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!
Patterico (cc3b34) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:08 pmThat last “old boy” should rightly be replaced with an “Old Sot”.
AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:11 pmOops, forgot…
AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:12 pmPlease precede comment with an “I say, old boy”!
…wear blazers….
AD - RtR/OS (5e419c) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:15 pmDon’t forget a proper Ascot, old chum.
okay I will practice. Actual comment.
happyfeet (71f55e) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:18 pmLol!!!
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.
carlitos (6a7ad8) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:26 pmI say, old chums, that “freight” is a contraction of free pre flight”
Cheerio
carlitos (6a7ad8) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:29 pmHow 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.
Mr. Pink (0ee368) — 2/28/2009 @ 4:45 pmIt 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.
Dan Collins (4dc2da) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:00 pmHey, Jeff knows that I wear a well-worn leather jacket and drink beer – although not that Guinness swill he likes.
SPQR (26be8b) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:03 pmActually, 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.”
Mike K (2cf494) — 2/28/2009 @ 5:10 pmWhere 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.
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!
TC (0b9ca4) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:33 pmJolly 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.
Patricia (419c68) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:52 pmPatterico is a tool of the government. . .
Apogee (f4320c) — 2/28/2009 @ 6:56 pma crescent wrench – in their works.
#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.
EW1(SG) (e27928) — 2/28/2009 @ 7:11 pmReally, 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.
Longwalker (4e0dda) — 2/28/2009 @ 9:08 pmThe 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.
timb (ab19f6) — 3/1/2009 @ 8:36 amFuck off, timmah. Go find someone else to stalk. You are creepy.
JD (0d1f38) — 3/1/2009 @ 9:01 amOkay, so maybe I overdressed when I went to lunch with Jeff, but it’s not like I wear the top hat every frickin’ day…
Karl (8966b4) — 3/1/2009 @ 10:50 amDickwad, 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.
timb (8f04c0) — 3/1/2009 @ 2:42 pmPatterico – Wow, did I say that out loud? Excuuuuuse me!!!!!
daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 3/2/2009 @ 7:50 amYou really are a vile fucking asshole, timmah.
JD (2d2bfc) — 3/2/2009 @ 7:54 am