terry123
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Very true!All gentlemen remove their hats indoors. If you don't, you're not a gentleman.
Very true!All gentlemen remove their hats indoors. If you don't, you're not a gentleman.
I'm with Lara, leave your hat on.For hat etiquette, you only have to watch an episode of the British detective program, set in WW2, called Foyle's War.
Hats removed indoors, hats doffed to a lady, hats removed if a hearse with a coffin should pass by. In Christian churches hats are always removed, other faiths do it their way, it's customary for men to cover their head in a synagogue. That's why you see men wearing the kippah. (skullcap.) Here's a conundrum, when dining outside, say on the cafe's patio, should a man still remove his hat?
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You look dashing, Horseless (as always)!My hair, what's left of it, hasn't seen a barber in twelve weeks, so I am going to take your advice Marg. The hat is staying on.
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Interesting about the vikings. The popular picture of a viking with a winged or horned helmet is actually just a myth. The vikings wore helmets but there are no archeological finds or evidence that support the horn and wings theory. Towards the end of the nineteenth century horned and winged helmets started to appear in paintings depicting the viking period. Popularity spread when Carl Doepler designed the costumes for Wagner's opera Niebelungen. He studied paintings and drawings for inspiration and incorporated them in his costumes and the rest as they say is history - or is it?I usually only wear a hat when I'm engaged in mortal combat with snow removal, so this isn't much of an issue to me. Teachers are still pretty insistent on getting elementary kids to remove their ball caps upon entering a building, and good for them! Some hats are "statement" hats, and here is the bible on the subject. It's usually best not to ask a Viking to remove his hat, lest he remove your head...
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Would you believe, I wore a beard for the best part of forty years, trimmed and tidy mind. In my early twenties, whilst attending an insurance medical with my doctor, I asked her if the mole on my face could be removed. She hinted that removal can cause hormone problems, adding a suggestion to grow a beard, so I did. However when I reached an age where the beard resembled Santa, I chose the mole and shaved the beard. Vain or what?So lovely to see you with a clean, freshly shaved face. Nothing is more sexy and manly to me.
You look way more classy and dapper clean-shaven.Would you believe, I wore a beard for the best part of forty years, trimmed and tidy mind. In my early twenties, whilst attending an insurance medical with my doctor, I asked her if the mole on my face could be removed. She hinted that removal can cause hormone problems, adding a suggestion to grow a beard, so I did. However when I reached an age where the beard resembled Santa, I chose the mole and shaved the beard. Vain or what?
A wonderful picture of you, Horseless.What a flatterer! How's the nicotine abstinence going? Here is my hirsute chin, what do you reckon, more hair than little Rosie?
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Awww... thank you so kindly for your thoughtful and supportive words, Horseless. You just made my day!Stick with it Marg, you may not know it but you are quitting a lot more than tobacco. The big tobacco corporations don't want anyone to quit, so they spray the tobacco prior to it being used in cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco. That spray contains as many as twenty addictive chemicals. No wonder it's tough giving up. When you can finally say that you have cracked it because you have lost the craving I will take my hat off to you, but until then.
You see these grey baggy trousers, when they were cut out from the paper pattern, my wife realised that there might just be enough fabric to make a matching waistcoat/vest. What a lovely job she made of it too.
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When I saw a lady, laden with baggage, struggling to open a door, I stepped forward and opened it for her. "Allow me!" I said "Just because I'm female I'm not useless," she retorted. "when I was a small boy," I replied, adding, "my mother told me that many people would enter my life and go again just as quickly, I would have but a fraction of a second to make an impact."I'm gonna stop lifting my hat to ladies, stop winking, stop smiling, stop opening doors for them, stop offering them one of my Smarties, stop walking in the road allowing them the safety of the pavement (sidewalk), stop allowing them to have my taxi while I walk home getting soaked by the rain, phew....what a relief, I just woke up from a dream where it was considered sexual harassment to do the above for ladies.