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  • n  man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim

  • porkpie hat and a pair of nike air shoes emblazoned with obama's visage and the obama 08 logo.
  • Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads.
  • The description "old Chicago pol" conjures a stout machine boss wearing a porkpie hat and chomping on a stogie not a whip-thin black guy trying to quit smoking.
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  • Breaking Bad’s Peter Gould Talks ‘Granite State’
    On last night's Breaking Bad, we learned what hell is like. It's being sequestered in a cabin with two copies of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. It’s putting on your porkpie hat and finding it no longer summons up Heisenbergian powers. It’s hearing that your money is just going to collect ... More »        
    Sept. 23, 2013 - Vulture

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