Who gives hats a bad name?

[Hoyt Clagwell]

I'm not a big, Kid Rock fan either, but I have read that he gets his hats from Henry The Hatter in Detroit, and tries to promote them as much as possible.As for Charlie,I was wearing my felt Biltmore stingy,(which is a nice comfortable hat that I really like).I ran into an old buddy,who said I was wearing Charlie Sheen's Hat.We both agreed we will miss 2 1/2 Men.

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

I like Wilford Brimley Too!

Well, no one is ever going to associate me with Charlie Sheen anyway. Wilford Brimley, maybe.

 

[hatophile]

I like Wilford Brimley Too!

I think Wilford Brimley is an Open Road man.

 

[gtdean48]

I think Wilford Brimley is an Open Road man.

I liked him as the truck driver in Electric Horseman...

 

[Lefty]

YOU!!!



(Oh...wait. I misread the question. It's not "who gives love a bad name?")

 

[Fletch]

Matt Drudge, who probably doesn't think he's Walter Winchell (anymore), but wouldn't object to anyone else thinking so.

 

[John in Covina]

Matt Drudge, who probably doesn't think he's Walter Winchell (anymore), but wouldn't object to anyone else thinking so.

I recall something about George Putnam had given Drudge one of his first fedoras.

 

[fmw]

Why does Drudge give hats a bad name?

 

[tonyb]

I suppose that I have given hats a less-than-favorable name, on at least a few occasions, seeing how I rarely leave home without a hat atop my head, which is certainly unusual in recent decades, and for that reason somewhat worthy of note, and how on more than a few occasions I have, while wearing a hat, behaved in ways that might prompt a reasonable person to think less of hat-wearing people.

No candidates for sainthood here at Chateau Tony. Don't blame the hat.

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

Very eloquently stated tonyb,I can relate to every word.

 

[Edward]

Jack Abramoff.

-Dave

Aha! Thanks.

 

[Chinaski]

There's the guy that likes his 4 door silver Toyota Camry, and he washes it on Saturday. It is stock. There are no bumper stickers on this vehicle.

Then there's the guy that takes his 4 door silver Toyota Camry and puts 18" spinning chrome wheels with low profile tires on it, lowers it, tints the windows, hangs fuzzy dice from the rear-view, puts one of those Yoshimura exhausts on it, and has a bumper sticker that reads, "No Fear."

Which camp are you in?? I think I can guess...well mostly - I'm not sure about Lefty

 

[Lefty]

 

[The Good]

Matt Drudge, who probably doesn't think he's Walter Winchell (anymore), but wouldn't object to anyone else thinking so.

Politics aside, I find his Drudge Report interesting. I don't see why he would give hats a bad name, I think it's cool that he chooses to wear fedoras.

Charlie Sheen and Jack Abramoff scream "pretentious," though.

 

[scottyrocks]

There's the guy that likes his 4 door silver Toyota Camry, and he washes it on Saturday. It is stock. There are no bumper stickers on this vehicle.

Then there's the guy that takes his 4 door silver Toyota Camry and puts 18" spinning chrome wheels with low profile tires on it, lowers it, tints the windows, hangs fuzzy dice from the rear-view, puts one of those Yoshimura exhausts on it, and has a bumper sticker that reads, "No Fear."

Which camp are you in?? I think I can guess...well mostly - I'm not sure about Lefty

And then there are those who would not drive a Camry to begin with, or at least not have it in mind when new car shopping.

 

[Gromulus]

And then there are those who would not drive a Camry to begin with, or at least not have it in mind when new car shopping.

Interesting comment. While currently own a 4Runner (anything wrong with that one??), we have owned two Camrys, one for sixteen years. Not many (if any) cars are more reliable

 

[scottyrocks]

It wasnt a knock on Camrys, per se. I took the use of Camry in post 52 as an example only. I was not knocking Camrys. The name Buick, for instance, would have worked just as well to make the point I thought Chinaski was making - about the alteration of something not being to everyone's tastes.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I just started a new thread about this, but the link belongs here too. New York Times piece on how fedora-wearers get no respect (includes mention of Jack Abramoff as typifying a fedora-wearing no-good in the public mind):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/nyregion/11nyc.html

 

[Gromulus]

It wasnt a knock on Camrys, per se. I took the use of Camry in post 52 as an example only. I was not knocking Camrys. The name Buick, for instance, would have worked just as well to make the point I thought Chinaski was making - about the alteration of something not being to everyone's tastes.

No worries. I just felt the need to defend the cars that treated our family so well over the years (i.e. very minimal repair and maintenance costs)!

 

[Cliffnopus]

I just started a new thread about this, but the link belongs here too. New York Times piece on how fedora-wearers get no respect (includes mention of Jack Abramoff as typifying a fedora-wearing no-good in the public mind):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/nyregion/11nyc.html

Wow, I missed all those years. I guess I need to shave my head, get a goatee, some earings and a tattoo and I'll be all set. I wonder if my hats will still fit if I shave my head.....


Cliff