The Modern Purgatory

This was mostly written by a friend, but I found it so amusing that I edited his original, added a couple sentences and corrected his grammar, and posted it here.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Further Reading

(Previously: Accessories) So this concludes the end of our series. With luck, you'll be able to go through your wardrobe and figure out what necessities are missing, and once you have all the essentials, be able to dress up and look great on a daily basis.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Accessories

(Previously: Hats) You may be fully clothed, but you're not fully dressed without a few well-chosen accessories.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Hats

(Previously: Jackets & Formalwear) Hats are an everyday part of life, and may serve utilitarian or decorative function, though the function of more formal hats as a necessary part of formalwear has largely gone the way of the dinosaur.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Jackets & Formalwear

(Previously: Shirts) When the weather turns chilly, or if you're simply invited to a dressier social function, you're going to need one of many types of jackets. And if you're doing well in all the previous sections, don't ruin it here by wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Shirts

(Previously: Pants & Shorts) While you may look all good without a shirt on, the rest of us guys really don't want to see it, and you know you're going to need to put something on if you go into any sort of establishment.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Pants & Shorts

(Previously: Shoes) You need something to cover your rear, and pants are it. In this section, we're going to cover the range of legwear ranging from workout clothes to tux pants. In general, they should fit comfortably, but not be too lose. Sagging is not cool.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Introduction

Yachting. Garden parties. Beautiful girls in floral sundresses and large floppy hats; those, warm sunny days where you really want to stand in a meticulously maintained back yard with a lightly sweating G&T;, perhaps awaiting game time.

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Fratty / Preppy Wardrobe 101 - Shoes

(Previously: Introduction) Footwear. The cliche "the shoes make the man" may actually be true, but beyond that, you're going to be wearing something on your feet all day, so you might as well look good and be comfortable doing it.

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Harry and Ginny Totally Do It

Alright, so I read Harry Potter. I'm not ashamed.

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Facts About Sex and My Witty Notations

(Via) Did you know that rats make love about 20 times a day? Yet another reason why humans hate rats. Sex is the best and safest way to relax, its effect is 20 times as strong as valium's.

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Firestone: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Cars suck. They burn gas like your redneck uncle in his YouTube video and are nothing but money-sinks when it comes to repairs. Heck, drive a new car off the lot and it's immediately worth less.

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Enough with the memes! Newsvine is not MySpace.

On the front page of Newsvine today, I noticed several stories regarding "eight random things" about their authors. "I've been tagged" they all say. Come. On. This is Newsvine. Not MySpace.

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On Being a Gentleman Horse Rancher

Everyone plans out their life to some degree, whether it's how much money they plan to make or where they hope to retire. Everyone has these little fantasies; some of them are accurate and some weave tales of magic and complete improbability.

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Intervening in the Affairs of Sovereign Nations: Why is There so much Hypocrisy When Comparing Iraq to Africa?

Reading a couple articles around the 'vine got me to thinking about foreign affairs, which is very odd state of affairs for a young man whose focus in life is most decidedly technology. The gist of the argument is this.

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Web 2.0wned: Hacking Meebo; Or Why AJAX Applications May Be Little More Than Additional Attack Vectors

Web 2.0. The term has been bandied around for more than a year now, and while the term holds a dear place in the corporate lexicons of the United States, it's little more than a buzzword to explain the ever-changing network we call the internet.

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Rap Lyrics Translated: Mista F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It

In which I translate selected portions of Mista F.A.B.'s Ghost Ride It to proper English for the purposes of entertainment and humor.

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Modern Higher Education: The Pros and Cons of an Increasingly Career-Focused Education

I've been more than active in the thread discussing Walter Williams's views on US colleges, and while some of my points can be found in my responses to that article, I think there's more to discuss on the topic, and thus require its own article.

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