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Rat Pack Style Rules

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:54 pm
by Daedalus
All true Sinatra fans must know the Ten Rat Pack Style Rules:
1. Never wear brown after dark.
2. Jack Daniels. Always Jack Daniels.
3. Give the ice a few minutes to sink into your glass.
4. Hats are to be tilted. Unworn coats are to be carried nonchalantly over one shoulder. (Frank got this from Jimmy Van Heusen)
5. Sinatra's orange fuzzy sweater at the beginning of "Ocean's Eleven" was an anomaly.
6. For the ultimate sign of friendship, share one of your martini olives.
7. Cuff links.
8. And a tuxedo.
9. But never on Sunday.
10. The worst thing you can do in front of a woman is yawn.


Source: Bill Zehme, "The Way You Wear Your Hat" (HarperCollins, 1997)

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Re: Rat Pack Style Rules

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:14 pm
by alden
The worst thing you can do in front of a woman is yawn
We've had a few version of the Sinatra rules on the LL but I think this one from the Old Testament of seduction bears repeating: bedroom blues but no yawning. Of course, its worse when the object of your desire yawns at you.

:D

Re: Rat Pack Style Rules

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:15 am
by storeynicholas
The Apocrypha mentions something about noticing where she is yawning... No wonder they banned it.