Subject: The Dusty Trail
Posted by: sadwings
Date: Jul 18 19
Any of you cowboys and cowgirls ever seen a dusty, unshaven bronco-buster nail the inside of a spittoon from 20 feet? Probably not all that impressive with all the tobacco-chewin' range bums we've got around these parts, but check this out - pppt….pppt….pppt….Ting! Tang! Ting! Three for three! :-)
Anyway, that's just a small part of the rip-roaring, wild west adventure just waiting for those of you who would like to saddle up and ride with us out on the Dusty Trail. We've got plenty of horses and trail gear for all comers, and we've even got a friendly, loyal, dependable dog named Happy who will take good care of us as we sleep beneath the stars and experience exciting wild west adventures every day. So whenever you'd like to take a little break from quizzing, just saddle up and ride along with us for a spell, partners! We'd love to have you along one and all! :-)
Posted by: sadwings
Date: Jul 18 19
Any of you cowboys and cowgirls ever seen a dusty, unshaven bronco-buster nail the inside of a spittoon from 20 feet? Probably not all that impressive with all the tobacco-chewin' range bums we've got around these parts, but check this out - pppt….pppt….pppt….Ting! Tang! Ting! Three for three! :-)
Anyway, that's just a small part of the rip-roaring, wild west adventure just waiting for those of you who would like to saddle up and ride with us out on the Dusty Trail. We've got plenty of horses and trail gear for all comers, and we've even got a friendly, loyal, dependable dog named Happy who will take good care of us as we sleep beneath the stars and experience exciting wild west adventures every day. So whenever you'd like to take a little break from quizzing, just saddle up and ride along with us for a spell, partners! We'd love to have you along one and all! :-)
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terraorca 
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It's the same way with John Wayne. There were actors that he was comfortable working with, and they would be in movie after movie with him. Reply #61. Jul 24 19, 10:09 AM |
Skyflyerjen
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Hey, the woman shooting in the second clip was the same one from the first, wasn’t she? :) Jo, you’re a good teacher! This .38 is sure heavy, heavier than my .22, but I like how it feels! We look after our own here. Josey Wales ain’t ever goin’ down alone! *Tips hat* Welcome back, Elle! Sounds like you’re a sassy lass—and a tough one at that—so I hope you’re on our side! Reply #62. Jul 24 19, 12:12 PM |
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Reply #63. Jul 24 19, 1:10 PM |
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Reply #64. Jul 24 19, 1:11 PM |
Blackdresss
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Sondra Locke, Kevin? She was in all his movies for awhile, before she got replaced with Frances Fisher. Of course I'm on your side! That doesn't mean I won't pilfer a few horses and other assorted trinkets while you're sleeping, though. I don't offer my Sourdough starter, or the biscuits it produces, to rangy, mangy, low-down, no-account scoundrels. A girl's got to have standards. Reply #65. Jul 25 19, 12:17 AM |
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Reply #66. Jul 25 19, 4:34 AM |
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Reply #67. Jul 25 19, 4:59 AM |
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Reply #68. Jul 25 19, 5:09 AM |
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Oh, I just meant the woman Josey saved (along with the elderly couple), in a second clip it showed her shooting a guy, I could have sworn it was the same lady. I could be wrong :) Now I know what you meant about hitting the trail again! I thought maybe it had something to do with your Blog, I must not have reached that part yet, I’m sorry. I’m so happy that you had so much fun on that journey! Here’s hoping this one can become just as fun! I know I’m having fun. I need to learn how to sleep with one eye open! Reply #69. Jul 25 19, 11:21 AM |
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Reply #70. Jul 25 19, 12:37 PM |
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Reply #71. Jul 25 19, 12:55 PM |
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Sorry, Kevin, I definitely misspoke. I haven't actually seen that many Clint movies, but the ones I have seen, I think Sondra Locke's been in them? At least the older Westerns, and I do love Westerns. Although I've tried to watch "Unforgiven" so many times now, and I always fall asleep! And it's not a boring movie, so I don't know what's up with that. Maybe I need to buy it so I can fire it up when I'm having bouts of insomnia, since it knocks me right out. I know she was in "Josey Wales," and I do love that one. I also love "Jeremiah Johnson" and I realize not even Clint is in that one, but still. I have a "Western Channel" as part of my package, so I have old Westerns like "Gunsmoke,", "Have Gun Will Travel," "Bat Masterson," "Maverick," -- all of them you can even imagine, running alllll day long. So I get to watch Clint in "Rawhide" and Burt Reynolds in... what is he in? Is it "Wagon Train"? I can't remember, but I know I am surprised on a regular basis when I tune in to one of these old gems. Oh! "Two Mules For Sister Sarah!" I saw that for the first time a couple of years ago, and I loved it! That's one I would like to own so I could watch it whenever I wanted. I thought their on-screen chemistry was just perfect. Remember -- and I know how weird this is -- while I used to own more than a few of them, I don't like horses. I just don't trust them. I like them, as long as all four of their feet are planted firmly on the ground, both of mine are also, and there is potentially a fence separating us. They are far too emotional, flighty and unpredictable to be trusted. I like cows, though! I even like sheep, bless their little hearts. And there is nothing on the planet as cute as a baby lamb. But I am in awe of anyone who rides well. I ride, but I have to work very hard at not letting that horse know how I "feel" because they can sense it, and they will take complete advantage of it! Maybe that's why I don't like them. I loved my very own horse, though. He was an angel. But he was part of a string of tragedies that I wasn't sure would ever end, all involving the highway where nothing should have been. "Someone" let our horses out of a locked corral one horrible night, and it must have taken a lot of work, since they would have all been in the barn, too. And by locked, I mean Fort Knox-locked. It's a miracle we only lost one of them, and I don't believe they just wandered down to the highway, either, but that's where they all were when disaster struck. Ugh. Okay, back to lighter things. Sorry. So how about "Jeremiah Johnson," surely you've seen that gem? He "made his way into the mountains," you know. There is also a film older than the Robert Redford film called "Mountain Man" that is also just great. And what about "The Revenant?" Have you seen that one? I think I like everything that is either filmed in or near where I grew up, and takes place near or where I grew up. More on this if you want to hear about it, and would like some references. (Brad Pitt as Tristan Ludlow in "Legends Of The Fall" will forever have my heart, though.) Reply #72. Jul 25 19, 1:00 PM |
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I too enjoy Westerns, particularly John Wayne and/or Clint Eastwood. I also watched "Jeremiah Johnson," oh conservatively, 30 times. "Open Range" was very good, even though it didn't have Wayne or Eastwood. If you've never been able to stay awake through Unforgiven, at least watch the last 15-20 minutes. Reply #73. Jul 25 19, 8:57 PM |
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Reply #74. Jul 25 19, 9:21 PM |
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In answer to Kev's ponderings on how many people got moided in the old TV westerns, here's a funny little anecdote for ya, involving the guy we were recently talking about, Kiefer Sutherland. Way back when the first Young Guns movie came out, he was here in England and did a few interviews on TV to promote the film. I guess he'd have been about 22, and on this one breakfast time show, up against a much older, seasoned host who probably fired her researchers after the show. After asking him a string of stupid questions, during which Kiefer remained very polite and dignified, she started attacking the veracity of the movie; obviously she didn't like it. "This film is full of people being killed, it's very violent." She said. "Do you think there was really any need for all that violence? How realistic do you think that portrayal of the times actually was?" And he replied, "Well, ma'am, in those regions in that era, the average life expectancy of an adult male was 35. If they were dying so young, then yes, I expect that a lot of it was due to violence." Reply #75. Jul 26 19, 9:19 AM |
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*wapoosh* Good for Kiefer! And good for him for keeping so cool. Sounds like a trap that lady tried to set him up in. I maintain, if you don’t like something, avoid it. Certainly don’t interview someone who’s in it! Sheesh. You gave me a good laugh, sadwings: “Woops, I forgot the year is 1878 on this blog right now. I guess the cat is out of the bag about me being from the future. :-p” Haha! I knew it all along! That was a cute and fun video, watching everyone gamble over a glass eye! Cute and clever. And was that *the* Wicked Witch of the West getting sassy on Gunsmoke? Wow! Horses are strong and beautiful, and it broke my heart reading about your horse, Elle, and the scumbag who let your horses out. Shameful. When I hear stories like that, when I can do nothing about it, despite all my frustration, I tell myself: karma will catch up to them. Like people who, to this day, ignorantly leave their dogs in cars in the summer. People should know by now how hot it gets in cars, how cracking the window doesn’t even help. If you want to see an angry skyflyerjen, see her when she finds a dog in a car. Oof, I get shaky-angry and want to break windows to help the dog! Sorry, there are no cars in 1878… rant over. Reply #76. Jul 26 19, 10:43 AM |
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Hi! Dr. Migelito Quixote Loveless here. Anyone see where James West went? No matter. You don't need to be a time traveller when you're a super genius inventor who can come up with things that won't exist for more than a century yet. (In all seriousness, I loved the 60s show (in reruns, of course, as I was too young when it was actually on the air) "The Wild Wild West" (*not*, definitely *not* the Will Smith movie version) because it combined Westerns with Science Fiction, a very strange and exciting combination, to be sure. No other show was like "The Wild Wild West". Even the opening cartoon sequence, with multiple independent boxes interacting, was absolutely fascinating.) So if you want to throw heavy metal rock music at me here on the Dusty Trail to get me to release Artemus Gordon, forget about it. I'll hit back with all girls band pop music. I'm not a time traveller. I'm thoroughly grounded in the here and now, just as you all are. Just tell James West he needs to submit to my demands or I'll take out this whole cast of Bonanza extras he seems to have assembled here with their totally fake outfits and cheesy backgrounds. Some a y'all aren't even out here. Yore just pretendin' to be while you telegraph it in from Philadelphia or Boston, or wherever the heck you are really hiding out. Reply #77. Jul 26 19, 1:20 PM |
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Misspelled my own name. That's Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless to you, and don't you forget it. Ahahahahaha! Reply #78. Jul 26 19, 1:25 PM |
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Sorry, there are no cars in 1878.........but you haven't got long to wait Jen...........first car is reckoned to be built by Karl Benz 1885, in Germany. First AMERICAN car not until 1893, when Bicycle mechanics J. Frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts, had designed the first successful American gasoline automobile. Western films and miniseries were as common on TV in 1950/60's as soaps are today........some were good......some not so! My personal favourite was "Rawhide", but "Gunsmoke", "Have gun will Travel", "Maverick", "Cheyenne" ,not far behind. Films................spoiled for choice................."Red River", "Rio Bravo", "Alvarez Kelly", "The Searchers", and on a lighter note "Cat Ballou", I enjoyed..................and to get us up to date, I thought the miniseries "Lonesome Dove" excellent. Reply #79. Jul 26 19, 2:17 PM |
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If I can divert the conversation for just a second....Kev, you ast me a couple of days ago what Kiefer Sutherland's twin sister does for a living. Well, I was watching a TV show called Lost Girl tonight, and her name came up on the opening credits as 'production manager'. I looked it up to see if it was the same Rachel Sutherland and yep, it is! So there you are, she works behind the scenes in TV land. Ironically, she worked on Lost Girl, and her twin was a Lost Boy. Ain't the world a crazy place? Reply #80. Jul 26 19, 4:14 PM |
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