Posted by Darth Dobbin at 208-58-249-190.s190.tnt1.nwhv.ct.dialup.rcn.com on June 13, 2000 at 14:24:47:
In Reply to: It's a symbol of pride man... posted by Big_Head_WW on June 13, 2000 at 14:05:00:
It let's others who "get" what the hat is have a reason to talk to you.
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....With their eyes in their pyramids and their crazy handshakes, and their plots and schemes to overmaster the destiny of mankind?
I get it.
It's a boy's club.
I still think that the hat's availibility can never overcome the questing for it, and the mythic proportions of Grail-like stature it has attained. Give you a f'rinstance:
In High school (Keerist! Ten years ago! Shit, I'm aging) I was in mad-crazy, hormone-love with this unattainable girl named Paula. I re-arranged my schedule for the upcoming year so that we'd have the same classes- Even got myself into AP history.
Spent the summer getting into shape and having the pathetic, unrequited love fantasies teen boys are err to.. And the school year comes around, and I've got all these classes with her, and my plan leaps into full swing- I'm making her laugh, getting to know her.. And I realize that I don't particularly feel anything for her; she's nice- but just that. Not that she was a terrible person, or stopped being pretty- Just the monumental mind-build-up of the whole thing was suddenly a very normal, mundane and prosaic situation. I felt like the dude from the V-8 commerical. If I was living in a John Hughes movie, I'd then realize that I was truly in love with my tomboy, hot little blonde drummer friend, who had been pining for me all the while. Sadly, life is not That Kind of Wonderful.
I'm willing to wager that when you hold said cap in hand, you'll feel the same odd sense of being let down that I did when I realized my folly. The reality can't possibly measure up to your expectation.
Of course, you won't have to write an AP paper about the Onieda Colony and the Utopian Movement, so you can count yourself lucky.