I'm sure someone else has made the connection but George Will's column today (via Political Animal)
is too funny. It's the old dungarees versus the suits with Daniel Akst
and Will reprising the roles of Herb Tarlek and Les Nessman.
Akst and Will:
...Writer Daniel Akst has noticed and has had a constructive conniption. He should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has earned it by identifying an obnoxious misuse of freedom. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche....
... "Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack's inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim."
Herb and Les
Herb: The whole world is in revolution. And not just here. But not just here. Everywhere. Any you know is at war? It's the dungarees versus the suits, Les. The whole world is in two armed camps. Over here we have the dungarees and over here the suits. Remember the riots in the 60's? The dungarees versus the suits. And Watergate. Those guys arrested were wearing dungarees and who suffered for it?
Les: The suits!
Herb: Exactly.
Les: There were issues Herb.
Herb: The issues.. The issues, Les, were a smokescreen.When a son disobeys his father, what's he wearing?
Les: The son? ... Dungarees!
Herb: And what's the father got on?
Les: Probably a suit.
Herb: Do you see what I mean Les?
Les: Yeah!
Herb: And what's worse?
Les: What?
Herb: The fathers are beginning to wear dungarees too!
Les: That's right.
Herb: And so are the mothers.
Les: It's just like the Bodysnatchers.
...Writer Daniel Akst has noticed and has had a constructive conniption. He should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has earned it by identifying an obnoxious misuse of freedom. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche....
... "Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack's inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish things, starting with denim."
Herb and Les
Herb: The whole world is in revolution. And not just here. But not just here. Everywhere. Any you know is at war? It's the dungarees versus the suits, Les. The whole world is in two armed camps. Over here we have the dungarees and over here the suits. Remember the riots in the 60's? The dungarees versus the suits. And Watergate. Those guys arrested were wearing dungarees and who suffered for it?
Les: The suits!
Herb: Exactly.
Les: There were issues Herb.
Herb: The issues.. The issues, Les, were a smokescreen.When a son disobeys his father, what's he wearing?
Les: The son? ... Dungarees!
Herb: And what's the father got on?
Les: Probably a suit.
Herb: Do you see what I mean Les?
Les: Yeah!
Herb: And what's worse?
Les: What?
Herb: The fathers are beginning to wear dungarees too!
Les: That's right.
Herb: And so are the mothers.
Les: It's just like the Bodysnatchers.
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