MARX NUTTY MADS "END ZONE" 1963

Another Nutty Mads. Ideal for the football fan. It was hard to get a good shot on this one as it has a flourescent colour to it. He's about to step over the touch down line but there's a tiny guy holding on to his leg, trying with all his might to stop him. Cute.












Trivia: Pollen lasts forever. Man, that's nothing to sneeze at.



Did YOU Know? While planting bushes in her yard, a woman from Devon, England, uncovered a grave, complete with headstone, coffin and corpse from 1883.( That's what I call a grave discovery.)

REMINDS ME OF CLINT EASTWOOD-- GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY

Clint Eastwood made quite a splash in the cinema world when he began his "spaghetti westerns". He acted his part like no one else could. I didn't realize how much I looked up to him until 1980 when I was in a bad car accident (not that any car accident is good). After I awoke from my hospital induced coma (one month) I thought I was Clint Eastwood for the next two weeks. I still get a bit of ribbing for that to this day. And I love the late writer Louis L'Amour's books. Every young lad should read them . Great ethics.

Clint Eastwood Quotes: 1. They say marriage is made in Heaven, but so is thunder and lightning. 2. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. 3.I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around I want to be controlling it.

Did You Know? A fellow lost his cell phone on a beach at Worthing, West Sussex, England. He thought it had been swept out to sea and that he would never see it again, but a week later it turned up, in the belly of a huge cod. The 25 lb(11-kg) cod had been caught by a fisherman, who was gutting it for his fish stall when he found the phone, which still worked, inside the fish's stomach.

WESTERNS AND COWBOYS YIPPEE TY YAY

My favorite western as a child was Bonanza. Everybody loved Hoss. Every year Karen , or Santa, gets me another season of the shows on DVD. What a great time we live in. Always appreciate today because tomorrow it's gone. Pernell Roberts passed away in the past year. He was the last of the four actors in the show. Lorne Greene, Michael Landon and Dan Blocker as well as Pernell played their parts well in the series. My hat's off to them. This is the statue that Karen chose in Nashville many years ago. We could not decide which figure we liked more so we bought them both. The other is on the previous blog. Thanks for looking.

ABOUT COWARDICE: "My pappy always said `A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one.` A thousand to one is pretty good odds." -Bret Maverick, of Maverick

Did You Know? To mark the ninth day of the ninth month of the year 2009, a budget supermarket chain in Los Angeles, California, offered nine couples cut-rate wedding ceremonies for 99 cents.After getting hitched, the couples were given $99.99 in cash and taken to a romantic location for their honeymoon.( How romantic.)

COWBOYS AND WESTERNS YEE-HAAA

As you can probably surmise, my favorite reading is Westerns. I stumbled across a cowboy western paperback about 10 years ago. Since one of my relaxing passions is reading, that is what I did with this book. Normally my reading consisted of true crime biographys. (Karen always told me that I should have been a cop) This fictional Western really grabbed my attention. So, then my main focus was to read some more. I don't know if it's the revenge factor that intrigues me more the fact that a man had to overcome a lot of obstacles in order to survive a hostile, wild life. My favorite writer is Louis L'Amour. You can picture in your minds eye everything that his writing describes. His morals are right on and I dare you to read just one of his books. You will thank me for the advice. Hopefully. The statue was purchased at the Opreyland Hotel  in Nashville Tennesse. The statue Karen chose will be in my next blog.

Trivia:        Michelangelo drew a shopping list for his illiterate cook.Today it's a priceless work of art.

One more trivia:     Vincent VanGogh sold only one of his paintings in his lifetime.(The Red Vineyard)

Did You Know?      Motorists in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia were awarded free salami for driving courteously. As part of a police road safety initiative, a salami factory offered lunch to any driver who yielded to pedestrians at marked street crossings.

A BIG THANK YOU TO MY ONLY FOLLOWER SO FAR

It is nice to see that someone out there appreciates my blog. Thanks from Peter. That's me. I planted some flowers for you, Dave. Click on the picture to enlarge.


Trivia: The baby Blue Whale gains 10 lbs. per hour. A dieters nightmare.

VINTAGE 1930's WYANDOTTE STAKE TRUCK TOY

It is hard to wrap your head around the simple fact that this toy truck has survived almost 80 years . It has probably seen more sandboxes in its time that you can imagine. Items manufactured in those days sure do stand the test of time. They sure don't last long now in our "throw away" society. Too bad.

Trivia: More collect calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day.Stange but true.

Did You Know? A Macedonian crime reporter, covered a series of murders in such detail that police eventually discovered that he was responsible for them.

REMEMBER THE TV GUIDE?

In the past what would we have done without them? Saturday morning cartoons are so much different these days . It's not a bad thing it is just that we have changed with the times.Saturday night was the shows we loved to see. Remember Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Dick Clark, Sea Hunt and Leave It To Beaver.Sunday night was for Maverick, Dennis The Menace, Wyatt Earp, Alfred Hitchcock and of course the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a magical time and the shows were great to watch with the family even though the screen was very small and the tv's only had 13 channels, and even then only half of them worked.

Trivia: Some of the names rejected for Disney's seven dwarfs were Gaspy, Doleful, Awful, Gabby and Helpful. Thank goodness!

Did You Know? A fire crew from the town of Bournemouth in Dorset, England, was sent to extinguish a blaze at a bar called The Inferno, which was situated next to another bar called The Old Fire Station.