Thursday, January 8, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Trivia Tuesday is back.....
Happy 2015 and we have a new sheriff in town.
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com with the correct name of the
good guy above.....will win this week's Grand Prize along with
TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints.....
--Born in Motown
--High School dropout
--Co-wrote a Rolling Stone's song
--Married 4 times
--Godfather to a Pepper
--Not a fan of Tattoo
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, January 5, 2015
Christmas gift idea for next year.....
Only 50 of these babies are being made to celebratethe 50th anniversary of the Shelby Cobra.
Get on it.
http://www.slashgear.com/shelby-american-to-produce-50th-anniversary-cobra-31361191/
Marty
Nashville, TN
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Cha....Cha....Cha.
Bad planning on my part.....
forces me to go old school today with a special throwback
Cha....Cha....Cha.
Enjoy the last of your "Forties" while you can!!
Marty
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Bad Santas......
.....which reminds me
.....I think this is the Saturday when the
Scottsdale Homeowners Association Santa Claus shows up.
Marty
Friday, December 19, 2014
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Only 9 shopping days until Xmas......
.....back with Woolworth was king and people actually made ornaments.
Marty
Monday, December 15, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
How do you pick up a space capsule?
Captured on December 5th, somewhere on the infinite Pacific Ocean, this image shows the Orion crew module in the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage after Navy divers recovered it following the first and flawless exploration flight test.Navy divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11 and Mobile Diving and Salvage Company 11‐7, recovered the module after the Orion Program's first exploration flight.
Marty
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
TT is on vacation.......see ya next year.
.....since I have the luxury of taking December off....so will TT.
I am working on my Christmas list and checking it twice.
Thought I would feature items that were on my list back when I was a tween.
.....back when everything was bigger and better.
Hang on to your turntables.....
I'm betting on a comeback.
Marty
Monday, December 8, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014
Obama 3-D.....
.....cool and all but didn't we get Lincoln's head for a quarter
at the Museum of Science and Industry when we were kids?
Marty
Nashville, TN
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
How cold was it......
....so cold that a UT Air flight froze to the ground at Igarka airport in Siberia on Tuesday, and passengers had to get out and push the 30-ton aircraft to get it moving again.
TT returns next week.
Marty
Nashville, TN
51*
Monday, December 1, 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Friday, November 28, 2014
We Have a Wiener.....
Big winner from the Great White North this week....
Mr. Tom Asher in with the correct answer AND SPELLING of
the one and only Rowland Hussey Macy founder of Macys.
He was born on Nantucket Island, MA
I'm not saying that retail is tough....but
He died at the age of 54....his son died a year later at 31.
His co founders both died within 2 years after Rowland.....
they were in the 20's and 30's.
Ownership was then passed through the family
for another 20 years or so before it was sold to Isidor Straus who
originally sold China pieces to Macy's.
Life was smooth sailing for Mr. Straus and he died at a ripe old age
of 67....probably would have lived longer if he didn't buy tickets for
him and his wife for a trip on the Titanic. His wife refused to be
separated from him and gave up her lifeboat seat to her newly hired
English maid....and gave her a newly purchased fur jacket to keep her warm.
Isidor was offered a seat in another lifeboat but stated we wouldn't
cut in front of the other children, women and men in front of him.
They were last seen on the deck.....arm in arm.
White Star didn't prove to be as lucky for him as the Red Star of Macy's.
.....which by the way was from a Red Star Tattoo that R.H. Macy had on
his arm back in his whale hunting days.
Happy Black Friday.
Marty
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving!
....there's a white meat,
dark meat joke in there somewhere but I'm not going there.
Marty
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Trivia Tuesday.....
TT going old school today.....first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com
to correctly guess the mystery manly man above will win this week's
Grand Prize along with TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints....
--There once was a man from Nantucket.....
--First businesses all failed
--First successful day of sales was just over $11
--Left home to hunt whales at age 15
--Dead by 54....his son died a year later at 31.
--Throws a hell of a parade
Marty
Monday, November 24, 2014
Blue Monday......
Fats Facts....
--BDay is Feb 26th.
--35 Top 40 hits
--Second only to Elvis
--Rode out Katrina.....almost didn't make it
--1 wife.....8 kids.
Marty
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
You know you're from Southern Illinois when.....
......sorry no TT this week.
All of that Jim Nabors' research wore me out.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
We Have a Wiener......
Well Shazaaaam.
James Patrick Farrell was the first in ahead of many with
the one and only Mr. James Thurston Nabors.
Mr. Nabors is one of less than 100 people who have
been named "honorary" Marines by the Marine Corps.
Bob Hope and Gary Sinise are among the others.
.....and believe it or not this 8:08 video is worth
all 8:08
I'm smelling a Jim Nabors weekend.....stay tuned.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Veteran's Day Trivia Tuesday.....
In honor of Veteran's Day....I pencil sketched my favorite
veteran. First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly
guess the soldier above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE
along with TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!
Hints...
--calls the Yellow Hammer State home
--married once
--has put out over 45+ albums
--had a liver transplant
--now grows nuts in Hawaii.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, November 10, 2014
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
We Have a Weiner!!
Lots of good ones and not so good guesses this week....
(Sylvester Stallone...????)
But Mr. Daniel McNally (son) takes home the prize this week
with the one and only Mr. Joseph John Maddon.
I like this guy.
I may go see a Cubs game next year....
then maybe not.
Marty
Nashville, TN
(Sylvester Stallone...????)
But Mr. Daniel McNally (son) takes home the prize this week
with the one and only Mr. Joseph John Maddon.
I like this guy.
I may go see a Cubs game next year....
then maybe not.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Trivia Tuesday.....
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another puzzler.
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly
name Mr. Unibrow above will win this week's
GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging
Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints...
--Dad was a plumber.
--Mom is a waitress......still working since 1948.
--Wears 70....looks 60.
--On wife #2.
--He could be a game changer.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, November 3, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
We Have a Wiener.....
Mr. James Farrell was the first of many in this week with the
one and only John Franklin Candy.
Candy's B-Day was today on Halloween.....
died 10 years ago at age 43.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Caroline Rose....
Saw her last night in Franklin, TN.....
she's the real deal....at 24 years old.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
OK-Go.....
....hometown boys done well.
Nice camera work with the new Honda Copter-Cam.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Boo.....it's Trivia Tuesday.
We have a very scarrrrry TT for you this week.
The first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name
Mr. Niagra Falls above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE
and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints...
--Born in northern North America
--Died in southern North America
--Was part owner of a Football team
--His father died at 35 from a heart attack
--Has his own postage stamp
--Never had a bad thing to say about anyone
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, October 27, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
\Saturday, October 25, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Ka-Boom.....
Your tax dollars at work.
Pretty accurate.....from up to 25 miles away.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, October 20, 2014
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Im sorry....you'll have to check the baby.
During the 1950s, engineers at the British Overseas Airways Corporation
(what we now call British Airways), developed the "skycot."
The picture is Airline BOAC's ‘skycots', 1953
Marty
Dayton, OH
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
Waaaa....waaaaaa....waaaaaaaa....go jump.
Sorry....no winners this week.
....and really no close calls.
Mr. David Lee Roth would have brought home the prize!!
Marty
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Nickel Creek Twofer....
Once every year or so....comes an album that I play over and over and over and over and over and over and over and.....well you get it.
Nickel Creek's "A Dotted Line"
Marty
Nashville, TN
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Trivia Tuesday......
The first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name
the lonesome rider above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE
and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints...
--a Jewish Hoosier.
--saw a psychiatrist for most of his H.S. years.
--lived and worked on a ranch for troubled youth.
--appeared on The Sopranos
--never married........mmmmmmmmmmm?
--fluent in Spanish
--studied to be a NY EMT.
--helicopter pilot
Marty
Nashville, TN
Monday, October 6, 2014
Take my wife......
Didn't know Henny was so funny.
Special thanks to RK contributor.....K.O'C.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Sunday Funnies....
Not really the comics.....but "Injun Summer"was a mainstay from my youth as a paperboy.
I know it was time to find the gloves and hat when this was published.
The famous cartoon first appeared on Sept. 30, 1907, on Page One, the answer to a looming deadline on a slow news day. John T. McCutcheon, inspired by a string of beautiful, warm autumn days and remembering his youth in Indiana, conjured up the illustration that became one of the most popular features in Tribune history.
The Tribune reprinted it in 1910, on page 4, in response to readers' requests, and then annually this time of year from 1912 to 1992. As early as 1919, the "famous" cartoon had become a "much-loved" annual event, the Tribune said in promoting a high-quality print — "ready for framing" — that the newspaper included in an upcoming Sunday edition. The cartoon wouldn't be contained to its annual appearance on newsprint.
The Indiana State Fair reproduced it as a feature exhibit in 1928. At the Century of Progress World's Fair in 1933-34 it was a life-size diorama and was reproduced in a fireworks display. In 1920, the Indiana Society of Chicago presented a dramatized version of the work to honor McCutcheon. His son, John Jr., a future Tribune editorial page editor, played the boy. Neighborhood, school and social groups acted out "Injun Summer" scores of times, as recently as 1977. One of the biggest dramatizations involved 1,100 children performing it at Soldier Field in August 1941 as part of the Tribune-sponsored Chicagoland Music Festival.
A very popular display with mannequins appeared every year at the Olson Rug Co.'s park on the Northwest Side. McCutcheon's original black-and-white drawing is in the collection of the Chicago History Museum. Over time the cartoon came to evoke anger as well as nostalgia. As early as 1970, readers wrote letters complaining that the Tribune was running an ethnically insensitive feature that misrepresented the brutal reality of Native American history in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Letter writers also were unhappy with the idea that "they ain't no more left," pointing out that Indians still lived and worked in Chicago. In the 1990s, Tribune editors decided to end the annual tradition. Douglas Kneeland, the Tribune's public editor at the time, said, "'Injun Summer' is out of joint with its times. It is literally a museum piece, a relic of another age. The farther we get from 1907, the less meaning it has for the current generation." Still, the cartoon has a powerful hold over many Chicagoans. For generations of readers, "Injun Summer," despite its flaws, became synonymous with the magic and peacefulness of those last warm days of the season.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
We Have a (Cheesehead) Wiener!!!!
Proud to say that ever several weeks of trying.....
Mr. Tom Asher sent in this week's correct answer.....
with the correct spelling to boot....
and nailed down Frances Elizabeth Bavier....aka Aunt Bee.
--Big fan of Studebaker cars....even drove her own in Mayberry RFD.
--Died at 86 from heart disease and cancer.
--House was littered with cat piss from her 14 cats when found.
No curtains on the windows and the cats using the basement
shower stall as their cat pan......
enjoy your breakfast.
Marty
Nashville, TN
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Costume Shopping....
Mask....
http://mcphee.com/shop/bald-eagle-mask.html
Talons.....
http://mcphee.com/shop/eagle-talons.html
Marty
Nashville, TN
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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