Giant hats were the cellphones of the silent movie era

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I remember an old episode of You Can’t Do That On Television where some kids in a movie theatre are annoyed by a drunk-looking guy sitting in front of them who’s wearing a top hat. They get his attention and ask that he take it off, which he does, except it turns out he has a tall, hat-shaped cylindrical mass of hair that he had been concealing.

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Heheheh. The past. So weird!

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All I could think of was, “Man, they could communicate with giant hats back then? Wait…”

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I don’t remember that. Is there a video of it online? I don’t know. [gets slimed]

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I too was hoping the hats concealed some sort of device for transmitting lines to the unstudied actors…
…But then, it’s a silent movie, so it wouldn’t matter what they said, would it?

Also known as Les Lye who always looked at least sort of drunk to me. I was going to say something about hats and movie theaters but it was swept away by a wave of warm nostalgia, and I thank you for that.

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100 years from now…
Giant phones were the bioluminescent tattoos of the pre-synthespian era.

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But it wasn’t enjoyable to have angry birds on them.

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Unless you ♪ called it ma-ca-ro-ni

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