Oh pshaw, on Sun 14 Oct 2007 08:22:58p, Gregory Morrow meant to say...

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> blake murphy wrote:
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>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:20:11 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
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>> >Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes, indeed. It's what happened to blue jeans some years ago.
>> >> Guess? Girbeau? My dear friend, the late Widow Geraldine refused to
>> >> buy designer jeans with this rationale: "I'll be damned if I'm
>> >> giving free advertising to that company. If I'm wearing anyone's
>> >> name on my ass, it'll be my own." She was a woman of few words.
>> >> God rest her soul.
>> >
>> >
>> >Some brand name labels are subtle enough. I draw the line on outright
>> >advertising. I can't believe the number of people who actually pay for
>> >caps, T shirts, jackets etc. emblazoned with the name and pictures of
>> >products. If someone is selling me a product and gives me something
>> >like that I might wear it, but I sure as hell won't pay to do their
>> >advertising for them.
>>
>> not quite the same as ripping the tag off your levis, but anyway...
>>
>> in "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System"
>> by Paul Fussell, i believe he credits alison lurie with the term
>> "legible clothing."
>>
>> "By wearing a garment reading GATORADE or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED or LESTER
>> LANIN, the prole associates himself with an enterprise the middle
>> class and prole world judges successful, and thus, for the moment, he
>> achieves some importance."
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>
> Lester Lanin, lol...actually I have a CD of his.

OMG, I used to have a reel-to-reel tape of "Lester Lanin at the Tiffany
Ball" from sometime in the late 50s/early 60s.


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