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[rm]

So this morning I finally figured out how to tie a half-windsor. Yes, I was using a shitty knot (four-in-hand) before this. I feel so stupid it took this long for me to get it, although I do lay some of this on being left-handed and so no drawing of this sort of thing can make sense to me ever, but I almost don't care how stupid I feel about having not gotten it, because I am so hideously pleased with myself now.

Of course, this was a random, half-asleep grokking of it, so I'm not actually sure I'm going to be able to repeat the feat, but I think so. Anyway, this knot? fucking superior.

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That whole cowboy thing

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Ahem. In this part of the world at least, the real cowboys would have been much better dressed for a formal occasion(like a real live theatre or a fancy-do.)

"Learn how to do this right, son. You might have to meet the Queen someday." My Southern daddy used to say this.'Mom told you to say that.' 'She did not. It was your great-grandmother.'

How the West was won. Up here.

Re: That whole cowboy thing

[marcmagus]

I apologize. I'm sure I could have come up with a better way of evoking the idea I wanted to, or at the very least least made it clear I was referring to how culture has endorsed and reacted to its own stereotype of itself rather than any real people.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that cowboys are either sloppy dressers or inappropriately casual, and I'm sorry I ended up doing so.