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harlock78
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 Nov-18-01, 10:35 PM (EDT)
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"Clothings and all...."
 
   For the past 4-odd years I've enjoyed all the fics in here, especially the Undocumented Features series. But in those 4-odd years I've always wondered:

What the /hoek/ is a duster?! I know it's a term people use for female clothing, a one-piece dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not as thin, or something. But I just can't imagine _manly_ people like Megazone and Gryphon wear something like that on public, much less in combat ... unless their original intention is to make their enemies too paralyzed laughin' their butts off to fight back. =)

But then, I'm not that good in English, unlike most people here, so sue me. ^_^

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Clothings and all.... Shadowhavoc Nov-18-01 1
  RE: Clothings and all.... Wedge Nov-18-01 2
  RE: Clothings and all.... Gryphonadmin Nov-18-01 3
     RE: Clothings and all.... Rod_H Nov-19-01 5
         RE: Clothings and all.... Matrix Dragon Nov-20-01 7
  RE: Clothings and all.... megazone Nov-19-01 4
  RE: Clothings and all.... StaticdashPulse Nov-19-01 6
  RE: Clothings and all.... harlock78 Nov-21-01 8
     RE: Clothings and all.... megazone Nov-21-01 9
         RE: Clothings and all.... Shadowhavoc Nov-21-01 10
             RE: Clothings and all.... jerteam Nov-21-01 11
                 RE: Clothings and all.... Shadowhavoc Nov-21-01 12

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Shadowhavoc
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 Nov-18-01, 10:47 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: Clothings and all...."
In response to message #0
 
   >For the past 4-odd years I've enjoyed all the fics in here, especially
>the Undocumented Features series. But in those 4-odd years I've
>always wondered:
>
>What the /hoek/ is a duster?! I know it's a term people use for female
>clothing, a one-piece dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not
>as thin, or something. But I just can't imagine _manly_ people like
>Megazone and Gryphon wear something like that on public, much less in
>combat ... unless their original intention is to make their enemies
>too paralyzed laughin' their butts off to fight back. =)
>
>But then, I'm not that good in English, unlike most people here, so
>sue me. ^_^
>

Try thinking of a trenchcoat then, it's about the same.

Although the images of Gryphon and Zoner in dresses would be funny...


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Wedge
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 Nov-18-01, 10:55 PM (EDT)
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2. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >What the /hoek/ is a duster?!

On a quick search:

http://store.yahoo.com/alamo/20outoildus.html

Specific style(s) will have to be specified by the authors. I think what sets a duster apart from a regular trench are the flappy bits over the shoulders that help keep the rain off and whatnot, along with a few other touches, like the extreme length (to the ankles, I believe).

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Gryphonadmin
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3. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >What the /hoek/ is a duster?!

A long overcoat, not unlike a trenchcoat but generally even longer (ankle length), usually made of light-colored canvas or oilcloth and commonly equipped with leg straps and a high-split tail for horseback riding. Popularized in the late 18th century in the American West and also quite common in the Australian Outback, or so I'm told. I believe the name comes from the fact that they were intended, with their great length, to protect a rider's clothes from the dust that horseback riding in a desert kicks up.

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Rod_H
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 Nov-19-01, 07:27 AM (EDT)
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5. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >>What the /hoek/ is a duster?!
>
>A long overcoat, not unlike a trenchcoat but generally even longer
>(ankle length), usually made of light-colored canvas or oilcloth and
>commonly equipped with leg straps and a high-split tail for horseback
>riding. Popularized in the late 18th century in the American West and
>also quite common in the Australian Outback, or so I'm told.

They are common in the Outback & rural regions of Australia, but are often refered to by the maker's name: driza-bone.

The horsemen that participated in the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were wearing them.

--Rod.H who's a 'city boy' and the closest he can get to a duster is an old gabardine overcoat.
(But, I do have an Akubra.)


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Matrix Dragon
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1893 posts		 Nov-20-01, 02:26 AM (EDT)
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7. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >--Rod.H who's a 'city boy' and the closest he can get to a duster is
>an old gabardine overcoat.
>(But, I do have an Akubra.)

Oh, poor Rod :) I'm a country boy, so I get one as part of the sterotype.

Matrix Dragon
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megazone
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 Nov-19-01, 02:43 AM (EDT)
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4. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >What the /hoek/ is a duster?! I know it's a term people use for female
>clothing, a one-piece dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not
>as thin, or something.

It is? I've never heard of such a thing.

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StaticdashPulse
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6. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   Ever see "The Matrix"? That long, black coat that Neo wears is a duster. I thiiink cowboys wear them sometimes as well, so if you've ever seen a Western with a guy in a coat that almost dragged the ground... That's a duster.

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harlock78
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 Nov-21-01, 01:15 AM (EDT)
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8. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   Oh, so those're what dusters (as you all know them) look like. Thanks, y'all. Hmm, I think I want one...if where I am isn't so damn hot ^_^

Well, Megazone, "duster" is what we Filipinos call the "one-piece dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not as thin, or something" female clothing our grandmas love to wear ^_^

Cheers, people.

Capt. Harlock


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megazone
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 Nov-21-01, 03:02 AM (EDT)
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9. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >Well, Megazone, "duster" is what we Filipinos call the "one-piece
>dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not as thin, or something"
>female clothing our grandmas love to wear ^_^

Hmm, I think that's a mu-mu here...

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Shadowhavoc
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 Nov-21-01, 09:18 AM (EDT)
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10. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >>Well, Megazone, "duster" is what we Filipinos call the "one-piece
>>dress, kinda like a nightgown, but material not as thin, or something"
>>female clothing our grandmas love to wear ^_^
>
>Hmm, I think that's a mu-mu here...

Gryphon and MegaZone in mu-mu's..ACK!


Now I know why people post SHATTER.


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jerteam
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11. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >Gryphon and MegaZone in mu-mu's..ACK!

<simpsons>
I just want to watch "Honk if you're Horny" in peace and dignity!
</simpsons>

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Shadowhavoc
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 Nov-21-01, 11:31 PM (EDT)
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12. "RE: Clothings and all...."
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   >>Gryphon and MegaZone in mu-mu's..ACK!
>
><simpsons>
>I just want to watch "Honk if you're Horny" in peace and dignity!
></simpsons>


You don't honk your horn when you see one of those?


I always do....


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