Weird, Long-Running Styles That Continue to Mean the Same Thing

Is the kid who wears the fedora involved in drama club?

3. NABISCOS POSTING STYLE.

Drama club, D&D, computer programming, A/V -- I think the main personality trait is kinda "geek who aspires to be adult-like?" Cf Schweiber from Freaks & Geeks.

young male no. 1 just wears whatever his mom buys him. except for the fedora, which he got from his grandad after he died or something.

How about the eastern european / russian immigrant kid, fresh off the boat in like a disney or bugs bunny shirt, except they are like 14-15.

School-aged girl who gets a little too Punky Brewster with the colors / accessories -- this is still a constant, right?

(apparently this thread is about children + teenagers, mostly)

reminds me of joey jeremiah.

what the hell are you guys talking about

NERDS

Fat guy party animal in short-sleeved print shirt, except NOT in a movie

Girl with waist-length hair that wears sandals & a pentacle, smells of patchouli

the 45 yr old, either overweight or underweight, white lady in line at the dollar$tore with the Looney Tunes t-shirt.

Homer: Marge, the boy was wearing a hawaiian shirt.
Marge: So?
Homer: There's only two kind of guys who wear those shirts: gay guys and
big, fat party animals. And Bart doesn't look like a big,
fat party animal to me...
Marge: So, if you wore a Hawaiian shirt, it wouldn't be gay?
Homer: Right. Thank you.

a kid who tries to dress jock-ish, but he clearly doesn't play sports and all of his team gear is funny-colored teams like the ol' charlotte hornets or older anaheim mighty ducks

a screenplay is forming in my head

Is the kid who wears the fedora involved in drama club?

Damn right. I remember going to a UIL Speech tourney in 2000 and seeing a whole posse of these guys walking around together all day long.

Popular variant: newsboy hat

humorless little girls with long limp light-colored hair and shiny shoes.

http://njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2007/May/May%2019,%202007%20DJais/full/DSC05830.jpeg

Fat guy party animal in short-sleeved print shirt

are they similar to the guys who are ready to hit the town in their black polyester flame-print "camp" shirts?
http://www.hidebay.com/catalog/images/flame-shirt.jpg

if anyone should ever wear those shirts, people who are pear-shaped should not wear those shirts.

those guys are like slacker-guido. never seen that.

yes, but how do you splain it to them? they probably consider the shirts an act of defiance, symbols of their individuality. like the snakeskin jacket in _wild at heart_. xp

i can't find any pictures of a popular variant during my HS years-- the printed silk shirt with marvel or DC characters/logos, or samurai

we have a "fedora guy" in college--i thought it was the kind of thing you grew out of by age 19, like rat tails or something.

i think the key with the fedora isnt just that his grandfather left it to him but that he think its really cool--like v. independent and maybe even sort of "quirky." hes also under the impression that he's a much better dresser than most other ppl his age.

big HOOS aka the steendriver also OTM; that's the girl who "casts spells" and writes long and involved fantasy novels during class. she's usually friends with manga girl, and they both never got out of/over the "horse phase"

xpost i blame night court

the 45 yr old, either overweight or underweight, white lady in line at the dollar$tore with the Looney Tunes t-shirt.

and her cousin, the 45 yr old either overweight or underweight, white lady in line at the dollar$tore with the
Looney Tunes t-shirt featuring "urban" versions of the characters

Hey, leave my aunt alone.

the kid who never wears jeans or t-shirts and always buttons his collar.

the club shirt nerd spectrum runs flame < dragon < samurai < dragon ball z

spiderman between samurai and DBZ

Hey guys, do you mean like this "JAPANAMATION Bowling Shirt XL ANIME HIPSTER CLUB ASAIN" (sic sic sic)

http://cgi.ebay.com/JAPANAMATION-Bowling-Shirt-XL-ANIME-HIPSTER-CLUB-ASAIN_W0QQitemZ130127640705QQihZ003QQcategoryZ57990QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

haha thank you!

There's a guy I work with (in a different department) who has long blond hair he ties into a ponytail and usually wears a trench coat, black jeans, and long black combat boots. Maybe an earring, too? Anyway, there was some office party a while ago at which he made a hasty exit, and someone turned to me and said "Where's he going?" I said, "I think Neil Gaiman's doing a reading at the Borders down the street."

*golf clap*

the printed silk shirt with marvel or DC characters/logos, or samurai -- 99% of my seeing these has been either on the South Side of Chicago or in Harlem (i.e., black men)

- the guy in college who wears shorts year-round because he is from California

mmm... gaiman

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/uploaded_images/journal01.jpg

He just sort of ... dissolves, doesn't he?

The forty to fifty year old guy that wears the rumpled Indiana Jones-style hat every time he leaves the house, no matter what the rest of his outfit consists of.

- older-guy "bohemian" / "artsy" look that consists of like cheffy pants, sandals, oversized black long-sleeve t-shirts, and weirdly colored berets or other odd hats -- looks kinda like a sculptor who plays bass in a reggae band, carries multiple pledge-drive tote bags at once -- how does this one still exist and not get any older?

was neil gaiman actually having a reading? either way it's funny, just changes the funny.

xpost nabisco i can't picture "that guy"

eternal archetypes, dog

xpost I mean, when I was a kid, That Guy was in his 40s/50s. I'm now nearly 30, and That Guy is still in his 40s/50s. People are apparently adopting this style, but from whom?

from within, man

There was no reading.

jaymc, is your guy also into subgenius stuff perchance?

nabisco I totally have one of those guys as a client, he looks like he woke up from a 20 year coma and someone gave him a flipbook of every fad he missed which he ordered from/wears at random. His house is like an Silver Spoons mansion 2007 with like every square inch packed with something awesome/weird/fun.

Guy who's really into Pink Floyd, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin. You know, reeeal music. Wears faded, torn jeans and stained "American Poet" t-shirt. Has the Shakespeare facial hair.