Posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:47 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Good words from William Finlay a/k/a Wild Bill for America about liberals' hatred for another American institution, i.e., the cowboy hat.
There is nothing wrong with the cowboy hat.
It takes a big man to wear one.
Sure beats a backward ball cap, pants on the ground attitude.
Well the liberals do seem to like the cowboy hats in Brokeback Mountain.
As it is, I've gathered a nice collection in my time here. As a matter of fact when I brought the family here, I let the each of them pick out their own hat at a Western goods store.
Now my collection includes sombreros and styles used from Arizona South down to the Llanos and into the Andes. Brilliant styles and variety.
Again, only a fool or rather a liberal would hate this stuff. Not much difference there...
I’ve got a bone Stetson with a pinch crease.
I own 3 Stetsons, 1 Resistol, 5 pairs of Lamas/Justin boots. These are the accessories of a man that works for a living. Nike is the shoe and hat of the parasites.
I live in Texas and work outdoors in the sun, so I’ve got an assortment of cowboy hats. I never leave home without one of them on my head.
Not only do they protect you from that gigantic ball of million degree gas in the sky, they also look cool as hell.
Wish I could afford one of those. Mine are the cheap straw variety, but they look good and get the job done.
Me and my buddies, country musicians and promoters, were wondering one recent day why it is that country music singers wear those cowboy hats. I said “country”, because the genre has long ceased to be “country and western”, when even the Texas musicians, nowadays categorized as Americana (and not as often as the Nashville country pop crowd wearing the hats) don’t play western style of country music. During the 90s in Nashville, when some identifiably country music was still being played, these hatted newcomers, raised on the Eagles and Billy Joel, and playing pop rock or as often as not pop schmaltz, were referred to somewhat disdainfully as the ‘hat acts’.
Amen to that, plus they do a dang good job of hiding the *bald*.
I look like a long haired country boy with one and not so much without one, LOL!
Ronald Maximus was At HOME in a “cowboy” hat.
Barack Obama..not so much
Knowing that it pi**es off Leftists makes me want to wear it that much more.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I don’t like the ‘cattleman’s crease.’ I don’t run any cattle and I think it looks like a pudendum.
Now the next time one of these guys goes for their hat, they’re going to think: “He’s right. It does look like a vagina.”
;{)
When I listened to Imus on my long morning commute, he used to wax on and on about his custom Resistols from The Man's Hat Shop in Albuquerque. I learned a lot about them from his obsession.
My cousin, a rancher in Montana and a native of western Colorado had a good collection of Stetsons and was always wearing one while outdoors, but he said he said that he didn’t know what a “cowboy hat” was.
If you visit one of the country music festivals in Europe during the summer, and there is a whole buncha them in all countries of Northern and Eastern Europe - Euros are crazy about American country music - you can buy some fine cowboy hats there at reasonable prices and very well made.
I like a cow boy hat when out in the sun. There is nothing worse than sunburn on the eyelids and ears.
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