You know, this image, with a slightly different caption, was on one of my news feeds for Nov 10th, and I downloaded it to either send to Nighthawks to post, or do it myself.
Then I read the story and changed my mind. I wouldn’t say it’s “bogus”… but it’s rather misleading.
Someone recently figured out how to get views by rehashing it, and connecting it to the Power Rangers, which wasn’t in the original news… so it’s suddenly showing up everywhere, but it took place in 2014.
This caption, above, does say “suit actor/stuntman”… the one I got, which is also on other news outlets, just says he “played the Green Power Ranger.”
But he didn’t. A suit actor isn’t the celebrity you may remember from a show… it’s a person who performs the live action and stunts while hidden in full costume, in scenes with no dialogue..
Not only that, there are several versions of the Power Rangers, with different titles, and Ihara had nothing to do with the famous one shown in the US and Europe.
He was a suit performer in the Japanese series Super Sentai, on which the Power Rangers were based… and mostly, but not always, as the character who became the Green Power Ranger in later versions.
Because Japanese justice can be very slow, it took until 2020 for him to be given a 5 year sentence. He may or may not have served the whole time… Japanese courts will not report the release of prisoners… but Google says he’s surely out by and has kept a low profile ever since.
I had a ’53 Chevy pickup that worked like that. Not quite so pretty, but fully functional. Put the kids in the camper section with my sister on a trip up to Yosemite with a 12V TV to keep them company. Two unconnected windows, no pass through. They’d hold up signs saying, “How long?” We’d hold up signs saying “3 hours”, “2 hours”, then “3 hours”, “4 hours”…they finally got the joke. They turned out to be pretty exemplary people in spite of us.
They actually look pretty healthy compared to the major ballet companies in the US. Maybe they’ll only get a little food, but they’re hardly allowed to eat at all over here.
Coreographer George Balanchine, founder and artistic director of the New York Ballet, was the one who insisted on what he called the “ballet body”… much thinner than the traditional Russian style.
He designed stark (but beautiful) ballets with all the dancers in leotards instead of tutus and costumes. You could see every.muscle, and he was very critical.
By the time of this picture, he was making his dancers weigh in, and giving leading roles to the youngest and thinnest.
A lot of people, including me, while admiring his brilliant work, still see him as the person who caused the stress and eating disorders among modern ballerinas.
Probably got along just fine, even without those tinfoil hats to protect them from the electromagnetic radiation. They did fly in some weird loop-the-loop and lopsided patterns, but they did just fine.
No, you always get to answer the questions. It’s time to check on someone else. You in the back, Wake Up!
ZZZ…Snort…Huh?…What?…Sorry, we had a coyote get into the chicken coop last night. Pa got out of bed and grabbed his shotgun. Pa doesn’t wear anything to bed, and our old basset hound followed him out….
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Yes, thank you for this blanket, but I’d still rather be on your bed, pushing you over to the side.
You know he will be, as soon as you fall asleep.
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CROCODILE!!!
Hah, fooled you!
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“Dark undisturbed areas…”
Sounds like me.
🙂
Sorry spider lovers, when in doubt, kill that sucker!
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Well, I hope he wasn’t wearing his mask when he robbed the houses. It sets a bad example for the kiddies.
You know, this image, with a slightly different caption, was on one of my news feeds for Nov 10th, and I downloaded it to either send to Nighthawks to post, or do it myself.
Then I read the story and changed my mind. I wouldn’t say it’s “bogus”… but it’s rather misleading.
Someone recently figured out how to get views by rehashing it, and connecting it to the Power Rangers, which wasn’t in the original news… so it’s suddenly showing up everywhere, but it took place in 2014.
This caption, above, does say “suit actor/stuntman”… the one I got, which is also on other news outlets, just says he “played the Green Power Ranger.”
But he didn’t. A suit actor isn’t the celebrity you may remember from a show… it’s a person who performs the live action and stunts while hidden in full costume, in scenes with no dialogue..
Not only that, there are several versions of the Power Rangers, with different titles, and Ihara had nothing to do with the famous one shown in the US and Europe.
He was a suit performer in the Japanese series Super Sentai, on which the Power Rangers were based… and mostly, but not always, as the character who became the Green Power Ranger in later versions.
Because Japanese justice can be very slow, it took until 2020 for him to be given a 5 year sentence. He may or may not have served the whole time… Japanese courts will not report the release of prisoners… but Google says he’s surely out by and has kept a low profile ever since.
,
I had a ’53 Chevy pickup that worked like that. Not quite so pretty, but fully functional. Put the kids in the camper section with my sister on a trip up to Yosemite with a 12V TV to keep them company. Two unconnected windows, no pass through. They’d hold up signs saying, “How long?” We’d hold up signs saying “3 hours”, “2 hours”, then “3 hours”, “4 hours”…they finally got the joke. They turned out to be pretty exemplary people in spite of us.
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Your girlfriend’s coming over! Find the (sort of) clean dishes!
Ewww….
And yet…. I know it happened.
I myself had a friend… the brother of my good friend… who invited me to dinner…
I can’t say more. My stomach won’t let me.
He stayed a good friend.. but… you know… one dinner was enough. Actually, too many.
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Probably all half-starved, too.
They actually look pretty healthy compared to the major ballet companies in the US. Maybe they’ll only get a little food, but they’re hardly allowed to eat at all over here.
Coreographer George Balanchine, founder and artistic director of the New York Ballet, was the one who insisted on what he called the “ballet body”… much thinner than the traditional Russian style.
He designed stark (but beautiful) ballets with all the dancers in leotards instead of tutus and costumes. You could see every.muscle, and he was very critical.
By the time of this picture, he was making his dancers weigh in, and giving leading roles to the youngest and thinnest.
A lot of people, including me, while admiring his brilliant work, still see him as the person who caused the stress and eating disorders among modern ballerinas.
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Probably got along just fine, even without those tinfoil hats to protect them from the electromagnetic radiation. They did fly in some weird loop-the-loop and lopsided patterns, but they did just fine.
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(I know – I know…pick me!)
No, you always get to answer the questions. It’s time to check on someone else. You in the back, Wake Up!
ZZZ…Snort…Huh?…What?…Sorry, we had a coyote get into the chicken coop last night. Pa got out of bed and grabbed his shotgun. Pa doesn’t wear anything to bed, and our old basset hound followed him out….
...
“OK! Who is going to take my board back up to the top for me?”
Here you are:
Barn Swallow.
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