"Anything other than a button-down collar is for lounge lizards"  — my father.

There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution.  Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration.
Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit.  Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes.  And gin.

John D. MacDonald.  Novelist and Harvard MBA.

"Never ever bloody anything ever !"

Eddie at Dreamy-Time Escorts.

“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art"

Charles Bukowski

You need a flannel suit and a slim knit tie
A hopsack blazer and now you’re really gettin’ by

It’s a stubborn look, just won’t go out of style
If you follow my advice, it’s sure to make you smile


Randy Vicars, Dick Tingle, Beef Cannon

"Hail to thee old Ivy League
Poison Ivy League

The ra-ra boys are sitting 'round the table tonight
The ra-ra boys have lots of plans in view
They're gonna have panty raids and make their own lemonade
They'll live it up just like the big boys do


Poison Ivy League, boys in that Ivy League
Give me an itch, those sons of the rich
That Poison Ivy League


The ra-ra boys will go to bed so early tonight
Before exams they need a lot of rest
They gotta make good for dad, they gotta make good so bad
They'll even pay someone to take that test


Poison Ivy League, boys in that Ivy League
How can they flunk, they're so full of bunk
That Poison Ivy League


The ra-ra boys are being groomed for business some day
For better things to college they were sent
And you can bet they'll be the head of the company
As long as dear old daddy's president


Poison Ivy League, boys in that Ivy League
So loaded with cash, they give me a rash
That Poison Ivy League

So let it be told
I won't touch them with a ten foot pole
That Poison Ivy League"

As sung by Elvis Presley

"Nothing optional - from homosexuality to adultery - is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate."'

Christopher Hitchens