I wear a derby (See my avatar). Gun Click Rick wears a derby. (Post your pic again, Rick.)
We're starting the INFAMOUS DERBY GANG.
The stated goal of the IDG is to take over the world one head at a time, and to have everyone except politicians wear derbies. No politician is worthy of a derby.
If you want to be an INFAMOUS DERBY GANG member, post your name and a picture here. Everyone (except as noted above) is eligible.
Professor Fuller Bullspit, are you going to join us? Who else?
Forty, That's a great new avatar. I would not mind being a member, but I need to find one that's big enough to fit my head(7 1/2).
I take a 7 7/8-8. My daughter found mine at a sale of costumes and stuff at a community theater. Bob "All Hat" Dumez up in Apple Valley can make you one. Let me know if you want his number.
I thought I had a big head, you got me beat. I found a Stetson one in the Old West Shop at the Fort on line.
Check River Junction Trade Company. They got 'em.
I think I would look worse in a derby than Del does.
Slim
I think Derby's look better with shorter hair. I've still got my shoulder length hair. I'll probably wait to purchase one until I get a haircut.
So now you tell me.
Ah My Dear Forty Rod -
I would LOVE to wear a Derby. Especially with a feather.
However, the Habidasher police (in the form of She Who Must Be Obeyed) objects strenuously. And the objection comes in the worst of all possible forms: the Spousal Laugh Test. If any hat fails the Spousal Laugh Test it must never darken my scalp again.
I once tried a Derby in the presence of My Lovely Spousal Unit. First the smile, then the giggle. I raised my eyebrows in query, and she roared out loud. I tried my "oh,poor me, but I like it" face and she began to collapse on the floor in an attack of laughter spasms!
after several days when she regained her composure and was able to look me in the face without bursting out laughing She explained that I looked like a reincarnation of Stan Laurel doing his comedy bit with his derby ...
but you wear it soooooooo well.
your derbyless servant
prof marvel
Get her one of her own.
Forty, I'll try and get me a Derby next week and get a picture taken, with long hair and beard.
That'll work. ;D
(http://sdough.smugmug.com/Art/Just-For-Fun/stooges/789114435_xoELZ-M.jpg)
well mr Rod, you forgot Curley (yes it is dark) Old Top is lookin fot a special one
Prof M: My wife laffed all the way down the street when I got this from Eagles Nest...but i preveailed.... She also don't like my "scout hat" either..oh well
good shootin
curley
(http://sdough.smugmug.com/Art/Just-For-Fun/derbey1/800681977_fRRpE-M.jpg)
here ya go, 4Trod, here is a pix with out the other stooges...heheheh
curleyh
Now you're cooking. ;D
I ain't got nobody at home to laugh at me. Guess I'll just have to get my mockery here. :P
(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/5056/cc4t.jpg)
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Forty Rod,
I just bought a butternut Derby that will finish off an 1880s look, along with a jaket that has been on order for months.
When I get both, I will send a pic ....
Does this make me a member?
You bet your sweet bippy. You're both members now, even that dang mean-lookin' armor plated rat.
Welcome to potential fame and glory.
I can afford fame or I can afford glory. I spent enough on surly that I can't afford both.
On the plus side, I think I got my money's worth. ;D
Quote from: Queasy Dillo on June 09, 2010, 07:01:48 PM
I can afford fame or I can afford glory. I spent enough on surly that I can't afford both.
On the plus side, I think I got my money's worth. ;D
Welcome to The Fame And Glory 99 Cent Store.
I love membership discounts. :D
maybe a derby with a western brim, larger, would work. go to www.cmhats.com Tom
I am an old retired Deputy Sheriff, those cmhats folks are out of my price range. Those derby's are made for skinny folks, not an old tall, fat retired Cop.
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 24, 2010, 01:24:08 PM
I am an old retired Deputy Sheriff, those cmhats folks are out of my price range. Those derby's are made for skinny folks, not an old tall, fat retired Cop.
Have you looked....really
LOOKED...at my avatar? ;D
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 24, 2010, 01:24:08 PM
I am an old retired Deputy Sheriff, those cmhats folks are out of my price range. Those derby's are made for skinny folks, not an old tall, fat retired Cop.
My Dear Lawdog, do not sell yourself short - Oliver Hardy was 6 foot 1 and over 300 pounds and wore his derby quite well ....
not to mention the Coonskin Cap he wore opposite John Wayne in The Fighting Kentuckian.
yhs
prof marvel
Well...that's one reason I like mine (aside from its inherent stylish nature). It's one of the few hats I've found that doesn't make my face look fat.
No more than the inevitable.
Quote from: John Frederick Bell on June 24, 2010, 07:42:14 PM
Well...that's one reason I like mine (aside from its inherent stylish nature). It's one of the few hats I've found that doesn't make my face look fat.
No more than the inevitable.
I fear I suffer from the opposite effect - "too much" hat and I look like a bean-pole with a giant sombrero perched atop it ....
add to that my inherent receding chinline and "weasel-like" countenance and the derby just makes me look like Stan Laurel and people double over when'er I pass by ....
yhs
prof (weaselly) marvel
What about those of us that just wear one part-time? Are we eligible?
Post a picture just once and you're branded.....uh accepted..... for life.
Howdy, this here is my first post. Not a big fan of posting but I do enjoy reading and lurking about. Any whoot, I have broke my silence to support this here hat faction... goes to show that not all of us "shooters" is a ranch or cattle worker. Some of us is plain ol' good nature, city folk that make a honest living by the good ol' trait of bushwhacking! ;D
Hi,
I just wanted to paste this pic to show that I am a standing member of the Derby Gang ...
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab107/WaddWatsonEllis/OSLHPAugust2010.jpg)
Welcome aboard fellas. Ain't we a handsome bunch? ;D
Forty, I plan on becoming a member of the Derby Gang. I got an shave and a haircut after one year and now I am ready to become a member of this distinguished group.
Show us that fine hat.
You'll be welcome as a cool drink in west Texas. ;)
Down at Walkers 47's swap meet yesterday and a kid about ten years old said he liked my hat. I talked to him for a bit and we may have a new convert.
Quote from: Forty Rod on September 12, 2010, 03:31:38 PM
Down at Walkers 47's swap meet yesterday and a kid about ten years old said he liked my hat. I talked to him for a bit and we may have a new convert.
That's great.
Slim
Forty, I ordered me a Derby today. I hope it will be here when I get back home on Sunday.
Well, there goes the neighborh.....I mean, WELCOME ABOARD!
The more the merrier.
Hey Uncle Forty - ain't the neighborhood been broke for a while now? I seem to recall a certain downhill slide along about the time I showed up.
Wait....
....say, you figure there's a connection there? ;D
If it wasn't so much fun sliding, I wouldn't have slid in the first place. I have slud ('tis so a real word.) for so long now I couldn't stop if I wanted to.