http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5869404Oh my.
The large-proboscised primitive, the New York City area-born Oscar Wilde, now living in Florida.
One hopes the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive hasn't seen this bonfire.
By the way, it's an enormous bonfire.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 04:11 PM
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Why does anyone still wear a cowboy hat?
As Willy Nelson wrote, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys." As a kid, one of my dreams in life was to be a cowboy. After all, being a doctor or lawyer was boring, and even back then, being a Wall-Street-type zombie didn't seem like something a "real man" would want to become. I grew up in a time when becoming super rich was not the goal of life.
A few weeks back, I watched Dick Cheney give a speech while wearing a yellowish green cowboy hat. And there's a current ad on TV with some lawyer wearing a cowboy hat with the Empire State Building in the background. (Go figure.) And I still see some people driving around in their pickup trucks wearing cowboy hats. Is there some kind of pseudo-macho crap here that I'm missing?
I have a feeling that this will bring a lot of crap flying my way, but I've finally come to agree with the old joke that goes: "Cowboy hats and hemorrhoids. -- Sooner or later, every asshole gets em."
Can anyone explain to me why anyone would wear a cowboy hat in this day and age?
I dunno.
franksolich lives where the cowboy hat was invented, and many around here wear them. However, franksolich looks stupid in a cowboy hat, almost as stupid as the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive in a "cowboy" hat, and so Nebraska born-and-raised franksolich never wears one.
However, franksolich's late paternal ancestor, born and raised in Pennsylvania and New York, upon coming to the birthplace of the cowboy hat, took immediately to wearing them. He wore them because he looked sharp in them, right out of Mari Sandoz or John Wayne.
franksolich wears a pith helmet, one that ostensibly graced the topper of Lord Baring, a governor-general of British East Africa during the 1950s.
One should always wear what flatters, not caricatures.
One assumes Oscar Wilde's topping of choice is the old white conical hood favored by those belonging to a now-extinct organization.
It's a screenful, this bonfire.
Well worth getting out the boat and rowing over to Skins's island to read in its entirety; Oscar Wilde gets his ass, or, his hat handed to him by the other primitives.
cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 06:31 PM
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101. I remember this punk in elementary school. He picked on every single person smaller than he was.
If there were no boys around who were smaller than him, he turned his attention to the girls. They didn't get physical abuse, they got ridicule. The kind of ridicule that really messes with a young person's head for a very long time. His ridicule knew no bounds. Too short, too tall, too fat, too skinny, too dumb, "mosquito bites" for boobs, glasses, freckles, ugly hand-me-down clothes, braces, good grades (teacher's pets), you name it.
He did it because of a lack of self-esteem. His self-esteem was sooo bad that he spent all of his time, and I mean all of his time in school, trying to prove that he was better than someone, ANYONE. Constantly on the lookout for someone to intimidate or ridicule.
You remind me of that guy. There were lots of guys he wouldn't have dreamed of picking on. A couple of girls too. My bet is that there is quite a large group of people you'd not ask that question of. Sitting behind your monitor though, it's easy to ridicule "cowboys". That's what you and lots of other posters are doing on this thread; you're ridiculing "cowboys" because you think it's cool and makes you look good, scores points with all the other haters, and just generally gives your self-esteem a boost.
Tell me why, why in the ****ing world, would you feel the need to ridicule a hat? You can't, because you're not ridiculing a hat. You're ridiculing the person underneath it in order to make yourself look better by comparison. And to gain points with your friends who hate all things from the south, and Texas.
You must feel really big, sitting there behind your keyboard ridiculing people who'd probably make you cry "UNCLE!" in about three hearbeats.
Yeah, that's Oscar Wilde for you, but remember, the large-proboscised primitive ridicules and Hates Florida and Flordians more than he ridicules and Hates cowboys.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 06:46 PM
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110. Whew. Thanks for the analyisis. I'll never need to spend a cent on a shrink.
cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 06:51 PM
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112. Acceptance is the first step on the road to Recovery. Good Luck.
And this:
BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 06:42 PM
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108. Why do people ask incredibly ignorant questions?
That's Oscar Wilde for you.
Paladin (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-17-09 08:40 PM
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126. Got Anything Else You'd LIke To Spew Some Brain-Dead Prejudice About?
What your post boils down to is "I don't like it, therefore no one else is entitled to like it, either."
Know what I think? I think that the first 10 people that I encounter wearing cowboy hats could come up with something more intelligent......
