Received a cowboy hat today and did some reading on prior discussions here about cowboy hats here on SN. The question I can't seem to find an answer to is this.
What is the benefit of earning a cowboy hat before losing it?
But reminds me of a 1960s comedy sketch set during the Second World War between 2 Royal Air Force officers.
‘Aftermyth of the war’;
Peter Cook: I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too.
Jonathan Miller: Goodbye, sir — or is it — au revoir?
Peter Cook: No, Perkins.
In the same vein from another British comedian in an episode of his show called ‘12 Angry Men’;
‘Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
That brave Hungarian peasant girl who forced King John to sign the pledge at Runnymede and close the boozers at half past ten?
Is all this to be forgotten?’
Seeing another user has a cowboy hat gives you a bit of confidence that they are a real person and that they are actually contributing rather then spamming.
the primary benefit is protection from the elements on your long journey west, but as others have discovered, it also makes for a great fashion statement.
That’s hopefully the mountain and not Mallory…