"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

scrteened porch said:
Those scout hats must have been more expensive than our forage caps.
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From what I have read, the Boy Scout movement absolutely EXPLODED, membership was HUGE, and manufacturers were kept very busy keeping up with it. I think the Sheffield cutlers produced tens of thousands of sheath knives, then referred to as Scout Knives. I believe the hats (Campaign Hats) were part of the Scout uniform from the launch of the movement, seen here on the Cheeky Scouts from Morley Adams' Camping & Pioneering (1915) ;) :thumbsup:

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And on these US Boy Scouts in 1918 :thumbsup:

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Jack Black said:
A few weeks ago someone told me about the time a zeppelin flew over Keighley, a small town close to where I live. I looked it up online, and it turned out the zeppelin was actually the Hindenburg! The event took place in 1936, and the vast airship actually descended over the small West Yorkshire town, and dropped a small package. The parcel was found by two young boy scouts, and along with a postcard and some postage stamps, it contained a crucifix and a spray of carnations.

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The parcel had been dropped by the Hindenburg's resident pastor, John B Schulte, who described himself as the world's first flying priest. His brother had been a POW, captured in WW!, and having died at a large German POW camp near Keighley, he was buried in the local cemetery. He asked that whoever found the package, take the flowers and crucifix to his brother's grave.


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The Hindenburg had been returning from a passenger trip to the USA, and crossing over Britain a few weeks before, had actually flown over Leeds, where I live today. Just a few months later, it would make it's final trip across the Atlantic.
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What a great story. Thanks, Jack.
 
I find the lemon squeezer hats on my op shop odysseys all the time...mostly too small for my superhuman cranium...but rabbit fur felt Bardsleys are a good hat for the sun. The baseball caps of today only cover the nose leaving the child's ears exposed to the boiling, melanoma causing Australian sun.
 
Jack ...once upon a time that wouldn't have been a problem for me....nowadays however I would ask for a written application to move seats with an associated surcharge applicable by a 50% refund of my fare and an inconvenience surcharge equal to but exceeding 75% of my companions fare...in lieu of moving to business class seats at no extra charge....subject to my whim.
Isn't that how it works now?
Balance the plane indeed.
If that doesn't work I'd ask the hostie if she would care to go and "stabilise my aircraft"
in the mile high club"...if not then I'm staying put.:cool::rolleyes::D
 
meako said:
I find the lemon squeezer hats on my op shop odysseys all the time...mostly too small for my superhuman cranium...but rabbit fur felt Bardsleys are a good hat for the sun. The baseball caps of today only cover the nose leaving the child's ears exposed to the boiling, melanoma causing Australian sun.
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Yes, the Smokey Bear/drill seargeant hats are great for the sun. I had a garrison cap in the early '70s when I was in Boy Scouts, and it provided ZERO protection from the sun.
 
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on the subject of sleeping cats, if I don't make a Tater nest right beside my pillow using the favorite fleece blanket, she will pester me to no end.
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On the subject of hats, I think full brimmed hats need to make a comeback for men in general. Be it a fedora, Homburg,trilby, pork pie,campaign,or any of the many styles that fall under "cowboy" hat. I prefer a 5 inch brim palm straw in summer for max sun protection. The felt is a 4-7/8 brim. When I was in the scouts most of my troop never had the full uniform. Many of us could only afford a Boy Scout t-shirt to wear at functions. I usually wore an od green boonie hat when we was out camping and such.
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
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on the subject of sleeping cats, if I don't make a Tater nest right beside my pillow using the favorite fleece blanket, she will pester me to no end.
f2n7s4.jpg
29gczro.jpg

On the subject of hats, I think full brimmed hats need to make a comeback for men in general. Be it a fedora, Homburg,trilby, pork pie,campaign,or any of the many styles that fall under "cowboy" hat. I prefer a 5 inch brim palm straw in summer for max sun protection. The felt is a 4-7/8 brim. When I was in the scouts most of my troop never had the full uniform. Many of us could only afford a Boy Scout t-shirt to wear at functions. I usually wore an od green boonie hat when we was out camping and such.
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Couldn't agree with you more. Got a 4&1/4 inch brimmed felt Stetson I wear most days. I like Panama hats too.
 
1 dog, 0 cats, baseball caps (never backwards).
Haven't worn a cowboy hat more than a few times in the last 20 years. Not since I quit rodeos.
 
JohnDF said:
1 dog, 0 cats, baseball caps (never backwards).
Haven't worn a cowboy hat more than a few times in the last 20 years. Not since I quit rodeos.
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30 years, that would put it back to about the "Urban Cowboy" craze? I can't say much, I love the hats, and boots but honestly ain't rode a horse in years, a hat that's in the general proportions of a "cowboy hat" was just a outdoorsman type hat prior to probably the 1940's. Cowboys just held onto them longer and it became iconic to them. I used to have a picture of a man plowing in the Appalachians sometime in the early 1900's that was wearing a hat almost exactly like my felt, minus the edge trim. Same style crease and everything, which nowadays is called the "Gus" from the lonesome dove character. Cowboy hats have become more generic, but used to be you could tell where a man was from by the crease and brim. A few still hold to the traditional, for instance if I'd seen Horsewright somewhere I'd know immediately he's of the Buckaroo tradition, and most likely from California,Nevada or certain parts of Wyoming.
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
Not to mean you was just a "urban cowboy"
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No offense, I was riding bulls way before that movie came out. I used to be just like Horsewright. I worked horse and cattle ranches, did a lot of "day work", did a lot of packing of mules and horses, competed in rodeos (bulls, broncs, and roping), and was a custom saddle maker. I gave it all up for my kids and a higher paying job. Still wear Wranglers and boots but ditched the cowboy hat.
 
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