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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Pat already discovered ‘Thai dyed.” I’m not sure this is meaningful, but I will observe that a skillful tie-dyer can create radially symmetric patterns that look sorta like eyes.
There was the 60s of course, when he went up to Cambridge and was armed with Dylan LPs, tied-eyed jeans and a shaggy blonde main…
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... just enough to blot out the garish commercialization of hippiness that litters the main Woodstock drags (tied-eyed this, Grateful Dead that).
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Anastasia points out that Scovill Avenue is weirdo trippy/hippie stuff that only a tied-eyed longhair could love.
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Our models are dressed as punk rockers with tartan trousers, tied-eyed T-shirts and, of course, punk wigs.
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On the right is a cone shaped object with a tied-eyed pattern.
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Womens Harley Davidson Blue Tied-eyed Tank Size Medium This seller accepts PayPal.
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Makes sense to me. They do look sort of like eyes, and they are formed by being tied.
It wouldn’t be very easy to type it this way without having shifted the imagery, seems to me.
I’d say it’s a very likely one, but absent a confession from a perp, not 100% sure.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I hear a slight echo of getter better, handing holding etc. in tied eyed. Of course the /d/ sound in the original comes from dyed, but the GetterBetter phenomenon gives is a place to “move” to in the reshaping.
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klakritz wrote:
Pat already discovered ‘Thai dyed.”
Serendipitously, I’m working for a small tie-dye company which, while based in Northern California, has the actual dyeing done by employees in Thailand. So, our items are indeed Thai dyed!
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