and that means you have to, at least on occasion, wear something formal so as not to scare prospective clients into thinking you’re a some sort of hooligan when dressed in your work overalls covered in paint and drywall dust. It comes with the territory, but at least you can still have some fun with what you wear and announce to one and all what it is that you do for a living. Silver cufflinks such as these Get Hammered Cufflinks are a great way to do that and spice up your formal wear so as not to feel too sophisticated. These work related cufflinks feature two slabs of drywall with a hammer on them with the words HAMMERED on each one. They’ll look great and add some humor to your work day when you can’t be on the job site all the time and making sure things get done right. Sad, but true, you have to be a bit of a courtier as well as a tradesman, but at least you don’t have to take yourself too seriously doing it.

Football Prep In Style

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:56:28 +0000

This year’s World Cup is over and Spain won. It’s long past time to get over it and get back into the spirit of things to bring your team back into fighting trim this year in preparation for the next World Cup, and you know it’s not going to be easy. That means you have to be ready to go to the matches when you can, and when you do you might as well go for broke and get the best seats you can, preferably in the clubhouses or skyboxes. And when you do you can’t go there looking like a typical soccer hooligan. This is where fine cognac and cigars are often served and you can’t go in there naked and painted in British Lion colors. No. Dress in a shirt and tie, try to match the colors of your team if you can, and wear a set of Silver Football Cufflinks to add a bit of clever dazzle to your ensemble. These silver cufflinks feature the classic football in the standard black and white pentagonal pattern that nobody will mistake as anything but what it is. Football cufflinks are a football fan’s bling and he can’t go to a swanky skybox without something to show off that appreciation or a time-honored sport than with bling that complements his preference. After all, it’s better than the humiliation of going in there naked and painted when everyone else is painted in something different, and in this sport you know what happens to the token fan of the away team.

Rubik’s Cube

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:55:36 +0000

Invented by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik and sold to Ideal Toys in 1980, the Rubik’s Cube is one of the most readily identifiable relics of the 80’s and is considered by many to be the greatest selling toy of all time, having sold more than 350 million worldwide as of 2009. Deceptively simple, you just scramble the cube and then do what you can to unscramble it, moving the sides and blocks around until you get matching colors on each of the cube’s six sides. Some people were so good at this puzzle that they could solve it within a minute no matter how scrambled it was. When you wear these Rubik’s Cube Cufflinks on your sleeve people will immediately recognize what they are despite them only having eight blocks instead of the 27 that are in a normal sized Rubik’s Cube. Recreation cufflinks add some delight and sparkle to your ensemble that smoothes out the sharp edges of any formal wear to cut down on the seriousness of things and makes work and play that much more enjoyable, and it doesn’t hurt to let loose every now and then especially when you reveal you have a fondness for 80’s nostalgia. These are an exquisite addition to your collection of silver cufflinks that’ll enable you to mix up your look a little bit to keep it looking fresh and vibrant for as long as you can before requiring another trip to the department store. And if you happen to be one of those incredible people who can unscramble Rubik’s Cube in less than a minute, that’s not a bad thing to be known by in your circles.

For the Love of Cigars

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:17:36 +0000

If you’re lucky enough to live in a part of the world that couldn’t care less if you smoked, you probably wouldn’t understand how enjoyable Western smokers enjoy a good cigar. The rich aroma and the stout flavors of a fine Dominican cohiba sets them apart from acrid odors of cigarettes. In this day and age of systematic oppression, smokers have to often go outside the buildings they work at to enjoy a smoke, and you simply can’t enjoy a good cigar in the quick span of time it takes to puff down a cigarette. In some places, even enjoying a cigar in the privacy of your own home might engender notice pesky busybodies hysterical over a whiff of tobacco smoke wafting into their nostrils. The world is becoming more and more hostile to tobacco smokers and it’s already come to the point where it’s institutionalized discrimination based on a chosen behavior that, while may have its health hazards, was handled by grown adults who didn’t rely on a nanny state to look after them. Cigar smoking has become both a guilty pleasure and a hidden passion, a rite for adults who take pleasure out of life rather than be fearful of whatever may come. Though they may not be real cohibas, Cigar Cufflinks are a delightful way to broadcast your interest in fine tobacco. These silver cufflinks are painted as tiny brown cigars complete with a label of their origin. Trendy cufflinks add a nice amusing touch to your formal wear, and in the case of Cigar Cufflinks, show to fellow aficionados that you enjoy the finer things in life every now and then.

A Long Way from Vinyls

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:16:54 +0000

It can be said that the modern age can be marked by the mediums which we record and listen to music. Since the late 1890s, music and recordings were made on analog vinyl records that physically recorded sounds onto a wax surface with such detail and accuracy that when you passed an electric needle on it, it would replay it note for note. This was like that until the introduction of magnetic tape in the 1950s and 60s. Eight Track tapes were almost the standard throughout the 70s particularly because for the first time since electronic recording was invented by Thomas Edison you could bring your music with you in your own car. In the mid-eighties, the Compact Disc was introduced by Sony, which allowed songs and other information to be stored digitally. Now, by the late 90s, the MP3 was introduced by Apple, and while we still have CDs , the preferred medium is through the pure digital format symbolized by the amazing iPod. Smaller than a CD player and can store hundreds if not thousands of songs all in one slim package, the iPod and other digital music players are a standard of 21^st Century pop culture. Almost everyone has one. If you should run into someone without one, a gift of IPod MP3 Player Cufflinks will suffice until they can get their hands on the real thing. These novelty cufflinks feature a black plated iPod with a red control interface on a silver backing. While they do not play real digital music (at least, not yet with the way things are going), silver cufflinks look great on any sleeve, and could very well set the trend of how we listen to our music in the years to come.