Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-08-29 15:04:45 +0000
Uncanny, I randomly had Faggy Ned and the Homophones hit song, "Bow Ties," in my head this morning... specifically the line "I wear them on the train and they think I'm wise..." Truly mystical. I'm telling you. If that act had a couple more tunes, they could be a legitimate, crowd-warming, opening act.
Posted by rladew on 2005-08-29 16:01:18 +0000
Brings to mind our thread about not trusting people who wear bowties quick checklist comes to mind (Pee Wee Herman, Louis Farrakhna, Tucker Carlson, George F. Will...) help me out here peeps...
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-08-29 16:12:05 +0000
Not only do I trust people who wear bow ties infinitely more, I also wear them. I wore my first necktie in like 5 years last saturday. It's a little bit like jeans for me. Why would you wear jeans or a necktie, when the alternatives are more comfortable, less expensive, and considered dressier. I haven't worn jeans since the 90's either...
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-08-29 18:22:59 +0000
As much as I like and wear bow ties, I do still consider a Full-Windsor to be easier and more comfortable, although that may just have to do with years of doing them. However, I immediately hold as much contempt for anyone in a Half-Windsor or Four in Hand as I would someone in a clip-on.
I haven't worn jeans since the 80s.
Posted by tgl on 2005-08-29 18:25:01 +0000
DOC WILSON
It's the truth that you should never
trust anybody, wears a bowtie. Cravat's
s'posed to point down to accentuate the
genitals, why'd you wanna trust
somebody, s'tie points out to accentuate
his ears?
State and Main
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-08-29 18:56:24 +0000
Context please tgl:
"... why'd you wanna trust
somebody, s'tie points out to accentuate
his ears?
Joe turns to see Doc swigging from his flask. In the b.g.,
we see the bellhop walking"
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Not only is that factually inaccurate (the tie was designed to keep the collar clean and point inward, when laundry was a luxury), I might not want something to accentuate my cock.
Posted by rladew on 2005-08-29 19:00:22 +0000
you're dead to me. I want everything I've ever given to you back.
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Posted by rladew on 2005-08-29 19:02:51 +0000
BTW: wiki's last words are these:
"However, they have also been adopted into the "uniform" of clowns and male strippers."
(and the last post was in jest if you're curious)
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-08-29 19:06:01 +0000
Classics never die...
Posted by tgl on 2005-12-19 18:18:53 +0000
MALLMART.
Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-26 13:16:23 +0000
1/26/2006 Foxtrot is for the conversation h. the librarian, buzzorhowl and I had last week...
also, according to NYT, The Plot Thickens
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-26 16:03:57 +0000
I finished reading Frey's book a few days before the damning evidence came out.
I thought it was amazingly well-written, - several passages induced me putting the book down and going "whoah". Having said that, most every plot point contained therein was bogus (have you see the Smoking Gun? They lay everything out very clearly). It didn't bother me too much to hear that stuff was 'embellished'- lord knows I've done some of that, just not to the scale that he did- but I could see where people might get pissed.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-26 16:54:30 +0000
Seems to me that Frey could have written such a book as a fake-memoir, and not tried to go with the non-fiction label. His publisher still has some explaining to do...
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-26 17:07:59 +0000
He shopped it to 17 publishers as fiction, to no avail. Ah well.
Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-31 13:18:23 +0000
Hank Rollins on James Frey
"If you have to watch Oprah Winfrey to get your reading list, you deserve any literary hardships that come your way. A lot of people prefer fantasy to the truth."
DB would be happy to see that Henry adds a few Bush swipes after the Oprah rant.
Some of the interview is good, a lot of it is fan boys asking him about Black Flag...
Does anyone remember when Jonathan Franzen asked Oprah to remove his book The Corrections from her reading list?
Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-31 13:34:03 +0000
Ok, this is starting to get ri-goddam-diculous
Sue happy country?, nahhh.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-02-17 17:04:14 +0000
Wow. Wasn't expecting that. Also fun since rs.n has them stacked.
Posted by tgl on 2006-03-27 18:45:47 +0000
vacationing comic strip artists are awesome
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-01-02 17:10:23 +0000
Bill Amend is in semi retirement... time to nix this strip.
Replacement suggestions?
Posted by tgl on 2007-01-02 19:04:01 +0000
Turning this back "on" so the commentary about what to replace this with can continue. Although, it doesn't _have_ to be replaced.