Thanks to chatsworth for this insightful link to academic dress link from aaac:
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?109173-Dark-purple-aubergine-eggplant-velvet-jacket

Dark purple/aubergine/eggplant velvet jacket?
I am going to have a velvet jacket made up in the near future. I currently have a black velvet sportcoat and a black velvet shawl collared dinner jacket. I am looking for a different color and was originally thinking of a bottle green or dark burgundy as a good alternative. After going into my tailor, however, I was struck by a beautiful dark purple velvet that he had in a book.
I know that this will no doubt prompt a slew of Joker comments/pictures, but it's a bit darker than that. I'm just kind of wondering what people think about a dark purple sportcoat, particularly when compared to a burgundy or green one.
If it helps, I'm an academic who never HAS to wear a suit or sportcoat, but often does. I wear the black velvet jacket to work, pocket squares, 3-piece suits, etc. so it's not like people don't expect my style to be slightly out of the ordinary anyway!
So, any thoughts?

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Don't forget the leaf blower. the other day I watched a kid using one in a steady drizzle. He couldn't figure out why the sodden leaves wouldn't cooperate.

You need a rake for yard work, baby.

Edit: That deserves caps. Yard Work, Baby.

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Self-worth as measured by Disney vacations and SUVs
MBAs
having a perfectly flat driveway
Various meaningless "green" gestures (re-usable shopping bags, the Toyota Prius)
Church (mega)
Church (regular)
Restrictive neighborhood covenants that provide fodder for backbiting (e.g. covenants that restrict house colors to a pre-selected palette)
Football (college and pro)
Unshakeable faith in national and regional superiority (e.g. being really excited to live in Texas)
Never being without inane music (either through iPod or muzak systems)
Frequent references to conventional gender roles, delivered as if they were penetrating insights (e.g. men like meat, women buy too many shoes)
Cheerful, frat-boyish misogyny (see: every post on Styleforum)
Collectible Christmas ornaments

Being from these United States, I do not have a passport of course so I am agnostic about exactly how much cultural penetration the US has on day to day culture of foreign countries. What I take for granted might be a shockingly new thing to you. In fact, during a fit of acute iGentrification, I began to pick up commonwealth affectations and use culturally idiomatic descriptions such as ASBO, "pikey pikey do what'er me likey", et hoc genus omne. Despite most of these words being unknown to most people to whom I would speak, this did not muddy the message I was inferring because precise definition did not matter.

Here we have two groups of people: Us and Not Us. The 'Not Us' are called fags, retards, emo, hipster, liberal, and are hunted and marginalized so that these ideas and norms remain outside of normative society. nobody can describe what most of these mean in any measurable way and that seems to work just fine.

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Last edited by Maximilien de Robespierre (2010-11-19 19:23:41)

We have Planning and Zoning Commissions and sometimes Historic District Commissions, which are similar to neighborhood covenants except they are part of new England town governments. This means the backbiters can wax eloquent about democracy while gnawing their neighbors.

why are there people sitting in the front corners of the lecture theatre, facing the students?

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