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Of moderators and their silly hats

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:39 am
by Sasquatch
Peter v wrote:Mod hat off, but handy. (Oh, cr@p -- it's eyeing me!)

Crfriend, is that hat a cousin to the Harry Potter Sorting Hat??? :shock: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :D
I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top! :lol:

sasq

Re: Is SkirtCafe Going "Femme"?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:22 am
by crfriend
Sasquatch wrote:
Peter v wrote:Mod hat off, but handy. (Oh, cr@p -- it's eyeing me!)
Crfriend, is that hat a cousin to the Harry Potter Sorting Hat??? :shock: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :D
I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top! :lol:
That was going to be its next incarnation, but it seems my thunder went missing. Not to worry, though, I'll just conjure up something else!

Re: Is SkirtCafe Going "Femme"?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:35 pm
by Peter v
Sasquatch wrote:
Peter v wrote:Mod hat off, but handy. (Oh, cr@p -- it's eyeing me!)

Crfriend, is that hat a cousin to the Harry Potter Sorting Hat??? :shock: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :D
I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top! :lol:

sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, as I just happened to see on the telly that other day on a Brittish show where people can bring in things that they have and would want to sell. The better quality items of course. The pikle helm I think it is called, went inro auction and brough up I think about one thousand brittish pounds, which was much more than the low estimate.

Re: Is SkirtCafe Going "Femme"?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:13 pm
by crfriend
Peter v wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top! :lol:

sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, [...]. The pikle helm I think it is called [...]
I think the term is "pickelhaub" (and I'm sure I managed to mangle the spelling rather badly), and was the cavalryman's helmet; there was a similar one for artillerymen, but that model had a ball atop the helmet instead of a point. I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to why.

Re: Is SkirtCafe Going "Femme"?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:44 pm
by Peter v
crfriend wrote:
Peter v wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top! :lol:

sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, [...]. The pikle helm I think it is called [...]
I think the term is "pickelhaub" (and I'm sure I managed to mangle the spelling rather badly), and was the cavalryman's helmet; there was a similar one for artillerymen, but that model had a ball atop the helmet instead of a point. I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to why.
However it was named, the helmets didn't help them much. :roll: :shock: :? :wink: