Defend the Indefensible: Men Under the Age of 70 Who Wear Bowties

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No, on second thought, make the cutoff 80 or older (I'm not even entirely convinced that those who are 70-79 have a decent excuse for wearing them). PEPP'RIDGE FAHM REMEMBERS!

p.s. Bonus points if you can defend Tucker Carlson and make it sound earnest...

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Orville Reddenbacher looked suave, it just takes the right man to wear them.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

whabout prom nite?

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/2/1474/640/anthony%20williams.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

whabout th' Nation of Islam?

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I wore one to prom this year!

It was pink.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 20 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

There was a guy wearing a bowtie at the restaurant I went to with Geeta and Gareth on Thursday.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Those of us who wear a tuxedo regularly give you the big ol' bird.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

This is a pretty obscure DtheI thread, Joe!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

http://netscape.planetout.com/images/misc/kiosk/popcornq/movienews/peewee.jpg
A WINNER IS PEEWEE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

We heart the obscure

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Why do I continually have to defend this practice? It's dapper, idiosyncratic and it won't fall in your soup. Fuck a Tucker Carlson for bringing this into disrepute and also for his poor taste in them generally.

Wavering between
http://www.bowtieclub.com/Images/Polaris.jpg

and

http://www.bowtieclub.com/Images/Mikado.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Tucker Carlson is clearly the one who let the team down. But his dorkishness is not due to the tie, but because of his general air of superciliousness and oafishness.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Those of us who wear a tuxedo regularly give you the big ol' bird.

Are you a spy?

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

...don't forget George Will. And all of the Young Republicans I went to college with (Hello Dartmouth Review!). barfy.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, did somebody say indefensible?
http://www.bilbocine.com/casablanca.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

i would defend Ingrid from anything

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Are you a spy?

Who, me??? No! Nonononono. Not at all.

― The Ghost of COVER IS BLWON, REQUESTING EXTRACTION (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

What is indefensible is wearing pre-tied bowties. If you can tie your shoes, you can tie a bow-tie.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I say that any man can pull off wearing a bow tie, provided he also wears a beribboned hat and is holding a gigantic all-day lolly.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1870000/images/_1874787_nol.jpg http://dvweb.mpf.arcstarmusic.com/image/605b832c/605b832c-dc0f-422e-901f-8d1fde6ac1c5.MIDDLE.jpg http://www.memorabletv.com/images/paarjack.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

My favorite:

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/04/01/images/George_Will_2.jpg

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Someone needs to give George Will a Buster Brown hat and a giant lolly.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

But bowties are so cute!

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to wear one when I worked behind the bar, having got fed up with my tie dipping into the pint I was pulling. The punters took the piss, but their beer felt the benefit. I probably looked a bit of a twat though. Ah well.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I like bowties; they're different and fun and totally harmless.

― The Mad Puffin, Monday, 20 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Buster Brown never harmed a fly.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

My grandad, god rest his soul, was a bow tie fiend, he usually preferred a slim and stylish dark red one, I seem recall. And the man rocked it. Anybody complaining about bow ties can step off.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Podhoretz/images/Moynihan.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

maura moynihan is pretty cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

or was, at least.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

George Will slashed my tires

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Anybody complaining about bow ties can step off.

[clasps hands behind back, inspects sky ostentatiously, and ambles away, whistling]

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Most wise of you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/images/authors/v2/26168.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

If someone tried to make me wear one I'd probably claw their eyes out before relenting.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Maura's definitely got her dad's eyebrows though.

Crazy big photograph

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

don't fuck with my grandpa either: http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/babcock.htm

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

doesn't Barima wear bow ties?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/72/039_41681.jpg

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Why ties at all? Seriously, what is the point?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Self-strangulation. I hear you Aussies like that, or at least the singers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

oh SNAP!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

doesn't Barima wear bow ties?
-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), June 20th, 2005.

HI DERE! Who told you?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

My bowtie has only seemed to develop itself larger and larger. Probably it was the new sense of fastening.

― f_rankle, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

This is like something from the bowtie Talmud

― nabisco, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

I want some batwing bowties.

― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

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