The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

[deanglen]

Welcome! Nice hats! Everybody here is someone to get to know and a great group willing to share the love of hats!

Dean

 

[Rick Blaine]

HiYa Brooklyn...

... and greetings from Tennessee, you'se guys !
...straw looks good on you!
See ya' round the lounge.

Rick

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Welcome aboard and mazel tov!

I haven't been to my Jewish friend's synagogue yet, but I'm wondering what to wear if I do. I don't have enough hair to pin a yarmulke to.

Six feet tall? Huh? Humphrey Bogart! I dare anybody to say he didn't look good in hats and he was nowhere near six feet.

Elisha Cook Jr, too!

 

[AcmeNews]

Pimps and Gangsters

A few years ago, I was taking some pictures in the city. I was asked by a passer-by "Are you a pimp or a photographer?" I said "Yes."

Yesterday, while walking down the street, I heard "I though you were Al Capone!" I said "I was."

Funny how these comments seem to come from inner-city folks I don't know. People I know usually just say I look sharp.

One other: A few years ago, a stranger said "I know you. I saw you a few weeks ago in The Central West End (a neighborhood)." I asked "How do you know that?" He said "I recognize the hat."

 

[Boroparkpyro]

Welcome aboard and mazel tov!

I haven't been to my Jewish friend's synagogue yet, but I'm wondering what to wear if I do. I don't have enough hair to pin a yarmulke to.

Six feet tall? Huh? Humphrey Bogart! I dare anybody to say he didn't look good in hats and he was nowhere near six feet.

Elisha Cook Jr, too!

Thanks, Dean, Rick and Tony!

Now in response to Tony in particular:
The larger a yarmulka is, the less it needs to be held in place. The 'disposable' ones that are usually left out for people who don't have their own in many synagogues are usually big enough to stay on by themselves.

What you're wearing in your avatar picture looks fine. Some synagogues are more informal, so i'd suggest just asking your friend what people wear there, just in case.

And avoid dark-colored hats unless you want people assuming strange things about you .

 

[RadioHead]

And so it begins?

Hi Folks:

This is my first posting to The Fedora Lounge.

I have only recently begun wearing a "real hat" (as opposed to a cap). It is a Stetson "Bozeman" black wool felt hat, which has a rather western appearance to it, although I would by no means call it a "cowboy" hat. I bought it while passing through Oklahoma City this past June, and wear it whenever it's not too hot to do so.

Anyway, while leaving work one evening the security guard at the front gate said "You're all 'cowboyed-up', aren't you?". "Excuse me?" said I. "Well, you've got the cowboy boots and hat." said the guard, to which I could just reply "It's just boots and a hat, Ed; it's just boots and a hat."[huh]

Maybe I shouldn't have been wearing the western boots as well...

I know I will be the only one anywhere in the building with a fedora, when mine (I've ordered 2) arrive. I'm getting ready with a few lines I might need.


"RadioHead"

 

[The real Henry]

The silliest comment you could get(and I got it!) is simply: "Hat-man"!!! :eusa_doh:

And believe it or not this was meant in a bad way?

 

[jamespowers]

The silliest comment you could get(and I got it!) is simply: "Hat-man"!!! :eusa_doh:

And believe it or not this was meant in a bad way?

Here I come to save the day! I am Hatman put down that gun you fiend.

 

[Mr. Sable]

A guy says to me, "..are you from New York?"

I got that one recently too. I didn't realize the State had adopted a uniform since I'd visited.

Last night I got a "Hey! You look like Humphrey Bogart!" from an old security guard. Never got that one before. I thanked him and then he gave my kid a sucker, though my kid is 15 years old and 6' tall - quite a bit taller than the guard and myself. Strange fella.

 

[Haversack]

I got another one on Wednesday while riding home on the bus. I was wearing my straw planters hat with a blue pugaree ribbon which Art made and one of those tan linen jackets from Target. Two kids get on the bus and as they walk by, one says to the other, "Did you every see Jurasic Park?" while at the same time rolling his eyes towards me. Its been a while since I've seen it but I suppose it was in reference to the hunter character in it.

Haversack.

 

[Dav3]

I got another one on Wednesday while riding home on the bus. I was wearing my straw planters hat with a blue pugaree ribbon which Art made and one of those tan linen jackets from Target. Two kids get on the bus and as they walk by, one says to the other, "Did you every see Jurasic Park?" while at the same time rolling his eyes towards me. Its been a while since I've seen it but I suppose it was in reference to the hunter character in it.

Haversack.

coulda been talking bout Dr. Grant:

I think the weirdest one I got was "cowboy". Err, not quite.


But like everyone else, it's mostly compliments from old guys at bars.

 

[The Wingnut]

My cousins' wives (who are from Vietnam) think I'm a cowboy.

I'm constantly getting country music CDs from them at Christmas.


...I don't have the heart to try to explain it. Smile and nod, thank you, go home and put it on eBay.

 

[jamespowers]

My cousins' wives (who are from Vietnam) think I'm a cowboy.

I'm constantly getting country music CDs from them at Christmas.


...I don't have the heart to try to explain it. Smile and nod, thank you, go home and put it on eBay.

:eusa_doh: lol lol lol That is pretty funny.

Regards,

J

 

[TommySalieri]

Boy, that picture sure does bring back memories. I remember seeing that in the theaters back in '93.

Hm. I've heard Sam Neil's hat in Jurassic Park referred to as a fedora. Somehow, I doubt it's an actual fedora. Could it be something else?

 

[FedoraGent]

Ok, we have all been seen with our hats on and called things like Indy and gangster but I had the absolute stupidest comment today. I was outm getting lunch and some oaf said I looked like Columbo with my 2 1/4" brim Milan on. This was with a Hawaiian shirt and khakis! I could have understood Carl Kolchak (Darin McGavin) in the Nightstalker

but Columbo?! He didn't even wear a a hat! :rage: :eusa_doh: What a nitwit!
What was your dumbest comment ever heard?


Regards,

J

JP,

I've recently had the Indy and Dick Tracy comment and I handled it quite well but I KNOW that if I had come across that one I know that I'd have laughed right out loud. That's preposterous and just downright idiotic. Ouch. Sorry man.

FG.

 

[funneman]

You weren't dressed like Ted Knight were you?

..billy, billy, billy.

 

[jamespowers]

JP,

I've recently had the Indy and Dick Tracy comment and I handled it quite well but I KNOW that if I had come across that one I know that I'd have laughed right out loud. That's preposterous and just downright idiotic. Ouch. Sorry man.

FG.

I did laugh out loud. It was like one of those moments where you say something dumb and then hear crickets chirping. After that I laughed. lol

Regards,

J

 

[Air Boss]

HA HA HA HA...

I was once wearing my hat while eating a delicious pastry and my father called me "Indiana Scones". True story.

Too funny!!!

 

[FedoraGent]

I did laugh out loud. It was like one of those moments where you say something dumb and then hear crickets chirping. After that I laughed. lol

Regards,

J

It's just too marvelous for words...you have to laugh.

FG.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Oh,boy, I have gotten comments on Indiana Jones, Crocodile Dundee, cowboy and/or cowgirl (this while wearing a classic fedora), and other names that escape my memory.

Recently, I was at a casino with my mother and her friend. I was wearing a rose red Mr. Stetson, 2 inch brim, and had on my sunglasses. A neanderthal who was valet parking cars, starting loudly yucking, pointed at me and said, "hey, mafia, mafia!" Over and over again. When I snapped at him that I was a female wearing a rose-colored fedora, what was he talking about, he said "I was just kidding."

"People who park other's people's cars, shouldn't criticize or tease them," I said. "See what kind of tip you get."

It irritated me because my mother is leery of my fedoras as it is, and then to have that creep loudly exclaiming that I look like a gangster in her presence, upset me. I said to mother, I am wearing a soft, pretty rose colored fedora, why would he think I look like a gangster? "It's the sunglasses," she said.

When some fellow recently asked me why I was wearing a man's hat (I was in my vintage Borsalino Allesandro), I said "I am not, I am wearing a woman's hat."

"How do you know that?," he queried.

"Because a woman is wearing it," I said.

karol