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Yes, jolly good result for the Tigers, but no hat-tricks there, I would have thought.

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Quote: Monkey Woods

Hull City 2 Leicester City 1

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Now, that's better. Now the hats are coming out at last.

And yet. What kind of hat? The devil is in the detail.

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Quote: Dr. Billingsgate

Big hat. No cattle.

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Best hat name: The Piss Cutter. When I served as a Naval Officer, we wore what was issued as a Garrison Cap. Most called it a Piss Cutter. Also called a Cunt Cap.

The Panama Hat was actually invented in Ecuador.

One wonders why such misdirection about the origin of such a fine hat.

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Quote: victor nicholas

The Panama Hat was actually invented in Ecuador.

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Invented, Vic? Aren't things that are 'invented' usually processes or devices?

For example, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny in 1764.

Far be it for me to be pedantic.

Yours pedantically,

Moys

Adding to the Panama hat controversy is the fact that Panama spelled backwards is Amanap, a country that didn't exist at the time the hat first came into vogue.

This is splendid.

Perhaps hat are discovered in rather subtle ways, rather than invented.

It was the Corsican explorer, Tesco Van Morrison, who first discovered the Bombobobongo folk of Western Guinea, who traversed the dusty plains of their homeland on wooden tricycles and who worshipped Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, the man more popularly known as 'Turnip' Townshend for his interest in agriculture, for example his promotion of the adoption of the Norfolk four course system, involving rotation of turnips, barley, clover and wheat crops.

What was most remarkable about the Bombobobongo folk was their hats, a crate of which Tesco Van Morrison brought back to Europe with him.

The hats slowly gained a fanbase in Britain, and a few years after all this, it was the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's novel Trilby which gave this hat its now-popular name.

The Panama Hat was invented by Thomason Edisoni of Ecuador.

After hundreds of failed attempts to make hats out if carbon black and lamp wick soaked in saltpetre he finally managed to arrive at a serviceable model that would stay in fashion for an extended period of time.

Fashion can scarcely repay Edisoni for his toil and many Panama hats from his day are still in use.

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Quote: Monkey Woods

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Quote: victor nicholas

The Panama Hat was actually invented in Ecuador.

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Invented, Vic? Aren't things that are 'invented' usually processes or devices?

For example, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny in 1764.

Far be it for me to be pedantic.

Yours pedantically,

Moys

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you knuckleheads. It's obviously a reference to the tri-cornered hats that Trump supporters are now wearing to identify each other.

Interesting tidbit regarding Panama Hats: During the impeachment hearing of President Bill Clinton, it was revealed that he was wearing a Panama Hat and Fruit-Of-The- Loom boxer shorts while receiving an air start from Monica Lewinsky. The infamous cigar, however, was of Cuban origin.