Good morning, Newdists! Grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us for some chat and such.
This is the music I’m listening to while I put this diary together. Shadow likes it; he’s curled up against my legs and chillin’.
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NASA astronaut Gene Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission. The initials "TDC" are still there, and will probably be for tens of thousands of years to come.
Studies have showed that goats have accents.
Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.
English actor Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco, which he lost.
There's a very adorable competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning—rabbit show jumping. A group of bunnies is called a fluffle. A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle.
And now for something completely different. Yesterday, in a comment in Itzl, we kicked off a bit about cartoons and other tv favourites.
We were talking about classic cartoons, which are shown on weekdays in the morning, and at the weekend on MeTV. My comment:
The host and sidekicks are so over the top that I don’t enjoy them at all. Toonie salad, anyone? heh Back when Bill was talking about the different toons and their history and creators, that was fun! Now? meh. Still, they have lots of fans. I skip those bits. Without them, though, we could have another toon or two!
I love Saturdays, when there is no host, and three solid hours of the classics: an hour each of Popeye, Tom and Jerry and Bugs and Friends.
Svengoolie is a fave for me, as well. Campy as heck, but that’s part of it. He’s been at it a long time and does it better than the youngsters. AND he talks about the movies, the makers, directors, actors, makeup artists...so much that I never knew! That makes it worth watching, even when he gets a bit too silly. The Sventoonie (ugh!!!) crap just got expanded, but I skip that and wait for Start Trek to come on,.
Tonight (Saturday), Svengoolie is showing “Godzilla, King of The Monsters,” which I think is the first of those movies and stars Raymond Burr (I keep wanting to type “Aaron Burr!!” LOL) I saw it in the cinema as a kid. Star Trek is going to show “Return To Tomorrow.”
This is a favourite episode of TOST...and I didn’t know that James Doohan was the voice of Sargon!! It gives Nimoy a chance to show a range of emotions that is rare in the early Trek-verse.
What I didn’t know, until I started doing a bit of rummaging, is that the original Svengoolie had quite the history! He worked with Dick Orkin in Chicago...does anyone else remember Chickenman?? I sure do, but have no idea how that got from Chicago to Baltimore! Probably the greatest testament to his humanity is that after he was inducted intot the Broadcasters Hall Of Fame:
On January 21, 2010, Orkin wrote to the National Association of Broadcasters, requesting them to remove his name from the Hall of Fame, because he did not wish to share the honor with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. According to Orkin, Limbaugh showed "reckless insensitivity" with his remarks regarding the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Orkin referred to Limbaugh as a "dangerous hate-monger" and a "perfidious human being"
Turns out, there is a lot about the tv and radio we grew up with that we either do not know, or don’t remember.
What’s on your mind this morning?