Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]:-) I've been wearing them since about 1973, when I was covering D.C. Superior Court and saw that many of the lawyers were wearing them so I adopted them as protective coloration. The fact that I wear them proved to be a terrific icebreaker when I interviewed then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for a profile piece in the Newsday Sunday magazine. The fact that we were both wearing bow ties lead to a whole discussion about bow ties, where to get them, and why he started wearing them. (As a surgical resident he quickly discovered that regular ties ended up in surgical wounds, while bow ties didn't. ;-) ) On 9/5/06 1:16 PM, "Scott McLoughlin" <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > I'm glad someone commented on B.D's tie. I love bow ties! > I used to wear them all the time, until I got into the > tech biz where no one wheres ties anyway. > > My former best friend of so many years, Sudhir Rao, rest > his soul, used to affectionately call me "king bow tie shit." > One of those weird meaningless high school boy phrases > that just stuck over the years. At one point later in life I > traded a big pile of those ties with him for a much bigger > pile of sweaters; he was always so generous in that way. > > At Sudhir's funeral, our third "musketeer" friend from > school that I hadn't seen in so many years called me > "king bow tie shit" and well, it was an emotional > moment. > > Keep the bow tie flame alive! > > Scott > > Ted Grant wrote: > >> B. D. Colen offered: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Don's PAW week 35 From the shadow side >> >> >>> Thanks, Don - I figured that if I was going to be immortalized with my >>> "firearms," I should dress for the occasion. I also figured that >>> given that >>> my paternal grandfather, for whom I was named but who I never met, >>> made that >>> lamp, and was always described to be as having been a "natty" dresser, I >>> should at least stick on a tie.<< >> >> >> OK B.D. thanks for the "bow tie" explanation! :-) I thought maybe you >> had to change dress code due to the tenure at Harvard! ;-) >> >> ted >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >