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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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My fav was the one with the Leprechauns and the pot of gold.
What was so grat about Bonanza ws hat they had actual writers with classical story licks who would go after big themes. I saw an episode recently where Little Joe had to kill a high school Indian friend who "went bad." Imagine that now! Few shows have the sack to have the stars do anything beyond posing and spuing tude and smug bosh, and if things heat up--like on the Sopranos--it overdone or exploitive.
Bonanza went for the big themes, big emotions, people being off center--remember that Ben Cartright (son of Russian Jewish immigrants) was often drawn as both a level headed patriarch and a short tempered control freak who would kill a man who done him wrong of wressled his beeves.
Great stuff.
JL
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2005 - 04:55pm PT
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...and lets not forget Hoss's contributions to slacklining. To not mention that is to insult his memory.
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426
Sport climber
The Pet Sematary, TN
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Nov 22, 2005 - 07:10pm PT
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-You need to take a pad out to Tahoe next summer and take the tour of the Ranch (Incline Village), mang.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Nov 22, 2005 - 07:39pm PT
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how about this, thread? nope, haven't posted here yet
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2005 - 06:24pm PT
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Take a pad...now that's a true tribute to Blocker.
I'd advocate that for all you dumpasses.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jul 28, 2006 - 03:47am PT
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Hoss befriending another big lunk, who'd done some sort of wrong.
Dan Blocker's Emmy-worthy performance.
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Festus
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Aug 23, 2007 - 04:19pm PT
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Okay, okay, I was startin' to have second thoughts about him when that eraserhead thing appeared about 8,000 times (though 8,001--"Jaybro Kicks Ass"--buckled me) but THIS has to be one of the best OT threads ever. It's Donny's "Slaughterhouse Five".
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TwistedCrank
climber
Luxury rehabilitation treatment facility in Boise
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:04pm PT
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When did Ponderosa become Bonanza? There's something in my memory banks that says that there was something like that.
When did Ben Cartwright quit riding a horse and piloting a starship?
I'm confused.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:16pm PT
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and how did adam cartwright become Trapper John MD?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:47pm PT
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Davy Crockett could outdraw them all.
The following stanza begins the twenty-stanza ballad:
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Killed him a b'ar when he was only three.
Davy, Davy Crockett
King of the Wild Frontier
Edit: Now that I've provided you all with ear candy for the day, the other nineteen stanzas seem unnecessary.
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Gene
climber
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:52pm PT
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Dan Blocker, in addition to being the Father of Slacklining, moved to Europe out of disgust for US policy in Viet Nam. A true Renaissance man.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
that Heaven's Gate comet. CRAP it's cold...
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2012 - 03:52pm PT
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I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I state that a Dan Blocker tribute thread is FAR overdue.
Let's get one going here quick.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
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He was indeed.....you should've seen him on the slack line.
Un.
Be.
Leeveable.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2017 - 10:51am PT
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The sad, sad state of humanity....
The Ponderosa Ranch is no longer.
Thanks a lot millennials...that's what happens when have no interest in things that don't suck.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:07am PT
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Donny -
When did they close the place?
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:20am PT
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Oh man I thought this thread was gonna be about this guy.....
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 12:21pm PT
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Just a couple of weeks ago I peeked through the fence at the Ponderosa. Is it true Hoss's girlfriends always died?
trivia answer is Dave DeBusschere (RIP)
pitched for the white sox in '63 (and was also rookie of the year in the NBA
Cotton Nash also played for the White Sox and Kentucky Colonels in 1967. He was a three time basketball All-American at Kentucky, and SEC scoring champion.
In 1970 on a hot and humid night, while playing for AAA Evansville, I saw him launch a ball into orbit. It was an incredible blast and I believe the longest homerun I've ever seen. He led the American Association in homeruns that year, which was a pitcher's league.
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