Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:36:59 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: "Thieves Cashing in on Stolen Clunkers in Germany" (shows a
Vanagon being heisted ) LVC
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Cool -- thanks for clearing that up; I now understand how his
be-hattedness entered into your posting.
Men looked snazzier wearing snappy hats, but when oily hair went out of
style and more and more people realized that they needn't dress like they
were living in colder Europe, the ol' hat went away.
I've tried many hats in a effort to achieve a good look. Mrs Squirrel just
says I look like Bob Hope (the old dufferish Bob Hope, not the young Bob
Hope that so many in America weirdly thought was funny -- was he ever
funny? my parent's generation must have desperately needed sources of
humor... was there some dire humor shortage in pre-WWII America? there can
be no other explanation) and that pretty much kills that hat for me.
But we digress, and it's all my fault for bring up the question about the
hat in the first place, so I'll shut up.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 8/13/2009 1:08 PM Melissa Mourkas wrote:
> Hilarious! And I apologize to all for the puzzlement! The German man
> was wearing an old-fashioned hat, a fedora or homburg-style hat like men
> used to wear more frequently in the 1950's and 1960's. His business
> card had his photo wearing "the hat". It was just such a distinct part
> of my memory of selling that van in 1995 that I wrote it down without
> thinking about it's implications.
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> "... to a German gentleman (he wore a hat)..."
>>
>> [fuddles brow in puzzlement]
>>
>> What kind of hat? A German hat? A German gentleman's hat? I sometimes
>> wear
>> a hat. Now I wonder if people think I'm German when I wear a hat.
>>
>> This little bit of extra information leads to so many questions, not one
>> of which is Vanagon-oriented, so I apologize for even bringing this up
>> ...
>> b-but others might want to be on the lookout for men wearing hats which
>> indicate, either by the cut of their hat, or the simple fact that they
>> are
>> in fact out and about wearing hats at all, that they are German. And take
>> action accordingly.
>>
>>
>> On 8/12/2009 8:23 PM Melissa Mourkas wrote:
>>
>>> I sold my first Westy, an '85, in 1995 to a German gentleman (he wore
>>> a hat) who claimed he was going to ship it back to Germany for sale.
>>> There may be some truth to this.
>>>
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> Melissa Mourkas
> 84 Westy
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