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HAT PARADE: A DEEPLY PERSONAL HEADWEAR JOURNEY
• Purchased in 2001, the W 2004 cap has been in constant use since. Riled leftists are usually pacified by claiming the W stands for “Wahhabist”. Deliberately removed only once, when testing a Bentley GTC in the US; my co-driver wasn’t a great supporter of the 43rd President, and it’s best not to anger a man driving at 140 mph.
• Everybody needs a Pope hat. Only available from a custom Pope supplier in Rome, the Pope hat is irresistible to visitors and sinister intruders alike. Unspeakable obscenities are made wildly entertaining when uttered by the wearer of a Pope hat.
• This Happy Arab ensemble was sourced from a Jerusalem market last year. A fellow journalist on the same trip wore an identical outfit when meeting Australia’s ambassador to Israel; he didn’t seem to mind, even when we kept calling him “Jimmy”. Come to think of it, we didn’t stay very long at the ambassador’s place.
• I can’t remember the year, but one time I got into a long argument about the merits of various muscle cars with this guy in an outré Manhattan bar. At the end of it - possibly to celebrate the novelty of our debate, given the location - he gave me his Mustang Boss 302 cap. I wore it once while driving my MX5 and got a ticket for cognitive dissonance.
• Direct from the Durdana Khan Cap House in Peshawar City, this sturdy and long-wearing ... object is ideal for keeping brains warm during long nights on the steppes of the Sindh Sagar Doab. Made from ... materials, this authentic example of ... something is also available in Extra Coarse and Dung.
• A Collingwood scarf as headwear! Feel those cultures merge! Bought at Victoria Park after a 101-point win over Richmond, 23 August 1986.
UPDATE. Australians have long been defined by their hats.
When I make it to OZ, we must do a beer or two, even something more potent.
Have no fear of your recent opportunity to overcome, as you did.
On your command either myself, Swinish, Spot_the_Dog, 185600, or ALL the rest of the males that comment on your “Best Australian/New Zealand Blog”, will in fact, pound a gallon of water out of anyone that you point to and say, “pound a gallon of water” out of that or those, shitheads.
Oh what fun!
=^D
FWIW, the Boss 302 was my favorite car when I was a kid - I saw them race in the old Trans-Am series at Riverside in 1969 and ‘70 - but the Boss 429 was the real Chevy/Mopar-killer.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 10 at 12:47 PM • permalinkTim, I trust that you keep your copies of “My Israel Question” and “Zippy Stories” side by side. They are a match made in heaven.
And both of them well away from “Playboy: Brunettes”!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 10 at 01:09 PM • permalink#9 rihardman
Well, there can be only one “Ultimate Muscle Car”, and there it is.
Has anyone else noticed that paco only needs one more comment to reach 10,000?
The Ultimate Comment Czar, it seems.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 10 at 02:06 PM • permalinkCongratulations, Paco, on your 10,000th comment! In appreciation, you have won a free vacation for two to the Perfectly Adequate Condo Outfit’s resort in beautiful downtown Burbank, as well as a complementary fruit basket and bottle of our best
hoochBoone’s FarmBordeaux.Void where restrictions may apply.
#17: Approaches the microphone, wiping tears of joy from eyes
Thank you, Rebecca. First, I’d like to thank all the people who have made this accomplishment possible. Detective Paco, Sheila, Mrs. O Doherty, Wronwright, and our host, Tim Blair, without whose support I would still be a timid looker-on. And I am proud to have brought the guiding moral philosophy of Paco Enterprises to bear on my commenting policy: Ignore the quality, you can always make it up on volume. Thank you.
#5, #8 Riverside International Raceway
Those were the days! I had the pleasure of watching those races and driving in the prelimaries for the supporting cast, too.
All the greats drove there, from F-1 to CanAm to TransAm and Nascar. The Ford GT40 and Cobra Daytona Coupe were developed there since the back straight allowed terminal velocity.
Now it’s a housing development.
Turn 7 was the best for both driving and watching and I remember having a good look at the underside of one large racer what violated some law of physics.
It took the genius of Penske and Donohue to counter the Mustang 302, and when they were lured away to AMC, they made the ex-Ramblers competitive, too.
Thanks for the memories!
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 02 10 at 03:44 PM • permalinkPaco works so I don’t have to. Good on you, son.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 02 10 at 04:14 PM • permalinkJust opening Freudenberg’s book will lower your IQ by several points, as your expression - or lack of it - proves.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 10 at 04:47 PM • permalinkThe Collingwood scarf makes you look like a Cricket Ninja, Tim.
Where does one get a pope hat, by the way? I have only my Indiana Jones fedora to adorn my head, and a jaunty chapeau like that gold fellow up there would definitely brighten my philosophy classes.
Congrats on feeling better, and of course, an all hail to Paco for his 10,000th comment! The good detective’s next case: where has the left’s fashion sense gone? I have yet to see anybody on the other side of the fence sporting such a fine collection of headgear.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2008 02 10 at 05:32 PM • permalink#28 Thank you, Gary and Tungsten Monk. The left long ago abandoned anything remotely resembling attractive headgear, having decided that it is a manifestation of bourgeois excess. They prefer to leave their knowledge boxes uncovered and open to the elements, save for the donning of the tinfoil hat, which they find necessary whenever there is a particularly egregious outbreak of right-wing skullduggery (instances of which apparently are proliferating with alarming rapidity).
Awesome hat collection, Tim. Me, I have a generic wide-brimmed straw hat, a bowler, a pith helmet, and a fedora. (that last one’s for you, Paco at #4!)
CAUTION: Last two photos may contain traces of me. On the other hand, the last one has a bonus dog.
I wish to correct my previous correction*. My second-to-last picture has a *pith* helmet and bonus dog; my last picture has a fedora with no bonus dog. I apologise for my previous apology, and promise not to make this mistake in future unless it is absolutely unecessary. Thank you for your inattention.
*This thing must be catching!
You’re all set, Tim, to start your very own Planet of Hats.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 10 at 06:30 PM • permalinkI should add, TimT is ready to join you. And I do own a fedora-like hat (bought at Steinmart on sale) so I can come too! Even though I don’t really have a hat head.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 10 at 06:31 PM • permalink#33: Thanks, Penguin. These comment shoes are made for walkin’.
#32 TimT: Very sharp fedora. May you always wear it in good health. I’ve got a nice black one made in Italy, and a couple that look pretty much identical to the ones in Andrea’s link. Our agency now has an Inspector General who I ran into for the first time the other day as we were arriving at work in the morning. Decked out in double-breasted tan cashmere overcoat, chocolate brown double-breasted suit, dark brown fedora and brown leather gloves, I could tell that he was just dying to snap the cuffs on me. Haw! You’ll never take me alive, flatfoot!
Thinking caps on Welcome to the website for the Australia 2020 Summit.
If we want to shape the kind of nation Australia will be in 2020, the work needs to start now. There are few limits to Australia’s future potential – now is the time to start turning our nation’s potential into a reality.
Are we at timblair into a reality?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 10 at 07:04 PM • permalink#42: When I think about those thousand geniuses who will be gathering to solve Australia’s problems, I am put in mind of that scene from the original movie version of The Producers, where you had a roomful of shouting, zieg heiling auditioners for the part of Hitler. Which is not to impute fascism to Kevin or his “brain trust”; it is the chaos and noise of the scene which strikes me as possibly relevant.
#43 Krudd and “chaos and noise” sounds right.
#44 whats a “z” between friends.
Zeal or seal.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 10 at 07:25 PM • permalinkCongrats, paco. You “talk” more than I—who knew that was possible? Of course, you also “talk” better than I do, I love reading your entries here.
I have my hiking hat, the straw one pictured here (I don’t remember mine ever looking that new) & a few ballcaps - Dunkin Donuts Hawai’i, Dinosaur Field Station Malta, Montana, nothing nearly as spiffy as the headwear Paco & Andrea wear…<heavy sigh>
Mostly I was looking for an excuse to try linking something for the first time. Thank you for your patience!
I remember where I’ve seen that look : Bernard Bolan Upon Sober Reflection.
All those men without hats are forever doomed to dance.
Tim, you are almost there. As it happens, I have just begun the process of bringing the fez into fashion.
Why? It’s fun to wear. But if you need, here’s a good reason:
But the maroon, brimless fez, once the epitome of old world courtesy and taste, has become, for most Muslims, politically incorrect.
“It’s a hat of the oppressors,” said 26-year-old Abdel Jouad. “This is why no one wears it anymore.”
Oppress on! I’ll be wearing mine at the GOP Convention.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2008 02 10 at 10:56 PM • permalinkSo Tim, wher is the tinfoil helmet? Gotta have a tinfoil helmet.
#43 paco,
When I think of those thousand geniuses who will gather to solve Australia’s problems, I am out in mind of William F. Buckley’s comment, that he would rather be ruled by the first two hundred names in tha Boston telephone directory than by two hundred Harvard faculty members.Congratulations on exceeding a myriad of comments. You are a true Stakhanovite of the blogosphere.
When I did field geology I bought a hat with the largest brim I could find in the sporting goods store, to shade me from the sun. It turned out to be an Aussie hat.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 02 10 at 11:04 PM • permalinkRebeccaH:
Muslims are so easily oppressed, it’s probably both.
I mean, if a bunch of old guys show up in go-karts raising money to help child burn victims, the Islamists will find something offensive about it.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2008 02 10 at 11:18 PM • permalinkSeeing all these photos of Tim pulling funny faces reminds me of the fridge photo competition.
Ooh. Do I hear the sounds of a photo contest in the making? I already have the hat and the camera out… Now I just need to get the new face and body.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 10 at 11:46 PM • permalinkI’m just thrilled to see you safe and well. Please give us the the link for online shopping at Politically Aberrant Cephalic Outfitters.
Posted by Dame Penelope on 2008 02 11 at 01:26 AM • permalinkI am most affronted that so-called Blair has usurped my role in linking to embarrassing photos of him.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 02 11 at 02:45 AM • permalink#16 Belated congrats paco and thanks for the entertainment…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 02 11 at 03:10 AM • permalinkpaco! I handed you the pope hat when we filched it as Clement VII went scurrying to Castel Sant’Angelo in 1527. I said “hold it for a few minutes”. Since then I’ve asked for it countless times and you’ve had an excuse why you couldn’t hand it over.
Now I understand that not only did you lend it to Tim, he lent it to Malkovich! Malkovich!
Get. It. Back. Karl has been busting my balls wanting it for his trophy room.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 11 at 06:40 AM • permalinkTim, being a hatfan from way back, please accept my congratulations on your fine selection.
Can we have one of you in a fedora next time, please?
Even I’ve got a fedora floating around somewhere.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 11 at 07:08 AM • permalink#19 Dr Alice. I’m sure you’re doing great curings for many people. Yours is the most noble of callings.
We all know Paco sits at home controlling many things beyond our comprehension while we plod along with our humble lives.
Paco..your 10,000 blogs may be emulated in quantity at some stage, but no one will go within cooee of your unique range of quality dissertations. Felicitations.
(Hmmm. wronwright sees an opportunity handed to him. So he practices what he will say)
I am so sorry Karl. You see, paco sold your hat ...
no, no, no
Your hat? The beautiful gold covered pope hat encrusted with precious and semi-precious jewels that you sent us back to the 16th century to obtain for you? That’s the hat you’re asking for? Well see, Karl, here’s the thing ...
no, no, that won’t do
Your hat? Well, paco took it to the Antique Roadshow. I told him not to, mind you, in very firm words. But he did anyway and they told him it was worth $50 million. So he sold it. He said you wouldn’t mind. You don’t mind do you Karl? You know, not having a $50 million gold hat?
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 11 at 09:29 AM • permalinkWhatever you do, people, avoid the terrifying Australian Drover Hat (As in, “I saw a roo in the road today, mates. No worries, I drover it.”). This fearsome headpiece inspires such horror in Los Angeles TSA blazer monkeys that that they become irrationally convinced you have firearms in your luggage…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 11 at 11:12 AM • permalinkmehaul - Tim Blair’s is a cyber pub. Right here and now.
BTW Tim your face looks thinner than in previous photos - I assume this is a side effect of major surgery. Hope you’re feeling OK.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2008 02 11 at 11:31 AM • permalinkYou know that picture of the Pope reading Playboy is blasphemeous.
I know for a fact that the Pope prefers Redheads.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 02 11 at 12:46 PM • permalink#55: Tim should definitely help revive the fez. I have a fez a friend brought back from Sarajevo, and I wear it on feztive occasions. You should never do it without the fez on.
Posted by Bud Norton on 2008 02 11 at 01:24 PM • permalinkYou’re looking well, Tim. So good to see.
Paco the Prolific, kudos. Such a quantity of quality. You are a legend.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 12 at 07:25 AM • permalink
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Great to see you Tim. Thinking good thoughts about you even if you do write about a sport named after an insect.
best wishes.