July 22, 2005

For when you absolutely, positively must dress up as Indiana Jones
posted by kitfisto 19 years ago
  • "I'm selling these fine leather jackets"
  • Wonders if it's History Day, or Nostalgia Day at MoFi. Takes scissors to brim of new hat. Opts for the former.
  • No time for love Doctor Jones!!
  • Hakande Matusa!
  • I'm not chopping up my fucking Akubra.
  • I like his bag. Always have, even as a kid. Now i know it's a gas mask bag, I can get on with finding one.
  • Hah!! I bought a gas mask bag at a surplus store when I was in high school for the same reason. Problem is, it's got these dividers in it that don't reach the bottom. It wasn't a very practical purse.
  • You cut the dividers out.
  • I had a great army bag, very similar, with the dividers. It had to cool little button-down pockets at either end, and a metal base. Wish I still had it, although I fear I may have painted 'New Model Army' on it during my grebo years, thus rendering it now shite.
  • You cut the dividers out. *slaps forehead*
  • Current bag. A pale imatation.
  • My bag came with gen-u-wine army issue lens anti-fogging stuff. Doesn't work on glasses though, makes them all smeary.
  • Made from nazi war criminals, s'why.
  • /cringe
  • Well, you've got to get some use out of them, and Goering was too big to waste...
  • That would explain the peculiar taste. *pulls out whip*
  • Hitler! Had only one big ball! Goering, he had two, they were small! Himmler, was much the simm'ler! And Goebbels had no balls at all!
  • It was ditties like that that won the war. Well done, wing commander koko!
  • *salutes*
  • Nice handlebar moustache, BTW.
  • *winks*
  • Usually they're on your face, though. /waxes it
  • Fresh! /slap
  • Quiet in the ranks! Save it for the NAAFI
  • Wow... I had a bag almost exactly like this one 5 years ago, but my ex got custody of it in the breakup.
  • And it made a great laptop bag. Even better now that laptops are significantly smaller than they were in 2000.
  • So do you have visitation rights?
  • I'm sure you can still pick crap like that up for cheap in second hand stores all across the South UK. Why, I had a genuine pair of 1960 German paratroop boots that I wore throughout my tenure as a sad little art student in Covent Garden. They were brown, infinitely more comfortable than DMs, and seemed never to age. They cost me a fiver.
  • Whistle while you work/ Hitler is a jerk/ Mussolini bit his weenie/ now it doesnt work
  • I've got this East German military coat that I picked up at a second-hand shop many years back. Even a blizzard can do me no harm when I'm laced in its wooly green glory. It's fun to annoy the "hipsters" who always oooh! and aaaah! about it, demanding to know where they can buy one. Fuckwads!
  • The ugly truth is that if you don't have a torso like Harrison Ford's, you won't look like Indy Jones in a safari shirt, no matter how natty your khakis. Do not ask me how I know this. W&G was the oldest outfitting company in the United States. [...] Unfortunately they were sold to Land's End who fumbled the ball and discontinued the line. This happened many years ago, yet the loss still stings. The W&G catalog was pure masculine escape fantasy.
  • Ï think I'm going to have to get me the second Fedora. The price is unbeatable.
  • Get them to chop off the brim for you. *eyes his haggled hat sadly*
  • They better make that next movie before they wind up having to cast someone else.
  • wow, I have an official Indiana Jones fedora, has his name on it. This reminds me of the original Banana Republic catalog.
  • pictures please.
  • I can't believe I'm this excited, but I am. Go figger. I guess that's the great thing about the "weatherbeaten" look - the character looks a bit older, but not tremendously so.
  • *crashes Wermarcht motorcycle in excitement*
  • I'm trying to remain guarded on this, but inside I'm a gibbering 10-year-old.
  • I notice as well the firing pin still appears to be in place on Indy's revolver. Careful now!
  • Karen Allen seems to have aged quite nicely as well... *unwraps toga*
  • TBH, I was, and still am, disappointed that she was Indy's totty in that film. She doesn't crack my whip.
  • *gasps*
  • That Shia LeBeouf jerk is in it? Still looks good.
  • Das Traileren. Only a teeny tiny bit of Karen Allen. Unfortunately.
  • thats a really cute article. I am probably just a few years younger than the writer's mom and it's all too easy to imagine myself having been such a mom, if I'd had children...(especially with mr medusa [who I didn't meet til 33] his mom, who is over 60, made him StarTrek uniforms to wear to conventions in the 70s. Now that's a geek mom!!!)
  • In a similar vein, this is precisely the type of father I intend to be.