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Post by drlj on Apr 29, 2016 17:04:47 GMT -5
Ok, let me pour another scotch and get back to you about this.
The most obvious part is the cigarette in the cowboy's lips. Probably a Marlboro.
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Post by fauxmaha on Apr 29, 2016 17:21:43 GMT -5
It is a cowboy wearing a cowboy hat. [ Without commenting on the horrid thing on my wall.... That sounds redundant. You can either say "cowboy wearing a hat" or "man wearing a cowboy hat", but why say "cowboy" twice? If a cowboy is wearing a hat, that makes it a cowboy hat. And if a man is wearing a cowboy hat, that makes him a cowboy. Saying "cowboy wearing a cowboy hat" is like saying "red car driver driving a red car". Ok. I feel better.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 29, 2016 17:23:29 GMT -5
Duh, Yeah. Like Jeff would put a cowboy on his garage wall. **roll eyes**
I'll have a scotch later and see if I see it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 17:28:39 GMT -5
Ok, let me pour another scotch and get back to you about this. The most obvious part is the cigarette in the cowboy's lips. Probably a Marlboro. Who can afford scotch, at least, drinkable scotch. I'm swilling Kharkov vodka. Best cheap booze I've found. Makes Grey Goose drinkers look ... er ... like silly geese. And it's from Minnesota!
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Post by millring on Apr 29, 2016 17:37:39 GMT -5
It is a cowboy wearing a cowboy hat. [ Without commenting on the horrid thing on my wall.... That sounds redundant. You can either say "cowboy wearing a hat" or "man wearing a cowboy hat", but why say "cowboy" twice? If a cowboy is wearing a hat, that makes it a cowboy hat. And if a man is wearing a cowboy hat, that makes him a cowboy. Saying "cowboy wearing a cowboy hat" is like saying "red car driver driving a red car". Ok. I feel better. If I've said this once, I've said it a thousand times -- LJ was born in Kentucky. Once you finally grasp that fact, a lot of things no longer need explanation.
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Post by drlj on Apr 29, 2016 17:46:43 GMT -5
It is a cowboy wearing a cowboy hat. [ Without commenting on the horrid thing on my wall.... That sounds redundant. You can either say "cowboy wearing a hat" or "man wearing a cowboy hat", but why say "cowboy" twice? If a cowboy is wearing a hat, that makes it a cowboy hat. And if a man is wearing a cowboy hat, that makes him a cowboy. Saying "cowboy wearing a cowboy hat" is like saying "red car driver driving a red car". Ok. I feel better. In the Chicago area, cowboys quite often wear Cubs caps. That does not make a Cubs cap a cowboy hat. It makes it a hat worn by a cowboy but not a cowboy hat. Since cowboys often wear many types of hats, I felt it was important to say this one was actually wearing what most of us would call a cowboy hat as oppose to, say, a fedora, which I have also often seen cowboys wear. Cowboys are much more fashion conscious than a lot of people would have you believe and most of them are quite aware of the hat best suited to the event of the day. This particular cowboy, whom I have decided to call Bat Masterpiece, quite obviously was engaged in some sort of cowboy activity such as doggie punching, calf branding or playing poker or other games of chance at the local saloon. Hence, he chose to wear a cowboy hat as opposed to one of his other hats. Hoosiers often wear paper hats. They make them from the newspaper and they feel the one they make from the Sunday "funnies" is a dress hat because of the color. There is nothing sadder than seeing a Hoosier family, all of whom are wearing their paper hats, caught in a rain storm with printers ink running down their faces and dripping onto their bib dungarees.
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Post by fauxmaha on Apr 29, 2016 17:51:49 GMT -5
Without commenting on the horrid thing on my wall.... That sounds redundant. You can either say "cowboy wearing a hat" or "man wearing a cowboy hat", but why say "cowboy" twice? If a cowboy is wearing a hat, that makes it a cowboy hat. And if a man is wearing a cowboy hat, that makes him a cowboy. Saying "cowboy wearing a cowboy hat" is like saying "red car driver driving a red car". Ok. I feel better. In the Chicago area, cowboys quite often wear Cubs caps. That does not make a Cubs cap a cowboy hat. It makes it a hat worn by a cowboy but not a cowboy hat. Since cowboys often wear many types of hats, I felt it was important to say this one was actually wearing what most of us would call a cowboy hat as oppose to, say, a fedora, which I have also often seen cowboys wear. Cowboys are much more fashion conscious than a lot of people would have you believe and most of them are quite aware of the hat best suited to the event of the day. This particular cowboy, whom I have decided to call Bat Masterpiece, quite obviously was engaged in some sort of cowboy activity such as doggie punching, calf branding or playing poker or other games of chance at the local saloon. Hence, he chose to wear a cowboy hat as opposed to one of his other hats. Well. In that case, one is left to wonder why you chose to describe the object of your hallucination regarding that thing on my wall as a "cowboy". Bat Masterpiece indeed. I think he's a piano tuner.
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Post by drlj on Apr 29, 2016 17:56:31 GMT -5
I was a teenager in the 60s. I often see and hear things that others around me do not. I think of it as being in tune with my surroundings.
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Post by millring on Apr 29, 2016 18:10:40 GMT -5
Hoosiers often wear paper hats. WE DO NOT! oh. You said "paper hats" didn't you? nevermind.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 18:15:45 GMT -5
F*** cowboys, what do they know about whisky? I had two shots of Johnnie Walker Blue last week. I may never enjoy another whisky again. Sob.
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 29, 2016 18:17:10 GMT -5
This is all very interesting but out of curiosity, what the hell is that on your garage wall.
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Post by millring on Apr 29, 2016 18:25:52 GMT -5
This is all very interesting but out of curiosity, what the hell is that on your garage wall. The Kentuckian got it in one.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 18:30:44 GMT -5
Took me a while staring at it but, it is a cowboy.
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 29, 2016 18:43:28 GMT -5
This is all very interesting but out of curiosity, what the hell is that on your garage wall. The Kentuckian got it in one. Yup, just had to suspend my disbelief and there he was. Anybody know him? I mean he could be a tranny-cowgirl or something.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 29, 2016 19:54:34 GMT -5
So the guy hangs his level on the same peg he hangs his axe. Why make a two-page thread out of it?
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Post by coachdoc on Apr 29, 2016 19:55:40 GMT -5
Don't care. And Balzac is still a great word. Has impact.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 29, 2016 19:58:02 GMT -5
Not if Doug sent you one.
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Post by millring on Apr 29, 2016 21:08:42 GMT -5
Don't care. And Balzac is still a great word. Has impact. Even you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other highfalutin' Greeks
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Post by lar on Apr 29, 2016 21:56:16 GMT -5
Jeff, could that thing be one of your relatives who has come for a spring visit?
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Post by drlj on Apr 30, 2016 8:04:41 GMT -5
Now that I look at it more closely, it isn't a cowboy at all. It is a girl lying on a huge towel on a beach in Hawaii with a volcano just starting to erupt off to the left. There is a cabana on the right and a small dog is sleeping at her feet. It appears she is using Hawaiian Tropic coconut lotion with an SPF of 11 in an attempt to deepen her tan. When she gets older, she will regret this because of the excess wrinkles but, for now, it is giving her a beautiful tan that really offsets the yellow of her string bikini.
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