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um... william... i happen to be a bit of a director / producer, myself.

if you want to forward juliet's contact info to me, i think we can set you up with a nice, fat percentage of her contract.
 
holm? i have-a-no holm.
haun-tit, de-spiced,
treata likea aminal!
de JONK-il is my holm!

but i shall show de vorlt...
i shall porfect erase of peeple,
erase atomic soupormin,
dat vill konker de vorlt!

...

you see?! you see?!
your stoopid mimes,
stoopid, stoopid!
 
You can look up Juliet's contact information yourself.
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...but she may not be listed...
 
Oh My God! He meant it!
 
For my money, Eddie gets a pretty bad rap. There are plenty of movies much more inept than Plan 9. Take the following example... please! One of my favorite Tor Johnson films, written and directed by Coleman Francis, who makes Ed Wood look like Spielberg. Wood was actually able to film actors and record their voices. See if you can spot a single person actually speaking onscreen during this entire bamboozle. Oh, yeah... Tor Johnson plays a Soviet scientist. I'll let that line sink in a moment.


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@bill,
considering that's the entire movie, any idea where i can find tor?


@gregg,
uh i forget what we were talking about. captain binghamton is involved, tho?
 
Ike;

Consult your post #98 and see if it all comes back to you. Something to do with turning (inverting?) a Frisbee---which was probably still known as the Whamo! Flying saucer in Binghamton's day.....Wha, wha, wha?!
 
Yes, if there's a constant problem for the Tor Johnson fan, it's finding Tor Johnson. He just blends into the scenery! But seriously, folks, Tor shows up at about 33:30, getting off the plane that seems like it wasn't built for the task of carrying Tor Johnson.

My fave riff from this one (amongst many classics): "Tor been to desert on horse with no name!"
 
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Second favorite: "I didn't think they looked like Yucca Flatians."
 
The Wham-O Frisbee, the Wham-O SuperBall, the Wham-O TurboTube, the Wham-O Water Wiggle, the Wham-O Slip n' Slide, and the Wham-O Super Stuff (a Blob of carbohydrate polymer in shocking pink).
EDIT: And the Frisbee Pro (1967), when I added the center counterweight "circle". It's all about the radius-to-circumference and fulcrum point-to-balance.

Folks, do not listen to the "Fred Morrison Frisbee" stories. Years ago, they claimed that Morrison was a building inspector who came up with the pie pan-as-flying saucer toy in the very early 1950's, before my birth. This was posted on the official Wham-O company website.

The current Wikipedia claims that Morrison came up with it from a cake pan in Santa Monica, Ca in 1938. Neither story is true. Morrison is a fictional cover story.

And...the only jobber that I know of from Santa Monica, Ca is/was Harry Williams.
I think he gave me a pinball once, in 1960. But he called himself "Homer" and he called it "a bearing that he picked up from work". Yeah, like "working the restaurant trade in downtown L.A.",
 
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@gregg,
oh! i guess i just lapsed in to the spirit of PN, which is to frequently ignore others posts... including one's own! well spotted then, sir. :)


@bill,
thanks for the help. for my money, tor fits seamlessly in to almost any 50's B-movie. you know, i think i first saw his face in comic books from the late 60's / early 70's. there was a full page mail-order novelty shop and they sold masks cast from his head.

oh! while searching for that advert, i accidentally ran in to this!

scroll down a little bit and check out the goodness. that's one of my favorite graphic artists drew friedman (of national lampoon fame) doing tor, eddie and the gang. here's a sample strip:
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@sleepy,
i'd argue that frisbee-like objects have been around long before the plastic thingamabob. for example-- some forms of shuriken (throwing stars) used in feudal japan were disk-like thin steel objects with sharpened edges that one would flick at a target. they came in many different shapes, but there's probably about a dozen disk-like ones you can look at on that first page.

there's also the chakram from india, the discus from ancient greece, even small shields made of thin metal or wood from the post-stone age and even earlier. obviously in the 1900's the basic design became oriented (and perfected) towards recreational purposes, but it's an ancient design, really.

on a side note-- huh, i don't recognise a couple of those wham-o toys.
 
from drew friedman's blog--

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Gilbert Gottfried is a hyper, brilliant, fearless comedian. In fact, he's one of my favorite younger Old Jewish Comedians. I've known Gilbert for thirty years, ever since meeting him up at the mid-eighties, not-very-funny version of the National Lampoon which we were both creating work for. We hit it off because we both shared a passion for old schlocky show business and especially old Hollywood horror films, featuring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, John Carradine, George Zucco, Lon Chaney, Jr., and the giant, bald Swedish wrestler-turned- zombie/actor Tor Johnson. Gilbert and I lived in the same neighborhood of the East Village and he would frequently drop by, (usually unannounced), to watch my VHS tape collection of 1950's horror films mainly featuring Lugosi, some directed by Ed Wood, Jr., as well as Lon Chaney, Jr. films. Sometimes we'd both watch entire films in silence, absorbing every nuance and detail before Gilbert would put his hat and coat back on and return to his apartment on Avenue A.

Gilbert and I discuss our love of old horror films, among many other pertinent topics, including Groucho Marx's doing horrific things because "Chico needed the money", Jerry Lewis's reaction to my Old Jewish Comedian book, Jack Carter hating his portrait, Rosie Grier's bodyguard and film career, and Milton Berle's schlong, along with savvy co-host Frank Santopadre, in the latest episode of "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing, Colossal Podcast"...
 
Okay, you just officially blew my mind! I have never known Drew Friedman's name but, of course, I've seen plenty of his work. Case in point: the very moment I saw your link, I couldn't contain my excitement as I yelled into my ear "It's the Ernest Borgnine guy!" In the late '80s, I worked at/lived at a college bar across from WSU called Kirby's... one of those weird little hole-in-the-wall college bars where what was on the bookshelf was at least as interesting as what was on the jukebox (and Kirby's had a great jukebox!). I was leafing through an old copy of Heavy Metal magazine and saw a T-shirt with the attached drawing on it, above which said "By the year 2050, everyone in Baltimore will look like Ernest Borgnine". What this truncated drawing doesn't show is that there are a field of Borgnines (and, not surprising, one Spiro Agnew stuck in there). Man, did I wish that wasn't a 10-year-old issue... I would have ordered that thing immediately! Now, almost 30 years later and thanks to you, Nic, I know that ad wasn't some sort of weird drunken fever dream!
Oh, and the Tor masks. Saw 'em all the time in comic books. Had no idea who the hell Tor Johnson was.
 

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And you forgot about The Boomerang.
A couple of those Wham-O toys failed to catch on (the TurboTube), while the Superball got yanked after a couple of kids lost an eye when they tried to bounce one as high as they could make it go. On a simple basic average throw to the ground, the original SuperBall would bounce two stories upward. I do regret the injuries.

I have a memory of each and every one of them. It was my Brother tossing a pie pan around in 1956. I was a 2 1/2 year old toddler grasping onto the thick rounded edges of furniture to stay upright, and those thick "furniture edges" seemed right to apply to the circumference, to fix the instability of the pie pan's flying behavior. Pie pans make for a lousy flying toy.

But I wouldn't want to catch a Shuriken with my bare hands, or a stone or metal discus with my head.

Say, have I ever mentioned my self-sealing plastic Weber's Bread "Peanuts/Charlie Brown" balloons? It was a freebie in the bread bags in '67.
 
i thought about the boomerang, but it's not much of a disk, hence did not mention it. altho just now i found something called the wham-o-rang, which is sort of a frisbee - boomerang hybrid.

i've seen stuff like the turbotube back around the 80's or 90's. it lacks a certain sexiness factor, i'd say.

pretty sure i've seen the water wiggle a long, long time ago. maybe around 1970 or so.

if wham-o came up with the super stuff, it definitely spawned a tonne of imitators.

looking at WP, i see they marketed a version of jai-alai toss called trac-ball.

huge list, tho...
 
Oh, that fucking Slip'n'Slide. Probably the most enjoyable torture device ever created. I remember when I got one... I was probably about 7. I spent hours runningandslidingrunningandslidingrunningandsliding. The next morning my stomach muscles felt like they had been trampled by Clydesdales.
I haven't had a chance to look at those links yet, but I did find one issue-or-volume of RAW on the usenets. There's gotta be more!
 
cool... i'm a big spiegelman appreciator for maus and RAW, altho strangely i've read very little of RAW itself. it doesn't seem to appear on the download sites very often, that's for sure.


btw those links are just images, not pages or anything. i'm not crazy about the attachement system here... the way it auto-scales things down and all.
 
from this super fun thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4706sd/who_was_your_saddest_celebrity_encounter/d09bga6


Met Adam West. I was a huge fan, it was my first con, and I noticed holy shit his line is EMPTY.

I rush to the front, and he's leaning back in his chair, arms crossed, sun glasses on, 50-50 odds on him dozing off. He never says a word. First words out of his handler's mouth, "a signature is $60". I'd already blown all my cash, so I kinda shrugged my shoulders and said I didn't have the money. The agent says "or you can fist bump Mr West for free". He holds out his hand (while still slumped back into his chair) I bump it, it's over.

...

I always follow this story up, however, with the next celeb I met there: Ernest Borgnine. I get to the front of the line, both his hands clasp over mine, he shakes it big and gleefully, and gave the biggest, most genuine smile. We chatted for a bit, and I'm not gonna do a whole transcript or anything, it's just that he was... the warmest fucking guy. It was like I'd met an old friend for the first time in years, instead of some guy from the TV. This was just an impulse meet and greet - a chance to see Mermaid Man - but that encounter cemented me as a diehard fan.​
 
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I know I've been harsh about the biz. But I have met some very nice people.
It's the studio types that give me the piss por nada. Like that Joey Forman character
in an episode of The Monkees.
 
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