Rubbaboo

Exactly. The founder of the British Royal Canoe Club in 1866 and the American Canoe Association in 1880 was a (ta da!) Scottish lawyer...

Hard to say, I’d imagine they were still there, they just didn’t bounce your face as much. Maybe they looked like a big set of ears...

Back in my tree planting days we did kind of the same thing except with a cattail head or some other weed by taping it to the hard hat...