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Ralph, the Son of Alphonse
Jul. 10th, 2008 06:29 pmI'm still a bit bemused by the vast numbers of Rabbits (or possibly Hares) in evidence during Sunday's British GP. One of them had to flee for his life during one of Massa's numerous lawnmowing excursions. Several other times you'd see them in the background, once even running across the track in traffic. Nobody got run over that I saw.
For most of the year, a race track is probably a very pleasant place for small wildlife to live, although I have to wonder if the stress of race weekends doesn't maybe balance that out. There used to be Rabbits all over the Speedway grounds in the early 70s, although since they've done all that development that's not so much the case anymore. They did used to get run over from time to time, which actually did less damage to the cars than you'd expect.
I recall one Saturday night at Raceway Park maybe 15 years ago when everything had to come to a halt for a half hour or so while they tried (very cautiously) to shoo away a Skunk who was wandering around the track. He finally left, although I don't think he was all that shooed or intimidated.
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'Sheba' Qat füd now seems to be a property of the Mars company. Candy bars and Cat food. Two great things that go great together!
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A few weeks back Turner Classic had a Charlie Chan festival. One feature was 'Charlie Chan in Honolulu', which is one of the more popular and commonly-shown Chan movies. Turner makes a laudable practice of showing the most complete prints that they can lay their hands on, sometimes even doing restorations, so that occasionally you notice something new even in a film you've seen twenty times before. So it was with 'Charlie Chan in Honolulu'. There's a scene where a zookeeper is wrestling with an escaped Lion. It's obvious as you watch it that it's a cuddle-wrestle, and there's a good deal of affection between the Lion and his trainer. In the Turner print, it becomes obvious just how much affection, as you can plainly see for a brief second that the Lion has an erection :)
Another was one I'd never seen, a strange, late effort from 1945. Chan was solving a series of murders that had taken place in a television studio. The murderer had, somehow, managed to install a trap door in the floor of the building's elevator. A button had been installed in an office that, when pressed, would cause the floor of the elevator to drop out. This was just the murderer's contingency plan, in case someone needed to be dealt with outside the scope of the regular murder method, which involved a complex method of poisoning. At any rate, during the conclusion, as the murderer attempted to flee in the elevator, Charlie Chan himself pressed the fatal button, then calmly announced "We will find murderer in basement", which kind of freaked me out. I'm all for giving villains their comeuppance, and I can forgive nonsensical plot elements, but that's majorly out of character for Charlie Chan.
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I'm hoping the Israelis will hold off bombing Iran until after the Olympics are over.
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It's interesting that the new DNA evidence in the Ramsey case is being spun by the DA's office as exonerating the Ramseys. It could just as plausibly be considered evidence of an accomplice. One wonders if they have information that they're not releasing.
For most of the year, a race track is probably a very pleasant place for small wildlife to live, although I have to wonder if the stress of race weekends doesn't maybe balance that out. There used to be Rabbits all over the Speedway grounds in the early 70s, although since they've done all that development that's not so much the case anymore. They did used to get run over from time to time, which actually did less damage to the cars than you'd expect.
I recall one Saturday night at Raceway Park maybe 15 years ago when everything had to come to a halt for a half hour or so while they tried (very cautiously) to shoo away a Skunk who was wandering around the track. He finally left, although I don't think he was all that shooed or intimidated.
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'Sheba' Qat füd now seems to be a property of the Mars company. Candy bars and Cat food. Two great things that go great together!
*****
A few weeks back Turner Classic had a Charlie Chan festival. One feature was 'Charlie Chan in Honolulu', which is one of the more popular and commonly-shown Chan movies. Turner makes a laudable practice of showing the most complete prints that they can lay their hands on, sometimes even doing restorations, so that occasionally you notice something new even in a film you've seen twenty times before. So it was with 'Charlie Chan in Honolulu'. There's a scene where a zookeeper is wrestling with an escaped Lion. It's obvious as you watch it that it's a cuddle-wrestle, and there's a good deal of affection between the Lion and his trainer. In the Turner print, it becomes obvious just how much affection, as you can plainly see for a brief second that the Lion has an erection :)
Another was one I'd never seen, a strange, late effort from 1945. Chan was solving a series of murders that had taken place in a television studio. The murderer had, somehow, managed to install a trap door in the floor of the building's elevator. A button had been installed in an office that, when pressed, would cause the floor of the elevator to drop out. This was just the murderer's contingency plan, in case someone needed to be dealt with outside the scope of the regular murder method, which involved a complex method of poisoning. At any rate, during the conclusion, as the murderer attempted to flee in the elevator, Charlie Chan himself pressed the fatal button, then calmly announced "We will find murderer in basement", which kind of freaked me out. I'm all for giving villains their comeuppance, and I can forgive nonsensical plot elements, but that's majorly out of character for Charlie Chan.
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I'm hoping the Israelis will hold off bombing Iran until after the Olympics are over.
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It's interesting that the new DNA evidence in the Ramsey case is being spun by the DA's office as exonerating the Ramseys. It could just as plausibly be considered evidence of an accomplice. One wonders if they have information that they're not releasing.
