Nonconformists Gifts

Protest

'It says here you like to push the envelope.'

'... So then, I dropped out of university and hooked up with this nudist colony.'

"I tried heaven but this place is much more fun."

"'How We Die' - fabulous!"

I had my shirt on backward all day. Why didn't you tell me?! I was too busy being impressed, little buddy. You were defying social norms. Walking to the beat of your own drummer. Soaring to the flapping of your own wings. When I see a man with his short on backward, I don't correct him. I applaud him. How about when you see a woman with her shirt on backward? I applaud her too, even though there's an increased risk of misunderstanding-related slappage.

Tonight's topic. Lifestyle: Being your best self. We don't actually have a "lifestyle" -- we just wing it.

"I don't buy the science on pants."

'You know what I couldn't stand about the army, you all go to dress the same.'

Business as unusual

"Where did we go wrong?"

'Let's not go by the book.'

"What I do is pick up the morning paper, go through it carefully, and then, depending on how I feel about things, I either say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand there and do nothing, or walk out of the classroom."

"I'm not weird I'm a 'person of weirdness'."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Thinks he's too cool for school.

"To be honest, I don't mind the cold, and being an introvert, and slightly antisocial, I really treasure the quiet time when the others have flown south..."

'You're developing a reputation as something of a cowboy, Henderson.'

'You have no idea how hard I've gotta work just to maintain my indie cred around here!'

You are much more likely to think outside the box if it is broken.

The Mainstream

"Every now and then, I find myself in a room filled with people who are wrong."

Do not think outside the box!

'You just don't seem to be fitting in.'

Man burning his tie.

Dare to be different.

"Picasso is at it again. I don't know what he does in there. all he says is that he's living his dream."

"I'm outside the fancy dress shop...."

Frank Zappa

'Louise, everyone is wearing that this year ... don't be such a sheep to fashion.'

Loner sheep sings 'I gotta be me'.

"Without mentioning any names, certain questionable liberties have been taken with our dress code."

"I beg to differ."

"I used to be old, too, but it wasn't my cup of tea."

Rebel without a cause. Poet without a war.