Gloves VS Mittens

   Somebody once told me that a great test of character is to see if people wear gloves or mittens.  It's a style vs comfort issue.  The dexterity argument is over-rated.  There's not much you can do in gloves that you can't do in mittens, except have cold hands.

   Unless you're talking examination gloves - and that leads to some unpleasant associations, so we'll leave those out of this.
   My mother wanted all her little Hausers in mittens because she wanted us to be warm.  Cool was not an issue for Mom.  For some reason she thought cuteness was a reasonable substitute for cool.

   I won't dwell on that, either.
   Not long ago, I had a discussion with a co-worker about celebrities - whether they were gloves or mitten people - or, as mitten people put it, image-obsessed or genuine characters.

 
















 Our guesses (we didn't google,) weren't too far off, though she insisted that Johnny Depp was a mitten person.

  Finger-less gloves was all I could find for him.  We were also both certain that George Clooney was a glove guy.

   A surprising number of pictures on a google search show that Clooney is neither a glove nor mitten person.  He likes to put his hands in his pockets.
   But let's go to the people we got right.

Gloves

  Kim Kardashian is a committed glove wearer.  She's not so committed to wearing other clothing, but glove?  She's all for it.

   Diane Keaton is also a big glove-lover.  Unfortunately, the gloves only conceal her hands - not her lack of talent.

  We both guessed Susan Sarandon as a glove wearer, and I guess we were right.  But they don't seem to add to her cool factor - what are those, lunch-lady gloves?

   Tom Cruise wears gloves sometimes, but they look weird.  It's not like anything else about Tom is weird.

   And, or course, the easiest guess was O.J.  But there's something about those gloves that just doesn't fit.

Mittens

   I know I've seen Al Roker in gloves, but I figure that was the official Today Show wardrobe.  Al doesn't seem to be obsessed with image.  Not only are these mittens, but they're Canadian.  That's a pretty bold statement.

   Of it would be if Oprah wasn't wearing the same mittens.  Maybe Al gave them to her.  After all, Oprah doesn't have much money.

   Anne Hathaway seems to be a fearless type.  I applaud her choice of hand-ware - especially as it's really hard to make a good clapping noise when you're wearing thick wool on your hands.

   Is there any more genuine celebrity than Santa?  If you can drive a reindeer-powered sleigh faster than the down of a thistle, then why does anyone really need gloves?

AND

   Of course, not all hand-ware consists of mittens or gloves.

   But there's something about this that creeps me out.

John Oliver and his mittens of disapproval for Jack Warner and FIFA.

pOnce Again

   I admit it - one of the reasons I don't like puns is that I frequently don't get them.  Maybe they are funny.  Maybe tax simplification really was simpler.  Maybe reality TV really is quality entertainment.
   If these things are true - you can't prove it by me.
   But people seem to like puns if my last pun post is any indication.  one percent  Anyway - here're more.  Don't ask me to explain them.

 Got this from a banker - go figure

 Yeah, you grate on me,

 Boohooberry

 Grammar police watch everything

Does Disney own Sesame Street?  I'm gonna get sued.

   I don't know why, but animals are featured in a lot of pun pics.

 I've heard worse.

 Not much worse than that.

 Hey!  I got that one!  How do I include it in conversation?

 Coming soon to a theater near you.

 Huh?

Looks good on you.

   Here's a couple for holidays past (or I'm really early.)

 Nothing says battle commemoration like a drunk cat

Sigh...

   And finally - (which you're supposed to say when you get to the last, best bit - but with puns it's just the last bit,) for all you fans of 25-year-old PC games...

   And in an unrelated note - here's John Oliver.