MDMD2: Question marks
Mark Wright AIA
mwaia at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 27 17:12:00 CDT 2001
Howdy
--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Whether these folks are common-or-garden dandies, or the more
> > extravagant continental-ish dandies, or men from outer space, it is
> > difficult to tell, perhaps because of the poor light.
> Yes, hadn't thought about the lighting, but this makes a lot of sense
> now.
Perhaps the poor light would make it difficult to distinguish between
the extravagantly colorful "Macaroni"s and their poorer cousins,
dressed perhaps in tasteful "Snuffs and Buffs and Grays"?
Apropos of nothing, the line in the song "Yankee Doodle" has
intelligible meaning for me at last --- our Yankee dandy feels that to
add so much as a feather to his costume is a bit much, and declares the
offending drab (or perhaps I suppose dyed) feather "Macaroni".
Mark
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