Affectation Watch
Ben Wolfson
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Button, pushed it into the Yawning Chasm.
Tim Serpas
>I got a new pocket watch.
I've had a couple. Kinda keeps you from checking and
rechecking the time. I should figure out where they
are and get a new battery.
Wretch
Andrew Pearson
>
> I got a new pocket watch.
>
And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
Are you wearing it on one end of a long gold chain that winds its way
through your waistcoat buttons from the gold nugget and/or gilded bullet
in the right pocket across the straining pin-striped cloth to the watch
in the left? Or on a nice Albert chain (the kind that goes in your
lapel, PREVINS!).
I trust that you are also tilting back the chair and putitng your feet
on the desk, without first removing the spurs from your boots.
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Ben Wolfson
>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>
>> I got a new pocket watch.
>>
>
>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip pen,
a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm a fop
or a dandy.
>Are you wearing it on one end of a long gold chain that winds its way
>through your waistcoat buttons from the gold nugget and/or gilded bullet
>in the right pocket across the straining pin-striped cloth to the watch
>in the left? Or on a nice Albert chain (the kind that goes in your
>lapel, PREVINS!).
Man, I WISH.
>I trust that you are also tilting back the chair and putitng your feet
>on the desk, without first removing the spurs from your boots.
Actually I'm tilting back the chair and putting my feet on the desk
while pouring myself some whiskey. I start to drink it, when a dame
enters my office ... and my life.
Joe Manfre
> In article <3F67ECB4...@pt.lu>, Andrew Pearson wrote:
>>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>>
>>> I got a new pocket watch.
>>
>>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly
>>cautious.
>
> It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip
> pen, a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm
> a fop or a dandy.
Actually, buettner and I are pretty sure you're either a coxcomb or a
popinjay, but we're going to need a federally funded survey to be
certain which.
JM
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Jacob W. Haller
> Ben Wolfson (wol...@uchicago.edu) wrote:
>
> > It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip
> > pen, a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm
> > a fop or a dandy.
>
> Actually, buettner and I are pretty sure you're either a coxcomb or a
> popinjay, but we're going to need a federally funded survey to be
> certain which.
I think he's more of a man-about-town myself.
-jwgh
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Rich Holmes
> Joe Manfre <man...@world.std.com> wrote:
>
> > Ben Wolfson (wol...@uchicago.edu) wrote:
> >
> > > It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip
> > > pen, a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm
> > > a fop or a dandy.
> >
> > Actually, buettner and I are pretty sure you're either a coxcomb or a
> > popinjay, but we're going to need a federally funded survey to be
> > certain which.
>
> I think he's more of a man-about-town myself.
I call it macaroni.
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Glenn Knickerbocker
If you didn't keep checking and rechecking the time, you wouldn't need a
whole battery of watches. One would suffice.
ŹR
N. Gergen
> Joe Manfre <man...@world.std.com> wrote:
>
> > Ben Wolfson (wol...@uchicago.edu) wrote:
> >
> > > It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip
> > > pen, a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm
> > > a fop or a dandy.
> >
> > Actually, buettner and I are pretty sure you're either a coxcomb or a
> > popinjay, but we're going to need a federally funded survey to be
> > certain which.
>
> I think he's more of a man-about-town myself.
Are you implying that he gads about, plain as day?
Wmst.
N. Gergen
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Joseph Michael Bay
>In article <3F67ECB4...@pt.lu>, Andrew Pearson wrote:
>>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>>
>>> I got a new pocket watch.
>>>
>>
>>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
>It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip pen,
>a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm a fop
>or a dandy.
They've ruled out strutting bantam, vain popinjay, and guffawing jacknape?
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You can always just watch Uri Geller on TeeVee and he'll restart them
psychically.
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He can also bend a spoon into a gnomon.
Chris McGonnell
Holmes<rsholme...@mailbox.syr.edu> wrote:
>yo...@jwgh.org (Jacob W. Haller) writes:
>
>> Joe Manfre <man...@world.std.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Ben Wolfson (wol...@uchicago.edu) wrote:
>> >
>> > > It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip
>> > > pen, a cane, and a fedora; plus, someone's tipped them off that I'm
>> > > a fop or a dandy.
>> >
>> > Actually, buettner and I are pretty sure you're either a coxcomb or a
>> > popinjay, but we're going to need a federally funded survey to be
>> > certain which.
>>
>> I think he's more of a man-about-town myself.
>
>I call it macaroni.
Keep it up and with the girls ...
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Zixia
> In article <3F67ECB4...@pt.lu>, Andrew Pearson wrote:
>>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>>
>>> I got a new pocket watch.
Hmm, maybe it is time to get that Hunter I've had my eyes on for a while.
>>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
>
> It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip pen,
> a cane, and a fedora;
You have a cane? DAMN YOU, WOLFSON.
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Chris McGonnell
>Quoth the Ben Wolfson:
>> In article <3F67ECB4...@pt.lu>, Andrew Pearson wrote:
>>>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I got a new pocket watch.
>
>Hmm, maybe it is time to get that Hunter I've had my eyes on for a while.
>
>>>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
>>
>> It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip pen,
>> a cane, and a fedora;
>
>You have a cane? DAMN YOU, WOLFSON.
Ben's also wearing dove-gray spats now. Even when he wears his P. F.
Flyers. It's only a matter of days now before he buys that monocle in
the window of Council Opticians!
madge
>
> On 18 Sep 2003 17:06:01 GMT, Zixia <ab...@clu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >Quoth the Ben Wolfson:
> >> In article <3F67ECB4...@pt.lu>, Andrew Pearson wrote:
> >>>Ben Wolfson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I got a new pocket watch.
> >
> >Hmm, maybe it is time to get that Hunter I've had my eyes on for a while.
> >
> >>>And they put you on affectation watch for that? Seems overly cautious.
> >>
> >> It's a combination of that, ownership of a fountain pen and a dip pen,
> >> a cane, and a fedora;
> >
> >You have a cane? DAMN YOU, WOLFSON.
>
> Ben's also wearing dove-gray spats now. Even when he wears his P. F.
> Flyers. It's only a matter of days now before he buys that monocle in
> the window of Council Opticians!
>
Who's waxing his moustache for him then?
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Rich Holmes
> Who's waxing his moustache for him then?
Say, how 'bout them Blue Jays?