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Thread Author: henry k Replies: 12
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 14:32 
 Central eating. - henry k
www.metro.co.uk/news/911954-london-underground-pop-up-cafe-set-to-roll-back-years-at-design-festival

From this to Costa or a mobile sandwich bar van ?
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 15:33 
 Central eating. - L'escargot
There are not many not wearing a hat of some sort.
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 17:29 
 Central eating. - Mike Hannon
Quite right too. I have one deerstalker, one Fedora, two Panamas, two waterproof trilbys and a cap. And they are all worn from time to time.
In the words of the famous ad slogan 'get ahead, get a hat'.
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 17:42 
 Central eating. - L'escargot
>> Quite right too. I have one deerstalker, one Fedora, two Panamas, two waterproof trilbys and
>> a cap.

What about a sou'wester?
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 17:54 
 Central eating. - Ted

>> What about a sou'wester?

I'd decline that if I were you, Mike.
It sounds a bit kinky !

Ted
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 18:02 
 Central eating. - Dog
I must be cracking up! - I first read the fred title as central heating :(
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 18:05 
 Central eating. - Runfer D'Hills
I always feel an urge to slap people who put a straw hat on their parcel shelf. Can't explain it to be honest. Just feels right. Never actually done it, just an urge you know !
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 19:15 
 Central eating. - Meldrew
Superior to the box of tissues in a rhinestone and sequin adorned case on the shelf, beloved of the East of Suez min-cab drivers!
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 19:31 
 Central eating. - Armel Coussine
I don't think I own a hat at the moment. Panamas are a bit dear and I forgot to get a sombrero in Spain.

There used to be a geezer in the Grove who wore a deerstalker, Ulster tweed jacket and cavalry twill trousers I think, a strangely perfect outfit that included a fine upturned Edwardian moustache. I thought he looked a bit of a prat actually, unlike chalkstripesuited, fedora-wearing, grinning George Melly (RIP) who one used to see in the bank.

Herself is a keen and earnest gardener among many talents and I want to get her one of those cute Vietnamese peasants' conical sunhats. She's got the cheekbones for it.
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 20:52 
 Central eating. - devonite
The Hostess makes me Bobble-Hats, great for the ole lugs in winter!
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 21:24 
 Central eating. - MD
>> Herself is a keen and earnest gardener among many talents and I want to get her one of those cute Vietnamese peasants' conical sunhats. She's got the cheekbones for it.
>>
Tying her laces was she? (0:-:0)
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New Sat 15 Sep 12 23:06 
 Central eating. - Armel Coussine
>> Tying her laces was she? (0:-:0)

Oh really MD... if you don't notice the nyash at the outset it's no go.

But those Vietnamese sunhats are real. I made sort of friends in Algiers with the Vietnamese press attaché in the late seventies. He was a nice cat actually, but diplomats are circumscribed.

Vietnam was quite po-faced just then, exaggeratedly respectable and very poor of course. When I went to meet comrade Thuc for the first time he came in from the large embassy garden sweating a bit and wearing one of those hats. Several of his colleagues were still out there fettling the spring onions and so on. I bet they hated it as much as (reading between the lines) he did. They didn't have their families with them like the diplomats of rich countries. It was drudgery.
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New Sun 16 Sep 12 03:20 
 Central eating. - devonite
>>. He was a nice cat actually, but diplomats are circumscribed.

Well, I never knew they had to be Jewish!!!
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