<p>The other day, I was getting a pedicure. While drying my feet, they gave me flip flops to wear. An older woman sitting next to me looked at me and said, “Nice Thong!” I turned around to check if my underwear was sticking out, but it wasn’t. I then realized she was pointing to my shoes. Confused, I thanked her. </p>
<p>I later found out that back in the day thong meant flip flop. haha.</p>
<p>Yes, flip flops were once thongs. This illustrates the fact that regular meanings of words are driven out of use by any “indelicate” meanings that come into use. Oh well.</p>
<p>I’d like to report a breakthrough with HS son. He came in the door after walking home from taekwondo in the heat & humidity and announced, “Boy, I need a shower!” This is the FIRST time he has ever said he needed a shower. (And then taken one.) Usually he hopes after he dries off he will no longer need one. :eek:</p>
<p>There is hope.</p>
<p>mommusic: Axe?</p>
<p>LOL mommusic – up until quite recently that could have been my S! Now he gets in the shower and I can’t get him out. Have been threatening to go down to the basement and turn off the water (all, or maybe just the hot?) on him.</p>
<p>Oh, he doesn’t smell, which is why after he dries off a little he (and we) can forget he needs a shower. But still.</p>
<p>CBBB–isn’t it amazing? I think it was the effect of the first day of school, Junior year. There are some girls he hasn’t seen all summer and I believe last year he wasn’t aware they were girls. ;)</p>
<p>I’m pouring myself an iced coffee…such hot humid weather we’re having here.</p>
<p>See what a little testosterone can do? It’s nothing but Page 1 for the Alley this week! Sweaty guys definitely count as manly. </p>
<p>Alright, it’s MANLY FASHION FRIDAY in the Alley today. What do manly men wear these days? Pretty much anything goes, but if I see a dickie, I’m gonna open up a can of whoopazz. We may be socially ■■■■■■■■ here in the Alley, but we do have some fashion sense. 
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<p>Khakis stained with grease from the trunk latch, fine. Boots, well…that’s a given, especially if they’re work boots. Generally, pants that weren’t meant to hang below the butt crack, but do, are all male. Again, this isn’t men’s fashion from the pov of women. It’s what real guys wear, stuff that’s been lying on the floor of the closet for a month (what’s this word, "closet?); anything recently retrieved from under the bed; beloved Reyn Spooner tee shirts; and for dads of high school manlets, anything that used to be lying on your floor which is now wrapped around a leg of his desk. </p>
<p>If a man owns a pink or pale yellow shirt, it’s because his wife or girlfriend gave it to him. If a man owns a pair of novelty socks with the angel, Moroni, embroidered on the sides, it was a gag gift from the in-laws at Christmas time. So, bring on the blue and brown wear! (Seriously, no jorts!) :)</p>
<p>oh dear. I had to google “jorts”</p>
<p>Are the Australian team onsies manley? Ha! Didn’t think so!</p>
<p>-jeans & t-shirt, preferably black or gray.</p>
<p>-sweatshirt when it gets colder (but real men don’t get cold.)</p>
<p>I wonder what they’re wearing over in the Man Cave?</p>
<p>I didn’t know what jorts were either.</p>
<p>I personally find anything worn by male gymnasts, swimmers, or soccer players to be “manly.” Really. Anything.</p>
<p>Well, if it’s high-tech, it’s manly. Low-tech swimwear would be a chain-mail Speedo. ;)</p>
<p>I think we should say that anything worn by pirates, loggers, packers, linemen, and guys from Middle Earth is manly wear. </p>
<p>For lunch in the Alley today, it’s grog and ribs. :)</p>
<p>Sounds yummy! um, the grog & ribs, I mean. </p>
<p>You forgot Italian soccer players. But I like the way you think. </p>
<p>And if we keep this up the manly men will all flee from us.</p>
<p>Re: Manly swim wear…We need to have a weight limit on the speedo thing though…D and H were on a week long live-aboard scuba diving trip this summer on the Red Sea. D had me in stitches telling me about the wild group of 5 or 6 50ish Spanish guys…each about 50+ lbs overweight, lounging about the boat, sporting a whole rainbow of Speedo colors. Needless to say, she was glad that her dad had the baggy dad-kind of swim trunks on!!!</p>
<p>Are there any manly men in here? I think they’re all out in the front yard gutting a deer. Patooey! Brraaaappp!! Okay, so far on the manly menswear list, we have…</p>
<ol>
<li> Jeans</li>
<li> Sweatshirts </li>
<li> Gray or black tee shirts</li>
<li> Khakis with or without grease marks</li>
<li> Boots</li>
<li> Reyn Spooner tee shirts (surfer clothing category)</li>
<li> Clothing that can march across the room on its own </li>
<li> High-tech swim wear </li>
<li> Pirate/logger/packer/lineman/Middle Earth clothing</li>
<li> Soccer uniforms worn by guys named Antonio and Salvatore</li>
</ol>
<p>Bals or a nice pair of suede bluchers, anyone? ;)</p>
<p>Board shorts, yes…budgie smugglers, uh-uh. :D</p>
<p>IMO: True manly men just know when enough is enough. They know when to eschew (good one, eh?) revealing clothes due to a certain increased volume of their own manliness (ala, perhaps, astrophysicsdad). They know when those jeans from high school need to be traded for others with a skosh more room.</p>
<p>So, while I am ALL for soccer uniforms worn by men still able to play soccer, I do appreciate the manly self knowledge that results in, er, some manly version of discretion.</p>
<p>budgie smuggler > banana hammock.</p>
<p>Okay, I guess this discussion has died a merciful death, and sluggdadd is yapping at me about Gene Upshaw, Hall of Famer and longtime NFL union head, so on that note…MANLY MEN WEEK is over (mainly because not one single man participated)! </p>
<p>Putting My Boy Lollipop on the g/d juke box, and I’m turning it up REAL LOUD. Kick your shoes off, Mom, and stay a while! Who wants to split the bottle with me? My Boy Lollipop, you make my heart go gittyup! :D</p>
<p>Nope. Not dead yet.</p>
<p>Manly: whatever those gorgeous male runners choose to wear (assuming, of course, that the one doing the wearing is a gorgeous male runner).</p>
<p>English Leather?</p>