Moosal musings...
Nov. 9th, 2005 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Why the palmate antlers? It's a confluence of several stories.
Recently, over on Perl Monks, Nevtlathiel declared "Silly Hat Week". Participants put up user pictures with silly hats. I had been running a picture taken in Tallinn back in June of me, my wife, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yrmegard. I went quick and dirty with Photoshop and put the antlers on for my silly hat. My LJ pic is cropped from that.
Why moose in particular? It's an ancient joke.
Way back in college, playing bridge in the commuter lounge, I was moved to offer an insult to one of my opponents after a particularly noxious play. I looked at them and intoned "Your mother whores dead moose." with a straight face. Gales of laughter ensued. Since then, I have acquired a number of moose, continuing to this day. It's not nearly as bad as, say, penguins, but...
:)
your,
Herveus
Why the palmate antlers? It's a confluence of several stories.
Recently, over on Perl Monks, Nevtlathiel declared "Silly Hat Week". Participants put up user pictures with silly hats. I had been running a picture taken in Tallinn back in June of me, my wife, and
yrmegard. I went quick and dirty with Photoshop and put the antlers on for my silly hat. My LJ pic is cropped from that.Why moose in particular? It's an ancient joke.
Way back in college, playing bridge in the commuter lounge, I was moved to offer an insult to one of my opponents after a particularly noxious play. I looked at them and intoned "Your mother whores dead moose." with a straight face. Gales of laughter ensued. Since then, I have acquired a number of moose, continuing to this day. It's not nearly as bad as, say, penguins, but...
:)
your,
Herveus
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Date: 2005-11-09 02:41 pm (UTC)While playing cards in college, my particular group had a triumvirate of Unholy Trios in which scripted insults were offered to the winner by the non-winners. We've now forgotten somewhere around half of them. But I hope to the dear Lud that they will NEVER start giving me toys/items related to the one I came up with, 'cause ew.
As to silly hats: did you know that if you take an 16th riding/tall hat with a curved brim out of the context of 16th c. garb, and put it on anyone in modern clothing, it becomes something entirely different? It becomes a pimp hat.
I shall here mention that *my* curved-brim 16th c. tall hat is in brown crushed velvet (purchased before I knew about crushed velvet), with a vaguely metallic hat band and large gold shankless button at the base of a black feather spray that curves toward the back of the hat.
So that's even better.