it comes in pints?

Both of us my friend, both of us.

::sigh:: Okay . . .

On the previous episode, Marshall (the "cretin") had the bride's cousin do his hair and she put blonde tips in it ("like N'Sync!!!"). He freaked and shaved a reverse mohawk in his hair.

So he and Ted (the best man) borrowed a hat from the gardener to cover his freak-out. That's why he couldn't take his hat off at the reception.

And I'm so ashamed that I know that.

Oh. Alright, I'll forgive a little.

Still doesn't excuse the grandma for gushing over it, though. Would have been better if she'd slapped it off his head like Mom and Auntie used to do to me.

Because wearing a hat indoors is still an obscenity.

When I was in grad school I had a friend who ran programs on a mainframe and would have to go halfway across campus to pick up a printout. That was archaic even in that dawn.

Anyhow, sometimes I'd be talking to him and he'd say, "Come with me to pick up this printout." So we'd walk over to the printout place, which meant walking into a building for about three seconds, then out the back door and across the parking lot to another building with the printout room just inside the door.

In the winter my friend wore a flat tweed cap, and when we walked into the first building whip! off would come that hat and as soon as we were out the back door whip! it would go back on and when we got to the printout building whip! it would come off again.

And then we'd turn around and repeat the process. I teased him for it, but he said that a gentleman never wears a hat indoors, even for three seconds.

A good man, your friend.

I was indoctrinated early on to stand when a lady enters the room, which baffles my younger co-workers in the lunchroom. Hats indoors, ladies carrying heavy objects, profanity used in female company... a society that loses its traditional protocols is a society on its way to decay. My dad would turn over in his urn if I behaved the way most of my near-juniors do.

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Don't be ashamed, Lisa--here, I'll admit I've been following the show since the beginning. Feel better? :)

The grandma/hat part must've happened right at the beginning b/c I turned it on about 7 minutes into the show, and I don't recall that. I'll have to check the tape tonight. (There, Lisa, I tape it, too! Ha!)

But maybe that's what what looked weird to me and I couldn't put my finger on it, Ken. It was nice when they had the smaller ceremony outdoors (last week), but it did look weird indoors. And they way it was cocked bugged me, too.

And I love Lily, but she was WAY too drunk at her own wedding.

[embarrassed to admit] We tape it too. Just not last night. I expect we'll see the part with the bad haircut several months from now.

Kate, when you see the tape, let me know what the grandma actually said. I was so appalled that a "lady" would do that that I can't recall just how she said it.

And yeah, being drunk and throwing up at your own wedding is not romantic.

I'd be embarrassed if I taped it, too, Ken. We DVR it. Minor quibble: She threw up at the fast food restaurant, not the wedding. Anything that might have offended me in that show was washed when Ted said, "Not a euphemism". You old folks complain too much.

True, Rob, she did throw up at the burger joint, but she fell over at the wedding when they cut the cake.

And even some of us young folks don't have the funds for DVR, so yes it will be an actual VHS tape I'm checking.

Yes, we should spend less time complaining and more time slapping around the younger generation for wearing hats indoors. Among other things.

I almost always wear a ball cap indoors. Sue me.

Hmmm... sounds like I may need to revive the New Gentlemen's Guide...

I've never really cared about wearing a hat in doors, but I believe it depends on where you are. As an example, home and school don't count. Nor do sports bars. Or casinos.

I almost always wear a ball cap indoors. Sue me.

[Joel surreptitiously dials Cullen's grandmother's number...]

Heh. It's on now, Cullen.

I confess to the baseball cap indoors - when I'm reffing and my helmet is just too cumbersome. If my hair was still short, I probably wouldn't bother to do that much.

What is this younger generation coming to??????

Right you are. Shitty manners have no fucking place in this asstastic crappot we live in. Right fucking on!

This is not apropos of much (I've never seen the show referred to), but I will observe that among my male students who wear hats, the ones who wear cowboy hats (a few; we have a rodeo team at my school) ALWAYS take them off indoors. The guys who wear baseball caps rarely do unless asked. (And I often have to ride herd on my Youth Group to get them to take off their caps - inside the church, even).

There's also one eccentric who wears a sort of white bucket-type hat (think Gilligan's sailor cap with the brim the wrong way). I've never seen him without it...I think he's balding and figures it's better to look like a mannerless goof than a man who is losing his hair.

Yeah, but aren't Alyson Hannigan and that chick who plays Robin really hot?

O.K.--the line was, "And you- You look like a 1940s movie star." Said adoringly by Lily's "Grammie." She then asked if they would be joining the conga line later. Neither of my late grandmothers would have asked something like that!

Apparently, I also missed where Lily was talking about keeping her name and suggested they choose an entirely last new name. My sister-in-law did that with her first marriage. (And no, it wasn't "Awesome.") Now she's married to my brother and took his last name. Her son was kind of upset that now he's the only one in the house with a different last name. Of course her ex-husband kept the name because of their son, and he's remarried, too, so now someone else has this made-up name. Weird!

Bill, Alyson whatshername is cute, hot not so much. The one that plays Robin is moderately hot. I've seen better (truth to tell, though, I suppose that's mostly because of her "Whinysomething" attitude, even though she's somewhat shy of thirty).

Kate, a friend from college wanted to go the hyphenation route, so she married a guy whose middle name was the same as her last name. She never convinced him to hyphenate, though.

Ricki, I've always observed that of cowboy types. Sad to say, though, it isn't as true as it used to be. I've seen some who don't properly doff the hat when they go indoors. I blame television.

Today I saw part of a Kojak episode in which Savalas was all noired up in a trenchcoat and fedora, both of which he wore indoors. Suppose he was worried people would know he was going bald?

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Appreciated, KG, and a mild response soon.

Angie, I might expect that kind of behavior from Columbo. I expected Telly to be a little more gentlemanly.