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stepfordtart - 2011-08-03 16:52:43
Maybe the old gent thought it was a kilt? Maybe it was some kind of minimalist kilt? Like a kilt but, holy hell those things are HEAVY - all that pleating and such. So, he'd foregone the pleats and buckles and funny hairy sporran and just ordered up the elements he wanted - "It hastae be plaid (tartan), and it hastae let ma knackers swing freeeeee". Yep. Deffo a minimalist kilt. s x
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terri t - 2011-08-03 19:08:20
I suspect, as stepfordtart said, that there was no underwear under all that wool. Poor guy; he probably doesn't realize how warm he makes himself wearing all that wool in this weather. and he has to have a big rash too!
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Stephanie - 2011-08-03 20:24:19
The mayor of Kookville's grandfather reminds me of this guy in Great Barrington who sometimes wears stilettos with his carpenter-style work clothes. Seriously.
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Pam L - 2011-08-03 22:04:11
Funny stories of wool skirts, side boobs and Mick's attempts at avoiding same. We used to have a cross-dresser who frequented the grocery store here when the kids were little. He/she went during the slower part of the day so was even more obvious and looked more like a Monty Python attempt at it, in man-sized women's pumps and the frumpy dress to match. No one bothered them (him/her) but my boys were a little confused.
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beanie - 2011-08-04 00:03:22
I've been told by those who wear them that skirts are cool, allowing a lot of air flow... maybe he had some kind of rash or something that make the skirt necessary. But I agree with you on the kid thing.. every parent is subject to a lot of advice by people who don't have kids.. kind of like priests being marriage counselors. Heh.
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Jim - 2011-08-04 13:46:37
Ah, Shoprite... haven't seen one of them in ages. Worked in one on Long Island my sophomore year of college -- and then third shift in the Kingston store that summer pushing the floor scrubber around all night long (just for a month or so until I snagged a day job in a local supermarket). I got so sick of having to wear a white dress shirt (and a necktie!) to crappy minimum wage plus about two-bits an hour job, that I swore off white dress shirts and to this very day the only white shirt I have ever owned since then is the formal white shirt that goes with my tux.
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Amy - 2011-08-04 14:06:58
I bet you could find a cheap and decent wok at an asian grocery store. Store it somewhere out of the way, so you're not constantly bumping into it and shuffling it around. That way you don't have to feel guilty about having a single-task tool in your kitchen. I used to watch Alton Brown all the time, though, and it seemed like every other episode, he was producing a new gadget and saying, "This is the only single-task kitchen tool I own." And, I'd think, "Really? I thought that was the fire extinguisher."
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