#140 – Windsor
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
What a crazy thing that was the first time someone showed me how to put on a neck tie. How did this become a thing? There’s like 17 steps! When you mess it up you gotta go all the way back to the beginning! Then my mom got me a clip-on tie and all was right with the world. Fashion through technology!
Tags: electric chair, execution, tie
17 steps? That’s only one store high in a small city house. To go two floors up, we need over 30 steps.
worse in the office building (but those have elevators)
Honest, I thought Windsor was much higher than that.
I grew up watching my father, grandfather and uncles (9 of them) put on ties. I was always fascinated and finally I figured out how to tie one – sorta. I was so proud. It wasn’t half bad, it wasn’t half good either, the knot was big and a neck the size of a tree would have fit in the opening that wouldn’t adjust properly. But I got it that far without help and for a 9yr old girl in my grandmother’s house that was saying something!
Does the electrical circuit run through his floating head?
With a high-enough voltage, it will!
(From QST, sometime in the sixties);
At one mA, shock is perceptible.
At ten mA, you can’t let go.
At a hundred mA, death occurs.
Don’t make an ash of yourself!
WA6DZS.
What you need is bolo ties. 🙂
Did you know the tie is a symbolic item of clothing.
Queen Elizabeth forced all her suitors to wear a strip of cloth around their throat at all times. It was a warning that she could have them hung at any time.
Hence the origins of the modern tie…
Wiki says the tie descended from Croatian mercenaries working for the French.
So, when the judge asks me; “Where is your tie?” I’ll just tell him that I’m not a Croatian mercenary.
He can’t fire me. I’m elected!