A rite of passage in my neighborhood clique of small boys growing up into bigger boys was learning to laugh like Woody the Woodpecker. It seemed really important to be able to do that, play basketball and repair bike tires.
I figured it was some form of Jerry’s cousin/brother who was a tough guy sort and who would physically overpower Tom in a series of mistaken identity mishaps
Far as I've read, Woody was the creation of Lantz, coming up with the idea after being annoyed by a woodpecker while on his honeymoon, but I do believe Hardaway was at Lantz's studio at the time, so no doubt helped in developing some of those character traits that you've just mentioned :-)
Walter and Gracie honeymooned in the Silver Lake tract in June Lake, California. That's where Woody came to life. He soon after bought a "cabin" there and spent most of their summers there in the high Sierra. I lived in the next town south, Mammoth Lakes, for 25 years and he was still active in the area for a while after I moved there. He built a library and a baseball field for the community. Really nice folks.
Man, I love that video of Biden. I keep thinking how exciting that'd be for the military guys to see the POTUS fulling engaged in their performance and then giving them two thumbs up. Biggest compliment they could get IMHO. Or course the lunatic fringe had to warp and pervert it.
OT, I'm so sorry - I just found out this morning that Linda Tirado is dying, and will likely make her transition very soon. She and I were on the legendary Gawker Sub-blog Groupthink together until she moved on to do a hell of a lot, and the greatest compliment I ever got was when my writing was mistaken for hers. This is so wrong - the world needs more like her. Please read her work, and for her sake stay angry and active.
You certainly can't win if you don't run, I always harken back to the FL House seat we won (at least for one term) when the GOP candidate had to quit running for some reason (probably criming or somesuch)
I find that NYT gift links often aren’t. I’m sure it’s just a glitch that they will be fixing soon. (Insert eyeroll). One of my friend’s sends me links all the time and they work, infrequently at best.
He's one of the cross-eyed, mouth-breathing incels that believes Vought are the good guys and that a deranged, rambling, sadistic psychopath like $hitler "has some good ideas."
The real story about the Biden 'wandering off' clip is that, on X, the first moderator added a note saying "Biden didn’t ‘wander off’. After viewing a skydiving demo with the other G-7 leaders, Biden stepped aside to speak...".
Once Musk (I assume) heard about it, he had the note changed to "the video was cropped" because of his strong commitment to making sure lies are supported on his website.
That is to say, Musk is using his cess pool to actively subvert the president and promulgate falsehoods..
This 2025 agenda shit should be on every news show and newspaper front page headline every day. It's a very detailed plan to erase every constitutional right and replace it with the whim of a dictatorial president with absolute authority. But if it is discussed at all it's only in the vaguest terms, without describing the actual impact of replacing tens of thousands of federal employees and military officers pledging loyalty to the constitution with people pledging loyalty only to Trump. Then declaring martial law, which ends every constitutional right and protection we have had for over 230 years. Even the right to (gasp) own rifles converted to essentially machine guns!
But you won't hear the talking heads on CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC describing life without a trial by jury of your peers or even be told what law you violated or have an attorney. Or the right to send a letter to your member of Congress telling them they are poopy heads. Or the right to attend a Democratic Party or Planned Parenthood meeting, since the right to assemble is only there as long as the constitution is in effect. Or the right to vote, or the right to be free of religious interference in your life. So get ready for Mike Johnson to mandate porn buddies for everyone and establish a commission to legislate a national ethics and morals code based on the GOP bible. For everyone except Supreme Court justices and Trump.
People don't think deeply enough to imagine the US as a country where you can be grabbed off the street by police, detained for weeks, never be told why, and subjected to torture and abuse to force a confession. Then put before a tribunal of biased officers and sentenced to death, without any evidence besides innuendo and lies by a prosecutor. It would be nice if Jake Tapper spent about 5 minutes every night going over protections the constitution grants that would vanish under 2025. He could do this from now until election day and never repeat one.
MIne too! But I'll probably go in anyway, crank the lefty podcasts I never play on speaker during a workday, and do all the things I never get around to during a normal workday. I like being in there when it's quite and I'm the only one there.
AND of course, I'll get paid for whatever time I put in PLUS the holiday pay.
That Harlan Crow story needs to grow legs. Tying Crow to Clarence Thomas' corruption to The Rent's Too Damn High may start resonating with idiots who think inflation (?) is Biden's problem to fix. Increasing rent is one of several drivers, and the GOP is doing it.
We had a persistent gift card scammer at my former workplace. I feel like it had to be one person because they always pretended to be the Director, even after she retired and her name was removed from the website. It's funny that "she" followed the same script as the one in that Google doc, and a couple of employees almost fell for it.
It's Baby-Faced Mouse in the hed gif today, a Walter Lantz creation. More about the character and about Lantz (cartoonist royalty, baby) in the link: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/baby-face-mouse-stealin-yer-cheese
I would have sworn it was Sniffles, without his hat.
A rite of passage in my neighborhood clique of small boys growing up into bigger boys was learning to laugh like Woody the Woodpecker. It seemed really important to be able to do that, play basketball and repair bike tires.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=woody+the+woodpecker+laugh#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6809dca9,vid:A_IDGrKZ0Rs,st:0
But as we grew up we found out that this impressive skill actually did not improve with puberty.
I used to do that laugh as a kid, it drove me mother absolutely insane.
I'm now imagining a Woody with a deepening and cracking voice, and it's giving me the giggles.
;>))
I figured it was some form of Jerry’s cousin/brother who was a tough guy sort and who would physically overpower Tom in a series of mistaken identity mishaps
Interesting fact.
Woody Woodpecker was created by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway and features a few of the characteristics of proto-Bugs Bunny, such as his laugh.
This has been an interesting fact. Gas-Food 12 miles.
Woody was created by Walter Lantz and was drawn by Hardaway.
Yep:
It was actually Mel Blanc who did the voice (of woody which sounds exactly like proto rabbit here) till Warner’s put him under an exclusive contract
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zcumq
Was Tex Avery who first gave Bugs the Brooklyn wiseguy
I used to be able to do the Woody Woodpecker laugh when I was a kid. I drove our bus driver crazy.
Far as I've read, Woody was the creation of Lantz, coming up with the idea after being annoyed by a woodpecker while on his honeymoon, but I do believe Hardaway was at Lantz's studio at the time, so no doubt helped in developing some of those character traits that you've just mentioned :-)
Walter and Gracie honeymooned in the Silver Lake tract in June Lake, California. That's where Woody came to life. He soon after bought a "cabin" there and spent most of their summers there in the high Sierra. I lived in the next town south, Mammoth Lakes, for 25 years and he was still active in the area for a while after I moved there. He built a library and a baseball field for the community. Really nice folks.
Oh how great! What a community treasure.
My daughter, at about 3 years old, knew him as Woody the Pecker. Being the great dad I was, I never corrected her.
Good dad!
Hysterical!
That gif reminds me of a Mickey gif with Swiss cheese!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f6f36b025bac44a8c18c03a755ee416c/tumblr_mk4m2pEmPd1s7w3v0o1_400.gif
I know that gif without even clicking!
But of course you do!
Naughty!
Minnie seems enthused!
Baby-Face reminds me of Snifffles, but I wouldn't be surprised if every contemporary animation house had a character like that.
You are correct, there was a LOT of cross-over between studios in the 30's and 40's, both with character ideas and personnel coming and going.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_American_animation
Thanks for this article.
Saving that for a later read.
It's excellent.
The ratchet on the jack is upside down ;)
Cartoon Physics!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_physics
Sounds like the beginning to a rather interesting automotive rap ballad.
Now I'm singing that phrase to 'The Wheels on the Buss Go Round and Round.'
THANKS A LOT.
YW 😁
LOL, really? I would no doubt make a similar mistake if I were animating the sequence.
Fuck Harlan Crow.
That's Mrs. Crow's job, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone but her and Clarence.
and Ted Cruz?
I wish we could sue Clarence Thomas after the next gun massacre involving a bump stock.
Him and his five other confederates on the court.
Man, I love that video of Biden. I keep thinking how exciting that'd be for the military guys to see the POTUS fulling engaged in their performance and then giving them two thumbs up. Biggest compliment they could get IMHO. Or course the lunatic fringe had to warp and pervert it.
OT, I'm so sorry - I just found out this morning that Linda Tirado is dying, and will likely make her transition very soon. She and I were on the legendary Gawker Sub-blog Groupthink together until she moved on to do a hell of a lot, and the greatest compliment I ever got was when my writing was mistaken for hers. This is so wrong - the world needs more like her. Please read her work, and for her sake stay angry and active.
😔
You certainly can't win if you don't run, I always harken back to the FL House seat we won (at least for one term) when the GOP candidate had to quit running for some reason (probably criming or somesuch)
I wonder how much money is being spent in AZ for homeschool supplies like candy for Daddy's nose?
Did anyone else find that the gift links to the NYT story about the new WaPo bigwigs was not as gifty as advertised?
I find that NYT gift links often aren’t. I’m sure it’s just a glitch that they will be fixing soon. (Insert eyeroll). One of my friend’s sends me links all the time and they work, infrequently at best.
Is Russell Vought the inspiration for the evil company running the world on the excellent TV show The Boys?
He's one of the cross-eyed, mouth-breathing incels that believes Vought are the good guys and that a deranged, rambling, sadistic psychopath like $hitler "has some good ideas."
The real story about the Biden 'wandering off' clip is that, on X, the first moderator added a note saying "Biden didn’t ‘wander off’. After viewing a skydiving demo with the other G-7 leaders, Biden stepped aside to speak...".
Once Musk (I assume) heard about it, he had the note changed to "the video was cropped" because of his strong commitment to making sure lies are supported on his website.
That is to say, Musk is using his cess pool to actively subvert the president and promulgate falsehoods..
This 2025 agenda shit should be on every news show and newspaper front page headline every day. It's a very detailed plan to erase every constitutional right and replace it with the whim of a dictatorial president with absolute authority. But if it is discussed at all it's only in the vaguest terms, without describing the actual impact of replacing tens of thousands of federal employees and military officers pledging loyalty to the constitution with people pledging loyalty only to Trump. Then declaring martial law, which ends every constitutional right and protection we have had for over 230 years. Even the right to (gasp) own rifles converted to essentially machine guns!
But you won't hear the talking heads on CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC describing life without a trial by jury of your peers or even be told what law you violated or have an attorney. Or the right to send a letter to your member of Congress telling them they are poopy heads. Or the right to attend a Democratic Party or Planned Parenthood meeting, since the right to assemble is only there as long as the constitution is in effect. Or the right to vote, or the right to be free of religious interference in your life. So get ready for Mike Johnson to mandate porn buddies for everyone and establish a commission to legislate a national ethics and morals code based on the GOP bible. For everyone except Supreme Court justices and Trump.
People don't think deeply enough to imagine the US as a country where you can be grabbed off the street by police, detained for weeks, never be told why, and subjected to torture and abuse to force a confession. Then put before a tribunal of biased officers and sentenced to death, without any evidence besides innuendo and lies by a prosecutor. It would be nice if Jake Tapper spent about 5 minutes every night going over protections the constitution grants that would vanish under 2025. He could do this from now until election day and never repeat one.
it should be but TBF it's ALL OVER msnbc and has been since we first got wind of it. nicolle wallace can't go 5 minutes without talking about it.
Yayyayyay! My office is closed for Juneteenth, we are very progressive!
MIne too! But I'll probably go in anyway, crank the lefty podcasts I never play on speaker during a workday, and do all the things I never get around to during a normal workday. I like being in there when it's quite and I'm the only one there.
AND of course, I'll get paid for whatever time I put in PLUS the holiday pay.
That Harlan Crow story needs to grow legs. Tying Crow to Clarence Thomas' corruption to The Rent's Too Damn High may start resonating with idiots who think inflation (?) is Biden's problem to fix. Increasing rent is one of several drivers, and the GOP is doing it.
I’m actually surprised that WaPo called those fakes out for what they were
Do you think that maybe they wouldn't have if they were currently at war with their managing editor and doing everything possible to piss him off?
We had a persistent gift card scammer at my former workplace. I feel like it had to be one person because they always pretended to be the Director, even after she retired and her name was removed from the website. It's funny that "she" followed the same script as the one in that Google doc, and a couple of employees almost fell for it.
I agree.
https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1802165708362535039
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Oh. that's funny, though I did not understand until I scrolled down.