Ghyll:Old hat

Okay, fine, I'll dib it then. --Dfaran L'Eniarc 21:30, 1 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Old Hat: The phrase is used to refer to tasks or events that one is particularly familiar with to the point at which they have become routine. For instance: "I have written and researched 13 articles for this encyclopedia already, so creating new ones has become old hat."

Most people know this. Most people, however, are not familiar with the story behind the phrase.

Notes:

Mother Mutton published her seminal Golden Book of Linear and Dynamic Historical Projection Techniques and Coloring Fun tome to attempt to reinstall the public belief in their scholars. It became an immediate bestseller, as the same uneducated public realized the ego-potential of idly (and "disinterestingly", of course, as if this were old hat), thumbing a copy in a crowded tea shop.

Antiquation analysis has been an attractive sphere of study to many generations of scholars because of its origins in one of the great mythic romances of our culture, as well as its, ah, familiarity and completeness.

Bardway has been instrumental in developing the material approaches and applications for the techniques in this area, most significantly (at present) in her paper Carthage Must Be Destroyed: Linguology, Meaning, and New Aesthetics for Old Hat

Phantom: New Hat