<p>haha</p>
<p>also, i know this is really bad, can someone clear up the phrase "pop your collar" for me? i'm pretty sure i have a mental picture of it, but i keep hearing that and i'm not totally sure why it's good/bad</p>
<p>im sure u have seen lacoste, u just didnt know it was lacoste</p>
<p>Lacoste are the polo shirts (rather than the polo signature sign of a man on a horse) lacoste has the little green alligator. they come in solid pastel colors. they just look like polo shirts but with alligators. its like 60-70 bucks for one of those regular shirts. lacoste is one of those top class brand names.</p>
<p>this is great, Encomium, we're "being educated"...</p>
<p>shrek: don't worry, I know what they look like =)
it's just that I've never actually seen one in a store/seen someone wearing one.</p>
<p>it's "prep" school</p>
<p>{pun COMPLETELY intended}</p>
<p>the pop your collar debate is for another day...</p>
<p>lets just say somehow, a small group of undesirables got wind of the popped collar custom of the upper classes....and now.....we are forced to watch as kanye west walks around pretending he invented this new standard of polo wearing.</p>
<p>the fall of the popped collar is one of the hardest topics to discuss for me, right up there with the death of my father. tear, tear.</p>
<p>hahahahahahhaa si it is. lacoste isnt that special tho i dont like it all that much. its kinda overpriced....lol but so is every brand name</p>
<p>okay, sweet, have my collar popped now</p>
<p>it's where you take the collar of a polo shirt and turn it upwards - it sort of forms a fan shape frame around your face.</p>
<p>it's a traditionally preppy thing to do - i think there was some picture of JFK sailing on a boat with a polo on and the wind flipped his collar up, or so i've heard, that started it. but lately it's experiencing a re-surgance thanks to non-traditionally preppy stores like abercrombie.</p>
<p>people who dislike preppy people, WASPY people, people high on the socio-economic status generally despise those who pop their collars.</p>
<p>also, there's a joke about how you can tell if someone is marriageable by if they pop their collar - means they have a trust fund. no longer reliable now that it has become a college fad of sorts. (this was tongue-in-cheek, by the way - i'm not really going to eliminate my husbands that way..)</p>
<p>pity, ilcapo, pity.</p>
<p>agh like 40 replies by the time i posted!!</p>
<p>but yeah, it SUCKS, il. being popping it since baby clothes, man... it's just wrong to see poseurs popping theirs.</p>
<p>wow, i'm talking to people online that i probably never would have ended up talking to</p>
<p>us? or people on AIM on ur buddy list haha</p>
<p>I think we all are, but hey, that makes it all the more fun....we'll have a "diverse" group upon reaching Princeton.</p>
<p>no, i just thought preppy people didn't hang out with us normal folk :). It's cool though</p>
<p>oh another amusing pop-the-collar saying - </p>
<p>"you've gotta pop back when kicking some (alcohol) back"</p>
<p>stupid wasted sailors probably came up with that one, seeing as "pop back" makes no sense. either that or they were too inbred....</p>
<p>there are way too many wasted sailors staggering around my school</p>
<p>i think i've spotted a few people who i most certainly would have pin pointed in lecture and honed in on for friendship....or love ;)</p>
<p>how do u people get such cool smiley's?! mine always suck,...</p>
<p>oh god ilcapo, you single out people for friendship based on how they look?</p>
<p>you know what i just thought of, and then i'll let the collar thing rest? pop-the-collar sort of sounds like opossum. wow, i really need sleep.</p>
<p>i actually love talking to you all because we're so diverse; it makes it so interesting. i really hope we all make it through</p>
<p>lol wtf hahaha this is messed up</p>
<p>Enc, one thing - don't we all initially choose who we approach based on how they look? it's pathetically superficial, i realize, but i'm sure appearance has some role a lot of the time. another good thing about CC - doesn't matter how you look, hell, i could be sitting here in pajamas and it wouldn't matter.</p>