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Bebop, no, I don't wear a tie, literal or metaphorical -- not habitually, anyway. I can only remember wearing one six times during the last forty years; once to oblige a more elegant friend on a double date which demanded that he just had to impress, twice at funerals, and three times at weddings, including my daughter's.
But enough about me. How bout that OSU team, eh? When I was going there, it was a doormat, but just look at what T. Boone Pickens hath wrought with his megabucks. An inspiration to us all.