A summary statement of what it means to be Chosen, a Knight of the Veg Table written by Topgumby.
Why a "Knight of the Veg Table"?
It's a coupling of the comedic and a tip of the hat to man's nobler ambitions, and the tragedy that can spring from pursuing those ambitions. Camelot had chivalry, treachery and not a little wistfulness. That's Lilac Vegetal. Monty Python and the Holy Grail skewered all that relentlessly, but somehow without malice. That's The Veg on B&B, too.
Perhaps one of the most important thing about being chosen by that most polarizing of scents, The Veg, is to recognize that being rejected is no crime, and those who use and admire LV are not elevated above, merely separated from, those left gasping in dismay that anybody in their right mind could actually enjoy smelling like a rotting compost heap that Mr. Whiskers favors when he needs to go. They know not the serene green glade of time honored, masculine floral goodness that we know. This dividing line should never be fought over. It's all in fun.
Yet, there is more to being chosen by LV than being able to yuck it up when others wrinkle their noses in wide eyed disbelief. The Veg was created in 1880 by Ed Pinaud for the Hungarian cavalry. It's time tested, and harkens back to a day when the connection between confrontational earthiness and sublime romanticism was more universally understood.
It's been used by the famous, including John Wayne, and enjoyed by those less famous but perhaps more deserving of our admiration.
In my research about this famous, or infamous, scent, the thing that sticks most in my mind is a recent obituary notice. A Mr. David Lee Young, born in Brooklyn in 1922 passed away in August of this year. I never knew him, but I do know him, for the man described in the tribute could well be my own father. Mr. Young knew the hardships of the Great Depression, wore stripes at D-Day and the Bulge that he payed for in blood, put the war behind him to go on to raise a family and enjoy success in business and appeared to have enjoyed some of the simple pleasures of life, too. I'll let the obituary speak:
"He loved golf, classical music, and card games including pinochle, gin rummy, cribbage, bridge, and poker. David was an avid sports enthusiast. He possessed an amazing ability for numbers and languages - Yiddish, French, and German. He was tough as nails with size 14 shoes, a brilliant mind, and a great sense of humor. His aftershave was Lilac Vegetal."
That is a small part of the legacy that the Chosen pick up when they lift that bottle off the counter. A scent so unique that appears in the summation of a remarkable man's remarkable life.
So this is a place for the Chosen to proclaim that they have tried The Veg and found it good, a place for camaraderie and, perhaps, recognition of the nobility that is sometimes lost in all the comedy that surrounds this uncommon drugstore scent.
Welcome, fellow Knights of the Veg Table.
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Why a "Knight of the Veg Table"?
It's a coupling of the comedic and a tip of the hat to man's nobler ambitions, and the tragedy that can spring from pursuing those ambitions. Camelot had chivalry, treachery and not a little wistfulness. That's Lilac Vegetal. Monty Python and the Holy Grail skewered all that relentlessly, but somehow without malice. That's The Veg on B&B, too.
Perhaps one of the most important thing about being chosen by that most polarizing of scents, The Veg, is to recognize that being rejected is no crime, and those who use and admire LV are not elevated above, merely separated from, those left gasping in dismay that anybody in their right mind could actually enjoy smelling like a rotting compost heap that Mr. Whiskers favors when he needs to go. They know not the serene green glade of time honored, masculine floral goodness that we know. This dividing line should never be fought over. It's all in fun.
Yet, there is more to being chosen by LV than being able to yuck it up when others wrinkle their noses in wide eyed disbelief. The Veg was created in 1880 by Ed Pinaud for the Hungarian cavalry. It's time tested, and harkens back to a day when the connection between confrontational earthiness and sublime romanticism was more universally understood.
It's been used by the famous, including John Wayne, and enjoyed by those less famous but perhaps more deserving of our admiration.
In my research about this famous, or infamous, scent, the thing that sticks most in my mind is a recent obituary notice. A Mr. David Lee Young, born in Brooklyn in 1922 passed away in August of this year. I never knew him, but I do know him, for the man described in the tribute could well be my own father. Mr. Young knew the hardships of the Great Depression, wore stripes at D-Day and the Bulge that he payed for in blood, put the war behind him to go on to raise a family and enjoy success in business and appeared to have enjoyed some of the simple pleasures of life, too. I'll let the obituary speak:
"He loved golf, classical music, and card games including pinochle, gin rummy, cribbage, bridge, and poker. David was an avid sports enthusiast. He possessed an amazing ability for numbers and languages - Yiddish, French, and German. He was tough as nails with size 14 shoes, a brilliant mind, and a great sense of humor. His aftershave was Lilac Vegetal."
That is a small part of the legacy that the Chosen pick up when they lift that bottle off the counter. A scent so unique that appears in the summation of a remarkable man's remarkable life.
So this is a place for the Chosen to proclaim that they have tried The Veg and found it good, a place for camaraderie and, perhaps, recognition of the nobility that is sometimes lost in all the comedy that surrounds this uncommon drugstore scent.
Welcome, fellow Knights of the Veg Table.
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