Hi Everyone!!
I’m just curious if any Dopers, or anyone in their family (besides Colonel Klink or the Penguin) wears a monacle.
Can you get one from Pearle Vison or Sears Optical, (or any other purveyor of fine eyewear?)
You forgot Mr. Peanut! He’s the most bad ass monocle-wearer in the land and you forgot him. You better hope he doesn’t word of this or that pimp cane of his is going to get put to work on your ass!
Seriously though, I have next to nothing to contribute to your OP. I know you can get a monocle on eBay, but if you want one with an actual prescription, can’t help ya.
I’ll give even money that Bmalion wears one…
Google Shopping turned up quite a few costume monocles, but this site sells real ones as well.
I dunno, but I’ve always wanted a “unicle”. One long lens that covers both eyes. Then I can look like Geordi. Except I’m not black. Nor from the future. And, that’s not a real unicle. I guess it’d be more like RoboCop’s. Also, how did Levar Burton see out of that banana-clip thing on the set?
Previous thread concerning monocles.
Please be advised the routine described in post #7 remains a work in progress.
Post 7 is awesome! Can you manually shorten the cord at all? Perhaps take off the lens itself, tie a knot in the cord and reattach the lens so it’s a bit shorter?
Good advice, but it’s not as simple as it sounds.
Firstly, I have changed the routine slightly. I now will now ask for the bill to be brought along with the dessert. The benefit is that the monocle will now drop onto a full dish, and thus its fall will be cushioned by something like treacle pudding and custard.
Regarding the length of the cord (let’s call it ‘the drop’ shall we) you need to identify the target restaurant. This is because the distance from eye to table top varies with the dimensions of the furniture. The variables are the height of the chair and the height of the table. You need to know this before you can adjust the cord on the monocle for the optimum length.
Obviously, you can’t take an act like this on the road without rehearsing it properly. That would be unprofessional. The problem is that rehearsals must take place ‘on location’ in the target restaurant (a) so you can measure the drop properly and (b) to experience ‘live’ rather than simulated conditions.
I’ve identified a good restaurant but I haven’t had many opportunities to practise. Other diners tend to stare at me when I drop the monocle in the treacle pudding more than once per visit, so that’s why the operation is still a work in progress.
J. Peterman has a lovely monocle for a mere $198. How lovely, and so much more practical than reading glasses.:rolleyes:
Does anybody remember that monocle wearing douchebag that was trying to blackmail somebody in some magazine and trying to get his fashion line picked up or something like that? Googling “monocle wearing douchebag” doesn’t really get me anywhere.
Dude, he was used to reading with a rainbow. Get used to that shit and future glasses are cake.
Yes, I see that I have a lot to learn in the monocle wearing business. One day I hope to be as knowledgeable as you and to be able to pass it down to youngsters like myself one day.
It is my goal in life to someday lose an eye, so that I can move from glasses to an eyepatch-cum-monocle setup.
What about spats? After we get our monocles, will we need spats?
Can’t grind two prescription lenses into a shield blank. Well, you can- in fact, somebody has patented the idea- but they’d be horribly expensive.
But if someone spits on your spats, you might get into a spat spat spat.
Monocles seemed to be worn almost exclusively by men. I have only ever seen one picture of a woman wearing one authentically - she wasn’t impersonating a man - and that was the wife of an English cricketer called Percy Fender. It would have been the late 1910s or early 1920s.
The VISOR wasn’t a completely solid piece: the ribs had spaces between the Levar Burton could see through, although his peripheral vision was impeded.
You’d need to think a better way to attach it than they used on Star Trek- the prop was held on by screws with flat tips pressed against Burton’s temples. Ouch!
Got a prescription monocle and a pince nez. Grew the handlebar mustache and goatee to complete the set, and now I look BADASS in a formal tux.
ETA if you ask at your local optometrist, they can usually dig through their catalogs and find something. That’s how I got my monocle; the pince-nez came from an optometrist who liked to collect the things and was more than happy to sell me one. Antique stores are also a good source.
I’m getting the feeling that you’re saying it’s exactly the same, only different?
Alas, I wear two monocles connected by a small bridge like structure. This is the best I can do in the way of saying no. My brother sometimes uses a loupe, though. So, that’s at least almost sorta kinda near being close. /shrug