Re: SOTU Style

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The fact that this post is not by Ogged may be the most shocking development in the history of this blog.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 5:42 PM
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There is no denying or disguising the fact that Dennis Hastert is not a visually appealing man.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 5:43 PM
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I'd have a hard time not wanting to wear vivid colors, were I Pelosi.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 5:45 PM
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Surely she could find an "<-- I'm with stupid" pantsuit?


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 5:48 PM
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Now that I think about it, I'm sure that most of the time some poor aide from the WH calls some aide in Pelosi's office with a request for cooperative wardrobing, but I'm also sure that Pelosi is free to calculate how much she feels like helping out.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 5:51 PM
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Imagine what George would have to wear if Nancy wore this.


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 6:03 PM
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I think the main thing i'm looking foward to about getting paid is being high enough up on the ladder to wear what the fuck i watn.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 6:15 PM
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6: Perhaps this.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 6:36 PM
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Guy politicians can do color too.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 6:42 PM
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I've never thought about this before. Truthfully!


Posted by: PerfectlyGoddamnDelightful | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:25 PM
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9: Only on Seersucker Thursday, though.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:28 PM
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Wasn't Cheney wearing a pink tie at this year's SOTU?


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:31 PM
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Maybe it was just the monitor I was watching on...the linked photos make it look more red.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:34 PM
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13: As the speech wore on, his fangs dripped flood onto a white tie, which gradually went from pink to a deep crimson.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:37 PM
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9: Santorum does, in fact, look like the kind of guy who spends three minutes wiping his butt free of pollution every time he craps, his lips tightly pursed in a Church Lady grimace, and then worries afterwards that he didn't get everything. What a fussy-looking, prissy-looking guy!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:47 PM
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15: Wait, that's not what everyone does when they wipe their ass?


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 7:58 PM
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As you become more liberated, Adam, you'll spend less and less time wiping, until finally you quit entirely. You're lucky you had me to tell you this. It's one of the great secrets of the secular cult.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 8:00 PM
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I want to know why DE had the link in 6 in her back pocket.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 8:08 PM
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17: Indeed, and it explains both this as well as why dark-colored underwear for guys is one of the greatest technological innovations of the latter half of the 20th century.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 8:13 PM
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doesn't take that long if you use wet wipes


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 9:13 PM
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Why talk about her clothing when we could talk about the significance of her taking her husband's name? I think that proves she's not liberal and/or progressive and/or thoughtful and/or feminist and/or sincere enough to represent the Mighty Swishy Mighty Swishy Eighth District.


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 01-30-08 9:24 PM
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Bush favors the light blue tie in general. It is, I think, the only choice he's made in 7 years that I have thought of emulating.


Posted by: Anderson | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 7:29 AM
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Is there any reason why she couldn't wear one of these? With the arrow the other way, that is.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 8:40 AM
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I've never thought about this before. Truthfully!

I never think about this kind of thing, but then I'm lucky if my socks match, and I think everything goes with stripes.

Queen Elizabeth her ladies in waiting came through tinycanuckville a few years ago. Could have been a bunch of bridge players or church ladies but for a subtle and complex pallete in their coats and handbags. They looked like a painting everywhere they went. I wondered aloud if someone got paid to work this out in advance, with scketches and swatches etc. Painter boyfriend said "duh" (only more politely).


Posted by: Penny | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 11:26 AM
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-sketches, that is.


Posted by: Penny | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 11:27 AM
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24: This is one of those things where an awful lot of effort goes into making something look effortless.


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 11:30 AM
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I thought she was dressed on the colors of mourning- it seemed appropriate.


Posted by: Hawise | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 11:49 AM
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Santorum does, in fact, look like the kind of guy who spends three minutes wiping his butt free of pollution every time he craps, his lips tightly pursed in a Church Lady grimace, and worries afterwards that he didn't get everything enjoyed it just a bit more than God would approve of


Posted by: Not Prince Hamlet | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 12:10 PM
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16->28


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 01-31-08 12:11 PM
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