St. Patricks sale at VV

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Tie a Tie Video

A nice video someone sent me...good for those young men looking for help....

Walking etiquette

Please when you are walking under scaffolding in the city bring down those umbrellas. OMG if I almost lose an eye again as people squeeze down the street under these protective scaffolds I may scream..

Am I alone in this??

Tod

Flashback..

The hat etiquette question has come up a few times...please look back to the original post

http://preppyguy.blogspot.com/2006/08/little-hat-etiquette.html

one new question came in today:

What do ladies do when they wear a mans hat? I wear a fedora, and often my hair looks atrocious underneath it. Since it's not a cap am I permitted to wear it inside or at the table?

Any thought? I have mine, but interested in others first....


Tod

Happy Fat Tuesday

Enjoy the day!!!!


Tod

File this under OMG

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Love Snow

So I was walking in the city yesterday, after hearing about how awful it was outside. Well I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder...It was so nice to see snow covered cars, streets and sideways. The city actually seemed quiet and peaceful ; we all know better!!

let's get outside and act like kids, play in the snow and have a snowball fight.




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Is Vineyard Vines in Trouble???

Ok, I'm not starting rumours or even hoping something bad is happening. I'm even wearing a VV tie today!!

However, if you are like me and on Vineyard Vines email dist. list you have noticed the sale after sale after sale; up to 60%+ off . Today even buy 2 ties get 1 free...

Are they in the same trouble as other retailers. I'm sure yes. Are they at the end of the rope (belt), don't know...

Everyone is cutting back and it may be the VV was not ready for the slowdown...Hope knot (pun intended).

Taste Test

I assume most of you out there remember the big move by Coke to make "new Coke". How the country rebelled and then the company came back with "Coke Classic".

Well I was on a flight the other day an took a Coke as the beverage. It tasted different, better. Then I looked at the can, from the UK and it had sugar in it...not the high fructose corn syrup in the US Coke.

It reminded me of a trip a few years back to Europe when I figured out the greatest bait and switch in US history. Coke promised to give back the original Coke, but they gave us a different one with high fructose bah, bah, bah...not even mention that the new additive may be bad for you too...

I don't drink soda often, but I really enjoyed the good ol' sugar drink...

Guess I need to go to Europe more...


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Back to the grind

So we are done with the family Christmas trips and time to get the 2009 going..We took our tree and all Christmas decorations down this weekend...

Serious question to many, is your Christmas stuff still up? And if it is, when do you really think it will be down?

You don't want to be one of those people with a dried out wreath on your door, or an inflatable Santa still on the front lawn.

Happy New Year

What a year, if you are like most of us (me included) you can't wait for 2008 to end...

So have a good night...try not to get caught up in the amateur night stupidness (unless you love going to Time Square with thousands of others puking on your shoes)...

Let's hope '09 is our year...maybe a proper champagne right after midnight will start it off right...





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Merry Christmas

Pet Peeve Alert

Anyone who walks in a major metro area, or in any place where a lot of people are found, hopefully can agree with this pet peeve.

THE BLACKBERRY/CELL-PHONE WALK

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You know what I mean, the people who are walking down the street texting/emailing/surfing the net. Now full discloser I am a crackberry addict too (Muffy wife was getting miffed at me so i got her one too, no she's hooked-post for another day). These people may be the same that can't walk and chew gum! As the head down the street, or up the stairs or in the mall they start working their phones/PDA's and guess what??? They slow to a crawl!!

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I mean REAL slow, and the worst part is they don't even know it...It's like a traffic jam on the street, for no reason. I can't tell you the times I almost run people over as they doddle down the main streets. I wish I could just blame tourist, or women, or men, or young, etc...It's an equal opportunity problem..

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People, you need to read that important message, trust me I understand, just either move to the side or at least be aware of the crowd bottle necking behind you...

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UGH

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Snow and Ice

With winter showing it's strength this past weekend, It's time to start thinking about how to get to grandma's house for Christmas dinner, or hopefully to the mountains for skiing!



With the fall in oil prices, the pump price for regular gas is back to a reasonable level. Anything under the crazy level last year and this past summer is good in my mind. So, we can get our big heavy SUV's out again and play in the snow....



The old standby of the Chevy Suburban always comes to mind, however we have a friend who is in love with their Lexus ...Never owned one, does anyone else think it is good in the New England snow, ice?








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This Christmas I am spending...

New poll on the left ....

Shopping

WOW, it' s a few days till Christmas....I am jumping online now, little late this year and I expect to spend much less...

Is the economic showdown real or in our heads?


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More Savings!!!!!

We're offering a 50% off coupon on our site, www.tuckerblair.com - the discount runs through December 24th and the code is "holiday08"Pass it along to your readers if you'd like!

Cheers,Tucker

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Vineyard Vines Savings

Got this yesterday....

Black Friday, SAD

Ok, now it's time to start thinking about Christmas. I was sitting around at home this past weekend and saw on the news how a bunch of savages trampled to death a Walmart employee. These "shoppers" (I call them criminals) pushed the doors right off the hinges. Even when the police came to assist the downed man, the crowds push over the policemen.

What is wrong with people? Do we really believe in this economy there will not be another sale on those stupid electronics or bed sheets , or whatever as Christmas gets closer? I am willing to bet that the prices the week before Christmas will be cheaper!

Stop the madness!!

Did anyone go out looting, er I mean shopping that day?

By Tod

Muffy vs "Real Houswives"

So, don't ask me why, we were watching the Real Housewives of Orange Co on TV. These women are unreal, they act like spending money is their God given right. The only time a "marriage" seems to be in trouble is when the husband loses some $$

So, a new twist...send a preppy New England girl out to live among these women...that could be the funniest thing on TV...

(Best Housewives quote "Do you speak Canadian?" (one women, the smart one, living in a 5 million dollar house and talking to her son's girlfriend visiting from Canada).