Star of Hats, Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas
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.
Cool!
Imus has some of the coolest looking cowboy hats I've seen.
“...Big Herd of Helpless Welfare Dependents”
LOLOLOLOLOL?!?!?!?!???!!!!!
My exact thoughts, I have 3 here and should wear them more often!
I’ve yet to see a man who doesn’t look great in a great hat.
I agree.
There are times though that I think they have sucked out all his *gray matter* out of his brain.
At one time he was cutting edge funny....now just a has-been. Yet, he deserves credit for his cowboy ranch for kids with cancer.
More info than you ever wanted to know about cowboy hats.
I've heard that from others. I never really got into his show myself. The couple of times I heard him on the radio, I couldn't make heads or tails of the guy, so I wandered back to more familiar talkers.
I honestly could not make out what the guy was about. Sounded like someone gave the mic to a stone drunk to me.
I love cowboy hats and boots on a naked tan woman with long hair
Goddangit.
I used to wear a Stetson for years. Western boot also. But then, all my kin came from the High plains and were ranchers as we were.
Then back in the late 1970s came the URBAN COWBOY craze. I was so offended by people who did not know how to wear a hat properly I threw mine and the boots in the closet for years and went to a golfing cap.
Then back in the late 1980s I began to wear them again after the Urban Cowboy craze died.
To me, most hats have way too big a brim and look like you are about to “take off”. I like a three inch brim with a pinch front and it looks nice on me.
I don’t like any hat that a person buys so they can look like a singing cowboy (singing cowboys are referred to as a “Hat act”). After a while you can tell if a person is a real cowboy or rancher by the way he wears his hat and boots.
We went back west a few years ago with my mom and sister. In our old town we saw a man walk out of the bank. I, my sister and my mom glanced him over and recognized he was a real cowboy. Several years later I took my mom to the doctor, and as we sat in the waiting room out walked this young man dressed to the hilt in a garb it is hard to talk about. Spangles on his hat, a floor length duster, oversized belt buckle. I saw a cowboy wannabe there that day. I thought I would get sick!
As for straw hats, I hate them but they are what we wear here as we don’t want to ruin a good hat with excessive sweat while on a tractor.
I don’t know who designs hats but they need their asses kicked. Several years ago hats stated being made with a FLAT FRONT brim! Idiots! Anyone with an ounce of brains knows a flat front means the wearer does not know how to store his hat properly.
I bought a straw hat to use on our place. Before I was out of the store I had removed the flat front and made it rounded.
I recently bought a new Stetson felt hat made of buffalo felt. Pinch front and it looks good on me. I may never wear a ball cap again. I just wish I could get a good XXX beaver that was soft. Since the government has banned the use of mercury to make the felt all hats feel like starched wool and have a very rough feel. You can definitely tell the difference between my old hats (Stetson, Baily, Resistol) and new ones.
In their honor...
Billy is Texas's most underrated resource
I'll be the horsey if she needs something to ride...!
**were referred to somewhat disdainfully as the ‘hat acts’.**
Dadburn it! Beat me to it!
Nice eyebleach. Gonna have to remember that one.
Willie Nelson once told me “We need some singers. And I don’t mean these damn hat singers.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puKQ2W2l3bo
My radio reception was awful on that commute.....and the only stations I could get clearly were NY radio....Imus, Bob Grant, and early Sean Hannity [ugh!].
We even went to his book signing in New Canaan, CT for *God’s Only Son*....waited 4 hours.... for an *audience* with him, Bo Deitl, Charles McCord, Bernard McGuirk, assorted bodygurards. We made our own fun...met many nice people in line had a lot of laughs and even got invited to some total stranger’s wedding. :) In the book store his fingers were all taped up and he was whining about how his hands hurt...he was surrounded by lackeys and sycophants and enablers...a true prima donna. I could imagine he was impossible to work for.
He has spoken often of his cocaine and alcohol addictions.
He once walked into a convenience store I was working in and asked for cigarettes; I ridiculed him and said I would tell Deidre. The next morning on the show he mentioned me as some *nosey b!tch* from Connecticut. That was funny.
I think his home in *Whiteport* aka [Southport, CT] is up for sale; $25 million, down from the original asking price of $30 million. He’ll never get that amount, imo; CT real markets are dreadful.
I saw an image of him recently and he looks dreadful.
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