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I have a few paisley ties.
I think I may have had a paisley shirt or two back in the hippy days.
How about you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)
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Oh HELL yes. I love PAISLEY! | |
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Oh HELL no. I didn't like it back then. | |
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I dunno. I got a tie I kinda like? | |
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Ain't that Persian? | |
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Naw, it's Scotisch. Sorta. | |
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It's a Zoroastrian symbol of life and eternity. | |
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6.? No shit? | |
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Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Never had anything else.
trof
(54,255 posts)But I haven't worn a tie in ages.
Not even to the last funeral/memorial I went to. The gulf coast is pretty laid back.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)It looks different depending on which way the light hits it. It's a subtle effect, but interesting when you notice it.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Purple, blue, green, teal, turquoise.
Awwww.
Trippy stuff, but Nature colors!💙💜💚
O, & if it makes YOU feel goood & happy, it is SO in.
Skittles
(152,966 posts)MOVING YOU TO THE TOP OF MY LIST PRONTO
trof
(54,255 posts)OK, hep me.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)irisblue
(32,829 posts)I look good in it & I feel cheerful in it.
Special Prosciuto
(731 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)Generic Brad
(14,270 posts)Yet I keep getting gifted paisley ties. Go figure.
Rhiannon12866
(203,035 posts)My Dad always referred to them as "gametophytes" sp?). I have no idea why.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)...botany, forestry or agriculture at least as a hobby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gametophyte
By Curtis Clark - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19865562
Rhiannon12866
(203,035 posts)Or really thought about it much, that's just what they were called, LOL. My Dad was an engineering student - he was manager of a utility - but he must have taken other courses.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)You had to take 2 courses from 4 of the 5 areas excluding courses from your major subject.
1 English & history
2 Math & foreign language
3 Pysch & poli sci
4 fine arts (music, art...)
5 Geology, chemistry...
I easily eliminated area 1 since teachers that are good at teaching history are so rare and good English teachers even more so.
Rhiannon12866
(203,035 posts)My school was "progressive," that was he word they used, even back then. We only had to take certain courses to qualify for a major. But it took me awhile to decide on one and there were a lot of things I was interested in. The one thing I avoided like the plague was math - that was my weak subject always. So of course when I became a Psych major, I had to take statistics. I still don't know how I made it through. The teacher was awfully nice and must have taken pity on me,
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)I was always amused that my school grouped them into one area.
Don't be analyzing me.
Rhiannon12866
(203,035 posts)Other countries start teaching languages in the grades and it's not unusual for people to be fluent in more than one language. We're the only ones who expect everyone everywhere to speak English - and chances are they do.
I visited the USSR back before it fell, went with my grandmother and her peace group to visit their "sister city" 2 1/2 hours up on the Caucasus Mountains, but we visited a lot of other places too. I sat next to a girl about my age at an opera one night and we chatted during the intermission. She spoke Russian and was fluent in both French and Italian, kept apologizing that she "never finished her English." That's when I was grateful for my years of French, but it was pretty rough going...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)My pronunciation was fair but the rules of grammar and half a dozen different words for "the" never made sense. I hear English is rather tough if you're going the other way. My wife took French. She held up our end of the conversation with our table partners from France at dinner in Spain a while back.
My Spanish is limited to asking for butter and the bathroom. In my best foreign language mashup: "Ich hable kleine Espanol."
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)..., will cause you to do many pushups. Many.
Who taught you to tie a tie, Marine?
trof
(54,255 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Is named Brad.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)"Some design scholars believe it is the convergence of a stylized floral spray and a cypress tree: a Zoroastrian symbol of life and eternity. It is a bent cedar, and the cedar is the tree Zarathustra planted in paradise. The heavenly tree was bent under the weight of the Arab invasion and Muslim conquest of Persia. The "bent" cedar is also the sign of strength and resistance but modesty. The floral motif was originated in the Sassanid Dynasty and later in the Safavid Dynasty of Persia (from 1501 to 1736), and was a major textile pattern in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Dynasties. In these periods, the pattern was used to decorate royal regalia, crowns, and court garments, as well as textiles used by the general population." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)
I like paisley....always reminded me of paramecium.
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