Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, That Stetson? Before you wear it take it out back and shoot a couple of bullets through it, like from front to back! Make it look like you're a mean mother and have been shot at a few times and they missed your head ! :-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Tilley Two; The Cult Following > ><Snip> The Tilley Hat is a dead giveaway that the fish is outta his > > water in northern Canada. I see similar reactions with Rastafarians, when > > jive-talking hippie white boys with dreadlocks and badly accented patois > > (they call them Waspafarians) try to befriend them. (When I was a little > > kid, I was dismayed that my father wouldn't let me wear a toy ceremonial > > feathered headdress to the Six Nations reserve near Brantford. Now that I'm > > older, the "subtlety" makes a bit more sense. Not that it's the same thing, > > but the reaction of the bush pilots seemed eerily similar to that as well.) > > Yesterday I took my friend Dave Rodgers to Helmers (a Portland institution since > 1927 who've known me since 1975) to look at the Tilley's and i almost bought a > Stetson. A brown one. Today i'm going in there to pick it up. $108 if i recall. > Now that's a real hat! > I find the Tilley's practical for city life. I'm not a country guy. Your not > going see me climbing into a small plane with pontoons. > > I'll not be about to crumble this Stetson and put it in my pocket. > And it may blow off in the wind and need re-blocking. > May look like an old movie lover i don't know that would place me. > It's a real hat. We'll see which wins out the Stetson or the Tilley's on my > head. any bets? > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon > USA > > updated temporary Website by "Foxy": http://spokenword.to/rabiner/ > (consisting of late night E-mail descriptions of photos)