# What's the tackiest thing you've ever seen?

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**Created:** [April 26, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531 "2000-04-26T14:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/81 "2000-05-01T18:19:17Z")

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There is a woman who lives down the street from me. First off, she spends a lot of her time watching traffic at the corner in her nightgown, that’s a little strange. Secondly I noticed something in January, her weird little garden was still in “bloom”. She had merely stuck ugly plastic flowers in the dirt in front of her house. getting a head start on this summer I guess.

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**Author:** ![delilah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@delilah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delilah)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/82 "2000-05-02T05:03:28Z")

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i live in a great little suburban area (not the new every-house-the-same, no-trees, organized community types) and there’s this house that someone has remodelled. they’ve made it look like a mansion. high windows. big columns. it’s a good 4 stories higher than any other house around. sticks out like a sore thumb. the worst of it…it’s right behind a church. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/83 "2000-05-02T08:51:58Z")

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> Also, one time at Disneyland I saw this guy who was wearing his nice new pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. How did I know that they were Ray-Bans? He still had the Ray-Ban stickers _right in the middle of the lenses_.  
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Oh, yes! This reminds me of another one.

_People who seem to think it is cool/classy/trendy/whatever to **leave the brand tags** on sleeves of suits and overcoats._

What the HELL are they thinking? Rip these things off, dammit! It makes you look VERY dumb.

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**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/84 "2000-05-02T14:30:40Z")

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Picture this.  
Brown pants,  
Black turtleneck  
white necktie (clip on)

Yup, one of our contractors wore this combo into work a few years back.

Of course, I’m one to talk, as I do wear boots and shorts, but for the record they are blue doc martins, and they are fairly low cut.

I also have a set of, well, not quite cabana lights. It’s a string of x-mas lights, but with plastic pink flamingos and palm trees that go over the bulbs. So tacky I couldn’t resist

rubes

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