Good to us. Alumnus Alumni is back with an explanation. According to his latest post, 'to dress right' would be short for 'to dress to the right'. No wonder, as we've known for long that English always takes shortcuts. Though, that explanation doesn't match his former note posted on the 17th. There he dropped a hint to 'pants'!
As a matter of fact I came across such an interpretation dealing with pants the last but one night. The night-brownie coming to me had a wink at me and a cast towards the Alumnus Alumni's first post.
That made at once spring a memory to my mind.
I was 11 or so when a burst of smallpox happened in my boarding house. The boys who were pubescent, or on their way to be, had an orchitis as a secundary disease. With orchitis the bollocks painfully swell. But after recovering the bollocks are bound to dwindle, and one of the two gets smaller than the other. Even without any orchitis process, the testicles differ in size. Have a close look, azuline, to your boyfriends' bollocks. You'll see it's quite easy to make them straight in size. The smaller bollock is likely to give way to the dingeling, so hanging that side. Nowadays men in our countries are used to wearing tight underspants that hold their privates tight against the body. But in other times or other places the penis keeps hanging either in the right leg or the left leg of the trousers.
As a man has his dingeling in the right leg of his pants, you'll say "That man dresses right". Likewise for the left.
Would you know more about that meaning of the statement, switch to http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_091100_DressLeft.html
Rob Terrel will tell you more.
Now then, I don't think this new interpretation of your sentence coud suit you, azuline. Why? There are many reasons. Among others, dealing with pants and bollocks is not the fairest business for the ethereal figure you are. Moreover, telling that a man "dresses right or left" according the engaged leg of his pants, you need an adverb (right, left), whereas a man who "dresses to the right" implies that the report would use a noun (right).
Be it as it may, azuline, it's about time you made up your mind and tell us which meaning you choose.
Would you be fashion addicted, you'd choose the way of doing up one's jacket.
Would you fancy watching the changing of the guard, you'd pick up the military option.
Would you be scared of the present worldwide crisis, you'd boo any man who dresses to the right.
It's up to you, azuline, but, please, don't keep silent. I would be bound to figure out that, either you posted your question only to show up, or that you are away yet not caring less what it could mean dressing to the right.
Talking to a brick wall makes me feeling lonely.
Fortunately, Alumnus Alumni is there to soothe my despair.
Yes good old Chap, so many one shot users and fakes also...we are listening to you, Azuline, it is just as you like :)
"Hey! A call through the night? Hey! She gave a start.
It is an azuline playing the bleeding heart by launching a hard tip to dead GGusers as to resuscitate that too many losers."
Azuline ! You don't want to tell who you are, come on...and see what the Poet writes about you ! make an answer and explain what is your bleeding heart.
From Alumnus Alumni:
Yes good old Chap, so many one shot users and fakes also...we are listening to you, Azuline, it is just as you like :)
but what do we like ? imean, really like.
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17 June 2011