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Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: November 18, 2006 2:07 PM, by PZ Myers
This has got to be a devious plot. My wife has been known to tell me to dress more formally (it's a polite way of pointing out that I'm a slob), and in particular, that I should wear…a tie… more often. Now a reader sends me a link to ties with cephalopods and brains on them, and it's the month before Cephalopodmas. This is horrible. I don't want to even be tempted by a tie.
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Comments
I don't blame you, who wants to wear a phallic symbol around their necks?
Posted by: afarensis | November 18, 2006 2:37 PM
I try to avoid speaking to men wearing ties. They are usually either from a bank or a church: which means they want money from you.
Posted by: dc | November 18, 2006 2:45 PM
Hey Tielab is the work of Bethany Shorb, I know her from her time at BU! Cool!
Posted by: plucky punk | November 18, 2006 3:25 PM
Buy it, PZ. Buy it.
Buuuuuuuy iiiiiiiiit.
Posted by: Dan | November 18, 2006 3:27 PM
Ties can all rot in hell. I refuse to wear them, even showing up bare-necked in court.
Posted by: steve s | November 18, 2006 4:43 PM
And I thought I wear tacky ties.
Posted by: Jim Anderson | November 18, 2006 6:01 PM
They are quite subtle shades. You could look quite slick if you co-ordinated things well. Alternatively, you could install wires and motors and treat it as a chance to sport a couple of the tentacular limbs you would otherwise be lacking at Cephalopodmas ...
Posted by: SEF | November 18, 2006 6:48 PM
Come on, PZ. You know you want to. Rotating comedy bowties are not a patch on writhing tentacled ones.
Posted by: SEF | November 18, 2006 6:50 PM
That actually looks like The Great Cthulhu on that tie....
N'YA! N'YA!
Posted by: cory | November 18, 2006 10:54 PM
Maybe a little bit of science will improve your relation to ties:
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (Paperback)
by Thomas Fink, Yong Mao
http://www.amazon.com/85-Ways-Tie/dp/1841155683/sr=8-2/qid=1163910077/ref=sr_1_2/104-5915671-1141505?ie=UTF8&s=books
Posted by: sparc | November 18, 2006 11:24 PM
uh... this thread began with images of phallic symbols.
Now it has progressed to an instruction booklet showing 85 different ways to tie said phallic symbols.
Where is this thread going?
Do I want to know?
Posted by: llewelly | November 19, 2006 12:18 AM
There is even a Nature article on the topic:
THOMAS M. FINK AND YONG MAO (1999)
Designing tie knots by random walks
Nature 398, 31-32
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v398/n6722/full/398031a0_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf
Posted by: sparc | November 19, 2006 12:29 AM
It's a beautiful tie, but I must say I'm with the No-Tie fanatics should you be tempted to wear it with a short-sleeved shirt.
There's a special circle in hell for those people, and even if you don't believe in hell you must believe that guys sporting short-sleeved shirts and ties pay the hookers 40% over the going rate.
Posted by: raincoaster | November 19, 2006 5:09 AM