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  • We're allowed to don this kind of attire at the office from now until the new year. But what will the effect be?

    December 17, 2008

  • Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? They sent this out in a memo or something?

    December 18, 2008

  • Not to be confused with the slightly less fashionable correlative dress.

    December 18, 2008

  • This could precipitate an office-wide outbreak of comfort.

    December 18, 2008

  • The president sent this out in a memo. A memo about the post-holiday Gong Show our office is having.

    I'm busy that night.

    Yes I am.

    Yes I am.

    December 18, 2008

  • ... I ...

    *stymied*

    December 18, 2008

  • Well, at least it's not mandatory. Yet.

    December 18, 2008

  • What should it cause?

    December 18, 2008

  • Given that all physical objects are causal, and that the permissive period at reesetee's office expires at the end of the year, does this mean that 2009 will be spent in the nude?

    December 18, 2008

  • *ponders*

    December 18, 2008

  • Oh please, by all the gods, no.

    December 19, 2008

  • Every time I see that phrase, ptero, I start singing "In the Mood."

    December 19, 2008

  • Me too, c_b!

    *sings with you*

    December 19, 2008

  • Me three! *joins in, hoping it will banish the mental image of nude coworkers*

    December 19, 2008

  • I had a very special alarm clock once. When the alarm went off, it flung open little doors to reveal flickering spotlights on a tiny jazz band, and it played "In the Nude."

    Sorry... "In the Mood."

    December 19, 2008

  • As long as the jazz band was clothed....

    December 20, 2008

  • I always woke up happy. *sigh*

    December 20, 2008

  • See jazzband.

    December 20, 2008

  • Sadly, this is the defense used by some men charged with rape: "If she was wearing that dress, she obviously wanted it!" And appallingly, it sometimes works.

    December 20, 2008

  • Good grief; how did this page get so serious?

    December 22, 2008

  • Well, reesetee, if your company president thinks he can send a memo to get people to get themselves raped, he's got another think coming.

    December 22, 2008

  • Maybe it's a kind of smock you put on to protect your clothes while eating caus marzu.

    December 23, 2008

  • Which brings to mind causal marzu. I don't even want to know.

    December 23, 2008

  • *not thinking about it*

    December 23, 2008