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zBrown
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Of course he doesn't see Alice. His eyes are closed and he flunked Castaneda's pass/fail phenomenoogly class.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 5, 2017 - 09:36pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 5, 2017 - 09:58pm PT
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Custom Z w/trailer tow.
I dreamed I was a very large jitterbug.
I danced rings around the cockroaches.
Then we got Raided.
[Click to View YouTube Video]"Bumstead, get in here!"
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zBrown
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Do you have the specs on the turning radius of that Z car? It's for a math project.
Speaking of Chris Crossing
Been all around this country, but never yet found Fennario
Did catch a glmpse of a photo of pretty Peggy-O (though)
Wonder if she ever married that guy
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Eliud Kipchoge Falls 26 Seconds Short In Nike's 2-Hour Marathon Attempt
Congrats to Kipchoge for new world marathon record
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2017 - 03:28pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2017 - 03:32pm PT
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Did not happen here...maybe in the Park.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2017 - 06:26pm PT
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Not in the desert of N. Africa.
Brit doc on the fight against Rommel from 1943.[Click to View YouTube Video]
This documentary is far superior to one produced by the Americans on the same subject. Darryl Zanuck got the blame bigtime for its lack of success, as explained in a Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_F._Zanuck
While Zanuck was on duty, 20th Century-Fox, like the other studios, contributed to the war effort by releasing a large number of their male stars for overseas service and many of their female stars for USO and war bond tours—while creating patriotic films under the often contentious supervision of a fledgling Office of War Information.
Jack L. Warner, whose studio lot happened to be next door to a Lockheed factory, was made a colonel in the Army Air Corps without ever actually having to leave the studio, let alone put on a uniform.
Not so Zanuck, who pleaded with the War Department, as soon as American troops were posted for action in North Africa and was rewarded with the assignment of covering the invasion for the Signal Corps.
The director John Ford, a longtime adversary of Zanuck's despite Zanuck's having shepherded Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940) past the censorious Hays office into production, had been making films as a commander in the U.S. Navy even before the U.S. entered the war, and he was horrified to discover himself drafted into Zanuck's Africa unit.
"Can't I ever get away from you?" he growled. "I bet if I die and go to heaven, you'll be waiting for me under a sign reading 'Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck'."
Ford's chagrin turned to real outrage when Zanuck, after three months, took all their footage from battles in Tunisia, most of which Ford had shot, and hastily assembled it into a picture that went into American theaters without Ford's name appearing anywhere.
The movie, released as "At The Front" with Zanuck credited as producer, was poorly received in the States, called amateurish, dull and even lacking in realism, prompting the affronted Zanuck to counter in The New York Times that he had resisted the temptation to stage events for a more convincing film.
Unfortunately, this controversy landed Zanuck into a Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Harry S. Truman, investigating "instant" colonels who were popping up and concentrating on famous Hollywood names. Unlike Col. Warner, most colonels from the studio system—Col. Frank Capra, Col. Anatole Litvak, Col. Hal Roach—were actually doing their cinematic jobs, often, like Zanuck, under enemy fire.
Nonetheless, when Col. Zanuck was named in this investigation in 1944, the usually combative mogul uncharacteristically and abruptly resigned his commission and left the Army. Biographer Leonard Mosley suggests this to be because of an inadvertent security leak when Zanuck had mentioned a top-secret, brand new, massively powerful bomb the size of a "golf ball" to a fellow officer from his Hollywood world. Whatever the reason, despite having published his own first-person account of his wartime adventures (The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther actually liked this book better than the film) he resigned.[9]
And of course, the remaining seven clips are on Youtube. Recommended highly by moi.
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zBrown
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Kinda gets you to wonderin' what was Darryl F'n Hannah doing in the Atlantic Ocean.
or out of it for that matter
Somethin' fishy goin' on, right Mr. Jones?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2017 - 10:40pm PT
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Recently on Jeopardy! a question relating to the Rolling Stones came up. The contestants just stood there, not knowing that Brian Jones was the original lead guitarist for the group. They were fairly young, but geeze, Lois.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2017 - 10:45pm PT
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The Friendly Wager.
So TJ Bob's got his new car, had it a day. He nearly gets wiped when a DUI/hit & run almost hits his new car head-on. Fortunately, TJ Bob swerved, avoiding CERTAIN DISFIGUREMENT and POSSIBLE DEATH and DISMEMBERMENT.
His deductible needs to be paid and he hasn't even gotten his payment booklet yet. Thank the fickle finger, TJ Bob.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2017 - 04:25am PT
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I'm a sucker for a tall blonde, like a lot of guys.
I was taken by the photo of Ina Ray and knew there were two other Hutton ladies of fame, so I did a little surfing and cowabunga this:
Ina Ray and June Hutton, a very popular big band singer, were in fact sisters. Ina happened to be taller and a bit more striking because of this (IMO), but both had lots of talent and good looks.
The other Hutton woman was Betty Hutton, another singer/dancer and a stage and film actress and (apparently, though I'm no hairdresser) blonde.
http://hollywoodlandforever.blogspot.com/2014/04/sisters-secrets-ina-ray-and-june.html
Skim the link for pertinent info on the sisters Hutton.
During her younger years on stage performing, Odessa was scooped up first by Gus Edwards who brought her to star in his revue "Future Stars Troupe" at the Palace Theater. She later performed in Lew Leslie's "Clowns in Clover" and sang the song "Full of the Devil." On Broadway, she performed in George White's revues: "Melody", "Never Had An Education," "Scandals", and then onto The Ziegfeld Follies all by the time she was 18 years old.
While performing in The Ziegfeld Follies, Ina Ray dazzled Irving Mills, the man who discovered the likes of Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Along with Alex Hyde, Mills convinced Ina Ray to come work for them in a new venture they had in mind, an all-girl orchestra.
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No wallflowers here. During the swing era, dancers were known as "jitterbuggers," while wall huggers were called "ickies."
edit: Where are my manners? At this time, there was a FOURTH blonde Hutton who held wide attention, namely the Woolworth's heiress, Barbara Hutton, but she was no "Blonde Bombshell of Rhythm." Instead, she was a "Blonde Bombshell of Dollars."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2017 - 05:14am PT
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Bob goes to mass every day. He's favored bigtime, I believe.
Here. For all you folks who are still aching after the IRS reamed you last month.
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You Have My Sympathy.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2017 - 05:16am PT
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For the collosal, tremendous, gigantic, stupendous Guido of the High Cs.
The Yacht Club Boys, previously known as The California Hummingbirds.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Not quite up to rolling stones, they could carry a tune.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Little known, but maybe true nonetheless, Brian Jones got his start in The Treniers.
Notice that in introducing the band to Walt Disney, only the bass player gets introduced.
It may be none of my business, but Brian Jones on lead?
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