I've lost my gray hat.

but I've still got my black and white ones.

[neuron]

I was just sitting here, in my underwear, half-drunk and getting drunker, surrounded by alligators, wondering what I should pack for PubCon, and cursing myself for misplacing my gray hat.

My white hat is hanging off the mirror where I usually keep it. It’s more delicate than my gray hat or my black hat, it stains easier, is an abhorrent underachiever, and has a tendency of getting a bit tipsy every other weekend and ends up in bed with both my black and gray hats, perhaps just to show she can consort with all types and still be just as bright and white the next day.

My black and gray hats are terrors and thus I spend more time with them, not to tame them for they are never going to be white, even if I beached them or they underwent some spiritual enlightenment I’d either ruin them or not have much use for them as I already have a white hat, and besides, they fit and wear better, and after all, baby needs a new pair of shoes.

My black hat is mostly for nights on the town, the fast life, or maybe if a buddy takes me out sport fishing, and it’s got that sexy whoosh on it that says just do it. As such, it spends most of it’s time on the mirror with my white hat. Sometimes I think I may wake up and there’ll be a bunch of little gray hats all over the dresser.

The gray hat is the one I wear the most and now I can’t find it. It’s probably behind my desk, but I’m not about to crawl back there in my underwear. Hopefully I’ll sober up enough to either find it or walk across the street to the bar/tackle shop and buy a new one.

What color hats are will be popular mid-November in the Western deserts?

[encyclo]

Some will wear a black hat but claim vehenently to anyone who asks that it is pristine white. Others (probably quite rightly) take a philosophical approach: that the truth is that there is no hat. :)

[chrisnrae]

"that the truth is that there is no hat"

Actually, I believe there is a hat - it's green.

[bakedjake]

Some will wear a black hat but claim vehenently to anyone who asks that it is pristine white.

Wow. Who would do such a thing?

[encyclo]

An important caveat: I've never been to PubCon before, and I'm not going to this one. I answered because the same goes for here on the forum.

Wow. Who would do such a thing?

Rereading my previous message, it was particularly obtuse even by my standards! This was exactly my point: no-one should feel the need to try to justify anything. As the boundaries between what is "black-hat" and "white-hat" are completely arbitrary, they effectively become meaningless descriptions.

So, here on the forum as well as in real life, why don't we just talk about what we do, and not worry about hats?

[Kirby]

Wear whatever hat you want because as they say in Sin City, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

[mincklerstraat]

Wait around a while and see if Thing 1 and Thing 2 show up (portrayed here [seussville.com], bottom center, with blue hair). If so, there's a very good chance that a cat has taken your hat. However, when he shows up, watch out! (and make sure he helps clean up before mom gets home)

[grelmar]

I can't help but get lost on the concept of hats and SEO.

Black, white, and grey hats are things that should appear only in securityfocus articles. So long as you're avoiding getting a write up there, anything you do to pay the bills is most likely no worse than a beige hat.

Well, Ecru, if you're really pushing it.