"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Doug Kanter" > wrote:
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>> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Doug Kanter wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> Good parents, good dog owners. I suspect that the opposite would be
>> >> dogs
>> >> which slobber all over new visitors, even as the visitors gently (or
>> >> harder) knee them in the face. What the hell's wrong with people like
>> >> that, pretending not to notice that people don't want to be slobbered?
>> > I'm a good parent and a good dog owner. My dogs do lick plates and
>> > cookware yet never slobber on visitors.
>> > Goomba
>>
>> Good for you. I once entered a relative's house, and her stupid border
>> collie leapt onto my chest, got her claw stuck in the chest pocket of a
>> $600
>> suit, and tore the left panel right off the jacket. Big learning
>> experience
>> for the lady. Expensive, too.
>>
>>
>
> <confused look> Why would anyone spend $600.00 on a suit jacket?
> That's just wierd.

The entire suit was $600.00. This was back in the late 70s, when decent
suits were made here, and $400 to $600 was what it took to get a suit whose
panels were sewn, not heat-laminated. If not sewn, they begin to pucker
after a few visits to the cleaners.

Now, you can get semi-decent suits for $300.00, if you don't mind sending
money to a dictatorship (China). If you prefer not to support the kind of
government you complain about at cocktail parties, you'll still spend upward
of $500.00 for a suit.