What Exactly is "Shabby Genteel"?

[c.d.]

Hi Michael,

Some one sent me an article on the Little Rascals/Our Gang kids. Yikes. So many of them met untimely deaths at an early age or suffered tragedies. It was pretty sad. I always liked them and they made me laugh.

c.d.

[Sam Flynn]

Basically for Whitechapel its like saying JTR had on a T-shirt and blue jeans!

I don't think so, Mitch... if T-shirts and blue jeans are meant to represent some sort of a "norm", then "shabby-genteel" strikes me as more akin to "threadbare slacks and a Ralph Lauren shirt with frayed cuffs".

[perrymason]

Hi Michael,

Some one sent me an article on the Little Rascals/Our Gang kids. Yikes. So many of them met untimely deaths at an early age or suffered tragedies. It was pretty sad. I always liked them and they made me laugh.

c.d.

Hi cd,

I was aware of a few of the stories, thats why I added a fake grisly death as an edit....obviously just going for a laugh....an abject failure..

But your point is accurate, and I liked them too. Even Baretta.... till he shot his own wife. Child stars...how many stay in the game, and sane? Few I think. Maybe Shirley Temple.....but Mickey definitely went nuts....or did he pass recently?

Cheers cd