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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

How you doin?

LOL.

I can't resist posting this section from the wikipedia page about bowties (I was going to just post a snarky reply to Kevin's last statement like "Because you all still think it's the 1940s down there?" and run, but there was too much I liked in this description instead ):

Stereotypes of bow tie wearers
Main article: list of bow tie wearers
“To its devotees the bow tie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bow tie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. Bow ties are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”

—Warren St John, The New York Times[1]

Bow ties tend to be associated with particular professions, such as architects, attorneys,[2] university professors, and politicians.
Pediatricians frequently wear bow ties. Infants can't grab them, and they don't get in places where they would be soiled.

In American culture, bow ties tend to be associated with either New England idyllic preppy culture or the culture of the white aristocratic South.[citation needed]

Bow ties are commonly seen in popular culture as items of sophistication, such as those stereotypically worn by professors in movies and fictional spy characters such as James Bond. However, they have also been adopted into the "uniform" of clowns and male strippers, and such associations have lent bow ties a less serious image.[citation needed] Therefore, the "bow tie" presents somewhat of an oxymoron or paradox to anyone trying to define a particular style to be attached to the bow tie.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie