A Mudcat hat?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: folk1234
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:12 AM

Somehow, I missed this thread back in June. I'll take one of each and all. For PeterT and BSeed, our self-designated Mudcat spell chequers: I think it was Will Rogers who said, "Never trust a man who always spells a word the same way." For Sandy: If you have any left over FL T's I'd like one. How quickly can be get this done? Can we have some at Annap's Gathering #2?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Vixen
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:14 AM

I'm in favor of a non-baseball-cap hat; I'd also like fluffy cotton sweatshirts and light-colored tees (instead of dark blue which get too hot in the summer sun). Preferably all natural fibers as appropriate. If we're going to do "mudcat gear," I think it would be best to go with one source, and one batch of setup fees (screen, embroidery, etc). I'd like to see tote bags to carry my music and pennywhistles and sechlike as well!

V

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:18 AM

I'm still happy to donate the set-up fees and contact the embroidery folks and do the grunt work. All I need is art work and permission. Dick? Max? ideas? Cheers, Dave

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:20 AM

As soon as they are ready I will order one of each........In the biggest size available.

Mick

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:20 AM

WE WANT A HAT!!WE WANT A HAT!!!! WE WANT A HAT!!!!!!
(Governer picks up telephone. Geese spell out "We want a hat" in the sky. Crowds mass in Trafalgar Square. Mass chanting begins in Tibetan mountains. Children ask plaintively to unresponding parents. Dow Jones sputters. )
WE WANT A HAT!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:23 AM

How about a Mudcat T-shirt with a silk screen of Catspaw's x-ray plates on it to remind us that Mud was indeed thicker than water?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:25 AM

Just curious. How many Mudcat teeshirts have been sold so far?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:25 AM

How about buying a portable flouroscope and making catspaw wear it around?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:38 AM

Come on, now. FOCUS!!!!!

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:56 AM

Maybe, if we shut our eyes real tight and click our heels together three times...

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 11:49 AM

Geez Vix----Whaddaya wanna' do? Start a clothing store? How about some u-trou with "Mud Is Thicker Than Water" across the back?

I do have some nice shots from the inside of my large intestine which I paid for with TWO lower G.I.'s in the SAME day. These may not be an accurate representation however, as it is the only time it could truly be said that I wasn't completely full of sh*t.

Now once again as Peter said...LET'S FOCUS! Like what exactly do you have in mind Rick, Vix, and others who have suggested a "Non Baseball Cap Hat." (Sounds like a Douglas Adams description).....Sombreros? Porkpies? Strokers? Panamas? Bush Hats? Pith Helmets?

Spaw

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 11:52 AM

Pith helmets? Are you taking the pith?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:03 PM

ooooh, Roger, don't get 'spaw pithed off

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Vixen
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:11 PM

My problem with BaseBall(feed) Caps is they make my ears stick out. Also, the tops of my ears get sunburned, and that makes my hearing aids uncomfy. What I've got are two (one for each head ;>) white cotton hats consisting of 6 wedge-shaped pieces stitched together on the long sides, a button on the top, a brim around the bottom and a couple of screened grommets on either side to let the hot air out. (My mouth's not big enough!) They're not GOLF hats nor bowlers, pith helmets, coolie hats or crushers. Not fedoras, derbies, boaters, or pillboxes. Not yarmulkes, beanies, or berets. They are not, heaven forfend, brain-buckets. (isn't that a [lower]gi term for helmet? though more gory than scatalogical) ABOVE ALL (they're hats, right?) they are not BASEBALL(feed) CAPS!

"my future thinks he's sitting at the counter in a feedcap" Hugh Blumenfeld "Main St. Sky"

Concerning the clothing store--I spoze yer right...too much of a good thing, 'n' all.

V

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:16 PM

Whatth wong with a fithing hat?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:43 PM

Better to be pithed off than pithed on...and better to be pithed on than pithed thwough, because that would make you a pwick.

Spaw

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:53 PM

FOCUS!!!!!!!!!!!!We want non-baseball caps, soft hats with a brim around them, like fishing hats, and the logo on the front. You can do baseball caps as well, but some of us don't like them.
I have money here, a fat head, a failing ozone layer and everything.
Hat please!
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 12:58 PM

A search for anything but complete protection is clearly meaningless. A Mudcat diving helmet! In shiny brass, with the logo engraved and...oh, sorry. E.S.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 01:08 PM

Look PT, I TRIED!!!! Ask a simple questin here though and we're off!!!! First thing you know, I'm a pwick.

NOW----------

If by "fishing hats, we're talkin' the thing like Col. Henry Blake wore in "M*A*S*H"..OK. (No MASH stories, please)........If a fishing hat is the thing that Venus Flytrap borrowed from Mr. Carlson because "Cop's gotta' hat, I wanna' hat" in "WKRP"-with the long bill, NO WAY. (No WKRP stories either)

Spaw

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 01:18 PM

Thanks for trying, anyway....Yeah, Henry Blake, that's the style. NOW HABERDASHERS VISUALIZE!!!
FOCUS!!!!!!!!!!(Jesus)

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 04:21 PM

I think what we are talking about here is called a "bucket hat". A picture can be found in the site below. I just want to be sure we are all talking about the same thing.

Go here.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 04:48 PM

Yup, Allan's right. In the US market, the style is called a "Bucket" hat, also called a giggle hat in Australia.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 05:04 PM

Seems like a good choice to me. If the site I found is anything like average, then the prices, using this style of hat, sound like they wouldn't be prohibitive. I looked at quite a few other hats. Some other styles are a whole lot more costly. Alice, you or Dave Swan probably have a better idea of how this would compare. Waddayathink?

Oh, don't get me wrong. I am not advocating this particular company in any way. I was just trying to find one which had a picture to look at.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 05:13 PM

The last notes I have on price from the company I work for located in Denver - $7.50 wholesale, 2 dozen minimum, washed cotton in solid colors such as denim, charcoal, khaki, navy. The tape charge for embroidery is extra, depending on the number of stiches in the design. These hats can also be silkscreen printed with the logo, less expensive way to go than embroidery. $20/1000 stitches - the average sized logo comes to about $100 for the embroidery tape to be punched with the design.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: karen k
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 05:55 PM

Bring on the hats!!! I like the bucket hat but I'd probably wear the baseball cap style more often. Baseball caps are adjustable so size wouldn't be an issue.

karen k

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: duckboots junior
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 08:05 PM

If the ozone layer is failing isn't it wellies we will all need with L and R on !

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: DougR
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 08:18 PM

I'll buy either a bucket hat or a golf cap. Makes me no never mind.

DougR

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 09:24 PM

Sorry folks, but the bucket looks too much like a boonie for me. I would prefer the golf style, or even a ball cap than that. Just my humble opinion. I would be willing to spring the upfront money for the embroidery tape and then folks could buy their own hat and send it for embroidery. Everyone could get the hat they wanted. As long as I could recover the cost of the tape, I would be happy to do this. Any merit to this, Alice?

Mick

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 09:34 PM

hmmm, I think if you are going to order a hat, any wholesaler is going to require a minimum order of the same style and color in order to make it worth their time to run the machines to embroider it.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 10:39 PM

Why can't we just make up the logo and sew it on the hat of our choice? As much as I'd like to see Peter T. in a baseball cap, I realize that it's not everyone's style.
Personally I favour a Chef's hat.
Who sang "Hat's off to Larry"?
First Cat to answer wins a prize!
Now Focus!

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 11:29 PM

Don't have time to go back and read this whole thread, but I think someone suggested a patch, which would solve this problem of different hat styles. If the Mudcat design was embroidered onto a patch, you could sew that on your jacket, shirt, hat, cap, whatever you want. Direct machine embroidery onto the cap or garment requires that you buy a bunch of the same type of cap or garment. The machines have multiple 'heads' with a quantity of caps or shirts attached to hoops and mounted under the heads, which are all set up with the same thread colors for the design. Then the program with the design runs all the heads on the embroidery machine at once. To set up an order takes time, so it's not something you would want to do for a small quantity. I think getting an embroidered patch would be a great solution. I can check on price if you want me to.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Banjer
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 02:42 AM

I think the universal baseball cap would be ideal, with a patch made available for those who would rather have another style of headgear. I do agree with Mick, the bucket style looks too much like a boonie, reminiscent of the Nam era....How about a baseball cap with sewed-on patch and the same patches individually available? Would that work?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 07:11 AM

By George...

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 08:54 AM

Geez Rick, this is driving me nuts. Any other time I could just rip off who sang "Hats Off To Larry". Thanks a lot, buddy!!!!!!!!!!! All damn day I am going to be humming this damn tune with the nasal singing ..........sh*t!!! Not Neil Sedaka, not Gene Pitney.......^$#^%#*(^&^%$@#**%^$$!!!!! Fielding........

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 09:10 AM

Mick, I will put you out of your misery. It appeared as the flip side to the 45RPM single of "Runaway" by Del Shannon.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 09:18 AM

Well batcrap.........I was about to post to Mick that this was something he couldn't runaway from and perhaps he should meditate and let himself follw the sun for an answer. Rats!

Spaw

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 09:50 AM

Oddly enough it was Del's only other hit. I saw him a few years ago (before he snuffed himself) and felt quite sad that someone that famous spent the last 30 years of his life knowing that people ONLY valued him for "Runaway". He did a half hour of other people's hits, then "Hat's off" and left the stage. 'Course his encore was "Runaway", and get this - his SECOND encore was ALSO "Runaway"! A weird kind of fame. Probably not very satisfying.

Sorry Peter T for not focusing. I WANT MY PATCH, and I'll sew it on the hat of my choice. Hell, I'll buy three!
Rick

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 10:16 AM

SHEEEEEEEEEESSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! The guy came from Coopersville, Michigan which is 10 minutes from my favorite pub and I have a brain fart and canna remember his name. T'anks for saving me from going bat crazy all damn day.

Mick

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 10:20 AM

Ever feel you were watching a cat parade complete with mouse floats here?
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 12:45 PM

It looks as though Alice's experience is in the big leagues with orders which come by the truckload. The shop we deal with is happy to emboider in multiples of two, so having the M'cat logo applied to just about anything is pretty easy. Gig bags, hats, jackets, you can send them to the shop or have the shop provide them, whatever turns your crank. E.S.

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 08:05 PM

Yes, but Peter, who is the cat and who is the mouse?

Subject: RE: A Mudcat hat?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 08:24 PM

Certainly not I !!!...... I have never and will never indulge in such a hideous thing as thread creep such as Peter did in bringing up parades. Do you remember the MTM episode about Chuckles the Clown? Or what about the clown in the alley caught on tape in an episode of "Dream On?" And the Everly bros. really did some tight harmonies on "Dream" and a lot of others. Real tight. I can't stand hats that are real tight though. So a Mudcat hat I could pick myself would be cool. And thankfully it is a lot cooler here now.............

Spaw (Why is my nose growing?)