# Tie Guy Forced into Uniform

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tie-guy-forced-into-uniform/311433>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 7, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tie-guy-forced-into-uniform/311433 "2005-07-07T08:58:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tie-guy-forced-into-uniform/311433/61 "2005-07-09T07:45:31Z")

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sigh…

That’s sad, the Last Frontier suffers another blow to rugged Alaskan individuality. I don’t remember this guy when I lived in Soldotna (which isn’t the same as Kenai although the article was headlined "Kenai, Alaska), but I’m not at all surprised at the public support of his ties.

Knowing Soldotna, I’d put my money on them having a fighting chance at winning this thing.

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tie-guy-forced-into-uniform/311433/62 "2005-07-09T07:50:04Z")

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> [@Neurotik](#):
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> Absolutely. Or an even better example is the guy who checks the electric meter. Would you let him go snooping around your yard if he wasn’t in uniform?
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> That said, I think that an individual tie isn’t a big deal to general uniformity - however, rules are rules.

I’m glad you clarified that, because I’d like to say to the others that claimed some sort of “danger” so to speak from service people not wearing uniforms, that wearing a tie, or some other individual accessory WITH one’s uniform is **hardly** “not wearing a uniform”.

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tie-guy-forced-into-uniform/311433/63 "2005-07-09T08:09:14Z")

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Last thought. Someone had mentioned “maybe the postmistress is a prig”. I can’t imagine anyone in Soldotna, or any of the towns on the Peninsula fo rthat matter, being prigs.

I wonder if she was reassigned there from some post office outside or even Anchorage, and doesn’t really understand “the Peninsula”? That’s possible, I’m still putting my money on Soldotna residents.

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