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  Bowler Hats - Homestar Runner Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bowler Hats are a common article of clothing in the Homestar Runner universe, the most famous instance being the hat that Homsar wears.
His hat moves around all on its own every time Homsar speaks, but it always returns to its resting place on his head shortly thereafter, even if Homsar is standing upside-down (except in different town, as Modestly Hot Homsar, and origins).
A rather amusing example of this is seen in A Folky Tale, where the his hat floats in a rectangular path off his head and comes back to the upside-down Homsar.
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 Bowler hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bowler hat is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown created for Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester of Holkham, in 1850.
Bowlers who took three wickets in a game of cricket with consecutive deliveries would be given a hat or cap (traditionally a bowler hat but not necessarily), hence the name hat trick.
Bowler hats were among the trademark props of choreographer Bob Fosse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowler_hat   (1130 words)

  
 Bowler Hat Men (Rene Magritte vs The Thomas Crown Affair) --[ EDITING ROOM ] SCENE 360
The apple, the wall, and the anonymous man wearing a bowler hat were combined without having an obvious relationship.
The sequence is clearly inspired by Magritte's paintings — “The Man with the Bowler Hat,” “Golconde,” and “Son of Man” — and one can even make a strong argument that the confusion of those looking for Crown amidst the bowler hat men is similar to the public's initial reaction to Magritte's originals.
It is unsurprising that one of the film's posters pays homage to a great surrealist, with Magritte-like imagery of a bowler hat man. Instead of the traditional apple or bird covering the man's face, the object of choice was a typewriter which fit the film's storyline.
www.scene360.com /EDITINGroom_article_bowlerhat.html   (0 words)

  
 Bowler | Fedora | Hats | Baseball Cap
And more, I was gaining a perspective on modern life that was fair to people’s real experience of it.” A look at who was wearing bowler hats, from the mid-19th Century onward, tells a lot about the this style’s resonance as a symbol for its time.
The bowler hat marked a change, and the “modern man” by wearing one, wanted the world to know that he was part of it.
She wore the hat style that would become the hallmark of movie tough guys, Chicago gangsters, private eyes, newspaper reporters—in fact by the 1930s, virtually every man who put on a suit of cloths topped off with a fedora.
www.hatlife.com /hat_styles.php   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Bowler hat, or Derby hat as it is often known was designed by by London hatters George and James Lock of St. James street in 1850.
The first bowler hat as a hard hat created for English game warden William Coke II, therefore for a short time the hat was also referred to as a Coke hat.
The term Bowler hat gradually won out due to the fact the hat was not only manufactured by the Bowler hatters, but because of its bowl shape.
www.hats4every1.com /bowler-hat   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Bowler hat that you can see was chosen at the 192x128 pixel image size, and before compression took approximately 72k bytes to store on disk.
The Bowler hat was obtained from Turn O'The Century antiques in Sherwood, Queensland, Australia in 1984 for AUD$60.00.
Bowler Hat:- A stiff felt hat with a round crown and a narrow, curved brim.
members.optusnet.com.au /~robchill/bowlrhat.html   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hats
The large, red hat boxes with the "Christys' London" name embossed in gold are a familiar sight wherever quality hats are sold.
Throughout the world when people see a Christy hat they know there has been no compromise in quality and that the hat on their head bears the tradition started by Miller Christy all those years ago.
These bowler hats are ideal for showing or judging but are not the reinforced crown types used for hunting.
www.rideanddrive.co.uk /hats/bowlers1.htm   (0 words)

  
 Catalogue item #1848455404: Bowler Hat Detective Camera
In operation the top of the bowler hat is simply pointed at the subject and the plate exposed, but alternatively there is a 'viewfinder', actually two identical viewfinders set one each side of the lens.They comprise concentric rings of very small holes.
From the exterior of the hat the holes are invisible, but viewed from the inside either can be used as an aid to directing the hat precisely at the person to be photographed.
Apart from the ribbon round the edge of the hat rim which is badly frayed the hat and camera are in excellent condition considering its age - at a guess late Victorian.
www.earlytech.com /common/show_item.phtml?Id=1848455404   (0 words)

  
 Christys' Bowler - Over 36 brands of hats to choose from.
The first hat of the industrial age, the bowler was designed in 1850 by the Bowler family of Southwark specifically for a customer of England's pre-eminent hatmaker, Lock's of St. James's.
William Coke needed a practical, simple, rigid, durable hat to protect his gamekeeper's head; a hat that would stand up to the most demanding of conditions, including riding in pursuit of poachers.
The hat of bankers, workers and clowns, the bowler is one of the most popular and successful hats ever produced, and the finest bowlers are still manufactured in England.
www.villagehatshop.com /christys_bowler.html   (0 words)

  
 TricksWithHats.org - For all your millinery manipulation malarky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are two main styles of hat used for manipulation, the bowler hat (or "derby" in American English) and the top hat, also known as a topper.
The bowler hat is a short rounded hat, traditionally worn by bankers and businessmen in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The bowler hat is more suitable for body rolling moves in manipulation, and the topper for comedy and magic moves.
www.trickswithhats.org /hats   (0 words)

  
 Language/Etymology/bowler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first bowler hat was designed by the hatters James and George Lock of St.
Indeed Frank Whitbourne titled his chapter on the bowler [in a book on the history of Lock's] 'Disposes of a Controversy' in order to clear up what had become, and what even after Whitbourne's disposal (in 1971) has continued to be, a confusion in terms.
According to Whitbourne, a controversy over the bowler's origins and name arose on the centenary of the bowler in 1950, with arguments in newspapers and on radio and television.
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 Questions & Answers: Hat trick
It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success.
However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers).
Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.
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 The Umbrella, Briefcase and Bowler Hat Page
The Bowler Hat Gallery started sometime during the last year of my GCSE's (circa 1998), when I was pretty darn bored.
George was forced to show the re-releases sans Bowler Hats, and even had to re-film the whole of 'The Phantom Menace' to exclude all Bowler Hats.
The Bowler Hat versions of the Star Wars films are now very hard to come by, and are therefore worth millions of dollars.
campus.fortunecity.com /bluffton/526/bowler.htm   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat - Bowler Hat - Icons of England
It was the hard hat of its day, a supremely practical item of headgear for working men of all classes, first designed to be worn by gamekeepers patrolling the estates of the landed gentry.
The bowler hat first saw the light of the day in 1850, when the first model was designed by James Lock and Co. of St James Street, London, a business that is still going strong today.
Over the course of the last century, the bowler came largely to be associated in the public mind with City gents, but it has made some surprising appearances elsewhere, from Liza Minnelli's nightclub singer in Cabaret to the heads of Aymara tribeswomen in South America.
www.icons.org.uk /theicons/collection/bowler-hat   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat
Rumbold for wearing a Bowler hat instead of Hamburg, such as what senior floor staff are supposed to wear.
October 1950 - three generations of the Bowler family celebrated the centenary of the bowler hat.
Dressed in fl suits and dark glasses, though retaining the famous bowler hats, the pair are known as the Advice Squad, Bradford and Bingley.
www.sterlingtimes.org /memorable_images31.htm   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography: Books: Fred Miller Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Having asked, ``Why did Samuel Beckett specify that the four major characters of Waiting for Godot wear bowler hats?,'' in a 1986 TriQuarterly article, Robinson was moved to expand his inquiry to book length, studying modern life through the evolving meanings of this item of fashion that combines--symbolically and literally- -both lightness and weight.
Following the history of the bowler ``as though a wind were blowing it just beyond [my] reach,'' Robinson tells of the hat's debut, in 1850 London, where its combination of style and function satisfied Victorian England's obsession with the practical and the correct.
Professor Robinson uses the bowler hat (or Derby) as the medium in understanding modernism and the modern world.
www.amazon.com /Man-Bowler-Hat-History-Iconography/dp/0807820733   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat Cartoons
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 Courage to Wear a Hat
With the invention of the "baseball cap", all other hats of a more aesthetically pleasing manner were pushed out of the way, and no longer became the mode.
I myself still wear this hat in dark, gloomy days in winter, and a brown version is quite the ticket in the damp spring.
The "Borsalino" is a make of hat, not a style, but it is the hat that Hollywood heroes such as George Raft and James Cagney wore casully cocked over one eye in their gangster rolls.
www.geocities.com /quiveylitter/TheHat.html?1043909148154   (0 words)

  
 The House of the Orange Monkey - Mr Monkey's Bowler Hat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mr Monkey wears his bowler hat whenever he works in London, getting the latest news from the FT. His umbrella is used to halt the mighty roar of London traffic by hailing a taxi, or to express Mr Monkey's rage when a taxi refuses to be hailed.
Mr Monkey's bowler hat is made from fl felt steamed over the slightly modified end of a Kinder Surprise egg, with a fl felt brim and a sticky back plastic hat band.
His umbrella was made from an empty biro barrel, with wire spokes and fabric at one end, and a handle made from a pipe cleaner wrapped in a strip of card.
www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk /monkey/hats/bowler.htm   (0 words)

  
 Derby Hats & Bowler Hats for Men at Dads Hats
In the United States, this hat is known as a "derby".
But in England it is known as a "bowler".
The derby is a dome-shaped rigid hat with a curled small brim and is traditionally made of stiff felt.
www.dadshats.com /derby3.html   (0 words)

  
 Bowler hat hollywood - Charlie Chaplin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With the hot producer’s involvement, scripts got to many of Hollywood’s biggest names “It was like the clouds part and there she is, bowler hat and all.
Over in hollywood, inside the tower that resembled a stack of platters, He wore a bowler hat and suspenders and had the manner of an ideal headmaster.
And it's not a top hat that Chaplin wears, but a bowler hat; not a tailcoat but a casual suit; The Classical Hollywood Cinema.
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 The Wonderful World of Bowler Hats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The bowler hat is a hard felt hat introduced by a Norfolk.
Bowler hats were famously associated with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the comedians Laurel and Hardy, the film A Clockwork Orange and feature in many of the paintings of Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte.
Today, the bowler hat is also known as a symbol of John Steed, of Avengers fame, and of the clarinetist Acker Bilk.
caxton.stockton.edu /BowlerHat/history   (0 words)

  
 Halfbakery: High-Albedo Bowler Hat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Essentially, this is a bowler hat, with an astoundingly high albedo, and yet still fl.
I'd like a hat with a little daisy sprouting from the top - but then I've had a few too many perhaps...
My first thought was of a hat with a high sexual instinct or drive, i.e., a high *libido*.
www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/High-Albedo_20Bowler_20Hat   (0 words)

  
 Bowler Hat
We have a great selection of glitter bowlers for stag and hen nights in union jack, fl, green, blue, silver, gold, red and pink.
You can wear a bowler hat formally or with a bit of a tilt it can look very jaunty, a coloured bowler can look great worn with anything and they are great fun.
So for a great bowler hat, whatever the occasion formal or informal, we will have the bowler hat for you.
www.tkpartystore.co.uk /bowler-hat.html   (0 words)

  
 :: Bowler Drag :: - Over 36 brands of hats to choose from.
The cholas of the Andes are not the only women to demonstrate that the bowler hat can easily cross gender as well as social boundaries.
The bowler has always looked good on women, perhaps because it is at once evocative of the Victorian male world and yet round and small enough, like the boater, to be easily adaptable to the female physique (remember Sabina's bowler hat in The Unbearable Lightness of Being?).
The bowler helped free European and American women from the constraints of their own fashions (crinolines, bustles) without making them feel like parody males in the process.
www.villagehatshop.com /bowler_drag.html   (0 words)

  
 Bowler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bowler Offroad Ltd, a maker of offroad vehicles
In marbles, a bowler refers to a 7/8 inch (22 mm) marble.
James 'Lord Bowler' Lonefeather, a character in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
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 Regimental Bowler Hat Appeal
But at an emergency meeting of the Regimental Bowler Hat Fund Trustees the tale was dismissed as a fantasy.
It was reported the Branch collection for the purchase of a more respectable bowler hat proceeds exceedingly slowly so an extraordinary AGM was held with the Treasurer of the London Branch, majority shareholders in the Bowler Fund.
A new bowler hat has been obtained by the man himself without spending the funds so diligently accrued by the Norwich and District Branch, with a generous donation from the London Branch, since the appeal was launched in Jun 97 on the suggestion of the late CSM
www.norfolkbc.fsnet.co.uk /archive_collection/bowler_appeal/bowler.htm   (0 words)

  
 Riding Hat Victorian Style Derby Hat Veil Bowler Hat "Miss Lonestar" - a328
Edwardian and Victorian Hats designed by Darna's East Angel Harbor Hat Shoppe are influenced by the Victorian and Edwardian Eras and I embrace the finery of these eras to design my re-creations.
Like the veil, the edge around the brim of the hat is also accented with pearls and a soft yellow gimp.
This hat is a size small and would fit a girl very nicely...or it would fit someone with a 21 inch head (measure around the center of your forehead)
www.rubylane.com /shops/eastangelharborhats/item/a328   (0 words)

  
 Vanguard Online Edition : Crime dons bowler hat in Rivers 
Expectedly, this has become an embarrassment to the Rivers traditional man who sees his bowler hat as not only a badge of honour, but of prestige and high culture.
It would appear it is in a bid to retrieve this hat, which symbolizes the Rivers man’s sartorial elegance and culture that the authorities in the state have declared war on crime in the state.
With this development, the Rivers people are heaving sighs of relief as the war against crime and violence in the state seems to be bearing positive results.
www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/niger_delta/nd121072004.html   (0 words)

  
 Discussion: Fudge's Green Bowler Hat!
i disagree that Fudge's bowler hat is a horcrux.
Maybe his favorite hat is a bowler hat and his favorite color is green.
And if we are to take his hat IS one of a kind and been handed down by his family and we know Fudge is pureblood so maybe Fudge's ancestry is a really important issue.
www.hpana.com /forums/topic_view.cfm?tid=47453&p=2   (0 words)

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