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If you were smart and bypassed the spectacle that was "Prepackaged Sex", I'll give you a horribly brief summary: One of the pictures posted showed Steven Page* wearing black skivvies, black socks and Tyler Stewart's hands covering up what Mr. Page couldn't tuck, drag queen style, between his legs.
Anyways, the black socks reminded me of a Dave Barry column I'd read in his book Dave Barry Is From Mars And Venus about the fact that black socks worn alone look cheap and sleazy - while white socks look OK.
Here's what Dave had to say:
"....But the point is that dark socks, as a lone fashion accessory, create a poor impression. This is a known fact that has been verified in scientific experiments wherein fashion researchers put little white socks on one set of naked laboratory rats, and dark socks on another, then exposed both groups to a panel of leading business executives such as Bill Gates, who indicated that they would be "somewhat more likely" to hire from the white sock group, should their personnel needs ever include a rat.
"What this means, men, is that if you're dressing for an important job interview, church supper, meeting with my Research Department, or any other occasion where you could wind up wearing nothing but socks, they should be white.
Likewise, if you're going to be wearing just your underwear, you should always tuck your undershirt way down into your underpants. This is the "look" favored by the confident, sharp-dressing men found in the underwear section of the now-defunct Sears catalog, who are often depicted standing around in Rotary Club-like groups, looking relaxed and smiling, as if to say: 'Our undershirts are tucked way down into our underpants, and we could not feel better about it!'"
(Makes me wish someone had a screen grab of the scene in Barenaked In America where Steve was tucking his shirt into his underwear to mock Ed. Hint hint, my BNL-lovin' friends/computer geeks!) ;)
* Steve being one-third of my dream troika in a parallel universe. You know, the same one where I could be with Kellie - and him - and no one would look down upon me for it. It's also the same place where James Hetfield of Metallica was just named Employee of the Month at Taco Bell (filched from The Onion, I confess)
If you were smart and bypassed the spectacle that was "Prepackaged Sex", I'll give you a horribly brief summary: One of the pictures posted showed Steven Page* wearing black skivvies, black socks and Tyler Stewart's hands covering up what Mr. Page couldn't tuck, drag queen style, between his legs.
Anyways, the black socks reminded me of a Dave Barry column I'd read in his book Dave Barry Is From Mars And Venus about the fact that black socks worn alone look cheap and sleazy - while white socks look OK.
Here's what Dave had to say:
"....But the point is that dark socks, as a lone fashion accessory, create a poor impression. This is a known fact that has been verified in scientific experiments wherein fashion researchers put little white socks on one set of naked laboratory rats, and dark socks on another, then exposed both groups to a panel of leading business executives such as Bill Gates, who indicated that they would be "somewhat more likely" to hire from the white sock group, should their personnel needs ever include a rat.
"What this means, men, is that if you're dressing for an important job interview, church supper, meeting with my Research Department, or any other occasion where you could wind up wearing nothing but socks, they should be white.
Likewise, if you're going to be wearing just your underwear, you should always tuck your undershirt way down into your underpants. This is the "look" favored by the confident, sharp-dressing men found in the underwear section of the now-defunct Sears catalog, who are often depicted standing around in Rotary Club-like groups, looking relaxed and smiling, as if to say: 'Our undershirts are tucked way down into our underpants, and we could not feel better about it!'"
(Makes me wish someone had a screen grab of the scene in Barenaked In America where Steve was tucking his shirt into his underwear to mock Ed. Hint hint, my BNL-lovin' friends/computer geeks!) ;)
* Steve being one-third of my dream troika in a parallel universe. You know, the same one where I could be with Kellie - and him - and no one would look down upon me for it. It's also the same place where James Hetfield of Metallica was just named Employee of the Month at Taco Bell (filched from The Onion, I confess)
