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> Well, hardly ever. At "The Oasis" (an infamous fictional dive), men's gimme caps slowly slide backwards on their heads until everyone knows the evening has su
by kace91 6y ago
> Well, hardly ever. At "The Oasis" (an infamous fictional dive), men's gimme caps slowly slide backwards on their heads until everyone knows the evening has sufficiently advanced to sing songs. At black tie affairs the growing prevalence of rakishly worn unknotted bow ties provides exactly the same signal.
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand anything at all in that paragraph. That's not a criticism of your way of writing, I'm not a native speaker, I'm just completely lost here.
What's a dive? What are gimme caps? is the singing songs part literal or is an euphemism, and if it's the former why do people need to signal discreetly that they're ready to sing? What's a black tie fair?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoa dive is a place of low repute where hard liquor is available, I don't know what a gimme cap is - some sort of cap I suppose - and as the men at this dive get progressively more drunk they sort of lose control of their caps which slide backwards, of course they are not using it to signal they are ready to sing, it is amusing, observing these people with their caps all back you might think they had given the signal they were ready to sing as they all start singing, but instead they are singing for the same reason their caps are back - because they are drunk. A black tie affair is a very fancy party of some sort, where people must dress up to attend, but as they get drunk at this fancy place their bow ties become unknotted and they show they are ready to sing, just as the people with the pushed back caps at the much less fancy dive do.
- 082349872349872 6y agoExactly. Sorry, here are the references: The Oasis & black-tie affair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_der_5hRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_der_5hRM Gimme ("give me") cap: https://merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/images/gallery/gal-wap-slideshow-slide/image386356021-4986-617a19e74c6fc1a3eb0c192916465b66@1x.jpg https://merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/images/gallery/gal-wap... they're given away free (like facebook) because they advertise black tie (here, a "smoking"): https://i1.wp.com/www.menstylefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/brad-pitt-lea-de-caprio.jpg?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1 https://i1.wp.com/www.menstylefashion.com/wp-content/uploads... what, never?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBK39BKWuQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBK39BKWuQg