^I thought "Howard" on AAAC was the best piece of sustained cyberfoolery I'd seen, but this thing is in an entirely different league.

A fella in Idaho's got a perpetual battery charger he needs to get on the market before the NSA/CIA kills him. And there was a convention of sorts:

"For five hundred bucks you spend three days at the event, make one of the devices and eat all your meals at the posh resort, where out-of-towners can also stay."

What would you wear to this?

If clothing forums could harness this kind of energy it would be...interesting.

http://www.ethericwarriors.com/ip/viewtopic.php?t=3337

Anglophobia, FNBphobia and xenophobia from Chenners - http://www.ivy-style.com/ivy-trendwatch-fanarchy-in-the-uk.html

"And finally, there’s the largely UK-driven Talk Ivy forum at FilmNoirBuff.com, where you can always find baffling drivel about our national style by foreigners"

There's more inanity and Anglophobia in the comments.

Nurse!

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On a similar note, internationally recognized bespoke shirting expert, erotic photographer, and entrepreneur Alexander Kabbaz provides this easy to understand rubric for shirt quality: "The better a bespoke shirt maker is, the higher the armhole will be."
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?116116-quot-High-Arm-Holes-quot-Good-For-Shirts-Too&p=1277301#post1277301
Some of Kabbaz's shirts, so I'm told, are so good that they don't even HAVE armholes.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?116125-Black-velvet-trousers
This was just adorable - an iGent bought new black velvet trousers at Goodwill and plans to RETURN THEM if he can't figure out how to wear them. Returning things to Goodwill was enough to get you into the fourth circle in Dante's inferno (fussiness,cupidity/poopidity), where huge boar-headed demons would compel you to fold acrylic sweaters for all eternity.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?116075-Open-Letter-to-Allen-Edmonds-Special-edition-shoes
An iGent with typically weird iGent feet writes a "De Profundis" style confessional open letter to Allen-Edmonds, which apparently is taking all of its corporate communication directly through Andyland now. He's mad that Allen-Edmonds doesn't make its sublime Limited Editions available in every possible width. I beg you, iGent, don't complain too loudly, lest Allen-Edmonds adopt Alden's policy on limited editions, which is:

- Send $150 to the Hawaiian
- Get put on waiting list
- Six months later, send another $150 to the Hawaiian
- Hawaiian sends a cable to notify you that you are in the top third of waiting list D.
- Send another $150.
- Natural disaster or terrorist attack thins out waiting lists; advance to list B.
- Seasons pass; your children move away.
- Another $150 check to the Hawaiian.
- You are awarded an honorary degree for your achievements in medicine; you resolve to drive from Stockholm to Lund to accept the prize. Your daughter-in-law, who is probably going to divorce your estranged son, comes along. While in Lund you plan to contemplate how your actions have alienated your son and left you isolated in a cold wilderness; nevertheless, you retain sweet memories of visits to a summer home during your childhood, and you realize that it is not too late for you to establish meaning through kindness to others; you also make time to visit the Lund Alden shop, which is unfortunately closed.
- Send another check to the Hawaiian; downgraded to waiting list C when one of the B-listers comes out of a coma.
- Two years later, receive shoes and $400 bill; while you are opening the box, accidentally spill Buffalo Wild Wings brand Caribbean Jerk Sauce on the shoes, making them ineligible for return.