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#56413 02/13/02 02:33 PM
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Fun website, Sparteye!

Faldage would be too modest to admit it, so I will take the plunge and speak for him: he *always removes his hat when coming indoors. Musta been that good Navy training.

like wow and consuelo said!


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good Navy training

Ain' got no hat on you don' gots to salute. In fack you cain't salute do you ain' got no hat on.

An you kin salute witcher lef han an yer right han is encumberd


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BTW, Geoff - although I join with you in deploring the sartorial sloppiness of the baseball cap, I can't agree with you that it is not "a proper hat"

I should have defined terms a bit better, RC. I think of a hat as having a full brim, whereas a cap has only a bill. So, if one wants to emulate a duck or a platypus, on which a bill belongs, one wears a baseball cap; if one wants to be stylish, however, one wears a properhat!
This distinction exists in other languages as well, so I don't think I'm just talking through my hat.


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I think of a hat as having a full brim, whereas a cap has only a bill.

Which is the only place you need it; anywhere else it's just an impediment. If you're shooting vertical format pictures you can turn your cap around and get it out of the way of the camera, bringing it back to shade your eyes when you are done shooting.

It's looking good versus being able to function properly.


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and riddles.. whats under your hat and over your head?
(works best with kids.. and doesn't work at all with some adults.. especially males!)


The human body, when exposed to cold, conserves heat by diminishing blood flow to the exposed skin -- but for obvious reasons does not diminish blood flow to the head. Thus a great deal of heat would be lost from the head, and the species, though in general rather hairless, has evolved to retain insulating hair atop the head.

Unfortunately, some of us have lost much of that insulation as we age!

Oh, for the day when hats were fashionably acceptable!
[shivering -e]


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Oh no, faldage, a proper hat is just the thing for pictures, a nice big brim acts to frame to your face, and block out messy background details..(and others!)
secondly, a full brim, will shade your neck, and ears and protect your neck from sun burn. (or rain!)

and lets not forget to mark 11/6 (US Style, Nov 6th) on our calendars as irrationality day.. in honor of the mad hatter.


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just the thing for pictures

Depending on which side of the camera you're on.

Nov 6th

Or June 11th depending on which side of the Pond you're on.


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talking through my hat

There's another one! Thanks Geoff!


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#56422 02/14/02 08:39 AM
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Max - let's ignore Angel - I too have the same problem.

We had to wear straw boaters to school - and mine was the second largest (52cm? 54cm? I forget) of an assortment of 1,500 of the darn things! If I do find a hat that fits 'north-south', there's usually a half inch gap between my temples and the inner brim!

It's also a bugger getting spectacles that fit. I'd lurv to have a trendy pair of Oakleys or somesuch, but the squeeze on my temples is too much to bear! I also find my eyelashes brush up and down on the inside part of the lens - a most disconcerting sensation! et tu Brute?

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