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    What is the Name of those "State Trooper" hats?

    smokey I used to wear one at a checkpoint. They have the unfortunate ability to roll on thier brim for hundreds of yards in the wind without falling..... all the while being chased by the author!
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    Personal Heat

    knife I am not a knife instructor or any type of unarmed defense. I am a firearms instructor. I did take a week long course put on by Benchmade last January. One of the big things that I got out of it was that if someone was on you trying to get your gun it was difficult to get a lockblade...
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    If you could take only one hat

    one hat? I would take my Tilley
  4. colorblind

    baldness and hats

    bald I believe that people shaved thier heads and wore wigs in olden days because of lice. I know of a judge in Texas that has two sportcoats that he makes defendants wear if they show up without one. One is 36 short and the other is a 50 long. Both in a garish color. Sometimes he makes the...
  5. colorblind

    Current stars wearing their lids

    Matin guitars! Martin guitars retro?? Why I think they are state of the art! So are Rivendells if you want a 68cm bike!
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    baldness and hats

    evolutionary perfection shave yer head
  7. colorblind

    New Panama hat

    I just got my hat back from Art. I like it and I think that it is going to be very usefull for me. Both Panama Bob and Art were very easy to deal with and since it is a hobby more than a business for them they were very willing to correspond about specific things. If I can ever figure out this...
  8. colorblind

    Need Panama advice

    Art If you like it get it! That is Art Fawcett's shop. He is great to deal with.
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    Straw pole - how many of you wear lids whilst driving?

    too tall I am too tall to wear a hat in my truck. this is a digression or maybe an urban legend....once there was a Arizona DPS patrolman that would sit on I-10, wearing his smokey hat and sunglasses, he would roll the window up on the brim and sleep with the hat supporting his head. That...
  10. colorblind

    If you could only have one hat....

    hats & bicycles one hat- Tilley one bicycle-Rivendell Ramboulett(or maybe Atlantis)
  11. colorblind

    Personal Heat

    Laziness I can carry a gun in any state in the union when off duty only in some government buildings and instalations do I have to check it. I am issued a Beretta 96D which is what I teach, and an HK in 40 as well as several 1911s that belong Uncle Sam. I personally own two Commanders(the...
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    cummerbund

    I need to buy a cummerbund. Where should I get one?
  13. colorblind

    The Boss is here

    Stewart Granger I have never read anything about that but I will say one thing that if a wounded elephant(or anything else that size)charges a group of people that you are in you will probably be shooting or running(in addtion to defecating!). I have never hunted dangerous animals or been to...
  14. colorblind

    The Boss is here

    .577 nitro A tidbit about Stewart Granger. I believe that I read years ago that when he was in Africa he used the opportunity to kill all of the big five, I also remember that he had a beutiful old double rifle in .577 nitro express that was engraved with those animals
  15. colorblind

    The Boss is here

    name Since did not like El Jefe, How about El Maestro.
  16. colorblind

    New Panama hat

    http://images6.fotki.com/v162/photos/5/556905/1958434/badbrim-vi.jpg )
  17. colorblind

    New Panama hat

    another try with the link
  18. colorblind

    New Panama hat

    Bad Brim I think that this style of brim was made popular by Otis on the Andy Griffith show! I do not think that it is very flattering and am contemplating a steam job.
  19. colorblind

    New Panama hat

    I just recieved my new Panama hat and have no idea why it looks so bad. Do you have to get them rehsaped or something. I
  20. colorblind

    dress set

    Gypsy jazz The guitar is a Chinese copy of a Selmer Oval hole model and it is a cannon. It was cheap at around $800. I have 4 expensive Martins that I have had to replace tuners on but this Saga Chinese guitar stays in tune remarkably well. I love the extra long scale but the French marker...

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