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Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'
NPR ^ | Robert Krulwich

Posted on 05/06/2012 3:44:19 AM PDT by Daffynition

A hundred years ago — and that's when this picture was taken, in 1912 — men didn't leave home without a hat. Boys wore caps. This is a socialist political rally in Union Square in Manhattan. There may be a bare head or two in this crowd, but I think those heads are women's.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: ice; ick; ilk; ill; imp; ink; ion; ira; irk; its; ivy
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To: Hulka

Hey thanks, Hulka! A new hat store to spend some more money!


101 posted on 05/06/2012 12:09:55 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (((.)))
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To: Daffynition
Here's my dad's logic. In the 1950s — and this was one of Ike's grand accomplishments — he built a vast highway system across America. Interstates went up everywhere. Cities extended roads, turnpikes, highways, and suburbs appeared around every major city. People, instead of taking a bus, a tram, a train to work, could hop into their new Chevy or Ford and drive.

My guess was cars before I read that. It's not just headroom though. If you have your own car you don't need a hat for protection from the elements as much either.

102 posted on 05/06/2012 12:37:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

>> “Fewer hats means more skin cancer.” <<

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Total BS!

Vitamin D, generated by sunlight is the biggest defense from skin cancer. Sun lotions are all carcinogenic, as is anything that reduces production of Vitamin D.

Sun good - Shade bad.


103 posted on 05/06/2012 2:32:37 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: thecodont

>> “North Berkeley” <<

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Is that the new term for Albany?
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104 posted on 05/06/2012 2:53:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Sounds like Tom Dowd....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC88Ag-0ZI4&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dowd


105 posted on 05/06/2012 3:56:07 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: editor-surveyor

So if some is good, more must be even better, right?


106 posted on 05/06/2012 4:14:49 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Daffynition

107 posted on 05/06/2012 4:23:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Daffynition

108 posted on 05/06/2012 4:24:26 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Daffynition

Actually, I think the author is right.

I like wearing fedora hats, felt in the winter, panama hats in the summer. However when I get into my car—I invariably take it off, as, the hat hits the roof and gets uncomfortable.

So going out in public consists of taking the hat off in the car, putting it back on when I get out...and, then taking if off indoors. Just too much trouble. Unless I’m going to be outside all day, I tend to leave it home about half the time...


109 posted on 05/06/2012 4:53:30 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (because REALITY is never digital...)
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To: Daffynition
You Can Leave Your Hat On
110 posted on 05/06/2012 4:58:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: wally_bert
My grandaughter just got herself a fedora and she looks georgeous.
111 posted on 05/06/2012 5:04:40 PM PDT by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: editor-surveyor

>> “North Berkeley” <<

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Is that the new term for Albany?
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No, it was indeed North Berkeley, but they were on their way to Golden Gate Fields in Albany (about to board a shuttle).

Saw a few of them again today too. They had on their “dollar day” admission bracelets.


112 posted on 05/06/2012 5:47:49 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: dalereed
No one but some liberal from the east would ever wear a hat!


113 posted on 05/06/2012 7:42:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
People who go without hats have never worked out in a bean field or cattle farm all day long. Where I have lived, going without a hat will get you your brain baked.

Word.

I'm in the rain gutter business, which means I spend my days outside in the sun on ladders and rooftops. At the very least, during the warm months, I wear a bandana covering my head, but when the Texas sun really bears down, I've got one of my straw cowboy hats on.

I couldn't work in the sun without one.

114 posted on 05/06/2012 7:50:33 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Revolting cat!

I’m Impressed! :)


115 posted on 05/07/2012 12:26:08 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

>> “So if some is good, more must be even better, right?” <<

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No, but sun does not cause skin cancer, and it actually prevents the worst kind: melanoma.
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116 posted on 05/07/2012 11:28:23 AM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: AnalogReigns
However when I get into my car—I invariably take it off, as, the hat hits the roof

That's one of many reasons I like my pickup truck ...

117 posted on 05/07/2012 11:35:23 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Daffynition

so NPR blames the republican and exhonerates the democrat.

npr praises mass trasit and condemns the car...


118 posted on 05/07/2012 11:39:29 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Go figure, eh?


119 posted on 05/07/2012 1:38:18 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: dalereed

Anyone around here who wears a cowboy hat is immediately suspected of being an a-hole.


120 posted on 05/07/2012 1:57:25 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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