Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 19, 2023

I guess you could say Jackie Chan is a plugger. Think John Wayne was too.

Bought myself a tee-shirt that said, “I do my own stunts.” The only people who were impressed were the grandkids so, not a wasted effort.

And they don’t wear helmets!

Does that mean that a Plugger-cardiologist does his own stents?

I also do my own stunts, yeah! Just this morning I wiggled in sheer defiance of death my toes under the sheets while my kitty was ready to jump on it…

Most pluggers are too old to do athletic type stunts like you see in the movies. Even riding a saddled horse, which I did years ago, can be hard on the butt if the horse is trotting and possibly scary if the horse is going at a full gallop.

Plugger and stunt don’t really go together.

A plugger is more likely to just do slow walking on a horse. My parents did that in their 60s and 70s while renting a pair of horses on a nearby farm. I did some of that too, which was fun. The farm owners would use their own horses for fox hunting.

Cowboy bear eh. Tally hoooo…!

Have not been on a horse in decades ! Enjoy your ride you Texas Pluggers ;-)

Best stunt this week; toe nail clipping.

I still like going up on a ladder and on the roof to clean my own gutters.

Unfortunately, sometimes they backfire. My wife regularly reminds me of some of them when it looks like I’m headed down the same path.

Yeah, and his body aches for days afterward.

If they want to or not.

Ride’em, cowboy!

Yep, we do :D

…mostly by mistake

Racing through his mind… “How do you stop this thing!?”

Including the famous last words…“Ya’ll watch this!”

Depends on the actor- – -

“Hey y’all, watch this!” “OUCH!”

Some stars did and do their own stunts, if they’re allowed. Burt Reynolds back in the day, and ended up injury-laden and in pain the rest of his life. And Tom Cruise does some ridiculously dangerous stunts still. Dude is cray-cray!

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/12/20/omg-tom-cruise-stunt-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn

I was a new rider riding in a group on retired race horses. One idiot started yelling go, go, go. My horse took off at a gallop and I hadn’t learned gallop on an English saddle. I ended up on one side of the horse with one foot in a stirrup pulling on the reins with all my might. Horse stopped before I fell off.

My mind says, “I can still do that!” My body says, “Try it and die, fat boy!”

Pluggers have been known to pull a few stunts.

That must be a F-500 horse.