Party Foul?

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Let's say that you just happen to drop your nice fur felt fedora on a bar floor and beer happens to get spilled on it... now what? Consider this as a premptive strike as it has not happened yet, but it could...
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It depends who has spilled the beer on it.
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If it was the bartender, waiter or waitress that did the spilling.... call Gater over and he'll get a free night of drinking out of it for you! :lol:

I speak sort-of from experience, there. Only it was Pepsi at a Pizza Hut. On my AB. Of course, bar etiquette is probably different than Pizza Hut etiquette, so maybe you're supposed to slug the guy instead. I don't know, I don't go to bars. :-k

As for the fate of the hat, my AB survived the "attack" just fine, and so far hasn't held it against me. Your own results may vary. :wink:
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If it were a Guinness, I'd wring that hat out into a glass! No need letting it go to waste!
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So how do you clean up a fedora? Will rain do the trick?
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Post by Kaplan »

Aztec wrote:So how do you clean up a fedora? Will rain do the trick?
try steam. Lots and lots of steam on the crown. :wink: :lol:
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Hmm...cleaning up...Swinging from a vine into a river outta do it.
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Or you could just keep drinkin' till you forget about it. But the morning after's a whole different story.
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find who spilled the beer on it and start swinging like he was the german mechanic :twisted:
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Let's just hope he doesnt look like the german mechanic.
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pschtyckque wrote:If it were a Guinness, I'd wring that hat out into a glass! No need letting it go to waste!

thats right. :lol:
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BendingOak wrote:
pschtyckque wrote:If it were a Guinness, I'd wring that hat out into a glass! No need letting it go to waste!

thats right. :lol:
wouldn't do that to my AB in a million years.......the grail night could spill the everlasting life water on my AB and i'd still start swinging......eventhough live beavers would start popping out of my hat....doesn't matter........now, who wants some!!!!..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...drool........zzzzzzzzzzzzzz :lol:
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So long as it's not smelly (which is unlikely) I don't mind stains on the Indy style fedora, I prefer them looking a little beat up... a beer stain is part of its story. Dirt is goooood...
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Dirt IS good.....but smell is definately BAAAADD.
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HAving had beer poured onto a cowboy hat of mine several years ago, I can tell you that the smell does go away..............and gives you a startintg point to embellish a story for the ladies........................ :wink:
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Good place to mention that Bernie told me when he worked on Gunsmoke for all those years, they used beer as a hat stiffener!! Fedora
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Pick the hat back up.... and cry.
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Chewbacca Jones wrote:If it was the bartender, waiter or waitress that did the spilling.... call Gater over and he'll get a free night of drinking out of it for you! :lol:

I speak sort-of from experience, there. Only it was Pepsi at a Pizza Hut. On my AB. Of course, bar etiquette is probably different than Pizza Hut etiquette, so maybe you're supposed to slug the guy instead. I don't know, I don't go to bars. :-k

As for the fate of the hat, my AB survived the "attack" just fine, and so far hasn't held it against me. Your own results may vary. :wink:
Chewie, I thought of you as soon as I read the opening post!
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Gater wrote: Chewie, I thought of you as soon as I read the opening post!
Ah... good times. Good times. :?

Gee, I hope I haven't started a trend. :shock:
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Aztec wrote:So how do you clean up a fedora? Will rain do the trick?
I rinsed off the hat and dabbed off the excess right away. I also cut the liner out so it wouldn't soak through to the crown (the hat got filled with soda!). Fedora told me if any obvious spots were still on the felt after it dried, I could probably sand them out gently.
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Chewbacca Jones wrote:
Aztec wrote:So how do you clean up a fedora? Will rain do the trick?
I rinsed off the hat and dabbed off the excess right away. I also cut the liner out so it wouldn't soak through to the crown (the hat got filled with soda!). Fedora told me if any obvious spots were still on the felt after it dried, I could probably sand them out gently.
You should've just asked for a straw. :lol: :wink:
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