THE PICNIC IS OVER!!

Hi guys!

Didja ever have childhood heroes? In the fifties it just about had to be a cowboy. My favorite one was Roy Rogers. He was played by Roy Rogers. He was a clean, respectable cowboy, thru and thru! I saw Roy Rogers on the tube today and truly it was laughable. He was shooting it out with these bad guys on a desert mountain range. It was two against one. The bad guys had elevation and trajectory on their side. But Roy had goodness and a white hat on his side. And these two dogs. One of them was a German Shepherd. The other was an Airedale or something. He looked like a large Benji. The bad guys are shooting away and Roy is matching them bullet for bullet. He must have been packing a 29 shooter! The bad guy pulled his trigger and nothing happened. He pulled it again. Nothing. Could he out of bullets? To his credit, at least he didn't throw the gun at his worthy opponent. I'm not saying he wasn't playing with a full deck, but let's just say the cards were not well shuffled. By this time the dogs are upon them. Or is it, "up on them". Anyhow, although their tails are wagging happily, they are chewing one of the guys leg and growling madly. The other guy is still shooting. Finally they holler down, call off your dogs. Roy says, I will after you throw down your guns. Now a smart outlaw would have just shot the dog, but perhaps his hat was screwed on too tight. They throw down the guns and Roy calls off the dogs. Then the fight continues. One guy falls over the cliff, but he doesn't blow up like cars do. That always surprises me! Roy overcomes the other bad guy and proclaims, "The Picnic Is Over!". I don't know if you're a Clint Eastwood fan, but you can't help knowing the Dirty Harry lines. "Make My Day"."Feel Lucky, Punk?! Well do ya?" "A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations". Those are great. Roy Rogers comes up with "The Picnic Is Over!" To be fair, Clint Eastwood could probably say "Green Beans and Potatoe Salad" and bad guys everywhere would just wet their pants. His westerns were pretty good too. I love the music from Hugo Montenegro in The Good, Bad and the Ugly. Bytheway, my new grandson will be named Hudson. I was pulling for Hugo, because all the Hugo's I know are successfull. Victor Hugo, the famous writer of Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame and others. If you like football you will like Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was the best Hunchback, Notre Dame ever had. I'm not saying the book is about football, just that you might like it. There's Hugo Montenegro, who I believe also wrote the theme song for "I Dream of Jeannie". Yeah, that's the show with Barbara Eden playing the blond Jeannie with the cute belly button. Only thing I remember about that show is the theme song. And Larry Hagman, who starred in Dallas and, Bill Dailey who was the neighbor on the Bob Newhart Show. Don't remember much about the cute blond with the little Genie outfit on at all. And then there's Hugo on "Lost:. know any others?
Here's the other thing about cowboys. How many bullets did they carry anyway? And when the good guys get shot, they get right back up, just like the trees at Six Flags after the train passes by, only they're smarter than wood, a little. The Doc in the civil war picture I saw today got shot almost in the heart, and the Union Officer had to remove it, the bullet, not the heart. The Doc had to be awake, so he took one swig of whiskey and gave the Officer instructions to go in with the bullet retractors and pull the bullet out. The next day he was up and around like nothing had happened. I saw Humphrey Bogart do the same thing in, I think, "To Have and Have Not".You guys that never watched the old classics have got to get with it!!
For {baby) names, I kind of like Harvey, like Jimmy Stewart. That's a cute name, that's not so common! Hudson is cool too! They were classic race cars around 1952. They blew everything off the road! Big long monster of a car. No coincidence that they used a Hudson for the cartoon character, voiced by Paul Newman in the animated feature, "Cars". Paul Newman also played a character names Hud in a movie called "Hud".

Oh well, everyone sleep tight and if you're one of the lucky few that get to stay home in 1 centimeter of snow, snuggle up with a bowl of soup and a good old movie! Good night!