The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

[Dusty Chalk]

Not sure what the hell is going on in this pic:

[Knuckledragger]

This video has been on YT for years.  Kevin uploaded the above HD version to his own channel yesterday.  It's half an hour long, but if you haven't seen it before it's a hell of a story.

 

 

[Knuckledragger]

You know what dropped 40 years ago today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_(album)

\m/

 

[swt61]

16 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Not sure what the hell is going on in this pic:

Me either, but Nicki Minaj is jealous!

5 minutes ago, Knuckledragger said:

You know what dropped 40 years ago today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_(album)

\m/

 

I was going to say my balls, but the math didn't work.

[Dusty Chalk]

This is some pretty fucked up shit:

 

[Hopstretch]

On second thoughts ...

[Craig Sawyers]

4 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

This is some pretty fucked up shit:

 

It apparently ran for 52 episodes following that pilot.  I was 4 to 6 years old when it ran, so I must have been right in its target audience.  Fortunately I have no recollection of this puppet nightmare.

[kevin gilmore]

sure seems to be very similar to thunderbirds...

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, kevin gilmore said:

sure seems to be very similar to thunderbirds...

Except fucked up.

[Craig Sawyers]

7 hours ago, kevin gilmore said:

sure seems to be very similar to thunderbirds...

The only thing in common is puppets - different quality and storyline, and age it was aimed at.  As was its Supermarionation precursor out of the Andersons, Fireball XL-5 (made at the same time as Hoppity - very early 60's)

The single legged Chucky-like Hoppity was aimed at the same very young audience as similarly naff things like Andy Pandy and The Woodentops.

The one that was half way decent out of the same stable as Hoppity was Space Patrol.

So yes - I did watch Space Patrol, Fireball XL-5 and Thunderbirds.  In a sense it was almost inevitable that many decades later I would spend five years managing a space instrument project (MIXS - the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer), due for launch next year. But even when tiny I loathed Andy Pandy with a passion.

[Augsburger]

 

Don't laugh, this is where I get my tax planning.

 

Edited April 25, 2016 by Augsburger

[Knuckledragger]

Wait for it.

 

"Bite my shiny metal ass."

 

Prince at the end of his last concert.

 

Rakotzbrücke, a bridge built in 1860 in Eastern Germany.

 

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) departs after a port call in New York City, 1958.

 

Riomaggiore, Italy.

 

Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand.

 

Geiranger Fjord (Norway).

Edited April 25, 2016 by Knuckledragger

[Dusty Chalk]

 

[Knuckledragger]

The "Trailer Hitch."

 

Photo of Justin Bieber being choked in a nightclub imagined as a renaissance painting.

 

Lancaster Town Hall Mayors Parlour Room, England.

 

Barrels in the attic of an abandoned brewery in Belgium.

 

Neighborhood in Lisbon.

 

Click for historically larger.

[Dusty Chalk]

[aardvark baguette]

epic train set

http://imgur.com/gallery/36KgFIw

[Knuckledragger]

1150

Boyd Coddington's 1915 Ford "Center Door"

 

White Pocket, AZ

 

Click for histrionically larger.

[Knuckledragger]

Illuminated tires developed by Goodyear in 1961 but never went into production.

 

[Knuckledragger]

 

[Dusty Chalk]

 

[Wmcmanus]

[Knuckledragger]

Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.

 

This will hurt your brain.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

[Craig Sawyers]

 

[Dusty Chalk]