The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

[jamespowers]

When some fellow recently asked me why I was wearing a man's hat (I was in my vintage Borsalino Allesandro), I said "I am not, I am wearing a woman's hat."

"How do you know that?," he queried.

"Because a woman is wearing it," I said.

karol

Excellent answer! lol
Don't feel all alone in that. My wife wears an Allesandria like that quite often as well. No one ever says anything---when I am there anyway.

Regards,

J

 

[Dinerman]

I got a blues brothers and a inspector gadget yesterday.

I was wearing jeans, a black tshirt, and my manhattan fedora.

I just kind of said something like :" oh... um... er..."
couldn't think of a reply

 

[jamespowers]

I got a blues brothers and a inspector gadget yesterday.

I was wearing jeans, a black tshirt, and my manhattan fedora.

I just kind of said something like :" oh... um... er..."
couldn't think of a reply

"Go, Go Gadget idiot punisher."

Regards,

J

 

[The Wingnut]

...snrrrrrk.

JP, ya card.


I think a lot of people believe they're being funny and original when they make these comments. It's similar to what I got in basic training and tech school with my last name. I heard it a million times growing up in grade school, jr. high, high school, etc...'Hey, is your first name Mike!?' Then to hear it all again once my name tapes were sewn on...good Lord, help me. Save me from the fools.

Laugh, fade into an amused glare and deadpan, 'Man, that's a new one. You must've worked hard dig that up.'

 

[jamespowers]

...snrrrrrk.

JP, ya card.


I think a lot of people believe they're being funny and original when they make these comments. It's similar to what I got in basic training and tech school with my last name. I heard it a million times growing up in grade school, jr. high, high school, etc...'Hey, is your first name Mike!?' Then to hear it all again once my name tapes were sewn on...good Lord, help me. Save me from the fools.

Laugh, fade into an amused glare and deadpan, 'Man, that's a new one. You must've worked hard dig that up.'

Mike!? Geez, parents would have to be pretty stupid to couple that together. :eusa_doh: I have heard that one before though.

 

[Aerol]

Here in Chicago,

the hat center of the universe (no comments, please), the most common comment I hear on the street is "Nice hat," followed closely by "Nice brim." I've even been asked where I got my hat.

I was once asked by a homeless guy if I was Mafia, and a guy at Starbucks (talk about opposite ends of the spectrum) once asked me if I was an actor. When I asked him why he asked, he replied "Well, look like you're dressed for a part; hat, long topcoat, chalk stripe suit." I took it as a compliment.

I suppose the only reply to Mafia comments is "If I was really in the Mafia, would it be healthy for you to ask me about it?"

 

[jamespowers]

the hat center of the universe (no comments, please), the most common comment I hear on the street is "Nice hat," followed closely by "Nice brim." I've even been asked where I got my hat.

I was once asked by a homeless guy if I was Mafia, and a guy at Starbucks (talk about opposite ends of the spectrum) once asked me if I was an actor. When I asked him why he asked, he replied "Well, look like you're dressed for a part; hat, long topcoat, chalk stripe suit." I took it as a compliment.

I suppose the only reply to Mafia comments is "If I was really in the Mafia, would it be healthy for you to ask me about it?"

"No, I am a Legitimate businessman. We gave up all the Rackets and the gambling. Now we just peddle influence. You got a store around here?"

Regards,

J

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

If these "mafia" comments start to annoy you, print yourself some business cards saying

Much to our regret we must inform you that contrary
to your belief, you didn't invent the mafia quip.
In fact, you're # 344 this season alone.​

The number would be numbered serially. (But might start at 250 to emphasisze the point.)

.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I think I would have taken the "mafia" comments a bit better, maybe made some witty sinister comment, had I not been with my mother, who hates my fedoras. I have been trying to impress upon her that people did not think negatively about them -- and then, here was this Doofus laughing at me -- loudly I might add.

I thought she hated my hats because she thinks of them as men's hats, but I found out that she has always hated them, did not like them during the golden era, thought of them as "cowboy hats." She also does not like the classic lampshade woman's hat (think Bergman in Casablanca), preferring to wear when she was young, those little hats that attached with a rubber band and tipped off the side of your head.

This, from a woman who married a man who was a dead ringer for Cagney and looked great in a fedora. And her father, my grandfather, wore his Stetson indoors, outdoors, all the time.

Go figure.

karol

 

[Aerol]

Casino bet

It's my experience that companies that want to separate merry customers from their money (ie. casinos, stores, etc.) react strongly to their front-line personnel harrassing and laughing at the customers. You could have just complained about the car-jockey to a manager. He would certainly have been "corrected" and possibly fired.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

I think I would have taken the "mafia" comments a bit better, maybe made some witty sinister comment, had I not been with my mother, who hates my fedoras.

All the more practical are these cards. (I should sell them. Hm, nice vintage touch to the paper, real print, hm...) Just pass one conspicuously low-key to him, with a sympathetic nod and smile.

 

[Aerol]

I love Chicago

At Starbucks this afternoon, out of the blue a girl behind the counter said "Nice hat" to me. If you're feeling abused (about your hats) in your home town, just come here for a while!

BTW, the hat was a black Flechet that I bought here: http://www.commerce2.franchap.com/a...COIFFURES_HOMMES_____MEN_S___HEAD_GEAR_6.html

Good service and good prices.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Someone once said to me, "Nice hat!"





Problem was...





...I wasn't wearing one!









Thank you! I'll be here all week! And don't forget to try the veal!

 

[RadioHead]

Fageddaboutit!

I was once asked by a homeless guy if I was Mafia
(snip)

I suppose the only reply to Mafia comments is "If I was really in the Mafia, would it be healthy for you to ask me about it?"

Ha! lol It sort of makes me wish I still smoked! I'd have looked at him, slowly walked up to him until the brim of the hat touched his forehead, exhaled a large cloud of smoke into his face and flicked the ash on his shoes. And then just walked away.

"RadioHead"

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

The bums in Hollywood probably didn't know what to make of MK, Matt Deckard and me in our suits and fedoras on Wednesday night. lol

 

[Wild Root]

Very good ones guys! This is enjoyable for sure!

I recall a good one liner from a friend of mine. We were standing outside of a small dinner on Catalina Island a few years back. There was this Moo Moo lady hanging out and she saw my friend and I dressed in 1930's period for a swing weekend on the Island. She asked this question in a superior, sarcastic manner:

(Moo Moo lady) Why do you dress like that?

(Paul) Because I'm a freak!

After he said that, he took a drag on his cigarette and excelled in her face and flicked the but at her... bounced off her Moo Moo and then she walked off. lol

Classic!

=WR=

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I need to work on my Edward G. Robinson impression, see? Yeah!

 

["Doc" Devereux]

I'm a little disturbed by the idea of blowing smoke in people's faces. Might not some people interpret that as boorishness rather than a mocking response?

 

[Dinerman]

That's what I thought.
not a way to win friends of the whole vintage thing, now is it?

 

[The Wingnut]

Indeed...there is the idea, however that one should give as good as one gets.

On the other hand, consider this: If we as the well-dressed individuals that we are(I'm not going to say 'vintage' because not all of us buy vintage, but most of us go for the same look, and that look should be considered classically modern anyway!) have a condescending, disrespectful attitude toward those who don't understand(as opposed to putting them in their place, there's a fine line to be walked), the people we encounter will hold a dim view of just about anyone they meet dressed as we are. To parry the obvious thought in counter to that statement, yes, people shouldn't think that way, but the human psyche makes associations on a very basic level whether it's intentional or not.

I refer back to my basic training with the Air Force: When in public in a service or dress uniform, I am a representative of the Air Force(the unofficial term; 'Ambassador in Blue') and as such my behavior directly reflects not just on me but the organization as a whole. People don't see me, they see the uniform and moreover, the organization. As an airman, I've got to be aware of what sort of message I'm sending. I can't punch someone out if they spit on me - despite the temptation - but I can certainly tell them they're a lout for doing so and need to disappear.

...the same thing goes for being well-dressed in the classic early 20th century style. People see more than just a person, they see a culture as a whole. Your behavior is going to be applied over the rest of that culture. If you're witty / snappy, distinguished and well-mannered even when put down, you'll do everyone else that shares your mindset and tastes, and the public perception of the era / culture, some good.

I've wanted to throttle the occasional dimwit, but senses prevailed and I did the best I could to rise above and maybe verbally take the knucklehead in question down a notch or two.