A pin? Through the fabric of your fine tie? Pshaw, I say sir, pshaw!
A tie bar is far less destructive than a tie pin, and I have been very partial to those tie chains as well. But, as has been posted at the beginning of this thread, a bow tie avoids all such problems.
Sorry, even this is confusing me now. It’s usually a tie clip. But I have a 1.5-carat diamond pin.
So why do firemen wear red suspenders?
Except for the one about making you look like a geek. 
Slithy Johnson is right!
The Second Johnson is right about Slithy Johnson being right!
Thank you Robot Johnson.
The real question is, boxers, or tighty-whities?
Gotta be tighty-whities for Marines, after that whole Boxer Rebellion thing.
Because they’re hot.
Well guys, everyone is entitled to their thoughts and opinion,i am not here to throw destruction,or just to tell someone off like some of you,but there is a difference between a POW and surrender,retired USMC:smack: Master Gunny Sgt.:smack:
Sorry, you’re still not making sense.
I just love when people are shown to be wrong, and their best retort is “well, that’s my opinion”.
Colonel William W. Ashurst, USMC–while commanding 200 healthy, able, armed Marines–surrendered to a hostile Japanese force. Hoping that his men would simply be exchanged for Japanese POWs, he ordered them to lay down their weapons and surrender. How is this not a surrender according to your “thoughts and opinions”?
References:
http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/biggs_chester_bio.html
http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/december2.html
Another Gunny lists several more instances here:
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/gunny-g-do-marines-surrendera-controversial-topic/
But you can bet their ties were properly worn at the surrender.
(But really: surrender is surrender and there’s times it’s a sensible thing to do. * “The Code of Conduct is not a suicide pact”*. But oh, sure, file it along with similar explanations of why the chevrons point up or why we don’t salute palms-out… )
Ackkk…I remember my daddy tucking in his tie. He retired from the USAF in 1963.
I asked him once, why he wore his tie that way. He said it was because there was no “uniform” (probably meaning “issued”) tie tack or tie bar.
Can’t ask Daddy for the answer now. He died in 2008.
That was for the uniform where the tie was exposed, not covered by a blouse. Underneath the blouse, it hangs loose.
~VOW
Is this the same sort of nonsense that suggests that the reason that the US military salutes in the manner that it does, and is the only nation to do so, is because saluting with the palm out is a sign of surrender? (Which, of course, is nonsense: other nations salute palm inwards, and the US military is far from undefeated in its history)
He says the enemy is NEAR!
The real reason why is because that’s what regulations said until 1966. Army Class B uniforms still have exposed ties. We just don’t wear them tucked in since 1966.
A better question is “Why are fire engines red?”