pseydtonne | Next they'll try to bring back hats

The "You Kids Get Off My Lawn" movement has been digging up ancient hatreds. I guess this is their version of victory gardening. They've been ranting about video games being a worse corruption than the horrid comic books of the 1950s. (Yes, really.)

Now they've gone back to what they see as the root of the problem: dungarees. Yes, as in the blue jeans people have been wearing to office jobs for at least a decade now.

George Will's opinion piece is fascinating fuddy-duddery. Blue jeans mean we're too loose and we should instead dress like Fred Astaire.

Does anyone trust fashion advice from a man in a bow tie, someone that may have been born middle-aged? I usually wear blue jeans or khakis outside. I have a hard time imagining anything else being comfortable unless I carried an electric fan in my trousers.

I wonder whether he is annoyed that many of us have trousers with crotch space. How dare we not need to pick up our pant legs before we sit down? Are we aliens from a Heinlein story?

What led the baseball fetishist to this new level of inanity? This guy's opinion from the Wall Street Journal. I love the juxtaposition of the Hudson Valley cracker's anti-jeans rant with a photograph of Levi Strauss. If you miss the caption, you could easily think it's just the author in his salad days.

Why did these opinion pieces get published in 2009? There was already a WKRP episode that handled this in 1980.

Who are these people that think jeans are stiff? Have they never bought washed jeans? Now for the more important question: who got stuck transcribing their typed and mailed letters?

I imagine an intern at the Journal got handed a letter to feed into the scanner. He asks his boss, "why didn't this guy email us the file instead of printing a copy?"

The boss replies: "I hate to break it to you, but that is the original."

The stunned intern replies, "Huh?"

"He typed it on a typewriter. You see those smears and crooked bits on certain letters? That means he used a ribbon-based strike bar."

"Typewriter? You mean, like... in the movies on Turner Classic?"

"Absolutely. I bet he even used carbon paper to make an old-fashioned carbon copy."

"Carbon paper?"

One of the comments to George Will's piece made a great point. Suits require dry cleaning, which is expensive. Any expansion of the average American's dry cleaning needs would be horrendous for the environment.

Mr Will fails to posit enough reasons to switch. Thus he fails and shall be sentenced to a year in Zubas.

-smartest thing I could come up with today, Ps/d