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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 10/30/2007 : 19:43:50
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Michelle sent this email to me from her work today. Just thought I would share.
My friend Mirja went out this weekend to a restaurant with a few friends for a b-day celebration. The b-day boy is a vegan so they went to a vegan place in Eagle Rock called Fatties. When they walked in there was a sign that said, "No Doleman Sleeves." Now, Doleman sleeves (I know you don't know this) are big wide sleeves that basically have no armpits. From the bottom of the shirt to the tip of the cuff of the sleeve is one big wide sleeve. So, they make sort of "wings."
So, Mirja had to know what the deal was. When the waiter came she asked and he said, all dead pan, "Well, with doleman sleeves we don't know if you are like a blood sucking bat or a psychic vampire." She said all the vegans in the room then started to teehee and giggle. It was like this weird vegan joke that she, nor any of her meat eating friends, got.
How's that for a story?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 20:26:24 [Permalink]
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That's weird. I've got no idea what that's all about. Hadn't even heard of Doleman sleeves prior to this. Wonder what the Vegan in-joke is? Maybe there is a local Doleman sleeve-wearing cult of some kind they've dealt with?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 21:04:25 [Permalink]
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It probably has nothing to do with veganism.
A lot of local places that cater to the same group of people regularly adopt inside jokes like that.
The thing could be based around some incident that happened to a person wearing a shirt with those sleeves, and very likely that the waiter was just fucking with the noobs.
The regulars, of course, know the story and are just laughing at the waiter messing with people.
Maybe some person wearing those sleeves caught fire on a table top candle....
That would be my guess anyway.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 22:14:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
It probably has nothing to do with veganism.
A lot of local places that cater to the same group of people regularly adopt inside jokes like that.
The thing could be based around some incident that happened to a person wearing a shirt with those sleeves, and very likely that the waiter was just fucking with the noobs.
The regulars, of course, know the story and are just laughing at the waiter messing with people.
Maybe some person wearing those sleeves caught fire on a table top candle....
That would be my guess anyway.
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I'm for going back there and beating the truth out of them.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2007 : 01:31:56 [Permalink]
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Good call.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Strange vegan thing?
