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AskMe: How to become an eccentric (or just look like one)
Merlin Mann | Jul 13 2006
Suggest eccentricities for me to adopt | Ask MetaFilter From a fun AskMe thread:
This reminds me of that stage where teenage girls randomly start to affect a terrible british accent, or when college freshmen suddenly stop wearing shoes and take up raw foods and the shakuhachi. Of course, this is not to say that I haven't had ideas of my own. ’Fess up: what was your goofiest affectation and what made you stop it? Clarification (2006-07-15 10:20:20): The "In my quest..." portion above is a quotation from the link that is referenced; it's not actually me asking for help to (God forbid) become more eccentric. This confused some people, and, well, I regret your confusion if you have any and hope this clarification helps. -- The Management 98 Comments
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 Okay since someone mentioned turtelnecks...Submitted by TimK (not verified) on July 13, 2006 - 8:17am.
Okay since someone mentioned turtelnecks and someone else mentioned Germany - I worked for a government contractor on a military base in Germany back in 1998, and a coworker (American since we seem to have an internation discussion here) wore three-pieced suits every single day. Okay, so what? He was telecom tech who had to lift floor tiles and crawl around under them with the rest of us - in his 3 piece suit. Now what does this have to do with turtlenecks? He grew his own. His facial hair pattern and chest hair pattern joined, so he had a mustache, shaved his beard down to the base of his adam's apple and combed his chest hair so that it curled up and out. One of the girl's told him "as a friend, I'm telling you - you should lose the chest hair." He replied, "if I were rich people would call me eccentric." She said, "you're not rich and people just call you weird." Thanks for the memories. » POSTED IN:
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