Pork Pie Hat
From my Israelite thread which lead to ska which naturallylead to the pork pie hats of the Rude Boys from Jamacia.Funny where these things lead...but how did the pork pie hat get it's name? I asume...
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He did? I don't recall Porky wearing anything like this while hunting. He and Elmer Fudd (the more frequent rabbit-hunter) more often wore something like this as I recall.OED2 has this by way of both...
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"He did? I don't recall Porky wearing anything like this while hunting. He and Elmer Fudd (the more frequent rabbit-hunter) more often wore something like this as I recall."Sorry I had my pigs mixed...
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The name most often associated with the porkpie hat is that of the great tenor sax player Lester Young, hence the great Mingus tune "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." You can see good photos of both hat and Prez...
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[image of pork pie hat must have been eaten by a big bad wolf -- sorry]
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I tried to post this earlier, but I guess it crashed, so forgive me if this ends up here twice: Pork pie hat refers the the British culinary delight, a deep dish meat pie (entirely made of layers of...
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It's extremely unhealthy. I read somewhere that more British men deceive their wives about their clandestine consumption of pork pies than illicit amours. I have no way of verifying this, but when...
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A chance to link to one of my favourite modern writers, Peter Straub, and his short story, Pork Pie Hat, (first chapter online here), a horror tale suffused with the love of jazz.
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Pork pie hat refers the the British culinary delightHence the expression, "I'll eat my hat."
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If I am not mistaken, the Pork Pie hat dates back to the mid 1800's. It got its name because it looks like and overturned pork pie, after taking it out of its crock.Since the cartoon character didn't...
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Since the cartoon character didn't come along until the 1940's, wouldn't it stand to reason that Porky Pig was named after the hat (and the food dish) rather than the other way around?I don't see any...
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Yes, Porky Pig was most definitely named with food in mind.In the mid-1930s, Warner Bros. was casting about for new characters to replace the departed Bosko and the terminally bland Buddy. In I...
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I read somewhere that more British men deceive their wives about their clandestine consumption of pork pies than illicit amours. I have no way of verifying this, but when I've put the theory to men of...
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From Phrase Finder: Pork PiesMeaning Lies. Often shortened to 'porkies'. Origin Cockney rhyming slang.
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This thread makes me think of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. According to this site, "...Spillaine never forgave [Darren] McGavins Hammer for carrying a girly little .38 revolver. When he sold the...
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Interesting. I'd call the hat in the picture a fedora, but what the heck do I know?
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