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I guess I need true grits.

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan (Post 1803451)

Can you expound on the difference between a "cravat" and an "ascot," please, for those who are not in-the-know of sophisticated haberdashery.

The key phrase to remember is that "all ascots are cravats, but not all cravats are ascots."

A few different sites attempt to resolve this stubbornly persistent question. They each get it right, but a picture says a thousand words, so have a look at Bob's wordpress blog entry featuring comparison shots of each.

The article I sport most often is a Regency cravat - an element of formal attire which I usually wear with a gentleman's frock, a beaver fur topper, and a walking stick.

http://i.imgur.com/PCfIhTil.jpg

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1803632)

I usually wear with a gentleman's frock, a beaver fur topper, and a walking stick.

:laughing:

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1803599)

I guess. My experience with grits is that they are so gross that I can't even force myself to eat them.

Pour maple syrup on them. All breakfast foods taste better with maple syrup poured all over them like bacon, eggs, and home fries, even scrapple and pork roll ... if they're available in your area.

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan (Post 1803734)

Pour maple syrup on them. All breakfast foods taste better with maple syrup poured all over them like bacon, eggs, and home fries, even scrapple and pork roll ... if they're available in your area.

http://akphoto4.ask.fm/165/129/139/9...scaredyaol.png

Oh no please do not put maple syrup on grits! If you're going to put anything on top of grits, I'd suggest a fried egg.

Innerspaceboy, can you sew?

I'm definitely a huge music nerd.
I've also been interested in science pretty much all my life.
But I dislike or am indifferent to Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, I've never read a comic book in my life (although I dig series and animated movies based on comics), I mostly dislike anime, I'm not interested in gaming, computers and programming, don't care much about collecting or generally owning stuff (apart from hoarding a gigantic music collection)...
So I'd probably utter a hesitant 'no'.

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1803422)

Nerd Credentials:

Built a retrobox server with every episode of every godd*mn show I watched as a kid.
Closet full of disco shirts, fedoras, and late 19th-century attire
Completely out of touch with the planet
Constructed a Fruchterman Reingold graph depicting the web-like interrelationships between my 60 favorite sub and micro-genres for kicks.
Former AV crew staff
Good games need only one red button
House looks like the residence of an elderly Englishwoman
I alphabetized this list.
If you didn't build it yourself, I probably think less of you.
Linux.
Misses the BBS community
MS-DOS 6.0
Owns a cravat.
Seriously gets off on cataloging and large library management
Spent hundreds of dollars on old Sesame Street merch and somehow thinks that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
World's largest collection of Pac-Man Fever merch. I have no shame.

http://i.imgur.com/6bM2Yl1m.jpg

[EDIT] Finnegans Wake, b*tches.

Dubliners > Finnegans Wake

All my nerd credentials are video game related. Other than that I like science..

I was a huge nerd in my youth but I've grown out of it..
-I used to write game mechanic articles for YuGiOh tcg, and was an official judge.
-In my early teens, I hosted a server for Ultima Online and programmed custom weapons, skills, etc..

I don't think I belong in this thread..