The Straight and Narrow

[Manton]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

You're welcome. It would be better, though, if you affirmed that you have joined that others in my Thucydides reading assignment.

- B

Hobbes translation!

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

I do agree that it's beneficial to get an 'outside' opinion when you're more focused on clothing than others. But I think that you have to keep in mind that work colleagues have their own agendas that probably make them poor references. In the case of someone like the person you describe, it's probably best not to confuse corporate ambition for any true knowledge of what it takes to succeed.
What sorts of reactions to your clothes have you endured that you think were motivated by something other than reflex?

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Do you have the interior of the cuffs lined in the silk from Hermès figurative print neckties?

This would be very anti-sprezzatura and un-dÃ

gagÃ

.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

You're welcome. It would be better, though, if you affirmed that you have joined that others in my Thucydides reading assignment.

No.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Manton

Hobbes translation!

I'm looking into getting iammatt a catalog of ships print necktie.


- B

 

[Manton]

A much more readable translation is the Landmark Thucydides. The maps are excellent and help you follow the text and the twists and turns much more easily.

 

[grimslade]

I have a friend who insists, like Mafoo, that his shirts be identical. In his case, they're all solid and almost all white. His wife buys him his ties. I find him an interesting barometer, even though I would not take his judgments to heart in most cases. If you have this sort of person--staid, not slovenly, but essentially uninterested in clothes--it can be informative to get his reactions to your clothes. He tells me, for example, that my shoes are better than my suits. I'm not sure that's fair, but it's still an interesting reaction from a proverbial man on the street.

 

[KhouriC]

Originally Posted by Manton

I am the only New Yorker (transplant though I may be) who has never been to the Hamptons. If I want to go to the beach, I go home.

makes two of us, would rather play golf

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Manton

A much more readable translation is the Landmark Thucydides. The maps are excellent and help you follow the text and the twists and turns much more easily.

I'm thinkin' more book-on-tape for iammatt, read by Nancy Pelosi.


- B

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by grimslade

I have a friend who insists, like Mafoo, that his shirts be identical. In his case, they're all solid and almost all white. His wife buys him his ties. I find him an interesting barometer, even though I would not take his judgments to heart in most cases. If you have this sort of person--staid, not slovenly, but essentially uninterested in clothes--it can be informative to get his reactions to your clothes. He tells me, for example, that my shoes are better than my suits. I'm not sure that's fair, but it's still an interesting reaction from a proverbial man on the street.
I like white shirts too. Problem is I like a lot of colorful shirts as well. It's interesting that he notices shoes. I have a lot of people notice my shoes and I think they are reacting to how nice the leather looks. I didnt start noticing myself until recently how bad most men's shoes look.

 

[grimslade]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

I like white shirts too. Problem is I like a lot of colorful shirts as well. It's interesting that he notices shoes. I have a lot of people notice my shoes and I think they are reacting to how nice the leather looks. I didnt start noticing myself until recently how bad most men's shoes look.

He notices shoes because he owns two pairs, and because he knows that I have something of a shoe problem.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I'm looking into getting iammatt a catalog of ships print necktie.


- B
I'll make you a deal, and nobody will need to get close to Homer. I'll send you a ***** and Sperm necktie, and a copy of Thucydides. You take the time to cut all of the mentions of trireme, peltast, hoplite etc from the book with an exacto knife and then glue them onto the necktie. Then send everything back to me and I will read the shorter, more interesting version of the book, and I will wear the now more attractive tie while doing so.

 

[grimslade]

Please do this, Bill!

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by grimslade

He notices shoes because he owns two pairs, and because he knows that I have something of a shoe problem.
Apparently, it has not been a problem the last two days.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I'll make you a deal, and nobody will need to get close to Homer. I'll send you a ***** and Sperm necktie, and a copy of Thucydides. You take the time to cut all of the mentions of trireme, peltast, hoplite etc from the book with an exacto knife and then glue them onto the necktie. Then send everything back to me and I will read the shorter, more interesting version of the book, and I will wear the now more attractive tie while doing so.
Two Homers talking about putting hoplites in triremes?

 

[RJmanbearpig]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

That is quite a nice monkey.
Would you like to touch it?

Originally Posted by Baron

I was on the Hampton Jitney last week and I'm like, 99% positive that Manton was hiding in the luggage compartment.
I saw Manton drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. Owwwooooooooooooooooo!!! Weremanbearpigs of London.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Do you have the interior of the cuffs lined in the silk from Hermès figurative print neckties?
Are you trolling me?

Originally Posted by iammatt

I'll make you a deal, and nobody will need to get close to Homer. I'll send you a ***** and Sperm necktie, and a copy of Thucydides. You take the time to cut all of the mentions of trireme, peltast, hoplite etc from the book with an exacto knife and then glue them onto the necktie. Then send everything back to me and I will read the shorter, more interesting version of the book, and I will wear the now more attractive tie while doing so.
Can you give the Seamen and Spearm treatment to some Nagrani socks? Then it's a deal.