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Thread #59418 Message #1820796
Posted By: Amos
28-Aug-06 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
My main hat squeeze is a Tilley, of the kind that has been three times through an elephant. True story.
The company was so impressed with the story, when they learned about it, that they wrote to the owner, an animal keeper, offerting a brand new one if they could have the historical elepahnt-thrice hat for their historical colelction of Tilleys. He declined, understandably. Having gone to so much trouble to recover and recondition it, three times, he was not about to part with it just for their convenience. And they understood completely.
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