August 16, 2021

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Parco Regionale Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli, in Italy, near Pisa.

One page said “photo by Carlo Cafferini” … on many others it was unattributed, even on official Italian government websites for tourists.

On another site, dedicated to photos that look like Renaissance paintings, one commenter claimed that it was heavily Photoshopped…

It’s late, so didn’t spend a lot of time… But I never saw that said elsewhere.

happyhappyhappy
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3 years ago

Ive seen rows of eucalyptus in NorCal like that.
Funny, no redwood that big grow in rows.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

What do you suppose the little guy is thinking?
You gonna eat all those yourself?}

DennisinSeattle
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

That’s my Dad, the Banana King!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I have to admit I thought “Photoshop” when I first saw this.
Then I found this credit…
 
PHOTOGRAPH BY SUZI ESZTERHAS, MINDEN PICTURES
 
…which accompanies a National Geographic article written for kids (it’s the last one of five).
The day isn’t a complete loss, I learned something.
 

StelBel
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3 years ago

This strip is really very well done…especially the depiction of Roy Rogers! And, Cleo’s parting words are perfect!! LOL

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
3 years ago

I’d say they’re choice.

JP Steve
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3 years ago

I recognized Roy Rogers as soon as the page loaded! (I used to have Roy and Trigger embroidered on the collar of my Roy Rogers™ cowboy shirt!)

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Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

With that kind of performance, I don’t understand how Cleo was even cast in the role. Unless this was her screen test. “The gig basically consists of going along with whatever the big guy says; usually charge at something and, ignoring all danger to yourself, either drive it away or wrestle it to the ground. Can you handle it?”

mr_sherman
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

“Nope.”

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3 years ago

😉 I’m sure Cleo is just going to circle around the bad guy and outflank him. 😜

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P51Strega
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3 years ago

…eventually.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Another Marty Robbins favorite:

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

This always reminds me of the Ballad of Irving. (The 142nd fastest gun in the west)

“141 could draw faster than he, but Irving was looking for 143”

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3 years ago

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Bobby’s audience does not seem impressed. In 1965 I started Essex Catholic Archdiocesan High School, and it was not exactly swinging. The girls in Bobby’s video remind me of some of the girls from catholic schools they would invite for mixers.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

I went to a ‘girls on one side’ and ”boys on the other side’ Catholic high school. We didn’t have to worry about being smarter than the guys, but still had lots of mixed classes. And those Friday night sock hops!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

The video was filmed in 1960… which shows just how fashionable those girls would have been in 1965.

Of course, it depends on where you lived, too.

In 1964 the girls in the Midwest pretty much still looked like this…

In California later that year, and especially by 1965, they looked much more modern.

What I’d like to know is what Bobby is standing on … He’s only 5’7.

Then again, I wonder whether he’s actually singing in the same scene with those girls…

They don’t seem focused on him, or very attentive, and he never looks at them.

I think by 1960 they had the technology down well enough to use green or blue screen (chroma key) to overlay a film shot like this.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Back in the day, Stan Laurel had problems with that because of his blue eyes…

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
I think the audience is real, but under the eye of someone who won’t let them go.
I present as evidence Bobby’s shadow (just after 1:05), to me it clearly cuts in and out in agreement with the lightning.
 

MontanaLady
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3 years ago

WooHoo! What a terrific ‘toon for today! As MMM likes to call Roy.,.”Ole Squinty Eyes” And to end the show with “Happy Trails”! I can go to sleep with visions of their ranch in Chatsworth where the show was filmed…(and where we lived for over 30 years)

Great story today, Nighthawks! Happy Trails! xoxo

DennisinSeattle
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

Happy trails and good night!

Tigressy
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

Wasn’t that a bit unnerving? – I mean, all those strangers walking around on your property…

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 years ago

hahahahaha

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

The unverified story I heard was that Cleo did fine in her screen test…

Got hired… and immediately fired, after this scene from her first rehearsal.

The producers had really wanted a basset hound for the role…

But with the first episode close at hand, and Cleo gone, what could they do?

They relented to the Rogers’ wishes, and gave the part to Roy and Dale’s family pet…

Their German shepherd, the real Bullet, after whom the canine character on the show had been named, in deference to their love for their dog… And yeah, their star power.

Bullet was smart and obedient, and already responded to the name, because it was his

but he’d been turned down because he wasn’t a basset hound….

In the end, though, he proved adequate, worked for far less kibble, and was never replaced.

One of the only dogs in movies or television to play himself, under his real name, and never pass on the role to one of his pups, or a younger lookalike.

People liked him, but to some, the show was never all it could have been with a basset star… just… you know…. probably not Cleo Clifford.

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

Leonard Slye was left-handed?

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg

Left handed people in the Bible
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https://tinyurl.com/2f89fdsk

MontanaLady
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I had to go back and look……

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
VelociCoaster
Universal’s Islands of Adventure
Location   Universal’s Islands of Adventure
Park section   Jurassic Park
Coordinates   28.47127°N   81.471999°W
Status Operating
Soft opening date   April 30, 2021
Opening date   June 10, 2021[1]
Replaced   Triceratops Encounter
 
General statistics
Type   Steel – Launched
Manufacturer   Intamin
Designer   Universal Creative
Model   Blitz Coaster
Lift/launch system   LSM (Linear Synchronous Motor )
Height   155 ft (47 m)
Drop   140 ft (43 m)
Length   4,700 ft (1,400 m)
Speed   70 mph (110 km/h)
Inversions   4
Max vertical angle   80°
Height restriction   51 in (130 cm)
Trains   4 trains with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train.
Theme   Jurassic World
 
1st Launch 0 to 50 mph (0 to 80 km/h) in 2 seconds
2nd Launch 40 to 70 mph (64 to 113 km/h) in 2.4 seconds

 
SOURCE
 

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Superb timing on this .gif.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Another nopenopenope for me. I get nauseated, looking at it too long. Yuck! 😀

DryandDusty
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3 years ago

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  DryandDusty
3 years ago

What nighthawks said.

I’ll try to do better

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

@ —comment image

From yesterday.
I suspect you have to be Canadian to really appreciate what Shatner is doing in that N FB short… but is he ever doing it.
Thanks for that.
 

Tigressy
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3 years ago

I’m German…

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

Um… I think no is the right way to go, Roy.

Good Monday morning, Cleo phans?
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Bah hahahahahaha! Covers tell a joke day too.

Y’all snerk it up. (((((HuGz!)))))

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

cute. Does Cleo do well on a rum boat?

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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

Probably has to do with how much she drinks.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  perkycat
3 years ago

Root beer and rum float?

I’ll have to think about it.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

The two women in front look like Sandra Oh and Sandra Bullock.

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