Big Top by Rob Harrell for February 15, 2010

OMG! ROFLMAO!! You can always count on Dusty!! Oh I’m crying, this is GREAT!!!

When I’m done laughing, I’ll get breakfast up! Oh Lordy, lordy! This is SOOOO FUNNY!!!

Alrighty, Carmy is riding SHOTGUN! JFri is the driver Marg has the roof Me and Tabby will be under the seats Welcome, all ye who care to enter and risk bodily harm! We’re going to Eat & Park’s Breakfast Buffet!

I get to drive? Carmy usually drives but if you’re SURE……..

HI, MARG!!!

I would hurl too, Dusty!

Good Morning Marg, Akenta, Yguy, Doc, Cleo & the rest of theTribe, too!

That’s WHY YOU’RE DRIVING , JFRi! Don’t tell Carmy I said that! ;-)

Good Morning Dry, JFri and Marg! I’m not driving? It’s okay, I’m getting sleepy so I really shouldn’t be driving anyway. Woo Hoo! I’m riding shotgun!!

There’s too much snow on the road, she’s safer with the shotgun! ;-D

I get to sit on Carmy’s lap and I get to toot the horn.

HI MARG!

Wake me up when we get there! Like I said, I’ll be under the seat! :-D

I agree with Dusty.

Have No Babies. Change No Diapers. Refer to #1

Howdy Terry.

Yes Cleo you can toot the horn! LOL!

Good night all!

Oh My! Cleo’s sitting on my lap! **LilG’s gonna beat me up! I gotta hide!!

Hold the phone, Maude! Don’t tell Carmy what?!

HIJFRI, Dry, Carmy, Cleo, and Terry! Oh Boy, let’s get this car in motion!

WOOHOO!!!! What a RIDE?? Everybody OK? Marg? Marg? Anyone see where we lost Marg?? cleo, get your hands off my horn!!

Carmy, LilG won’t beat you up, but you might take a swing in my direction.

Watch those hands, buster!

SLAP

Sheesh Dusty, get out of the end zone!

Goodnight, guys, I’m way too tired…..

My hands are innocent, how can I have them on the horn and Carmy, although I would definitely choose Carmy over the horn.

Night, Marg!

Goodnight Dry and Marg! Cleo, you got 2 hands, don’t you? You’re one of those multi-taskers. SLAP!

Carmy I have two hands and they are a roamin’.

Cleo, I have two hands also, but mine are a slappin’.

Good Night Yappers!

Hello Everyone!

Will be mostly gone for next 2 weeks. Need to deal with the real world. If you wish to know I am doing okay, check out my daily appearances to offend the Supreme Ruler of the Birdbrains

Lot’s of Luv

Good morning and Happy President’s Day!! I’m glad I missed the ride to breakfast, though it is a long walk.

Cleo - you are looking a little blah today

What type of coffee do vampires prefer? Decoffinated!

What time would it be if five demons were chasing you? Five after one.

What kind of mistakes do spooks make? Boo boos

No matter what you choose in life, Be Happy!

CLEO I definitely agree with you about no babies (being a Zero Population freak) but I thought the way to that was KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!

Morning TRIBE! Thank God Valentine’s is over and President’s Day is here. I can spend $$$ on myself.

Good Morning Tribe

Hello to Akenta, Lewreader & LuvH8

Good Morning Doc. Get that much needed rest, sir. You deserve it.

Doc & Lonewolf - Good Morning Please be sure to check out my second message on Pibgorn today. Lonewolf, be sure to check back in at Bewley please.

Add on: Lonewolf we’re done at Bewley ( ;

Good morning Tribe

Yes, a rare holiday, whoo hoo! Waiting for the pest guy to come by so I can go back and snoozle. Still have to clear the chifarobe out, but that won’t take long

Other than that, it’s getting stuff together for a run to Goodwill before I break down and talk myself into thinking I will use this stuff I haven’t used in 10+ years.

I’ll be popping in and out, happy yapping.

Good morning, tribe. Sorry to be late to breakfast, but I had to WALK.

Is anyone having trouble signing in to Comics.com?

Hello & Good Bye Tribe & Everyone Else

Hi Quaby & Saucy

Congrats to Cleo for placing so high in the contest!

Okay, DocT that tells me to keep trying every so often and don’t worry if it don’t work.

I had tried to register, but it wouldn’t take that either.

Morning all. I had trouble at “the other one” as well but use this one as back-up Happy Pesident’s day! (BTW: Who are these happy prezs?)

Freakin’ poodles are ALLLL like that!

I’m off today w/o pay pt getting taxes done. Valentine’s wasn’t too bad my hubby gave me a small valentine cutie bear. Had to get an image done on my Rt shoulder. I’m having problems. It’s a cold day here for President’s day glad I was no where near the big car crash scene yesterday east.

Good Morning all. It is another beautiful day.

To answer the ?, I had no trouble getting into comics.com, haven’t for a while now. They must have changed something. Now if that annoying blue screen would stop popping up.

Morning Doc, Cleo, Akenta, kab, et all

Thanks Terry.

Goodquestion I use that sight also, but they don’t have Ben or Raising Duncan. Wish they did.

good morning Dry my feet are cold so me and Ana are fighting over the heater.

Doc, good morning

CLEO you KEEP YOUR HANDS OF MY CARMY!! LOL

thanks for breakfast Dry

so todays comic was GREAT! oh i laughed so hard it was greate

Good Morning Tabby and I will follow your advice. I had such a fun day yesterday it carried over to the Big Top, and to Carmy, no offense meant.

Cleo :0) Doc hows it going?

Howdy Doctor Toon-I still can’t get in to brand “X” so guess Dry and me SOL mates for now :☼

Ogdon Nash on babies:

A little Talcom is always welcome.

Goodquestion I got in, easily. I was bemoaning that the yahoo comics doesn’t carry Ben or Raising Duncan. I enjoy those strips immensely. I always like Ogden Nash quotes!

hungry and has a monkey child climbing all over me. save me!! bbl

Doc I want another dog, but don’t think it would sit well. I still may try it when the weather breaks, so I can house train it without freezing my buns off!

Doc how about you? poor cats being invaded in there own house. :0(

Dry i still think your pic is falling.

need to go bbl again

Good Night Doc.

Dry good training aids in a dog “sitting well.” snerk

We were asked last night when we were going to get another dog as everyone misses Cleo. My wife and I haven’t yet embraced the idea of another pet. Maybe eventually. I sure like having a dog around.

Why is it not surprising that Dusty is the one that didn’t help? Jfri, love the avatar.

Cleo Yes I miss having a dog, but as far as which is easier to take care of, a cats or dogs, I have found that cats are very easy and self sufficient. You can go away for a few days and leave cats on their own with enough food, water and litter and they’re fine. My cats are indoor, as were all my dogs.. No point in having pets if you keep them outside all the time. And my one cat is so loving and friendly, like a dog.

Dry, Cleo was extremely self-sufficient. She had full run of the neighborhood and had many households that welcomed her in. It would be hard to find another dog that walks down the driveway and looks both ways to check for traffic.

Good Morning johnnyd.

celecca said, about 15 hungers ago

“I am craving Chinese food and tamales. Wonder why?”

On Chinese tamales (or a most unreasonable facsimile therof).

Hi Johnny!

Cleo, you’re lucky that you live in a somewhat secluded area. Our street has gotten so busy over the years. WIth our last dog, she would escape when the door was open, until she turned about 2, and we would have to literally stop traffic if she was on the road. OF course, she was a lab and beagle mix so she had that instinct to hunt down pat! Of course< I had a yellow lab once and she was so well behaved. Go figure!

Oh, and

GOOD MOR-NING, TRIBE!

(in my best Grade-School sing-song voice)

Good Morning, shall I refer to you as Ms. bunnyface?

GOOD MOR-NING, TEACHER!

And (hand-waving frantically)

May I be excused?

I gotta go- somewhere today. I can’t stay.

Sorry!

BBL MML

“be prepared for the death of the king.” “why is he sick?’ “no you idiot were gonna kill him, Simba too” no king no king la la la la la …* you idiots there will be a king*

Tabby, I know that movie and I’m not lion.

Hello Everyone! Cleo, it was all in good fun, I took no offense at all.

@Tabby, for some reason, I was reminded of this sequence, perhaps from Becket: (among the barons who later kill the Archbishop Thomas Becket at Henry’s hints.)

“Who is this man, Becket?” “He’s the chancellor of England.” “But who is he, as a man?” (after a pause) “Do you have a pain?” “No; why do you ask?” “Because a baron who asks questions is a sick man!”

Good Morning Carmy.

I am about to go for a bike ride on this beautiful, sunny morning.

Just dodged a massive scare. Computer froze up with my medical history paper and physiology project on it. I was terrified it was about to crash. But, by some miracle, it turned back on. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some lunch and then it is time for class. I’ll be back way later, if at all. Peace and love.

Good afternoon, tribe I can’t hang around - going to have to go to work at Mom’s soon.

kab2rb said, “glad I was no where near the big car crash scene yesterday east”

What big car crash are you referring to? The one(s) in KC? I checked the Wichita TV stations, and didn’t see any near Wichita.

Yippee Ki Yay! It’s snowing again! pssstt!

What a day for rest and relaxation. Got the chiffarobe out of my room…..all the contents (less the goodwill stuff) are on my bed with nowhere to go. But it’s a start. Next I turn my bed the other way and try to get the credenza into the bedroom. When I get my refund I’ll get the shelving and then things should move along quite quickly.

JohnnyDoc have you thought about one of the online back up sites like Carbonite? Our machines are getting old, and I just might try it. My stuff is worth more than the $55/year cost.

Oh, I did get the first bunch of stuff out to Goodwill, so if you heard any anguished screaming about 3:00 est that was me parting with my stuff. It was all good! I’ll be skinny again! Gosh, I really want that Powder Puff Girl doll! Where will I put it? I dunno…..but it’s all GOOD STUFF.

Sigh warm up my soup, eat, then start clearing my bed.

I had a nice bike ride and now will go to town with LilG. She is going to help one of her daughter’s friends learn hot to prune roses and I am going to walk the waterfront. BBL

Peace and Love

Carmy i know that movie also and i aint a lion either

so we went play at BK with a friend of mine and her 3 year old. well ana and the kido got “Stuck” in the play pin thing. well guess who had to climb up and get them unstuck bc she is the younger of the two of us? yea you guessed it Tabby did. LOL my friend got pics. how nice of here. lol

Tabby I want to see those pictures!

Dry so do I!!!! she told me they will be posted when i lest expect it….. i felt so stupid climbing up there trying to get the girls out and i couldnt get out almost i was just so done for and stuck it was crazy. LOL my friend is just great she was there ready with her phone to take the pics. lol

Tabby, Your friend is just great? I’d say it depends on how the pictures turn out, LOL!

Dry i cant help but love her. lol heck she let me house sit her house and dogs for a week, then babysit her kido and pays me more then anyone else does, then house sit for a weekend and then today buys me lunch AND takes pics of me stuck in a kids toy

I can’t wait to see those! LOL! Does the name Lucy Ricardo ring a bell? Said with great affection because you know how much* “I Love Lucy”!!* :-D

Dry whats bad is that I remind Myself of Lucy Ricardo but its okay i LOVE *”I Love Lucy”!!! * as well

OK. I just got back in for a few minutes before supper-time. I spent about an hour getting ready and watching old palms burn to ash–I hope. Should be ready for Wednesday now. We’ll see. But, when I got in, I jumped into the shower to try to limit smelling like a bonfire. I purposely set the shower temp with my forearm.

Wow! My toes said, “Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!” My fingers said, “Gee, this is really nicely warm now.” My head and face said, “OK, don’t make it too hot!” The rest of me said, “Nice…Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Late breaking news from bunnyface! See above for further details, ROFLMAO!!! :-D

@Dry, I’m trying.

Very.

Hi, Doc! You might be interested in a comment I just left at Rubes.

Good Evening Rmom & Doc!

Been a semi-busy day again here. But I’m not complaining.

I hope that means you’ve been working on projects you get paid to do, Terry!

Yes Rmom, I had two repair jobs which I made a few dollars on. Two others for my better half. :^)

Thanks, Doc. I could tell some horror stories concerning side effects that my parents & my in-laws received as a result of the medical treatments they’ve received. But I won’t, and spare the others the agony.

Terry - If you were closer, I’d pay you to work on my PT!

Wolfangil & I were joking about that yesterday, Rmom! lol

My hubby loves road trips, but with the mega hours he’s working, and the high price of gas, I don’t think that’s going to happen. We’re still checking around for quotes.

Too many miles for something like that, Rmom.

Hello all, I did about a three mile fast walk along the Bay today and took my wife out to our favorite restaurant for lunch. It is the tallest building in town so we could see the Bay and all of downtown. Then we bought pillows to put on our new furniture. Sheesh, it never ends.

I know Terry, but it didn’t used to take much of an excuse for my hubby to make a road trip. About 3 months after we were married, he talked me into us driving to OKC for dinner at Casa Bonita. His car started having major problems (later found out it was the fuel injector filter getting clogged) and we ended up staying in a fleabag motel, with no luggage of any kind. Had to hitch a ride back to Wichita with my boss (who was still living in OKC on weekends, as he was new). My hubby’s driven to Ohio to pick up a friend’s van that broke, and brought it back here. I will say that with his current job sending him places with the company truck frequently, he’s not quite as gung-ho about road trips as he used to be when he was younger.

so we ate supper and now we are in the “do i have to wash dishes?” stage

Cleo - Have you bought new window treatments yet? LOL!

Hello Cleo.

Rmom, I understand where he is coming from. I love to drive long “road trips” too. But when I drove a rig over the road, I too, was not as willing to drive long distances when I was home.

Rmom no. We have no curtains in the living room and we have shades, but rarely use them. Nobody can see into the livingroom and one wall is all windows facing the lake, so curtains just don’t work in that room.

Hello Terry.

I have been summoned to dinner. BBL

cleo, cleo, cleo! (shaking head) I see you have more to learn about decorating. There are window treatments that do not cover up the view, only decorate around it. We don’t have to worry about anyone looking in our windows either, but I do like having blinds I can close, to block out the sun when it gets at a certain angle. (Don’t let LilG see this, or she’ll get more ideas!)

Heading off to dinner and a movie myself.

Good Night Rmom, Doc, Cleo & Tribe

i havea headace. :0(

‘Night, Terry. I suppose I ought to get a few things done around here - like grade papers, and prepare his school work for tomorrow. Good night, tribe!

Terry & Rmom good night.

Tabby, if I know you it is probably a stress headache. Ibuprofen works wonders for my headaches. Hopefully you can sit in a comfortable chair or couch, put your feet up and just relax.

Bookers, Mr. cleo??

Booker’s for sure JFri.

Good evening all! Just got all my huge Monday and Tuesday projects done, now to tackle Wednesdays work.

Wow Johnny, I’m impressed! This is only MOnday!

Alright, Bookers!

JFri want to know what happened on “24” tonight? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Time for bed, which means time for my nightly ritual.

Hi Rmom I missed you again.

Hi Dry, JFri, cleo, bmonk, Tabby, and JohnnyDoc!!!

Hi to all who showed up today.

Of course, everyone’s vamoosed.

Congratualtions Johnny, on getting so much done!

Wish I could say the same.

GOOD NIGHT!

It’s that time again. Sleepy time.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……

Hi, Shika!

Goodnight Shika! Have a great day tomorrow!!

HI JFRI AND CARMY Thanks for showing up, but I’m past sleepy and need to vamoose myself.

Have a good day tomorrow everyone.

:-(

Highs to JFri, Carmy, Shika, & anyone else still here. Catchup time again, so I’ll just leave a deposit in the Tribal Karma account.

((Tribe))

Thanks, Dry, but I’m not out of the woods yet. February 24th is my D-Day, it will make or break my semester, (or, at least make for a miserable or pleasant April). And it is approaching fast, so I can’t lose too much momentum over this feat.

Hi, johnny! Thanks for the comment on my avatar. School can really be a pressure cooker and it sounds like you have a very full schedule this term.

Oh yes, Johnny, mid-term grades! I know! My one is sweating also!

JFri what did you expect? The DUKE!!! Da’ Man! Loved all his movies! Esp. oh gee, never mind, there’s too many to name! Except “Angel and the Badman”, never did like that one!

I never thought I would enjoy “The Quiet Man” but I really did. Loved Tall In The Saddle and Rio Lobo. The Shootist was quite a character study, too.

Unfortunately, I haven’t had the opportunity to see too many John Wayne movies, JFri, but I have seen The Quiet Man a couple of times (mother’s favorite). It is a good one. Dry, yeah, I just wish they hadn’t put them all on the same day. This was supposed to be my last semester, but scheduling issues have got me here one more. So senoiritis hasn’t kicked in yet, and I think that is a good thing.

Movie break. Hi!

johnny Yes, my son may have to go an extra semester, but he’s still in his first year, so that is a ways off yet. He’s going for 2 years, but I’m hoping he will change up and go for 4, we’ll see.You need that piece of paper, but that doesn’t even guarantee anything today, unless you go into the right field. HIs bro is an Ivy League magna c u m laude, and he’s looking for a job. There are no guarantees out there, but you chose a good field, so you should do okay.

JFri and johnny I loved the Quiet Man, and ANYTHING he did with Maureen O’Hara was GREAT! She is one heck of an actress! And they were friends in real life, and played so well together! Don’t forget Rio Bravo and Sons of Katie Elder! And the Green Berets!

Times are tough Dry.

The Shootist was so sad, because he knew when he made that movie that he was dying.

Cleo, yes they are!

No one mentioned McLintock! Where’s the whiskey?

Bummer, for your son Dry. I wish him luck in his job search. I will find out this summer likely what the future holds for me. If I can line up all my ducks, things should work out fine and I’ll have a masters degree in three years with a job back home in Grand Rapids. But for now, I am heading to bed. Peace and love all!

Sons Of Katie Elder was awesome!! So was The Horse Soldiers. Sands Of Iwo Jima. I could go on forever! He always bought Luchese boots. I own Tony Lamas, Noconas, and Cow Towns but no Lucheses.

Hi, cleo!!

Goodnight Johnny! How about that young Dennis Hopper in The Sons of Katie Elder?

Good night Johnny! Get a good sleep!

JFri I never even heard of those brands around here!

Howdy JFri. I was in Seattle and got to watch the scene being filmed in McClintock when the police car was racing through the downtown streets.

Carmy Dennis who? Kidding! I paid NO attention to him. I had the BIGGEST crush on Michael Anderson, Jr. back then! I LOVED the movie * “MAJOR DUNDEE”!* I’m sure, if he’s even still alive, he looks like an OLD OLD man by now!

JFri, you don’t need no stinkin’ boots man.

Bare footin’ is the only way to go.

Dry, was he the youngest Elder son? I think his name was Bud(?). He’s the one that clumb Pike’s Peak. Ha ha!

Cleo takes about 14 seconds to start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gh5j8oUoyE

Carmy yes he was Bud. He was also the one who kept the journal in Major Dundee and the story is told through him. Man he was CUTE!

Dry you captured my perfect likeness. I have this purple, claylike look that has people cat calling “dough boy” all the time.

so about 2 hours ago i went to tell u all my computer was crashing ill bbl well it crashed mid post. :0( so sorry i ran off on u all. i fell asleep in my chair and did not wash dishes. :0) now im in my bed talking to you guys…well myself kind of for right now… you know never mind im hurting my brain.

the Quiet Man is my all time favourite Duke film, followed very closely by Stagecoach and the Shootist. most underrated actor ever! (mainly because he was put down so much for his politics). i own many of Duke’s films on DVD & VHS. Doty moment here: George Plimpton played stunt man in a scene from Rio Lobo (i think). he was sitting at a table in a saloon (part of the gang of bad guys) and was shot while standing up from the chair and blown into the wall behind him. i remember seeing a TV show showing the behind the scenes on how it was done. fascinating.

cleo, that was maybe McQ?? McClintock was a western and it was a hoot! How about The Cowboys?

Dry, I’m sure the sell Tony Llama and Nocona boots out there! Cow Town, maybe not. I also have a pair of rhino boots made by a local boot maker. He got the hide from a ranger in Africa somewhere. It was a rogue animal they had to shoot.

Hi yguy! yes, I remember that now that you mention it about George Plimpton. He also wrote books, and he wrote one about Pro football, can’t remember the name of it, but I read it when I was a wee one of about 10 or so. Back then I knew everything there was to know about football. I was mad that I wasn’t a boy because I would never be able to play pro football! LOL! Kids and their dreams, huh?

Ooooooooo! The Commancheros!

JFri PETA is going to be after you! And yes, I believe that was McQ, and weren’t there 2 McQ’s made?

Hi Tabby!

One of my brothers had ostrich boots. I had boots, but they were just plain old cowboy boots.

Ooooooooooooo! You’re right!

Hi yyyguy!

HI DRY

In HArm’s Way, How the West Was Won, OH OH OH - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE!

Hey Tabby, is your computer okay now?

Dry, how about when John Wayne was on I Love Lucy? They were hilarious together!

The Alamo, The Searchers, The Wings of Eagles, The Red Witch, Hellfighters!

Carmy its fine now jut the batt. died

Carmy, my Noconas are ostrich. I have a pair of Tony Llama Eastern Diamondbacks. Some lady was giving me grief about killing animals to make my boots so I asked her which she would rather stand next to, a cow or a rattlesnake. She got my point quickly when I asked her where her leather shoes came from!!

im now trying to get bro n girlfriend back together

I saw an interview with a couple of John Wayne’s sons. They were talking about McLintock. The sons said that when they were about to shoot the scene with the ditch full of water (the one they were sliding into), the stunt actors didn’t want to do it. They were crying for more money. So John said he would do it himself and Maureen said she would too. Even old Chill Wills did it too.

Tabby, are you able to recharge the battery. It’s very nice of you to help the Bro out.

the Searchers is another favourite of mine, Dry. as for Plimpton, the football book was “Paper Lion” about his stint as a quarterback at the Detroit Lions training camp. He also wrote stories for Sports Illustrated about pitching in a major league baseball game, being a boxer, and i believe he also did a stint trying to play goalie with the Boston Bruins. the kicker was that none of the other athletes knew he was a journalist instead of an athlete. he was a “participatory journalist” - a phrase i believe he coined for what he tried to do. an interesting way to get the layman an idea of what was involved in being a professional athlete.

Carmy Runs in my mind it was in 3 parts, at least in re-runs now. Never saw the original in 1955. My all time favorite of Lucy though, is, was, and always will be the one with Bill Holden!

yyyguy I love The Quiet Man, but I also love McLintock

another Doty moment. Alan Alda played George Plimpton in the movie version of Paper Lion. as far as i know, it was one of his first acting roles.

carmy i like him better when he is NOT grouchy and mopeing around (SP)

Yguy That’s right, Paper Lion! I bet that book is still in a box in my attic. Right with my autographed picture of Bart Starr!

I hear you, Tabby, Hello BC13!

Hello Carmy

BC13 mclintock was good, but Quiet Man is by far his best. it allowed him to act instead of being a version of himself on screen, and the character actors surrounding him made the movie as great as it was. just fantastic (and great scenery to boot!)

Dry, I don’t remember if I saw the one with Bill Holden. I may have, just not sure.

anyhow, it’s time for me to take the horizontal position. i have to get up early tomorrow to do laundry so i can go to work. you’d think i would have found time during a long weekend to get it done, but noooooo…

HI, Yguy, and Bc13 and anyone i missed

Goodnight yyyguy! My daughters didn’t find the time to do their laundry until today also. While they are sleeping, I’m drying the last 2 loads for them.

yyyguy, don’t forget his book The Bogey Man where he was a pro golfer! Hilarious!!

yyyguy I also think that The Quiet Man had a better supporting cast with Barry Fitzgerald Victor McLaglen and Ward Bond, but I also thought that O’Hara’s performance was excellent ans well as Yvonne de Carlo’s

Carmy* i didnt do much of my laundry today. one load. :0) bad tabby

The cool thing about John Wayne was the wide range of movies and characters he played. What a talent!

Oh yeah, Lily Munster was in McLintock.

FYI i feel so lost at waht you are all talking about

Shika move. JFri i never heard of that one. good night all of you.

I’m sorry, Tabby. Did you have a good day today?

Everything I ever heard about John Wayne was he was absolutely one of the nicest actors around.

Good night yguy! Hi BC13!

yguy I saw the movie version but just vaguely remember it. And speaking of football, “Brian’s Song” about the friendship between Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo, what a tear sherker. i think that was one of James Caan’s first movie roles as well. And any movie with the Duke and Maureen O’Hara was priceless!

Tabby you need to find some of these films to watch. romantic, heroic, even villainous at times (The Searchers). John Wayne was one of America’s great acting talents.

Hello, Tabby Lynn

Dry, did you ever see Fighting Back? It was the story of Rocky Bleir, very inspirational!

BC13 you are correct, and Ward Bond was a great actor as well, played supporting actor in many of the Duke’s movies, I believe they too, were also good friends in real life. And one more plug for Maureen O’Hara, in the ORIGINAL Parent Trap, with Hayley Mills and Brian Keith, GREAT MOVIE. The remake doesn’t hold a candle to the original!

Dry another great movie (Brian’s song) with some very quotable lines. “We were going to give you the game ball this week, too, but Butkus threatened us.” i’m pretty sure you’re correct about it being Caan’s first starring role (and he was in a John Wayne flick as well - one of the later ones, i don’t remember the title, but they got him a sawed off shot gun to use because, though he was deadly with a knife, he couldn’t shoot a pistol).

Good night Dry. I think I’ll call it a night, myself. 5 AM comes too early! Good night everyone.

Yguy i have seen some of them but it was a LONG time ago, i was LITTLE!!! lol

Carmy yes i did! so did Ana. Dry is wanting pics from today. LOL

jfri HI BUDDY!

*Tabby, yguy is right. You should check out some of these films. I KNOW you would love the Quiet Man for one!

JFri that movie doesn’t ring a bell at the moment. I might have, he was a boxer, right?

Hi everyone. Yes John Wayne was certainly a great one. Love some of those oldies! And this page is the only one I’m reading - tv is just too mesmerizing. Congrats, my American friends on the eight medals so far at the Olympics! I’ve been watching the skating tonight and spending NO time on the computer. I think that’s what it will be like for the next two weeks! Wonderful entertainment!!! Cleo, this is one time when I would absolutely have to have a tv.

a very underrated movie had Maureen O’Hara playing John Candy’s mother in “Only the Lonely” a wonderful film that also starred Anthony Quinn and (i think) Ally Sheedy.

Dry, remakes of the original classics NEVER hold a candle to the originals!! And yes, it was a great movie!

Tabby, I’m glad you and Ana had fun. I wouldn’t mind seeing the photos too. Goodnight BC13!

Goodnight BC13! It was nice to see you here! And I know what you mean, I should hit the hay too.

hi Dawn. we Canucks aren’t doing too badly, either. i agree, though. big sporting events are made for TV coverage these days. you can’t possibly see everything live. Dry. if JFri doesn’t say it, i will. Rocky Bleier was a running back for the Steelers who was injured in Vietnam but became a back for the Steelers in the Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw era. and now i have to get to sleep or else i might just as well stay up all night. gone for sure.

Yguy In Rio Bravo ,Ricky Nelson played Colorado, then in the second one, I want to say, Rio Lobo which was pretty much the same movie, James Caan took that role as the young gun totting gun slinger.