While I’ve never seen the human version, I remember a Pat Quinn (human version name) from his NHL days; so, when I saw that replaced with Patty Cutey, I thought maybe you made a mistake (a male role now female, not that the NHL Pat Quinn is in the movie). But, the human version Pat Quinn is still alive (no mistake). Sorry to have doubted you! Kudos again, StelBel!!!
According to NWF: On the frozen shores of Hokkaido Island in far northern Japan, competition for food during winter can breed conflict.
Fahad Alenezi witnessed this one February when he visited a spot where white-tailed sea eagles were feeding on fish.
When a brazen red fox moved in to grab a bite, one eagle (right) “took exception to the incursion,” Alenezi said, “and gave the fox what looks like a good slap with its wings.”
Birds, second place: Fahad Alenezi, Al Farwaniyah, Kuwait
According to NWF: On the frozen shores of Hokkaido Island in far northern Japan, competition for food during winter can breed conflict.
Ever see doves or pidgins fight? They whip their wing forward and karate chop with the “thumb” joint. I rescued a trapped mourning dove once and he/she hit me and i was surprised (shocked!) at how much it stung. 😀
I shouldn’t have been surprised. They have well developed flight muscles.
When I was house-sitting for a neighbor about 10 years ago, taking care of her dog and 2 caged parrots for a few days,
one of the birds, an African Grey, hit me with a wing while I was filling his food dish.
…
She had promised me he was trained and wouldn’t peck me, even though he didn’t like strangers.
Hid did try to peck the other parrot, a big Green Amazon, so they had to live in separate cages… but supposedly not humans.
…
He surelooked like he wanted to bite me.
Instead, he flew up to a top corner of his cage, and kept saying … quite clearly … “If you must. If you must.”
…
It never occurred to me (nor, she later insisted, to her) that he would swoop down and swat me, and he only did it once.
He was about 18 years old, had been rescued by my friend at an early age from a stressful home, but still plucked his own feathers out, and was incapable of very much flight…
so it’s not like he had youthful, strong, wing muscles,
but he hit way harder than I expected.
…
Not enough to be painful, but enough to make me pull his dish out and never reach into his cage again,
even though she had thought he’d prefer not having it disturbed.
I wholeheartedly agree!! My sister and I attended an “Alice’s Restaurant” concert of his shortly after it first became popular at the John M. Greene Hall (Smith College) in Northampton, MA. It was so long ago that I couldn’t even find the date in a list of all his concerts, but it was in the late sixties.
What a memorable performance (just can’t remember the date!!) !
This took a while to find.
There’s some almost ubiquitous version with some woman doing what is apparently an explanation of this video. It’s terrible. This is the original 18 minute 49 second video I (and, I’m reasonably sure, you) first saw about the…
…“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”
It’s a compilation of scenes from the movie and is one of the funniest narrated / sung videos in existence.
I’m trying to entertain, not step on your toes.
If you want me to take it down I will, but I hope you won’t.
It’s OK, Alexi. I was so late finishing the poster and putting the page together tonight that I really didn’t want to take a long time looking for a better YouTube video of the song, so I’m glad you found it. Thanks for checking in. I appreciate it!
I can attest that dragging stuff up a hill is much harder than throwing it down. I have to clear my hill about once a year, and I use a rope in one hand, and a trash bag in the other hand while I climb back up several times. Good aerobic exercise, but a bit of a challenge as I get older/more sedentary. Otherwise, I tie the rope on the branches and have my wife drag them up the hill. Cell phones have made the communications much easier than yelling at her / her at me.
Arfside (not arflo) Barkley.
A bit of work, but the grandkids get to build forts down there. It’ll be fun as they grow older. I’m tempted to hide a microphone down there to hear them, but that would be intruding on their lives as they grow up.
I heard Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” in a pub I go to today. That reminded me that he had performed it with André Rieu.
If you’re grumpy or sleepy after watching this video, you want to be grumpy or sleepy.
As a side note, any of Lou Bega’s “Official Videos” are, in my opinion, “off” in terms of shooting quality (nothing out of line, just “off”).
His music is good, though.
And to
If you listen to this and decide you’d like to hear more of André Rieu, he and his orchestra are (all being well) at the “Tacoma Dome” Thursday, March 24, 2022.
(Arlo Guthrie lives in Washington, MA, which is just a bit northeast of Stockbridge and in the Massachusetts Berkshires, so, we’re kind of “neighbors”. He’s been a Massachusetts resident pretty much since “Alice’s Restaurant”, and also has contributed a lot to Berkshire health centers and other local causes.)
You know, it’s a little sad when a world renowned artist descends into cartoonery and reaches low for the cheap laugh. Belcherville? Really? What’s next, SB? WHOOSH!?
From The Department of MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW:
@Stel – the back story of the WKRP turkey drop episode is based on real events in Arkansas. Frank Bonner, who played Herb Tarlek, was from Arkansas.
The area around Yellville, Arkansas is famed for its wild turkeys, so the town decided to begin celebrating their turkeys by having a special turkey day on the first Friday and Saturday in October. The event began in the 1940s, where they would drop turkeys from the roof of the town’s courthouse. In the 1960s, that changed to dropping turkeys from an airplane. In 1989 National Enquirer covered the event and they made the whole thing quite infamous. Shortly after that PETA (or, as we call them in Arkansas, the “paint throwers”), made them stop the “official” turkey drop, although anonymous pilots have sometimes buzzed the festival and launched turkeys overhead.
OH! Alice’s Canine Cuisine Restaurant is a basset Thanksgiving classic!
A funny, well-known and oft-told bit of countercultural doggy history, as howled (with a bit of barking) by Arflo Barkie…
And nowadays, a well-remembered film … starring some of the actual heroes and/or perpetrators, categorised according to your own viewpoint.
,,,
The music is, for me, only prevented from being an earworm by its extreme length….
Luckily, the upside of having heard it so many times is that different parts come to mind when I think of it, rather than a few lines on repeat.
..
Adding to the trivia … Alice Bark, the real owner of the restaurant portrayed, refused to play herself in the film, so she was played by actress Patty Cutey.
Even so, she afterward claimed to be misrepresented and insulted, and refused to help publicize or promote the movie.
In later years, though, she decided the fame wasn’t so bad, and renamed her third restaurant “Alice’s.”
…
Arflo, meanwhile, while always working on projects to help the less privileged, has changed his political views a few times…
a liberal Doggocrat, becoming a Repuplican for a while, swinging back, and now claiming to belong to neither party.
Alice Bark, real-life Police Chief Billy Oh-Boy, the real-life judge Jimmy Pawson all disputed certain bits of the tail… but
the latter two participated and promoted it.
..
Whatever… the song and the movie will always stand on their own.
I don’t think this chain will be expanding to this side of the Atlantic any time soon.
What is a wonder to me is how it manages to have six locations in the U.K. — HUDDERSFIELD • HULL • LEEDS • MANCHESTER • SHEFFIELD • YORK .
Elsewhere in my searches, the title for the picture comes up as…
…Pink garlic tator tots from Döner Summer (York). The chain’s menu at the link below leads me to believe the sauce is “PINK AIOLI.”
I’m reminded of the annual NPR offering of Mama Stamberg’s cranberry relish. I made it one year. Yes, it looks like it’s made with Pepto Bismol. It is tasty if you like a relish with some zing to it (it’s the horseradish). I liked it. Nobody else did, though.
“Excepting Alice”. Stockbridge, MA. Went to one of Guthrie’s concerts in Troy, NY. His truck broke down on the Mass Pike. He did the first hour with the guitar he had in his car and on the theater’s sound system and he was not happy. “Isn’t this the most f**ked up concert you’ve ever been to?” Guy in the front row… “Nope! You’re actually here!”
Good morning music and philm phans! Great poster as always, MS Bel.
It’s a bit of a fib that Fibonacci, the 13th-century Italian math whiz, was the first to sketch out a number sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on forever. In fact, scholars in India described the sequence centuries before Fibonacci, and they probably weren’t the first to figure it out either. But in any case, each November 23—that is, 11/23—we celebrate the infinite series known as the Fibonacci sequence.
So what does this have to do with our image of a fossilized shell? Try to picture the Fibonacci sequence on a graph. If you properly arrange squares of the areas 1×1, 1×1, 2×2, 3×3, 5×5, 8×8, etc., on graphing paper, a curved line drawn through each square will form a perfect expanding spiral not unlike the ammonite fossil cross-sectioned here. Not every spiral in nature expresses a perfect Fibonacci sequence, but nature does seem to have a thing for spirals. And in that sense the Fibonacci sequence seems especially elegant.
[Human Version]
i don’t really get the small head thing… but I see the humans copied it….
does it represent putting his head on a platter?
Why do the humans always duplicate basset history anyway?
I don’t get it either, but that’s the conclusion that I came up with, too!
Hey @StillTheBelle – Is Arflo Barkie any kin to @Perkycat’s favorite* jazz singer?
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*Barkie Howladay
You just get funnier and funnier!
Huh! That never occurred to me, but maybe….?!
While I’ve never seen the human version, I remember a Pat Quinn (human version name) from his NHL days; so, when I saw that replaced with Patty Cutey, I thought maybe you made a mistake (a male role now female, not that the NHL Pat Quinn is in the movie). But, the human version Pat Quinn is still alive (no mistake). Sorry to have doubted you! Kudos again, StelBel!!!
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© Fahad Alenezi, 2021 National Wildlife® Photo Contest
Birds, second place: Fahad Alenezi, Al Farwaniyah, Kuwait
According to NWF: On the frozen shores of Hokkaido Island in far northern Japan, competition for food during winter can breed conflict.
Fahad Alenezi witnessed this one February when he visited a spot where white-tailed sea eagles were feeding on fish.
When a brazen red fox moved in to grab a bite, one eagle (right) “took exception to the incursion,” Alenezi said, “and gave the fox what looks like a good slap with its wings.”
Birds, second place: Fahad Alenezi, Al Farwaniyah, Kuwait
According to NWF: On the frozen shores of Hokkaido Island in far northern Japan, competition for food during winter can breed conflict.
Ever see doves or pidgins fight? They whip their wing forward and karate chop with the “thumb” joint. I rescued a trapped mourning dove once and he/she hit me and i was surprised (shocked!) at how much it stung. 😀
I shouldn’t have been surprised. They have well developed flight muscles.
Wow….it never occurred to me that birds would have that kind of strength!
When I was house-sitting for a neighbor about 10 years ago, taking care of her dog and 2 caged parrots for a few days,
one of the birds, an African Grey, hit me with a wing while I was filling his food dish.
…
She had promised me he was trained and wouldn’t peck me, even though he didn’t like strangers.
Hid did try to peck the other parrot, a big Green Amazon, so they had to live in separate cages… but supposedly not humans.
…
He sure looked like he wanted to bite me.
Instead, he flew up to a top corner of his cage, and kept saying … quite clearly … “If you must. If you must.”
…
It never occurred to me (nor, she later insisted, to her) that he would swoop down and swat me, and he only did it once.
He was about 18 years old, had been rescued by my friend at an early age from a stressful home, but still plucked his own feathers out, and was incapable of very much flight…
so it’s not like he had youthful, strong, wing muscles,
but he hit way harder than I expected.
…
Not enough to be painful, but enough to make me pull his dish out and never reach into his cage again,
even though she had thought he’d prefer not having it disturbed.
One of the best pieces of storytelling ever!
Ever, ever! 😀
Both the record and the movie.
But, make sure that you listen to the record first. 🙂
I wholeheartedly agree!! My sister and I attended an “Alice’s Restaurant” concert of his shortly after it first became popular at the John M. Greene Hall (Smith College) in Northampton, MA. It was so long ago that I couldn’t even find the date in a list of all his concerts, but it was in the late sixties.
What a memorable performance (just can’t remember the date!!) !
This came on the radio while I was on a drive with my father, and he actually enjoyed it. Until we got to the part about the draft.
This took a while to find.
There’s some almost ubiquitous version with some woman doing what is apparently an explanation of this video. It’s terrible. This is the original 18 minute 49 second video I (and, I’m reasonably sure, you) first saw about the…
…“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”
It’s a compilation of scenes from the movie and is one of the funniest narrated / sung videos in existence.
I’m trying to entertain, not step on your toes.
If you want me to take it down I will, but I hope you won’t.
It’s OK, Alexi. I was so late finishing the poster and putting the page together tonight that I really didn’t want to take a long time looking for a better YouTube video of the song, so I’m glad you found it. Thanks for checking in. I appreciate it!
I can attest that dragging stuff up a hill is much harder than throwing it down. I have to clear my hill about once a year, and I use a rope in one hand, and a trash bag in the other hand while I climb back up several times. Good aerobic exercise, but a bit of a challenge as I get older/more sedentary. Otherwise, I tie the rope on the branches and have my wife drag them up the hill. Cell phones have made the communications much easier than yelling at her / her at me.
Arfside (not arflo) Barkley.
Bless you, Arfside……..that sounds like a ton of work!!!
A bit of work, but the grandkids get to build forts down there. It’ll be fun as they grow older. I’m tempted to hide a microphone down there to hear them, but that would be intruding on their lives as they grow up.
I heard Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” in a pub I go to today. That reminded me that he had performed it with André Rieu.
If you’re grumpy or sleepy after watching this video, you want to be grumpy or sleepy.
As a side note, any of Lou Bega’s “Official Videos” are, in my opinion, “off” in terms of shooting quality (nothing out of line, just “off”).
His music is good, though.
And to
If you listen to this and decide you’d like to hear more of André Rieu, he and his orchestra are (all being well) at the “Tacoma Dome” Thursday, March 24, 2022.
This video is a lot of fun, seeing the audience members of all ages and gender dancing to the music.
(Arlo Guthrie lives in Washington, MA, which is just a bit northeast of Stockbridge and in the Massachusetts Berkshires, so, we’re kind of “neighbors”. He’s been a Massachusetts resident pretty much since “Alice’s Restaurant”, and also has contributed a lot to Berkshire health centers and other local causes.)
Wow, that 46 miles only looks like about an inch and a half!
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Just for you, Stel…
Thanks, Susan !!! Especially since I wasn’t even aware of this song. I love it!!
You know, it’s a little sad when a world renowned artist descends into cartoonery and reaches low for the cheap laugh. Belcherville? Really? What’s next, SB? WHOOSH!?
No! World renowned artist StelBel, if she is indeed the one you attempt to disparage, did NOT mention Belcherville!
Not once.
Cheap laugh, indeed… Who is reaching for that NOW, under false premises?
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What StelBel DID, though, will literally put BelcherTOWN on the map.
Thanks, Susan (again!) ! I couldn’t have said it any better myself!
Anybody remember this?
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Stel, you have posted so much, I have to come back tomorrow to see the rest!
I remember, of course!
I bet Dry does, too… where have you been, Dry?
And if Grog were still coming here, I’m sure he could tell you all about it.
LOL
I know. 😀
Ha ha! I was thinking of Dry and Grog when I posted it!
From The Department of MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW:
@Stel – the back story of the WKRP turkey drop episode is based on real events in Arkansas. Frank Bonner, who played Herb Tarlek, was from Arkansas.
The area around Yellville, Arkansas is famed for its wild turkeys, so the town decided to begin celebrating their turkeys by having a special turkey day on the first Friday and Saturday in October. The event began in the 1940s, where they would drop turkeys from the roof of the town’s courthouse. In the 1960s, that changed to dropping turkeys from an airplane. In 1989 National Enquirer covered the event and they made the whole thing quite infamous. Shortly after that PETA (or, as we call them in Arkansas, the “paint throwers”), made them stop the “official” turkey drop, although anonymous pilots have sometimes buzzed the festival and launched turkeys overhead.
Now you know.
Arkansas note: Friday and Saturday are apparently “a day” in Arkansas.
It amazes me that anyone would think it was a good idea to throw turkeys from a plane! Seriously, it’s just cruel and dangerous!
A Thanksgiving favorite! The Trivia was a great addition.
OH! Alice’s Canine Cuisine Restaurant is a basset Thanksgiving classic!
A funny, well-known and oft-told bit of countercultural doggy history, as howled (with a bit of barking) by Arflo Barkie…
And nowadays, a well-remembered film … starring some of the actual heroes and/or perpetrators, categorised according to your own viewpoint.
,,,
The music is, for me, only prevented from being an earworm by its extreme length….
Luckily, the upside of having heard it so many times is that different parts come to mind when I think of it, rather than a few lines on repeat.
..
Adding to the trivia … Alice Bark, the real owner of the restaurant portrayed, refused to play herself in the film, so she was played by actress Patty Cutey.
Even so, she afterward claimed to be misrepresented and insulted, and refused to help publicize or promote the movie.
In later years, though, she decided the fame wasn’t so bad, and renamed her third restaurant “Alice’s.”
…
Arflo, meanwhile, while always working on projects to help the less privileged, has changed his political views a few times…
a liberal Doggocrat, becoming a Repuplican for a while, swinging back, and now claiming to belong to neither party.
Alice Bark, real-life Police Chief Billy Oh-Boy, the real-life judge Jimmy Pawson all disputed certain bits of the tail… but
the latter two participated and promoted it.
..
Whatever… the song and the movie will always stand on their own.
Great review and additional info, Susan! I had no idea he had switched political parties. Thanks!
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A basset after my own heart!
(must be National Bacon Day)
Why are you torturing that poor starved-almost-to-death (or so he says) dog?
Eyes on the prize, Fido!
…mmmmmmmmm…
I’ve seen that look in every dogs eyes that i’ve been around.
I’ve just never seen it captured so well. 😀
The look also works for toys.
“…expresso coffee tastes mighty good…
cashews
Gesundheit!
(courtesy of Randy B over at Frog Applause™)
my pleasure. whoosh that on back to Randy B
I feel honored.
(that is how you intended for me to feel, right?)
I don’t think this chain will be expanding to this side of the Atlantic any time soon.
What is a wonder to me is how it manages to have six locations in the U.K. — HUDDERSFIELD • HULL • LEEDS • MANCHESTER • SHEFFIELD • YORK .
Elsewhere in my searches, the title for the picture comes up as…
…Pink garlic tator tots from Döner Summer (York). The chain’s menu at the link below leads me to believe the sauce is “PINK AIOLI.”
Döner Summer (York) — Menu
Looks like (bits of ???) smothered in Pepto Bismol.
I’m reminded of the annual NPR offering of Mama Stamberg’s cranberry relish. I made it one year. Yes, it looks like it’s made with Pepto Bismol. It is tasty if you like a relish with some zing to it (it’s the horseradish). I liked it. Nobody else did, though.
Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish Recipe : NPR
I can’t imagine that anyone would find that “food” appetizing. My reaction was very similar to Nighthawk‘s first GIF.
“Excepting Alice”. Stockbridge, MA. Went to one of Guthrie’s concerts in Troy, NY. His truck broke down on the Mass Pike. He did the first hour with the guitar he had in his car and on the theater’s sound system and he was not happy. “Isn’t this the most f**ked up concert you’ve ever been to?” Guy in the front row… “Nope! You’re actually here!”
Good morning music and philm phans! Great poster as always, MS Bel.
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Y’all have a great day. (((((HuGz!)))))
for National Espresso Day:
There are so many videos to watch today! What fun. I’ll have to come back and enjoy each one.
As for the movie, another one I never saw. But, as I always say……..I learn so much reading the comics!
Happy Fibonacci Day!
(BING picture of the day)
It’s a bit of a fib that Fibonacci, the 13th-century Italian math whiz, was the first to sketch out a number sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on forever. In fact, scholars in India described the sequence centuries before Fibonacci, and they probably weren’t the first to figure it out either. But in any case, each November 23—that is, 11/23—we celebrate the infinite series known as the Fibonacci sequence.
So what does this have to do with our image of a fossilized shell? Try to picture the Fibonacci sequence on a graph. If you properly arrange squares of the areas 1×1, 1×1, 2×2, 3×3, 5×5, 8×8, etc., on graphing paper, a curved line drawn through each square will form a perfect expanding spiral not unlike the ammonite fossil cross-sectioned here. Not every spiral in nature expresses a perfect Fibonacci sequence, but nature does seem to have a thing for spirals. And in that sense the Fibonacci sequence seems especially elegant.