Saw them do this live, back in the 70’s, at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, CA…
a theater-in-the-round, where every seat was fairly close to the slowly turning stage.
They had a lot pf people on stage… dancers, singers, musicians… different races, ages… all full of energy… more active than in this video…. dancing around, till it was hard to stay in your seat.
…
Had to buy the album after that.
I’ll never forget that the lyrics on the back of the jacket said “Thank you, fallettinme be mice elf agin.”
I may be misspelling “fallettinme” … it’s been a long time… but listening to it, I always kind of pictured Sly wearing a mouse-nose mask, in a long knit elf’s cap.
There’s not much of a story, so I didn’t think I was holding out on anything.
Several years ago, Nighthawks posted a picture of the Lone Ranger and Tonto that he found on the internet.
In the photo, Tonto was wearing socks. I thought it would be amusing to change them to argyles. This was long before Cleo and Company on Sherpa. I think we posted those pictures on Citizen Dog…..like I said….a long time ago.
So many jokes based on this show: We variously called it “The Lonesome Stranger,” or “The Lone Arranger (masked marriage broker).” “Kemo Sabe” was said to be Apache for “horse’s rear end.” The latter might be a Gary Larson gag.
Tonto said in an old TV episode that “Kemo Sabe” means “Trusted scout” … but now you can find references online to what it supposedly means in half a dozen Native American languages…. all different. in one it’s “white shirt”, in another something about a friend.
…
The show creators later claimed innocence when people complained the “Tonto” is Spanish for “foolish or ignorant”…
and that “Kemo Sabe” also sounds like Spanish…. some corruption of “Quien sabe” or …” “Qui mas sabe” … “he who knows” or “he who knows most.”
….
So some say the names were an inside joke… making the Lone Ranger the wise leader and Tonto the foolish sidekick…
when often it was Tonto who saved the Ranger’s behind.
I made up this recipe because I found that while you can only have “more-good-or-less good” versions of alfredo sauce in restaurants, any I’ve had, even the best, always lacked a bit of something.
So, as I said, I made up my own. It suits me just fine.
MY ALFREDO SAUCE
(with white sauce base)
If necessary make 1/2 cup of garlic butter:
1/2 cup butter at room temperature
3 garlic cloves (4 or 5 if they’re small), trimmed, peeled, and sliced thinly
Put the sliced cloves in the bottom of a glass oven-proof container which has a lid.
Put the 1/2 cup butter on top; there’s no need to mix.
Place the butter / sliced cloves mix on the second rack (top rack is first / don’t forget the lid) of a cold oven.
Turn the oven to 350° F. When the thermostat cuts out, shut the oven off and walk away. When the oven cools down, there will be 1/2 cup of garlic butter and cloves for use in the Alfredo sauce (or, if you just want garlic toast…).
ALFREDO SAUCE
1/2 cup of garlic butter as above with the sliced cloves
1 cup 1/2 & 1/2 cream (10% milk fat)
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup whipping cream (35% milk fat)
1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
Salt and pepper to taste
Put the 1/2 & 1/2 cream in a blender; add the garlic butter and sliced cloves and purée. Set aside.
Spread the flour in the bottom of a heated saucepan ( at about 3/8ths of the dial) and let it heat up. Add the butter and when it is melted blend with the flour until smooth.
Pour the purée into the saucepan and blend.
Stir in the whipping cream.
Heat to boiling at just over a medium heat (5/8 of the stove dial). Turn off the heat.
Add the grated Parmesan in at least three additions, stirring constantly, and allow it to melt before the next addition. When all the cheese is added, heat the mixture to a low boil; turn off the heat when the sauce thickens.
If you taste test the sauce at this point you’ll likely find it bland.
Spoon over prepared pasta.
Salt and pepper each serving to the consumer’s taste. Notes from me:
1 pound of butter is 2 cups. Cut off 1/4 of the length, and voila, 1/2 a cup of butter.
It’s been years since we watched Ferris Dogbiscuit’s Day Off. We’ll have to watch for it on one of the puppy streaming services. Thanks for the reminder, Stel.
Computer/synthesizer trio from Zurich, Switzerland: Dieter Meier, Boris Blank and Carlos Peron (who left to pursue a solo career in late 1982).
“Oh Yeah”: featured in the movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick and The Secret of My Success starring Michael J. Fox; issued with 2 different picture sleeves.
(This is the only single that they did that ever charted as far as I know.)
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I agree with you, P51 Strega. It IS strangely hypnotic. Oh yeah……….!!
Well, here we have a case of two different references that are at odds with each other. Joel Whitburn’sTop Pop Singles 1955-1999 was the tried and true reference book for most American DJs before computers were widely used. My husband and I always had that book handy and that’s what I used in my above comment.
Wikipedia is the “go to” reference nowadays, but it’s been known to have errors now and then. I’m not saying that it’s in error in this case, but that is a possibility, I have more trust in the book that radio stations used consistently for decades than in Wikipedia…..but that’s just me. If you want to go with Wikipedia, that’s your call. No big deal. At least we can agree that it’s from the 80’s, anyway, and reached #51 in the U.S.
OK; if you’re referring to the US only, I agree with you because it’s the top 100 only that count in my opinion.
But you didn’t. say so… 😉
And I’m quite familiar with Yello.
Yes. The book is geared to the U.S. top 100 chart and was used extensively by U.S. DJs and radio stations. So, even though Yello is a European group, the information contained in the book only pertains to U.S. stats.
Even with the availability of so much information on the internet (some reliable and some…not.), I find myself still relying on this particular dog-eared pop music ‘bible’. I will be mindful, in the future, to mention that any stats that I include are from the U.S.
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Also, I don’t believe that I intimated that youweren’t familiar with Yello (although your last sentence reads that way, which may or may not have been intentional). My only reason for including all the information that I found in the book on them, in the first place, was for our C&C members who might not have been familiar with them at all.
I don’t know about you, but I am done with this subject now.
I think we’ve nit-picked it to death!
[human version]
From the human universe:
“Mad Magazine”‘s “Fearless Bullers Day Off”
You can pause the play back to give yourself time to read the page (it’s a sort of slide show). LINK
I know the basset universe’s “Yap Magazine” did the original parody it titled “Ferris Bulldog’s Day Off” but I can’t find it in the human universe.
I love Carly!
Gecko and insect on rainy day, Indonesia
By:
Shikhei Goh:
If you like really well done macro-photography of insects, snakes, tree frogs small animals etc., Google him, there is much to be seen.
A small sample LINK
great song and video!
Saw them do this live, back in the 70’s, at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, CA…
a theater-in-the-round, where every seat was fairly close to the slowly turning stage.
They had a lot pf people on stage… dancers, singers, musicians… different races, ages… all full of energy… more active than in this video…. dancing around, till it was hard to stay in your seat.
…
Had to buy the album after that.
I’ll never forget that the lyrics on the back of the jacket said “Thank you, fallettinme be mice elf agin.”
I may be misspelling “fallettinme” … it’s been a long time… but listening to it, I always kind of pictured Sly wearing a mouse-nose mask, in a long knit elf’s cap.
Hey Stel, did you add the argyle sox to Jay Silverheels? Where are your trademark sparklies?
um….well….yeah….a long time ago.
You even put “Tonto_socks” in the file name… but you’re holding out on the story???
There’s not much of a story, so I didn’t think I was holding out on anything.
Several years ago, Nighthawks posted a picture of the Lone Ranger and Tonto that he found on the internet.
In the photo, Tonto was wearing socks. I thought it would be amusing to change them to argyles. This was long before Cleo and Company on Sherpa. I think we posted those pictures on Citizen Dog…..like I said….a long time ago.
Nice job on shortening the pants to show them off!
There’s condo’s in that area of Chatsworth, CA now. Bummer.
You can tell what area they’re in by the bolders?
We used to live in Chatsworth and we climbed all over the area. A lot of westerns were made in those hills.
Thanks for clueing me in. Today is just not my day!
So many jokes based on this show: We variously called it “The Lonesome Stranger,” or “The Lone Arranger (masked marriage broker).” “Kemo Sabe” was said to be Apache for “horse’s rear end.” The latter might be a Gary Larson gag.
Tonto said in an old TV episode that “Kemo Sabe” means “Trusted scout” … but now you can find references online to what it supposedly means in half a dozen Native American languages…. all different. in one it’s “white shirt”, in another something about a friend.
…
The show creators later claimed innocence when people complained the “Tonto” is Spanish for “foolish or ignorant”…
and that “Kemo Sabe” also sounds like Spanish…. some corruption of “Quien sabe” or …” “Qui mas sabe” … “he who knows” or “he who knows most.”
….
So some say the names were an inside joke… making the Lone Ranger the wise leader and Tonto the foolish sidekick…
when often it was Tonto who saved the Ranger’s behind.
Obituary: Jay Silverheels LINK
Obituary: Clayton Moore LINK
Low budget.
What is low budget? I seem to have lost the reply thread.
Indians in argyle!
I dunno Rod. The woman just walked in and sat down, and you are asking her to spread her wings and let you come inside. A little forward?
One of life’s unanswerable mysteries, for me, is how Rod Stewart ever made a living as a singer. He’s not the only one.
I actually like his weird, raspy voice… and the sound of this song…
but the lyrics are off-putting, as Dennis notes…
Is she really a “virgin child“?…
and his acting in it is as warm as a wooden totem pole.
…
She’s sitting there like a store mannequin; he sings “my heart’s on fire” with no expression….
and his little wink somewhere in the middle is cringe-worthy.
I really should have just posted the song without the video. I still like the song, but yeah….the video sucks.
“Mikey Chinitchy”: love it!
And I do, too!!
I must be dense today. I don’t get it.
Chin itchy. The name in your poster above?
OMG! I did the poster a while ago, so I didn’t remember the cast names that I came up with! Duh!
Thanks for setting me straight.
Oh… it’s “Ferris Basset’s Day Off!”
I loved that movie… even though I know it was aimed at 2 year old pups….
not little puppies, but probably not 3-year-olds, cos they’re full-grown dogs…
Ferris Basset is full of adolescent dog humor.
Very young, very naughty, but ever-so-charming, Matthew Brodbiscuit…
Those sunglasses hide the ever-present twinkle in his deep brown eyes.
In this film he makes a day’s escape from obedience school,
dragging his best pal around all the attractions of Cleveland…. and you find yourself rooting for him to get away with it.
Ferris Basset could do no wrong….
and with his mock soulful glances combined with a mischievous puppy grin… neither can Matthew Brodbiscuit.
The other stars are pretty much just along for the ride…
but a basset always makes an amiable foil….
and even the smaller roles are played by the Howlywood “pick of the litter” … so to speak.
…
Sigh… look at the human poster in Stel’s comment.
It doesn’t even credit the cast…
I suppose a truant human could never have the charm of a truant basset hound… so who cares, right?
Great review, as usual, Susan! Thanks!!
spaghetti day!
Mmmm. That looks good enough to eat.
I agree. Yum.
I made up this recipe because I found that while you can only have “more-good-or-less good” versions of alfredo sauce in restaurants, any I’ve had, even the best, always lacked a bit of something.
So, as I said, I made up my own. It suits me just fine.
MY ALFREDO SAUCE
(with white sauce base)
If necessary make 1/2 cup of garlic butter:
1/2 cup butter at room temperature
3 garlic cloves (4 or 5 if they’re small), trimmed, peeled, and sliced thinly
Put the sliced cloves in the bottom of a glass oven-proof container which has a lid.
Put the 1/2 cup butter on top; there’s no need to mix.
Place the butter / sliced cloves mix on the second rack (top rack is first / don’t forget the lid) of a cold oven.
Turn the oven to 350° F. When the thermostat cuts out, shut the oven off and walk away. When the oven cools down, there will be 1/2 cup of garlic butter and cloves for use in the Alfredo sauce (or, if you just want garlic toast…).
ALFREDO SAUCE
1/2 cup of garlic butter as above with the sliced cloves
1 cup 1/2 & 1/2 cream (10% milk fat)
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup whipping cream (35% milk fat)
1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
Salt and pepper to taste
Put the 1/2 & 1/2 cream in a blender; add the garlic butter and sliced cloves and purée. Set aside.
Spread the flour in the bottom of a heated saucepan ( at about 3/8ths of the dial) and let it heat up. Add the butter and when it is melted blend with the flour until smooth.
Pour the purée into the saucepan and blend.
Stir in the whipping cream.
Heat to boiling at just over a medium heat (5/8 of the stove dial). Turn off the heat.
Add the grated Parmesan in at least three additions, stirring constantly, and allow it to melt before the next addition. When all the cheese is added, heat the mixture to a low boil; turn off the heat when the sauce thickens.
If you taste test the sauce at this point you’ll likely find it bland.
Spoon over prepared pasta.
Salt and pepper each serving to the consumer’s taste.
Notes from me:
1 pound of butter is 2 cups. Cut off 1/4 of the length, and voila, 1/2 a cup of butter.
So – my first impression was right, but it misses the raw egg.
Spaghetti Carbonara.
Brought over from today’s “Ripley’s.”
Where’s Dick when you need him?
Jamaican beef patties
No, Imaican soup.
???
Oh. I get it now.
The geriatric set return to the bridge of the Enterprise
Love the yellow v-neck sweater that George Takei wore for this shot. It looks like a Star Fleet uni.
I feel old.
me, too.
Me, three.
Jammie Perry
It’s been years since we watched Ferris Dogbiscuit’s Day Off. We’ll have to watch for it on one of the puppy streaming services. Thanks for the reminder, Stel.
Dogbiscuit? That would’ve been a good name.
Oh, my gosh! Now it’s MY turn to goof!
You just got confused cos the actor is named Brodbiscuit.
It’s easy to do.
You are too kind!
♥
Hah! That’s where it came from! I was confused myself! Thanks for helping us out, Susan!
A perfect poster! Love it!
Thanks!
Oh yeah… Yelo is strangely hypnotic.
From Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles 1955-1999:
YELLO
debut: 8/8/87
peak: 51
weeks on chart: 11
Computer/synthesizer trio from Zurich, Switzerland: Dieter Meier, Boris Blank and Carlos Peron (who left to pursue a solo career in late 1982).
“Oh Yeah”: featured in the movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick and The Secret of My Success starring Michael J. Fox; issued with 2 different picture sleeves.
(This is the only single that they did that ever charted as far as I know.)
………………………………………
I agree with you, P51 Strega. It IS strangely hypnotic. Oh yeah……….!!
Not quite…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yello#Notable_singles
Well, here we have a case of two different references that are at odds with each other. Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 was the tried and true reference book for most American DJs before computers were widely used. My husband and I always had that book handy and that’s what I used in my above comment.
Wikipedia is the “go to” reference nowadays, but it’s been known to have errors now and then. I’m not saying that it’s in error in this case, but that is a possibility, I have more trust in the book that radio stations used consistently for decades than in Wikipedia…..but that’s just me. If you want to go with Wikipedia, that’s your call. No big deal. At least we can agree that it’s from the 80’s, anyway, and reached #51 in the U.S.
OK; if you’re referring to the US only, I agree with you because it’s the top 100 only that count in my opinion.
But you didn’t. say so… 😉
And I’m quite familiar with Yello.
Yes. The book is geared to the U.S. top 100 chart and was used extensively by U.S. DJs and radio stations. So, even though Yello is a European group, the information contained in the book only pertains to U.S. stats.
Even with the availability of so much information on the internet (some reliable and some…not.), I find myself still relying on this particular dog-eared pop music ‘bible’. I will be mindful, in the future, to mention that any stats that I include are from the U.S.
……………………………………
Also, I don’t believe that I intimated that you weren’t familiar with Yello (although your last sentence reads that way, which may or may not have been intentional). My only reason for including all the information that I found in the book on them, in the first place, was for our C&C members who might not have been familiar with them at all.
I don’t know about you, but I am done with this subject now.
I think we’ve nit-picked it to death!
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