Wombat Cotillion

[rain_gryphon]

So, I was sitting here at work, bored, and decided to watch Youtube. I wanted to see Kangaroos. Most of the initial list was variations on "Kangaroo boxing", which didn't interest me. I found and watched several good ones, including "Making Friends with a Kangaroo", and "Kangaroo and Baby". What was interesting to me was that as I watched, the menu kept adjusting itself, as always, but it was throwing up stuff like "Kangaroo Masturbating" and "Rhino Sex!". I have to assume these are based on things that past viewers of these two Kangaroo videos have watched, since I wasn't logged in, and I'd only watched two videos anyway.

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Lots of old racing footage on Youtube, which for some reason had never occurred to me. Most of it is crashes, though :/ I did find one really neat 8mm home movie from the 1961 Five Hundred, which fascinates me. It's shot from one of the old mainstretch north grandstands, with the high wooden roof - prolly either H or C. It interests me because this is what it looked like to someone attending that day, not to the newsreel cameras. The old retaining wall is only knee-high, and you can see everything. The mainstretch is terribly open-looking, not the 'canyon of people' effect that you have today. Purdue's marching band had clusters of helium balloons tied to them, which bobbed violently as they played, making them look like they were being attacked by some sort of science-fictional creatures. Some things look a lot better in the conceptual drawings.

I did watch some of the crash footage. I remember a lot of that when it happened. Something I either didn't notice at the time, or else it just seemed normal to me, is that when Jim Malloy crashed, the ambulance that came out on the track was from Conkle Mortuary. It was actually not that uncommon in the early 70s for funeral homes (in Indiana, at least) to operate ambulances as a sideline. I have no idea why. It seems macabre in retrospect.

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There's a movie of some guys wrecking stuff with thermite too. They've got a big fibre drum filled with it. Apparently you can buy it in bulk. Imagine working in a warehouse full of thermite.

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I need to watch Youtube more often. I say that about TV too, but I never do it.

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W is afraid of Horses, which I think is sad. I've known people before who were afraid of them. Horses look quite impressive from a distance, but when you're right up with them, they seem so vulnerable.

Comments

[blither.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the horses are just as afraid of him! =P

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Horses are nervous about everything. How was Germany?

[blither.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I can't wait to go back. =)

[merik.livejournal.com]

Imagine working in a warehouse full of thermite.

*chuckle* Well, as long as you didn't do anything to annoy it and set it off, it's stable enough ;-) I have around 10 kilograms of thermite just sitting on a shelf in my chemical storeroom at work, half of it stored in nothing more than a heat-sealed, heavy plastic bag...

[xolo.livejournal.com]

The sheer potential of the place would drive one mad!

[doc-moreau.livejournal.com]

My mother has a phobia of horses, i guess because her father did... and he was always telling her when she was young not to go near them, because they're vicious and dangerous.
...I'm ...rather glad this fear was not passed on to me. :P
Boy, i want to go lay down and sleep in a pasture with horses, just to hear them munching contentedly through the night, and maybe get woken up by big horse lips trying to eat my hair. :D

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I used to have a big sweet-natured gelding named Rocky, who'd nap with me lying up against his flank. He never chewed on me, but he wasn't a mane chewer either.