New Use for Old Kilt Hose

**Panache** · 26th January 10, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Well done Jamie, just the ticket old chap. Now about the flat cap--------- a tweed flat cap! NOT ONE OF THOSE TARTAN MONSTROCOTIES!Stone the crows, give a chap a bit of advice, thinking all will be well and then------AND THEN, what do you come up with? THAT DAMN HAT!!!! Give me a large brandy some one. No, two might be better! What am I going to do with a fellow who wears a tartan bonnet under ANY circumstances! Hanging is too good for them. Shooting maybe? Keel hauling perhaps?Oh dear, oh dear----------oh dear-------oh--------------oh------------o----------------!!!!

Goodness gracious poor Jock! What has the world come to with these young rapscallions running amok with their tartan flat caps and listening to Frank Sinatra! The disgrace! The shame! The horror! Perhaps that young hellion needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide where his priorities are!

Wait a minute! I think he might actually be seeing the error of his ways!

Yes indeed look at him

He is realizing that a tweed hat would be better

He puts his tartan flat cap back on its hook

and he reaches for ...

...That favorite tweed bucket hat of his that he knows Jock Scot loves so well!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

**Jock Scot** · 26th January 10, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Goodness gracious poor Jock! What has the world come to with these young rapscallions running amok with their tartan flat caps and listening to Frank Sinatra! The disgrace! The shame! The horror! Perhaps that young hellion needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide where his priorities are!

Wait a minute! I think he might actually be seeing the error of his ways!

Yes indeed look at him

He is realizing that a tweed hat would be better

He puts his tartan flat cap back on its hook

and he reaches for ...

...That favorite tweed bucket hat of his that he knows Jock Scot loves so well!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

Oh dear Jamie what are you doing to me? Actually the infamous "bucket hat" will be just fine with the plus 4's, but if you really want to do the job well , then dig out that deer stalker.

**Highlander31** · 26th January 10, 06:46 PM

Great photo, Jamie. Back in the late 60's. we could rent a twin bicycle from the bike shop on The Alameda across from Hester Elementary School for $0.75 per hour. Nothing like taking your lady for a leisurely ride around town (of course San Jose is different now.)

**Smayniac** · 26th January 10, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Well done Jamie, just the ticket old chap. Now about the flat cap--------- a tweed flat cap! NOT ONE OF THOSE TARTAN MONSTROCOTIES!Stone the crows, give a chap a bit of advice, thinking all will be well and then------AND THEN, what do you come up with? THAT DAMN HAT!!!! Give me a large brandy some one. No, two might be better! What am I going to do with a fellow who wears a tartan bonnet under ANY circumstances! Hanging is too good for them. Shooting maybe? Keel hauling perhaps?Oh dear, oh dear----------oh dear-------oh--------------oh------------o----------------!!!!

Breathe Jock, Breathe, it's only a hat. Sometimes a hat is just a hat...

**Smayniac** · 26th January 10, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Highlander31

Great photo, Jamie. Back in the late 60's. we could rent a twin bicycle from the bike shop on The Alameda across from Hester Elementary School for $0.75 per hour. Nothing like taking your lady for a leisurely ride around town (of course San Jose is different now.)

Sadly, there is not a bicycle shop on the Alameda anymore, and you're right, San Jose is different. I noticed a sign on Race Street today for Slough's, which may have been the shop on the Alameda in the '70's; I think they are all gone except for that poor sign.

Bob

**The F-H.C.A.G.** · 26th January 10, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Oh dear Jamie what are you doing to me? Actually the infamous "bucket hat" will be just fine with the plus 4's, but if you really want to do the job well , then dig out that deer stalker.

I just want to note, for posterity, that Jock Scot has actually put in writing, that the bucket hat will be just fine with him!

Be well,

Star

P.S. The plus fours would have taken less time to alter, if I hadn't allowed my darling husband to try it himself first!

**Rex_Tremende** · 26th January 10, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

I have been quite frustrated that I haven't been able to share this photo due to an ongoing computer issue, so my thanks to Rex and walkerk for putting them up. Here is Kent's color version

Jamie - there was an Easter Egg in my original post - try clicking your antiqued picture.

By the way, that aging was done at the lab of photofunia.com, where you can have all sorts of fun seeing yourself and your loved ones in new (or old) ways.

Regards,
Rex.

**Jock Scot** · 27th January 10, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by The F-H.C.A.G.

I just want to note, for posterity, that Jock Scot has actually put in writing, that the bucket hat will be just fine with him!

Be well,

Star

P.S. The plus fours would have taken less time to alter, if I hadn't allowed my darling husband to try it himself first!

My dear lady, I fancy that there is a spot of selective quotation going on, that is not quite what I said. Is it?

**Scotus** · 27th January 10, 04:09 AM

First, you look smashing Jamie (aside from that tartan flat cap). Please, buy a tweed cap.

Secondly, and especially now that Rex has shown a mock-up photo of himself in an old book, I enjoyed the irony of him saying Jamie had lost himself in time (given the great mustache and beard Rex sports from a time almost forgotten).