This felt like a Zeppelin dadjoke lob, but then the possibilities were so overwhelming I couldn’t pick one. Far more importantly, this is great news!
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“More than this I will not ask Faced with mysteries dark and vast Statements just seem vain at last…”
Then there was this fella—no one had paid him much mind—went by the name of Pappy
This popped immediately to mind—I remember him getting angry and just walking out on Terry Gross in like 2004 or 2005
Archaeologists have responded to his claims (for decades). Debunked the old theories (for a century). And have even publicly debated him as he and others demanded. Time for people to actually engage with the ideas before they snark again. thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/11/21/v...
As scholars and investigators of conspiracy theory communities have noted, people who cling to these ideas long after they have been demonstrated to be factually false tend to do so for two reasons…
Fantastic! And there you go—hypothesis 1 covers most of the bases. It omits the ravers, though their two-strapping is surely related both aesthetically and functionally to skater two-strapping. But the question remains: why too the massive pants?
This is real. Transition out happened over the course of the 90s at shows through ravers and skaters and Rawkus backpack-rap heads, all of whom also wore enormous pants. Two straps, huge pants, many forms of music. There is a puzzle here to solve