I suspect a vanity plate on the crown of a beaky hat does rather pander to the Me denominator. Were I so inclined Samuel Johnson's epigram would tempt me. But on a red beaky cap it might be entirely superfluous.
Hat wear and aneurysms
I've not seen Baxter or his slightly smaller associate, the prickly Ivan Ivanovitch, who I think is most definitely a beaky cap aneurysm with the personality of a Saltwater Crocodile who wears his beaky cap backwards. Baxter, a congenial Hippo of an aneurysm, wears a pork pie hat and he's proud of it. The question: what's Ivan trying to hide.
Beaky Hats and The Authentic
Grant for a moment that experience precedes essence. Go ahead, risk your eternal soul and embrace the word poesy, it meant let it be, from the Greek for Creative which morphed into the English for Posey, which are hospital bed restraints, and the word Posy, a rural flower arrangement as well as an early version for the modern word Poetry. The secret is to permit the idea to become manifest by Being in the World, a Dasein. The Beaky Cap, like the piccadill, could follow a long tradition. In the same way that a piccadill collar gave it's name to Piccadilly Circus in London England. Beaky Cap could one day be the name of a prophylactic in Down Town Washington DC.
The Beaky Cap Nightmare
I've never trusted them. For the fortunate few who might not know what they are, I see them as statements for the mildly retarded. Time to stand up against them
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