From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:29:20 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Dec17.081407.11568@midway.uchicago.edu>,
mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) wrote:
> 
> 	"In the interest of wasting more time rather than studying for
> my next exam (currently in a bit under eleven hours) I've suddenly
> been struck with idle curiosity.  For no particular reason, I'm
> wondering who here chooses to wear hats in these post-Kennedy years,
> and what kind?  (Actually, I'm told that hat sales had been going down for a
> few years before Kennedy, and that the President simply confirmed a
> trend by choosing to go hatless, but he makes a convenient target of
> blame anyway. :-) )  Personally, I'm primarily curious about RL, but
> if your VR persona wears a particularly unusual accessory on
> his/her/its head or equivalent, this may be an opportunity to remind
> us all.  (I personally tend to be poor at remembering people's VR
> descriptions unless I'm continually reminded of them or they're
> implicit in the name.)

Thyra listens to Michaels discussion on hats and grins. "Well, personally,
I -never- wear a hat. My ears get in the way, and I change size and shape
too often for it to be practical. However, Jason wears hats a lot, in VR
and RL. I'll answer for him, since he's busy in the Danger Room playing
with paintball guns, Li and Argent."

"In RL, Jay (Jason) took to wearing a baseball cap on and off while in high
school, but not terribly regularly. Mostly to shade his eyes from excessive
sunlight, since his eyes are a bit light-sensitive."

"When he was in the Navy, most of his uniforms had hats that were required.
He got used to them. Incidentally, a US Navy custom has it that if you walk
into a bar wearing a hat, you have to buy a round for -everyone in the
entire bar-. The bartenders on US Navy bases keep a bell in their area, and
when some poor fool walks in with a hat still on his head, <ding!> he just
bought a round or drinks. When off duty, Jason took to wearing one of those
cloth 'crushable' hats, with the right brim turned up and pinned 'Aussie
Fashion' in summer. He wore a furry Russian-style hat in winter. The kind
that if you lay it on it's side, it lays flat in a rectangle, not the kind
that is bulky and has built-in furry ear-muffs."

"Near the end of the time when he was in the Navy, Jason got a Greek
Fisherman's hat at a shop in San Francisco. He liked the look of it, and
started wearing that regularly, except when it was really cold. About 80%
of the time when he is out of the house, he's either wearing a Greek
Fisherman's hat or a baseball cap. He's done that for at least the last
eleven or twelve years now. Nowadays he has two other reasons to wear a hat
though. It keeps his hair, which is much longer these days, from getting in
his face. And it covers the fact that he's lost about 60% of the hair on
the top of his head. He's got thick, fine hair on the sides, and when he
wears a hat it looks like he has a full head of hair. But he'd getting
kinda shiny on top without one."

"In VR, both Jason, here at Callahans, and Argus, at the Chatsubo, favor
Greek Fisherman's hats. That hat and a black leather jacket are sort of his
trademark, in VR or RL."

Purrs,
Thyra
.