It wasn’t all that long ago that men never appeared in public without a dress shirt AND a hat. The ‘nice clothes’ thing is a carry-over from that.

There is truth here.

‘A couple hundred people also paid for a plane ticket, they should not have to look away from people that are not appropriately dressed.’

From your last sentence, you indicate that you, too, have bare shoulders.

I work for a central NH municipality. My time is split between the Town Hall offices and field work.

That’s a stretch, don’t you think?

This looks like a back door attempt to bring up the Pixar ‘Cars’-world backstory discussion. Now with StarWars entanglement!

“Who’s the King of Animals in Africa?

“...and maybe as the chips in chocolate chip cookies. Maybe. 

Thanks! I’ve been wondering since 1967 (though not THAT actively)

A question I always wanted to ask: What was the difference between that Sprite and the MG Midget, other than badging?

You should’ve seen the look on my face when, at a local Ford dealer on other business, I checked out a Raptor in the showroom.

“Folk Art” is a thing (thank you ARS). The connotatiion is that it’s not ‘fine art’, but works executed by untrained artists in a contemporary style. Ethnicity is a component, but time-frame also weighs heavily. Funky woodcarvings, paintings and fabric arts compose most (if not all) of these works. Hell, you have to…

Recombinant cuisine will be the death of this country.

“Elvis went to war”.

What do you expect from folks who pray to a blue-eyed Jesus?

That child won the ‘Side-eye of the Year”

I was surrounded by Mission-era California history, but still got the deep-dip in National history, first; regional history, second.

Which is basically waging war by containment.

You’ll need to extend that to the Comet, the Falcon’s step-brother.