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Warren DeMontague

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4. Cool. Like i said, my point in bringing it up wasnt to try to shunt it over there or otherwise
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:39 PM
Dec 2012

Stigmatize, just to be sure you were aware of it.

Interestingly enough, the ONLY reason I know how to tie a tie is because I took a very uncharacteristic brief job in my dad's office in my early 20s. My Dad was very much a 9 to 5 corporate suit and tie dude (i think one of the subtexts of his life was that he was this frustrated musician who instead tried endlessly to be something he wasnt cut out to be, by dong what he was "supposed" to, and was never very happy about it) who, despite the personal misadventures managed somehow to maintain a fairly high relative degree of professional success. I was his long haired hippie kid, i needed a job, so I said what fuck, got a haircut, bought a suit, yadda yadda.

Did not take me long to figure out it was not the life for me. But on the very rare occasions when I need to wear a tie... It's pretty easy. let both parts hang around your neck, wrap the upper part of the thicker end around the thin part, and then pull the bottom of the thicker part up and through the loop.

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