Mcgrath when a player in hockey scores a hat trick it is cutomary to throw your hat onto the ice. McGrath I think he means by a Gimmehat is a baseball cap that looks as if it has been passed down the generations,never washed and the bill bent in a curve. Busbitter if I meet you in a restaurant and treat you with nothing but respect would you still treat me differently because I am wearing a hat. Jon freeman about licking the gravy off your plate reminds me of the time when I was a kid and we were all at a restuarant and my Mom was trying to act all prim and proper and get us to do the same and my Dad when we were finished with the meal had me and my three sisters lick are plates clean and he did the same