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There are many stupid anachronisms. At the top of my list is the necktie. There was a time
when houses had no central heating, when men wore hats in the house and needed something
to fill in area uncovered by suit coat. Look at the old pictures with throat coverings the size
of a table napkin. First they were functional, then they were given color and lace. It has been
many years since they served any useful purpose except to advertise what prestigious
university you attended, and maybe even graduated from. Now they are just a damned
shibboleth, absence of which can bar you from stylish restaurant. I despise the notion that
clothes make the man. Stuffed shirts only benefit from them. (Let the battle rage!)
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Don't get me started on a rant about allegely male couturieres
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Men wear neckties as their handicap as women wear high heeled shoes as theirs. The necktie cuts off blood supply to the brain, thus compensating for the males' greater intelligence as the women's high heeled shoes compensate for their greater physical abilities.
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>Quilts today are a stupid anachronism.
Well then, I hope that AWADtalk's "stupidly anachronistic" member doesn't take offence at your harsh words and abandon work on the quilt she's making for my wife. From an email received recently, it sounds as if she will be spending even more time and effort on this stupid anachronism. You had better show her the error of her ways, Dr. Bill.
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Dear sjm: you may rely on it that I never said that when my wife was spending many dollars
and many,many hours sewing tiny pieces into squares, and going to dozens of meetings to
show her work and see that of her firiends. many of thhe ones she never finished, and quite
a few of those she did finish went into a Dumpster. Sad.
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sjm, I wonder if it's the same AWAD member who so kindly and generously, in the midst of great upheaval in her life, sent us a table-runner quilt she made with us in mind, mind you, as a wedding present? 
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If we're talking of one who's been busy heeding the injunction, "Go West, young lass!" then, yup, that's her. Junior Wheatgerm, that is
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neckties
I was wondering the other day about the longevity of this current style of men's neckwear. It seems the necktie as we know it has survived in its current fashion for over a hundred years now. But if you look at historical pictures prior to the late 1800s, you'll see the rapidity in the change in fashion of men's neckwear, somtimes every decade, and at least from generation to generation. So why did the necktie fasten itself like a cloth iron around our necks?
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