Re: The current Japanese Ivy post - The 3/2 was often buttoned to the top back in the day. It was ALWAYS an option. Personal choice & all that. And so it becomes a 3 button jacket. Only modern day 'Tradly' dullards see a 3/2 and imagine that you can't do whatever you like with it as our Ivy forbears did.

Re: Old stuff: If your classmates wore Blue Bean Gummers then they were Girls. And the Bass Dover was not just reported on by you but actively promoted - You even claimed (based on what?) that Miles Davis would approve of them.

I could go on.

Remembering our early days together, it was howler after howler from you...
Your taste in Monk strap shoes? You rejected the classics in favour of some really awful 'Dandified' versions.
The Head Of The Charles? I had to tell you what it was along with who ACL & Tintin were.
- From every direction you knew F. all.
... And since then you've read the forums & blogs, been down the public library & schmoozed the most obvious candidates for schmoozing.

I do admire your hard work, but, because I know your motivation, I'm always going to look sideways at you. Chensvold on Ivy is an Opus Fake-it production.

Is that fair?

Best,

Jim.

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Is there really that many who just lurk?

From the evidence of Facebook, people just can't help but post, even when their lives are completely meaningless and inert.

Chinny-Chenners is no different to other writers of journalese, just that his dad couldn't get him a job on the New York Times or even the El Paso Daily Bugle. We can't hold that against him, but the feigned passion and interest in many topics, of which Ivy is only one of them, this is obnoxious.

Still, he's working for Russell Street and that means us now, sometimes you have to work with the team you've got, and that means shirkers, lazy bastards and down right scoundrels amongst the few good honourable men. Its now about how to get the most out of this press ganged recruit before he boards another boat bound for some other mythical utopia in the South China Seas.

But back to praising CC - The stuff he presents re: Japan IS top notch. It's not his work, obviously, but he does present it to us and so I thank him for that. If he could only refrain from commenting on it then that would be even better, but you can't have everything...

What else is good?

I actually did that with Chens & helped with the colours! The other idea we had was for a pennant, but we couldn't get it to work. Hard Bop Hank did the original merchants list too...
Then when all was up and running we put a post on here for Chens to find slagging the entire thing off - The email he then sent me in Paris to complain was a corker!

Who here hasn't seen it yet?

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Putting aside the amazing hubris of Miss Chris, his "utterly baffling" is an extraordinary phrase.

When he really hit the roof, what was in his response, please do tell....

... I got the good stuff!

First he tells me to piss off & then he tells me to fuck off!

Very 'Christian'!

- You never meet blokes called 'Jew' do you? Funny that...

I'm inclined to save his further humiliation for later, should I need it. All the boy has to do is work hard & please US and I'm happy to spare him as much humiliation as I can.

I'm kinda 'Christian' myself sometimes!