Plaid

[sfa]

And how many of those boys were wearing plaid at the time?

Seems to be a popular style with the boys these days (at least around here)--plaid shorts and striped (seriously, I'm not making this up) shirts. Saw it first in the elementary school and thought "there's a kid whose mother lets him dress himself." Then I started noticing it all over the place on the college campus where I work. When you see college guys dressing a particular way, you know it's a style and not a mistake!

[Veronica]

Our kids wear uniforms - so none of them were wearing plaid. Although one of my boys, who didn't ask, has a plaid backpack.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

Oh yeah. I started seeing plaid board shorts on the kids maybe 2-3 years ago. Maybe the fad is already over and that's why your kids don't know the word!

[maillotpois]

Our school uniforms were black watch plaid. With saddle shoes.

I was just wondering how you would describe plaid to someone without showing them an example until I read the post just above mine.

[Veronica]

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I was just wondering how you would describe plaid to someone without showing them an example until I read the post just above mine.

The math test it was on had a picture of plaid pants. They had no idea how to pronounce it - wanted to give it a long a sound, which makes perfect sense.

Veronica

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Taupe plaid issues aside, I nostalgically remember years ago when 3 year olds didn't dare go around saying "stupid butt crack" in front of grown ups. A few years ago my little nephews (around 7) started talking about some juvenile humored PG movie while visiting us and laughed while repeating some jokes from it to me about 'hairy balls' and demonstrating farts from the movie. Can you imagine communicating to your aunt like this, in front of your approving father yet?? I told them to not behave like that but they just laughed and their father (my brother) laughed too and thought it was a real riot.
After they returned home I told my brother on the phone that we didn't want to have that kind of bathroom humor inflicted on us in our own house by children and that if they wanted to come visit again they'd all have to clean up their act. To his credit, he agreed calmly rather than reacting badly. But we never got a chance to test the new rules out. Oh well.
Ok, rant over, sorry... a pet peeve of mine! I guess I must sound like an old prude these days when 'anything goes'.

[solobiker]

Taupe plaid issues aside, I nostalgically remember years ago when 3 year olds didn't dare go around saying "stupid butt crack" in front of grown ups. A few years ago my little nephews (around 7) started talking about some juvenile humored PG movie while visiting us and laughed while repeating some jokes from it to me about 'hairy balls' and demonstrating farts from the movie. Can you imagine communicating to your aunt like this, in front of your approving father yet?? I told them to not behave like that but they just laughed and their father (my brother) laughed too and thought it was a real riot.
After they returned home I told my brother on the phone that we didn't want to have that kind of bathroom humor inflicted on us in our own house by children and that if they wanted to come visit again they'd all have to clean up their act. To his credit, he agreed calmly rather than reacting badly. But we never got a chance to test the new rules out. Oh well.
Ok, rant over, sorry... a pet peeve of mine! I guess I must sound like an old prude these days when 'anything goes'.

I agree with you Lisa 100%. I don't agree with that kind of language or behavior. I am on FB and one of my "friends" is my 17 y/o niece..and to read some of the comments she posts and the language she uses makes me cringe. I have blocked/hidden her posts because 99.9% of the time it is filthly language or of an inappropriate nature. Sorry for the thread hijack.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I am on FB and one of my "friends" is my 17 y/o niece..and to read some of the comments she posts and the language she uses makes me cringe. I have blocked/hidden her posts because 99.9% of the time it is filthly language or of an inappropriate nature.

I guess maybe she'll have a 'Hmmm...' moment when she applies for jobs and finds that her old forgotten posts on various sites have been tracked down and looked at by people considering hiring her.
Maybe a nice tailored taupe plaid professional business suit will help her land that job though!

[solobiker]

i guess maybe she'll have a 'hmmm...' moment when she applies for jobs and finds that her old forgotten posts on various sites have been tracked down and looked at by people considering hiring her.
Maybe a nice tailored taupe plaid professional business suit will help her land that job though!

lol:d