This one time in college, my friend and roommate Sarah called me dapper, as in “Wow, you’re looking dapper today!” It’s a nice word, and gave me a boost of confidence as I walked out the door feeling happy about my outfit. A few days later I was watching The Muppets Take Manhattan and Sarah walks into the living room, takes one look at Miss Piggy on screen and says “Wow, Miss Piggy is looking dapper!” So apparently it’s just a word she uses often.
Wow, you’re looking dapper today!
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Sometimes in the morning before work, I’ll look in the mirror and say something like “Damn, you’re looking dapper as shit today, Brad.”
It helps me start my day on the right foot.
Too funny! O.k. I really love that movie too
I Love this post! It reminds me of my grandmother. Whenever I wore a new outfit she would tell me how “snazzy” I looked. “Oooh, Don’t you look snazzy in your new polyester leisure suit”. OK, she didn’t go into that much detail, but to this day I Love the word Snazzy.
Dapper is nice, old fashioned, but nice. Snazzy is good too, though I am not a fan of “sharp”.
I always hoped for “handsome”, but I never graduated beyond “cute”. Even now that I have entered my fourth decade, I still have a baby face to go with my gray hair and still get called cute (though not as often as I would like).
When I was but a wee Polt, my parents got me a “Dapper Dan” for Christmas one year. It was basically this stuffed doll about eighteen inches in length, and it taught me how to tie shoes, and buckle belts and button buttons, cause “Dapper Dan” was wearing laces on his shoes and a belt around his waist, and had buttons on his vest.
I got pretty good at UNbuckling the belt as well. That shoulda told my parents something pretty early on, ya think?
Anyways, whenever I heard Dapper, I think of good old Dapper Dan!
And john, since I’ve only ever seen you represented by bunnies, I tend to think of you as a bunny, and bunnies are really cute! Therefore, by the transative property from Algebra, I find YOU cute as well!
HUGS…
Oh my GOD, Polt! I remember Dapper Dan! I had totally forgotten about that. Holy crap.
Polt: Dapper Dan? I wasn’t allowed to have female or male dolls, because they might have turned me gay. God only knows what would have happened then.
Polt: I totally remember Dapper Dan! I had one too!
Loved that guy. Well, obviously not in the same way as you… 
I never get called handsome or even cute.
I think I’m bitter.
And it’s funny, I always picture john as a bunny too!
john, whenever you mention gray hair it totally throws me, because I’m always thinking bunny colors…
Miss Piggy has been getting a lot of press lately! I’ve seen her referenced on 30 Rock twice now and i always see her as the compare for “Who Wore It Better”
Fight to the death I’d like to see:
Miss Piggy vs. Yoda
Miss Piggy on her potential win: “Of course he’s jealous of my abilities — that’s his natural color.”
Yoda: “Spill her pearls to the ground, I will.”
Wow, apparently Dapper Dan was all the rage in the early 70′s!
Dave S.: Does getting called “Freakin’ hot” make up for not being called handsome or cute?
And some bunnies are grey, aren’t they?
HUGS…
Dave S: You don’t get called ‘handsome’ or ‘cute’ but what about ‘hot’ and ‘abtastic’? Don’t those count?
Being “dapper” is better than being “diaper” … unless you’re into that sort of thing!
I’m on the bus! I’m on the bus! Look out NYC!!!!
Polt: As long as the emphasis isn’t on “freak”…
voboq: Don’t forget the martinis!!!
I didn’t think girls could be dapper. How could Miss Piggy be dapper?
And Dapper Dan? Where I grew up you just learned to button your clothes and tie your shoes the old fashioned way. You practiced on yourself, we didn’t need no stinking dolls.
Hey, I got to see Craig this morning. He’s as dapper in the day as he is in the evening.
I totally remember Dapper Dan too! Didn’t he have a female counter part? I never had one, but I do remember them.
Tam: I totally learned to tie my shoes by practicing on myself.
Polt: I totally practiced unbuckling my belt buckle too. I did that quite a lot when I hit like 13. Oh and thanks on the cute, even if it is bunny algebra.
Dave: I’d trade “cute” for “abtastic” or “freaking hot” any day. The back 40 doesn’t really allow for freaking hot comments.
Bunnies do come in gray among other colors. My current avatar is a white bunny, which is pretty close. My head is about 75% silver now and getting more and more so each day.
Yeah, I’ve never heard of a woman, or female pig in this case, being “dapper”.
Compliments are like vulgarities. If you use them to often, they lose their meaning.
John: You di
Mark: Do I dye my hair? Or do you want me to die?
Hells no! to the first option. I don’t care that it is gray, thought I wish it wasn’t as coarse as it is.
If you meant the second option: dude, I thought we were tight!?!
Maybe he was calling you Princess Di?
Isn’t Dave S. supposed to be Miss Piggy? And he’s dapper. That’s what Sarah was probably referring to. Don’t feel bad.
My first thought was “John: You digress into the absurd with the notion that Dapper Dan ultimately taught you masturbation techiques as a 13-year-old.”
But, y’know, I could be wrong…
Enrico: I can’t *tell* you how many times someone stops me on the street and tells me I need to be nicer to Kermie, to show less cleavage, and that I need to blink once in a while…
Dave S.: You really should be nicer to Kermie, but don’t mess with the cleavage.
Dave S.: I didn’t really say that as I never had a Dapper Dan. I learned to time my shoes and open my belt buckle by practicing on myself.
Craig: Maybe Mark did mean that. I hope he meant Di circa 1995, not circa 2009.
Ooooohh, my bad. Too soon?
When I hear Dapper Dan, I think of the hair gel George Clooney used in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
And my favorite description to use in your referenced examples would be “sassy”. Can men be sassy? Only gay men? No men at all?
I’m wearing my suit today…..john says that makes me dapper.
so there.
Dave S., don’t touch the cleavage! That’s the job I want. Ba-dum-DUM!
Dapper Dan’s female counterpart was Dressy Bessy. And I found this link: CLICK HERE
Although, the Dapper Dan I had was much more stylin’ in his 1971 ensemble.
HUGS…
Kimi: Whenever I hear the word “sassy,” all I hear is Phil Hartman saying, “That’s SASsy!”
Dave S.: I thought the same thing!
Kimi: I think sassy is more for the ladies.
Jomoesexual: I imagine you are pretty dapper today in your suit, but I have to admit, the I think sassy fits as a description for your St. Patrick’s Day outfit. Lordy those shorts were short.
My (straight) younger brother had a Dapper Dan. I always found it to be a disappointing toy, as he only had one, decidedly unfabulous, wardrobe option. Of course, my wardrobe options in the 70′s were hardly any better.
Kimi: I often feel sassy, so it definitely works for gay men, at least. It has to be said just right, though, with a little bit of a lisp and a whole hell of a lot of panache. SASSY!!
john: HAHA yeah….I think obscene best describes that outfit. There was one picture that I was almost sure I was going to have to censor….I put up my suit picture on facebook.
Jomoesexual: I think you are right. I was afraid Kukla, Fran and Ollie might make an appearance.
Oh and just as I suspected. Dapper.
Wow! My brother had the Dapper Dan doll, and I had Dressy Bessy. Old.
Mine looked more like this:
http://israhome.blogsome.com/images/bessie.JPG
Also found these paintings – takes me back:
http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/SpirographBox93.jpg
http://www.sunnyand70s.com/images/Paintings-Dressy-Bessy.jpg
I actually got a spirograph for Christmas this past year.
I LOVED Spirograph. No Dressy Bessy either.
john – you FREAK me out! I was thinking about posting pics of spirograph and clackers (remember those?), but didn’t want to stray so far from today’s original topic. Which is, of course, how dapper Craig is.
I have always <3d Miss Piggy and have a fridge magnet with her saying ‘never eat more than you can lift’. With you being a well turned out and argyle clad man about town, I think it’s right and proper to call you dapper!
Looking at pictures of Dapper Dan, I don’t find him very dapper.
Ryan – Yes, the current Dapper Dan is a little too hip hop for my taste.
The seventies were a time of sartorial elegance, though. That’s what passed for dapper back then.
I gave my daughter a generic version of the Spirograph this past Christmas! She loves it as much as I did. I am very guilty of giving her lots of toys I loved when I was a kid, like Cooties. Some of my choices are bigger hits than others.
Michelle: Ooooooo….creeeeepy. I totally remember clackers! My mother wouldn’t allow us to have them because she remembers when they were glass and they would shatter.
Oh, and Craig is totally dapper, did you see him in that blue shirt yesterday? Totally dapper. And the way it played against the pink in Tam’s blouse, perfect.
I just looked up “dapper” in the Oxford English Dictionary …
[yes, we have one at home. which often leads to theatrics in the midst of conversation: "well, why don't we look that up in the dicTIONary!!!" never a simple event]
…and apparently by 1910, “dapper” had more of a negative connotation.
OED: “Of persons: neat, trim, smart, spruce in dress or appearance. (Formerly appreciative; now more or less depreciative, with associations of littleness or pettyness.)”
Craig, accused of littleness? Bah!
Henceforth I suggest that Craig is not looking dapper; rather, he is looking spruce.
TwoPi: Are you inferring that Craig’s got wood??
Milo: “With you being a well turned out and argyle clad man about town”…you do know that to be ‘turned out’ means something else entirely in prison slang, right?
And it ain’t synonmous with dapper, let me tell you.
HUGS…
Dashing – bold, flamboyant
Rakish – charming, immoral
Neither seem to fit. How about natty?
Kimi – You had Cooties when you were a kid? Ha Ha. I didn’t have Cooties when I was little. I did have Ants in the Pants, though.
Michelle M.: Now you’re the funny bunny.