Ya Damn Blazer-Wearers!
Jeff Goldstein is (not really) at CPAC, and he’s spotted some of you there!
[T]he occasional Patterico reader marches by with a big sign reading “NOT IN MY NAME,” a kind of surreal sight, given that they’re all wearing smoking jackets and top hats and wagging their fingers indiscriminately at anyone who looks like s/he might listen to Rush Limbaugh without the requisite sense of sophisticated coastal irony.
In addition to your smoking jackets and top hats, you wear blazers. And sip tea.
I don’t even know you people.
Please, try to end each comment with “. . . old boy.” And it’d be good if you could begin them with “I say . . .”
Let’s practice. I’ll take one of daleyrocks’s past comments as an example:
Actual comment:
Preferred language to comport with Goldstein view of Patterico commenters:
Add a tip of your top hat and a moustache twirl and you’re done!
Comment by Patterico (cc3b34) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:08 pm
That last “old boy” should rightly be replaced with an “Old Sot”.
Comment by AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:11 pm
Oops, forgot…
Please precede comment with an “I say, old boy”!
Comment by AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:12 pm
…wear blazers….
Don’t forget a proper Ascot, old chum.
Comment by AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:15 pm
okay I will practice. Actual comment.
Comment by happyfeet (71f55e) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:18 pm
Lol!!!
I spot patterico readers occasionally when I travel–usually smiling smugly with their free mileage coupon first-class upgrade, sitting in seat 2A enjoying a freight mimosa whilst perusing the latest comment flame-war on the fancy iPhone 3G.
The Uniform:
- Jeans (expensive)
- Shirt (tucked in)
- Loafers by Bruno Magli (in voice of Johnny Cochran)
- And … A Blazer!!!
I daresay, old boy, that the elitist bastards must be overcompensating for the potty-mouthed rantings of the commentariat.
Comment by carlitos (6a7ad8) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:26 pm
I say, old chums, that “freight” is a contraction of free pre flight”
Cheerio
Comment by carlitos (6a7ad8) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:29 pm
How about instead of old boy at the end of every comment you type “he’s a good man trying to do what he thinks is right for the country.”? I think that would be more applicable in this situation.
Comment by Mr. Pink (0ee368) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:45 pm
It is dreadfully droll, don’t you think, the way a barbarian such as Goldstein chooses to–I think he believes–lampoon, as it were, the way everyone seems to be all wrapped up in moralizing about the terribly vitiated sensibilities of everyone else, wot? Mmmmmm, and I rather think it would be best if we kept our voices at a responsible volume lest he attempt a bit of the old krav maga on us, old boy.
Comment by Dan Collins (4dc2da) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:00 pm
Hey, Jeff knows that I wear a well-worn leather jacket and drink beer – although not that Guinness swill he likes.
Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:03 pm
Actually, you have to end each declarative sentence with, “isn’t it?” with a tone that brooks no refusal to agree. Also, “old man” is actually a bit more authentic.
The proper tone can be determined, when in doubt, by watching Harry Lime in “The Third Man.”
Comment by Mike K (2cf494) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:10 pm
Where to begin?
We are North Americans.
And for those of you who still think we’re from England… we’re not, no, I don’t think.
Comment by happyfeet (71f55e) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:24 pm
“Oh, please. Patterico is a tool of the government, a bought and paid for brick in the wall.”
Now that’s sum funny stuff right there!
Comment by TC (0b9ca4) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:33 pm
Jolly good! The bloke is joking, isn’t he?
But, honestly, tea? Gentlemen, it’s after five somewhere! I’m off to quaff a Pim’s Cup or two.
Comment by Patricia (419c68) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:52 pm
Patterico is a tool of the government. . .
a crescent wrench – in their works.
Comment by Apogee (f4320c) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:56 pm
#14 Patricia:
I am convinced that the decline of the British Empire and a downturn in the consumption of tea are closely related.
And if I sipped the damn stuff I’d never get my daily gallon in.
Comment by EW1(SG) (e27928) — 2/28/2009 @ 7:11 pm
Really, only a fashion barbarian would ever think of wearing a top hat with a smoking jacket. I am a Patterico reader who has, on the proper occasions, worn a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a blazer and a smoking jacket. I have also worn, with elan, an ascot. Never a top hat as they went out of fashion when Kennedy was elected. A smoking jacket, to Mr. Goldstein and others of the “great unwashed,” is worn indoors, preferably with a good cigar in one hand and a fine brandy in the other, by a gentleman entertaining a lady. A top hat is never worn indoors unless the wearer is an observant orthodox Jew.
Comment by Longwalker (4e0dda) — 2/28/2009 @ 9:08 pm
The difference is, Longwalker, you have a job, Patterico has a job, I have a job…
Goldstein does not, so he is unaware of how one would dress for work. Then again, it would take a truly gifted tailor to fit a jacket over the chip he has on his shoulder.
Meanwhile, Pablo is somewhere weeping with JD…they hate when their parents fight.
Comment by timb (ab19f6) — 3/1/2009 @ 8:36 am
Fuck off, timmah. Go find someone else to stalk. You are creepy.
Comment by JD (0d1f38) — 3/1/2009 @ 9:01 am
Okay, so maybe I overdressed when I went to lunch with Jeff, but it’s not like I wear the top hat every frickin’ day…
Comment by Karl (8966b4) — 3/1/2009 @ 10:50 am
Dickwad, I mean, JD, don’t project. Just pick whose house you want to live in after the divorce. I’d choose Patterico, because, well, he’s not crazy and self-destructive.
But, I get it, you’re hurting inside.
Comment by timb (8f04c0) — 3/1/2009 @ 2:42 pm
Patterico – Wow, did I say that out loud? Excuuuuuse me!!!!!
Comment by daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 3/2/2009 @ 7:50 am
You really are a vile fucking asshole, timmah.
Comment by JD (2d2bfc) — 3/2/2009 @ 7:54 am