Are you as clean cut and wholesome

[Tankeryanker]

as the Cleavers?

I am...mostly. I was NOT in high school

[stevea]

Clean cut? Not much left to cut up there, anymore, unfortunately!

I agree with your tag line...I'm living in the wrong time...I want to live next door to the Cleavers.

[Torgo]

I don't wear a tie at dinner, or pearls when I vacuum.

[stevea]

Uh, right! No ties. I'd be more like Ward in 1957, when he's more casual (and less perfect).

And definitely no pearls.

[Scrabjan1]

I like how both June and Ward are still all dressed up at 11:00 pm waiting for Wally to come home. I think my family was the furthest thing from The Cleavers. Could never picture two married people sitting next to each other on the sofa reading books at night like our own June and Ward.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

I like how both June and Ward are still all dressed up at 11:00 pm waiting for Wally to come home. I think my family was the furthest thing from The Cleavers. Could never picture two married people sitting next to each other on the sofa reading books at night like our own June and Ward.

The wife and I do do that on occasion, but we definitely aren't dressed up, more like sweats and t-shirts.

[robyrob]

nope. as the priest once told me in church when I was a small child - "you are a HEATHEN, now go sit outside in the snow!"

[GentlemanJim]

--Are you as clean cut and wholesome as the Cleavers?--

"Only the good die young" has always been my motto.

[stevea]

Thanks, Billy Joel, for resurrecting this old thread. Fun to see it again!

[Cx]

Not me. Not a slob though. Someone once described me as Hank Hill ( from 'King of the Hill' ) with slightly longer hair.

As for neckties, whenever decorum forced me to wear them ( weddings...funerals ) I always removed it the first nanosecond decorum allowed me to.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by stevea

Thanks, Billy Joel, for resurrecting this old thread. Fun to see it again!

I'd rather laugh with the sinners, than cry with the saints
the sinners are much more fun.......


I can't think of any words that are more true. Perhaps that is the source of my cynical outlook on many women. Not sure.


I read deep into this forum last night...many interesting topics.....this one stood above the rest as my first choice.

Noteworthy however, I was surprised with the sheer number of threads that seem to agree with my feelings, that Ward wearing his suit late into the evening, was untypical of what most Americans would consider "normal". This is a well-traveled subject here. (along with the pearls)

Renewing my conviction that when Newton Minow lamented about "formula comedies about totally unbelievable families" in his Vast Wasteland speech, LITB was probably not an exception to his thinking.

[RetroGuy2000]

I don't wear a suit and tie to the dinner table, but I do prefer a button-up shirt over a T-shirt.

My grandmother used to always laugh at the silly vanity of June, vacuuming in pearls.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

I don't wear a suit and tie to the dinner table, but I do prefer a button-up shirt over a T-shirt.

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I never really was a tee shirt guy. Since the 7th grade, dress shirts have been my preferred shirt.....I own perhaps a dozen tee shirts that I only wear when I am gardening, or working on plumbing, things of that nature.

And I prefer long sleeve dress shirts, but typically after hours I'll have the sleeves rolled up to the elbow.

Nine years out of my career I wore a suit. And every night when getting home, first thing I'd do is ditch the jacket an slacks, for a comfortable pair of blue jeans. Usually when I'd buy a new dress shirt, I'd put it into the business wardrobe, to be worn along with the suits. After a couple years, I'd cycle those shirts into my more casual wear for weekends, holidays, and vacations.

Now that I'm retired, I seldom put on a suit for anyone, unless I need their approval in some capacity. But I have an extensive inventory of button down shirts that I cycle through.

FWIW, I am fairly confident that I NEVER wore a pair of blue jeans to school,.....not even once. Which made me somewhat of a rarity.

[stevea]

I like buttoned shirts with the button-down collar. Casual, sized M, L, etc. Never wore jeans to school, but wear Levis (R) all the time now.

Oh, wear tees all the time in the summer. The buttoned shirts are long-sleeve.

Best tees are the L L Bean ones.

[GentlemanJim]

I believe that part of it, for me personally,....after I got off work, I wanted to relax and be comfortable. Typically the tie would come off somewhere while driving home, and once I was at home, somebody better have a fairly serious reason for stopping me between the front door and the bedroom.

After I had changed clothes was the time to ask me for donations, entry fees, and rides to the mall.

Perhaps part of it was psychological, not wanting to worry about splattering gravy on a thousand dollar suit. But I just didn't feel "at home" until I had shed the suit.

So, to my way of thinking, Ward was wearing the suit to please the audience.