Seriously I love me some Shepard Fairey, but really… did this designer think we were all going “Liz Taylor” and start wearing caftans? DFI has some concerns.
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Ruby! Yes, these are fabooo.
Interestingly I toured MT Vernon while on the Very Cold, Very Interesting, Very fun, Inauguration week.
I thought it was fitting, given the George Washingon was first and all.
Oh and FYI: Martha was the Cindy McCain of her day.. yeah George married well..
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Forget about the muumuus – check out the shoes! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR2009020102023.html?hpid=topnews
Go Martha!
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and pro-caftan
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Getting to know your commenters:
Zaid is pro-life.
And now you know.
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How many others have their hands raised about wanting to ban Zaid?? I have both of my hands held high.
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I never watched any Boris Karloff films either. However, the Carol Burnett shows I remember from early childhood were hilarious. I still miss Mama’s Family too.
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“I know most of you seem to know eachother from all living in Atlanta, and I don’t live in Atlanta.”
I don’t live in Atlanta and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a majority of the posters on here.
We disagree politically from time to time, but they’re some of the nicest and most welcoming people I have ever met.
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I see what you’re saying. I post on a few webboards where it’s like that and all of us who work at the two papers I write for here view eachother that way but it’s also not hard for people in different corners of a city to meet eachother.
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Well, perhaps it’s also that we view this little corner of the world as a community as much as a “blog” and many of us have made significant efforts to get to know others in this community.
I don’t live in Atlanta either.
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That’s rare for a blog, I’d say. I know most of you seem to know eachother from all living in Atlanta, and I don’t live in Atlanta.
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Actually Zaid, with only handful of exceptions I do know most people who comment on this blog.
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“Who by the way has never met me, or most of the folks on this blog..”
That’s par the course for the internet is that not everyone knows eachother personally.
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If you made the comment in good faith I take back what I said but the term does have a racist past.
Of course I know boris karloff I did a lot of film and drama in high school.
Next you’ll find that I’ll even pick up on Arsenic and Old Lace references!
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TBS- oh who knows, apparently we are all racist according to Zaid. Who by the way has never met me, or most of the folks on this blog..
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It comes from the old boris karloff film Omar the Tentmaker about an incompetent arab oaf (played by a white guy), it’s about equivalent to blackface, honkey.
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I know I will probably regret this, but how exactly is “Omar the Tentmaker” a racist reference? Is it racist if you don’t get it?
Signed,
Confused Honkey
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I wasn’t making fun of your age, just pointing out you likely were not of a generation to have remembered Carol Burnett using it.. oh and those caftans linked are anything but bad, they are gorgeous.
Odd you know Boris Karloff but not Carol Burnett..
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I don’t know, I’ve had fun looking up the history of the Omar the Tentmaker phrase being used to describe people who are bad designers apparently. Boris Karloff’s legacy never dies.
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I have nothing to say other than the fact I thought it was funny the five most recent comments were Zaid’s with 6 of the top 8 being his.
He is becoming more and more like me every day…
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Hey let’s poke fun at people’s age that’s a smart argument, and racist jokes from the seventies sure are funny now.
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Zaid, well all the “Yes we can caftan” jokes were taken.. and this is an old joke from the Liz Taylor 70’s days… which yes, I know you were not born yet.
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Omar? Tents?
Stay classy.
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