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    Ian McKellen's hat in The Prisoner

    In the previews and stills from the upcoming AMC remake of The Prisoner, Ian McKellen's character wears an outstanding style of panama. Can anyone identify the exact style - if not identify the maker/supplier? Here's the official miniseries page, for those who don't want to Google around...
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    New HJ Poet Fedora (to celebrate some good news)

    Yah, mine too. Every day it's a tussle between it, just nicely broken in, or my new gray Akubra Fed.
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    Should I should, or should I shouldn't?

    Harleys do NOT leak oil. They mark their territory. :D
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    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    I assume you mean in general. This shirt does not have a matched pattern to the pocket. It's a nice blend, but not matched.
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    My second cel was a StarTac. About as close as they ever got. I never lost the urge to say "Beam me up" when I opened it - and sometimes did.
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    Cruise Hat(s)??

    This is more appropriate to the '70s era (pardon my mention of that benighted time) when Greek Fisherman's caps were a fad, but do recall Roy Blount Jr.'s comment that "No one should wear a Greek Fisherman's cap who is not (a) Greek and (b) a fisherman." :D
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    Enigma

    U-571 simply hijacked the story from the Brits who did it to some more Hollywoodgenic 'Murricans. There were other Enigma captures later in the war, but the first and the one the movie portrays was by our limey cousins. There really wasn't any justification for this lapse by the filmmakers.
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    Enigma

    It is, at least, better than U-571, which has the wrong country stealing the Enigma machine. lol
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    The Evening Tipple...

    Pour me one. Jack Daniel's Single Barrel preferred. Knob Creek will do.
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    The Strangest Thing

    There is a rising trope, which I would bet is more prevalent in schools, that no one is better than anyone else. This provokes resentment when someone who clearly has a leg up on some definition of "better" comes along and makes someone who's chosen a lower road uncomfortable. So you dress to...
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    Water for Elephants

    I'm not sure. It could have been because of my reading (e.g. while tired, distracted, etc.) but my first take was that it was following "film story" style rather than novel-story. I am sensitive - perhaps hypersensitive - to novels written as film treatments, or at least in film-treatment...
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    If you have your cel phone in hand continuously, you don't need a watch, now, do you? :(
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    Water for Elephants

    It's decent. I have a fascination with carnie life and this resonated nicely with much of the factual stuff I know. It seemed to lose steam about 2/3 through but that might have been me.
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    If you could solve just one mystery....

    Well, most wild-eyed conspiracy stuff has simple answers that a few ill-informed skeptics don't want to face. :p Unquestioned mystery that has an unquestionable answer, and my number one question I'd like answered: What happened to the Amber Room?
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    Someone got that scarce GREEN WHIPPET

    And who says men were never daring in their fashions? lol
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    I Haven't Seen It in a Long Time

    I've been Netflixing my way through quite a few fondly remembered films... and found to my horror that for every one that gives me a warm rush of nostalgia, there are two or three that... just don't measure up. There are several movies I refuse to see again because I know they will disappoint...
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    Let's Retire these Cliches

    What's up with that? :shudder:
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    Feds bought me a fed!

    Actually, gents, this is the first time I've been called. I've had many around me called for the more common County jury duty, which usually translates to one in-person check-in and then a week of waiting by the phone. What I got, after forty-mumble years (almost 30 of which I've been a...
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    Need Lounger's advice on selling rare hat

    You may want to consider a higher grade of auctioneer. Items like this get bid up frantically in the Hollywood Memorabilia auctions. contact www.ProfilesInHistory.com about listing this hat in their next auction. They do about three a year. ADDENDUM: I just glanced at their page and they have a...
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    Feds bought me a fed!

    So I finally decide on an Akubra Federation to round out my collection. I wanted a tall-crown fed in medium gray, and there aren't too many to choose from. (Would have liked to have a Fed Deluxe, but as you all know it's not available in gray any more.) So I place the order with Hats Direct...
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