White dinner Jackets

[happyscot]

The large cheque is no problem, I'll write one immediately. Whether it will be honoured --- WELL......

Not sure about the grovelling though, how does one doe it?

 

(There's a grovell in a hovel, if you hit it with a shovel, you can level out the bevel on the grovell in the hovel.) Next line anyone ? Feel free.

 

Mary will you settle for a quiet 'Sorry Ma'am I'll try to do better' ?

G.

 

 

There's a maid in the shade, if you hit her with a spade, you won't have paid to get laid with the maid in the shade.

[garigoun]

There's a maid in the shade, if you hit her with a spade, you won't have paid to get laid with the maid in the shade.

 

LOL

 

There's another in the cover and she's hiding with her lover so no one will discover she's made off with a plover.

G.

[Norfolk Brit]

Oh God, Happyscot's made a little friend:eek:.

 

Sir Martin:cool:

[GCurry]

But t'was a Texas drover that rolled her in the clover, rode her three times over and took her for a cruise!

[cruisegal101]

Oh God, Happyscot's made a little friend:eek:.

 

Sir Martin:cool:

 

Scary isn't it my friend?:rolleyes: :cool: ;)

 

HRHugeness

[garigoun]

But t'was a Texas drover that rolled her in the clover, rode her three times over and took her for a cruise!

 

Sorry Tex only 5 out of 10. The last word don't rhyme.

Guess you flunked 'Doggerel 101'

G.

[GCurry]

Sorry Tex only 5 out of 10. The last word don't rhyme.

Guess you flunked 'Doggerel 101'G.

I've punched a few doggerels down the trail in my time, but thought I'd try to keep it cruise related.

I'm a University of Texas El Paso grad (illiterate in two languages), where I enjoyed a year of Shakespeare, so my doggerels are on a much higher dusty plain then most folks in my neighborhood.

 

But, I defer to the eloquence of you who invented the language, or borrowed it from various others, as intellectually I'm more of a don't squat with yer spurs on kind of guy.

[The Real PM]

Doggerel 101? Here's one that's fun about a pun. Don't! run-- I've just begun and I'll finish when . .

 

 

Or, let me try a limer--ick which is much more my baili--wick, though a little slap--stick and a little bit slick trick and a lot gim--mick. Please don't nit--pick or I'll be heart--sick.

 

 

There was a guy--Garigoun

Whose words made a beautiful tune.

But he sang do re mi,

And people agree,

It sounded more like a bay at the moon.

 

Sorry Gari, I am implying that you can't sing and I would bet you have a beautiful voice, so please forgive me. And I don't know how goun of garigoun is pronounced, but if it's like what is worn on formal nights you'll just have to forgive me twice.

 

Then there was a Texan named Gene

More a gentleman than ever was seen.

A poet whose muse

Ended with cruise

In keeping with a theme of a Queen.

 

. . . it's done!

[garigoun]

I've punched a few doggerels down the trail in my time, but thought I'd try to keep it cruise related.

I'm a University of Texas El Paso grad (illiterate in two languages), where I enjoyed a year of Shakespeare, so my doggerels are on a much higher dusty plain then most folks in my neighborhood.

 

But, I defer to the eloquence of you who invented the language, or borrowed it from various others, as intellectually I'm more of a don't squat with yer spurs on kind of guy.

 

 

Aw shucks there Tex, I was only joshing y'all.. Didn't meam to disrespect your booklarnin.

G

[garigoun]

Doggerel 101? Here's one that's fun about a pun. Don't! run-- I've just begun and I'll finish when . .

 

 

Or, let me try a limer--ick which is much more my baili--wick, though a little slap--stick and a little bit slick trick and a lot gim--mick. Please don't nit--pick or I'll be heart--sick.

 

 

 

 

. . . it's done!

Way to go Poodles

[GCurry]

Aw shucks there Tex, I was only joshing y'all.. Didn't meam to disrespect your booklarnin.G

Not a problem, you even spelled Y'all correctly, it did, however, seem to be like me reading Bobby Burns to Happy Scot with my interpretation of a Scottish dialect, it would probably put his teeth on edge.

 

Along with a college education, I am also of an age to have experienced many of lifes lessons. Mark Twain (again) said it well.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

-Tom Sawyer Abroad

In life's lessons, I've probably achieved a doctorate!!

 

Thanks for the kind words Poodles, I just finished walking our Manchester Terrier, so dogs do have a place in our lives.

 

All these conversations about the Queens and cruising has started me thinking about combining a crossing with a tour of the UK at some point in time using Britrail?

 

In the meantime, our next cruise is down to Panama in Dec. with three formal nights, the last one like that I took both the Tux and the white dinner jacket.

[garigoun]

Not a problem, you even spelled Y'all correctly, it did, however, seem to be like me reading Bobby Burns to Happy Scot with my interpretation of a Scottish dialect, it would probably put his teeth on edge.

 

HI tex, I was brought up with 'Riders of the Purple Sage' and Big John winning the west. Even had a week on ranch in Colorado for a holiday once.

Always wished I could have been acowboy. Though that title has a somewhat perjorative meaning in the UK these days.

G.

[GCurry]

[quote name=garigoun;15204957HI tex' date=' I was brought up with 'Riders of the Purple Sage' and Big John winning the west. Even had a week on ranch in Colorado for a holiday once.

Always wished I could have been acowboy. Though that title has a somewhat perjorative meaning in the UK these days.

G.[/quote]

We usually refer to it as ranching, as Cowboy as you pointed out has a multitude of meanings, here it is used a lot for rodeo riders etc.

When I was a teen, I helped my cousins whose family ran cattle on about 1,000 acres in North Texas. There I learned the life lesson that there are better ways to make a living then being kicked, bit, butted & stepped on by livestock. Modern day ranching is mostly done out of a pickup truck, but there is some need for horses when it's time to work the cattle.

 

We do still have the problem with rustlers stealing horses and cattle and selling them off for slaughter, as it seems you people eat horse meat over there. Regrettably, we are no longer allowed to shoot or hang them!!

 

I personally have managed to be a fairly urban person in the energy business the majority of my life, who thinks that going on cruises and seeing the world is probably a pretty good way to travel.

[The Real PM]

Thanks for the kind words Poodles, I just finished walking our Manchester Terrier, so dogs do have a place in our lives.

 

In the meantime, our next cruise is down to Panama in Dec. with three formal nights, the last one like that I took both the Tux and the white dinner jacket.

 

In March we went to Panama on the Queen Mary 2. It was quite a trip. In keeping on topic, I believe that that is when my husband wore his white tux--somewhere between Panama and Bonaire, one night at sea and it seemed quite appropriate to me.

 

Yes, dogs are wonderful although standard poodles can be a handful, particularly if they are not receiving the kind of attention they think is due them--which is most of the time.

 

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between dog and man."

Mark Twain

[happyscot]

Not a problem, you even spelled Y'all correctly, it did, however, seem to be like me reading Bobby Burns to Happy Scot with my interpretation of a Scottish dialect, it would probably put his teeth on edge.

 

 

I'm British. My teeth are always on edge.

[The Real PM]

It is not only the Cunard passenger who breaks with code--once in a while-- and wears a white dinner jacket. I found this quote by Mark Twain:

 

"I talked in a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all, and dined in the same. It's a delightful impudence. I think I will call it my dontcareadam suit. But in the case of the private dinner I will always ask permission to wear it first saying, "Dear Madam, may I come in my dontcareadams?"

And he also said:

 

"As for black clothes, my aversion for them is incurable."

Mark Twain

[dhream]

It is not only the Cunard passenger who breaks with code--once in a while-- and wears a white dinner jacket. I found this quote by Mark Twain:

 

"I talked in a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all, and dined in the same. It's a delightful impudence. I think I will call it my dontcareadam suit. (snipped)

Mark Twain

 

Been following this with interest!

 

Over at the Regent line 'dress code' threads (pun unintended) the well-heeled guests grumble frequently about dress codes, a fair few wanting to dine in the finest restaurants of the line in Golf shirts! I can see their point, to a point.

 

But their total disregard for any protocol at all is a worry (Even twain was dressed to the nines, albeit in don't-care-a-damn white!) The golf/polo shirt brigade's attitude smacks of a clinical selfishness, and a saddening mean-spiritedness, since after all, dressing up should be fun! (A common bleat is that their lounge suit is their 'work clothes' oh-dear-how-sad-nevermind):D

 

I always wear my clan tartan kilt and a bespoke 'Rhodesian Green' Argyll jacket replete with miniature regimental crests, miniature decorations, and infantry combat badge, plus black tie and matching epaulettes.

 

Sure, some "Prince Charlie" wearing Scot will be daft or drunk enough to get all ruffled over some percived 'highland' sartorial offence or other of mine (resist the temptation, fellow Scot, I'm 'on form' in every regard to Highland dress codes, it's just that you have never bothered to study them enough, or been Scotsman enough, to take the liberties they afford!) and some generic UK ex military type may well mutter "Walt" under their breath ... sticks and stones and 7.62 and all that, mutter on, you shrivel-souled embittered old sods! I've faced worse than your whisky breath in my day.

Unlike the perplexing UK attitude that gongs on any day other than Armistice (or the CO's orders) is a shameful thing, I'm proud to openly commemorate my microscopic march-on part in history -right or wrong- regardless.

 

My regiment is defunct, as is my once-adopted country, not to mention any record of my old regimental mess-dress. (It's in a book somewhere, but who cares a damn!):D

 

In the absence of any existing authority for the country I was adopted by, and loved, and defended, I'm happily 'damaged' enough to decree a 'commemorative formal jacket' authorised and sanctioned by no higher authority than myself.

 

Because in my hard-bitten half-mad opinion, I've earned the right to wear what I want for ME -and my fallen mates would 'get' the joke -in the best possible way. All other considerations aside, we're all there, and all dressed, to have fun. Allright? ;)

 

P'rade Fallll-out!

[dhream]

It is not only the Cunard passenger who breaks with code--once in a while-- and wears a white dinner jacket. I found this quote by Mark Twain:

 

"I talked in a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all, and dined in the same. It's a delightful impudence. I think I will call it my dontcareadam suit. (snipped)

Mark Twain

 

Been following this with interest!

 

Over at the Regent line 'dress code' threads (pun unintended) the well-heeled guests grumble frequently about dress codes, a fair few wanting to dine in the finest restaurants of the line in Golf shirts! I can see their point, to a point.

 

But their total disregard for any protocol at all is a worry (Even twain was dressed to the nines, albeit in don't-care-a-damn white!) The golf/polo shirt brigade's attitude smacks of a clinical selfishness, and a saddening mean-spiritedness, since after all, dressing up should be fun! (A common bleat is that their lounge suit is their 'work clothes' oh-dear-how-sad-nevermind):D

 

I always wear my clan tartan kilt and a bespoke 'Rhodesian Green' Argyll jacket replete with miniature regimental crests, miniature decorations, and infantry combat badge, plus black tie and matching epaulettes.

 

Sure, some "Prince Charlie" wearing Scot will be daft or drunk enough to get all ruffled over some percived sartorial offence or other of mine, and some generic UK ex military type may well mutter "Walt" under their breath ... sticks and stones and 7.62 and all that, mutter on, you shrivel-souled embittered old sods! I've faced worse than your whisky breath in my day.

I'm proud to openly commemorate my microscopic march-on part in history -right or wrong- regardless.

 

My regiment is defunct, as is my once-adopted country, not to mention any record of my old regimental mess-dress. (It's in a book somewhere, but who cares a damn!):D

 

In the absence of any existing authority for the country I was adopted by, and loved, and defended, I'm happily 'damaged' enough to decree a 'commemorative formal jacket' authorised and sanctioned by no higher authority than myself.

 

Because in my hard-bitten half-mad opinion, I've earned the right to wear what I want for ME -and my fallen mates would 'get' the joke -in the best possible way. Levity aside, we're all there, and all dressed, to have fun. Allright? ;)

 

P'rade Fallll-out!

[safarigal]

Been following this with interest!

 

Over at the Regent line 'dress code' threads (pun unintended) the well-heeled guests grumble frequently about dress codes, a fair few wanting to dine in the finest restaurants of the line in Golf shirts! I can see their point, to a point.

 

But their total disregard for any protocol at all is a worry (Even twain was dressed to the nines, albeit in don't-care-a-damn white!) The golf/polo shirt brigade's attitude smacks of a clinical selfishness, and a saddening mean-spiritedness, since after all, dressing up should be fun! (A common bleat is that their lounge suit is their 'work clothes' oh-dear-how-sad-nevermind):D

 

I always wear my clan tartan kilt and a bespoke 'Rhodesian Green' Argyll jacket replete with miniature regimental crests, miniature decorations, and infantry combat badge, plus black tie and matching epaulettes.

 

Sure, some "Prince Charlie" wearing Scot will be daft or drunk enough to get all ruffled over some percived sartorial offence or other of mine, and some generic UK ex military type may well mutter "Walt" under their breath ... sticks and stones and 7.62 and all that, mutter on, you shrivel-souled embittered old sods! I've faced worse than your whisky breath in my day.

I'm proud to openly commemorate my microscopic march-on part in history -right or wrong- regardless.

 

My regiment is defunct, as is my once-adopted country, not to mention any record of my old regimental mess-dress. (It's in a book somewhere, but who cares a damn!):D

 

In the absence of any existing authority for the country I was adopted by, and loved, and defended, I'm happily 'damaged' enough to decree a 'commemorative formal jacket' authorised and sanctioned by no higher authority than myself.

 

Because in my hard-bitten half-mad opinion, I've earned the right to wear what I want for ME -and my fallen mates would 'get' the joke -in the best possible way. Levity aside, we're all there, and all dressed, to have fun. Allright? ;)

 

P'rade Fallll-out!

 

Although I strongly feel that the wearing of white dinner jackets should be limited to within the tropics, when sailing outside of the tropics I would far rather see a gentleman wearing one to dinner on formal nights, rather than a polo shirt or open neck shirt. I did enjoy my cruise on Regent Seven Seas, but prefer the more formal atmosphere of Cunard.

 

If worn correctly, a kilt looks wonderful, and I feel is appropriate sailing anywhere in the world. Dhream, if we ever meet up on a voyage, if you are wearing your kilt, I'll get my husband to wear his Rhodesian Airforce dress uniform. Probably totally inappropriate, but a good conversation starter (or ender!).

 

Happy sailing!:)

[Cruachan]

Rli?

 

(should be upper case but the damn fool board won't let me do it)

 

J

 

my regiment is defunct, as is my once-adopted country, not to mention any record of my old regimental mess-dress.

[dhream]

Rli?

 

(should be upper case but the damn fool board won't let me do it)

 

J

 

BSAP Regiment.

 

Served with a specialist PATU unit in the Waterfall and Beatrice areas. (hence retro-actively awarded the newly-instituted Rho. CIB):) PM me for more info on the Rho. CIB and RICM initiatives, if interested.

 

Saraiye Zvakanaka!:D

D.

[dhream]

Although I strongly feel that the wearing of white dinner jackets should be limited to within the tropics, when sailing outside of the tropics I would far rather see a gentleman wearing one to dinner on formal nights, rather than a polo shirt or open neck shirt. I did enjoy my cruise on Regent Seven Seas, but prefer the more formal atmosphere of Cunard.

 

If worn correctly, a kilt looks wonderful, and I feel is appropriate sailing anywhere in the world. Dhream, if we ever meet up on a voyage, if you are wearing your kilt, I'll get my husband to wear his Rhodesian Airforce dress uniform. Probably totally inappropriate, but a good conversation starter (or ender!).

 

Happy sailing!:)

 

S'abona! Safarigal,

 

It's a shame that a line (Regent) where the people are supposedly a notch above the rest of us, at least in their cruise dollar purchasing power, have a fair few formal dress dissenters.

I am all for 'times changing' but even the cutting edge of fashion types such as Movie and Music stars, don a tux, suit, or gown when the occasion calls for it.

 

What is it, that makes these cruisers interpret a protocol that is there merely to enhance the occasion, feel that they are being obliged to comply to the point that some have opted either to hide in their suites on formal nights -one cruiser used the word 'dread' to describe their feelings about formals. That's a bit beyond me.

 

On an oblique tangent, it's heartening to see the Rhodies come out of the Mopani (woodwork) so quickly! I was expecting a deluge of veiled hostility, even though I made the post mostly tongue in cheek. It was all such a long time ago now...

 

There is a thread somewhere here about retired officers wearing mess kit on formal nights, and it developed to the point where various Army Regulations were being cited! Seeing as our Armed Services are history, I think ex Rhodies, if they have the kit, should let their personal moral and spiritual feelings be their giude if choosing to dust off the most expensive drinking suit in the world.

 

It took me a while to splash out on a kilt and accessories, but I've never looked back. Any cruiser with a love of occasion, and a skerrick of Celt blood in them would do well to get online and see whats available to them. And if you do, please bear in mind that a black Prince Charlie ensemble is not your ONLY option, there are Crails, Argylls, Doublets, and more. All of these are perfectly acceptable as Highland formal wear. The accessories, especially the sporran, dictate the level of formality, rather than the jacket.

 

Long may the Peacock instinct in men flourish!

D.

[Cruachan]

I was expecting a deluge of veiled hostility, even though I made the post mostly tongue in cheek. It was all such a long time ago now...

 

You won't get any hostility from my direction - veiled or otherwise.

 

She Who Must be Obeyed was BSAP WFR. Later worked, in a civilian capacity, for CID and was personal secretary to PCIO Mashonaland amongst others. We may well have some mutual acquaintances among former BSAP members but I won't mention names on here for obvious reasons.

 

J

[nitnyleo]

Gosh, this is an old thread . . .

 

But, so is my powder blue tux . . . I think it is appropriate both in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, regardless of the time of year. . . not too dark, not too light . . . and it brings out the blue in my grey eyes.

[The Real PM]

Gosh, this is an old thread . . .

 

But, so is my powder blue tux . . . I think it is appropriate both in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, regardless of the time of year. . . not too dark, not too light . . . and it brings out the blue in my grey eyes.

And I am sure they are quite lovely!!!:)