Fw from Jyri: On the wearing of hats and the consequences of not doing so

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From: Jyri 
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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 11:56 PM
Subject: On the wearing of hats and the consequences of not doing so


Boy-sized Akubras more or less like the company’s “Pastoralist” model were still a standard item of compulsory school uniforms in Australia in the 1960s. Indestructible. It must have been a roaring trade for the company, outfitting generation upon generation of growing boys’ heads.  Akubra also made the classic Australian Army Digger hats, which used to be issued to all ranks (now only worn by officers for dress use). My father bought one at an army surplus store for a fishing hat ca. 1960. I still have it.

In school, the wearing of hats especially in the hot summer months was quite strictly enforced, and one occasion seeing a kid at school get sunstroke helped underline the message. 
All of which reminds me of one my Antipodean teachers’  (not quite successful) efforts to  teach us the classic “On Ilkley Moor baht’at [without a hat]” in the original Yorkshire dialect  He was originally a Yorkshireman.

Best
Jyri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXwqEGdWLc

  Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee? 
    On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
  Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee? 
  Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee? 
    On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at 
    On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at 
    On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
    Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
    Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o` cowd
    Then us'll ha' to bury thee
    Then t'worms'll come an` eyt thee up
    Then t'ducks'll come an` eyt up t'worms
    Then us'll go an` eyt up t'ducks
    Then us'll all ha' etten thee
    That's wheear we get us ooan back