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When I lived in Pittsburgh, I had a friend that I met in a nightclub who traveled internationally for work. He spoke 4 languages and was, to put it mildly, a character. When he was going to be in Pgh, he always arrived on Wednesday, and I knew he was coming because on Tuesday, I'd get a Fedex envelope at work with $500 in it, no note or anything, just cash. That meant make sure the club had his special champagne, and go get an eight ball of pink Peruvian flake. We had many good times, including once when he picked me up in a limo with two world class women. After the evening ended, and the limo took me home, one of the girls got out with me and when I questioned her, she said she'd been paid thru 10 am the next morning. I tell this by way of setting the stage as to what he was like.
I moved to Dallas in 1989, where he was from, and he told me that an old school friend was part owner of the Starck Club, which was a world renown night club of the same caliber as Studio 54 in its heyday. He was to tell this guy about me and I was to ask for him when I went. After settling into town, I went there one Saturday night. There must have been over a hundred people waiting in line outside, I went to the podium that the doorman had and asked for this guy. He sent someone in and after about 10 minutes, the guy came out and greeted me like a long lost brother and took me inside. They had couches in a square with tables in the middle, and separated by gauzy drapes. He took me into one where there were about 5-6 people, and a blonde face down on the table hoovering coke from a pile that would have made Tony Montana envious. When she stood up, he introduced her as Stevie, she say hey, how ya doin, and handed me the straw. She had people around her all night and it did not dawn on me who she was til I overheard two girls talking about her in the bathroom. Yes, it was a unisex bathroom, and more fun that the club was! The guy showed me a hell of a good time, and when I left, he went outside with me and put my name in the "book", so I got in whenever I went from then on. I never saw her in there again, but did see other celebrities from time to time.
I only lived in Dallas for 4 months before moving to Houston, but I had some pretty good adventures in that place, especially when my Pittsburgh friend was in town.
I moved to Dallas in 1989, where he was from, and he told me that an old school friend was part owner of the Starck Club, which was a world renown night club of the same caliber as Studio 54 in its heyday. He was to tell this guy about me and I was to ask for him when I went. After settling into town, I went there one Saturday night. There must have been over a hundred people waiting in line outside, I went to the podium that the doorman had and asked for this guy. He sent someone in and after about 10 minutes, the guy came out and greeted me like a long lost brother and took me inside. They had couches in a square with tables in the middle, and separated by gauzy drapes. He took me into one where there were about 5-6 people, and a blonde face down on the table hoovering coke from a pile that would have made Tony Montana envious. When she stood up, he introduced her as Stevie, she say hey, how ya doin, and handed me the straw. She had people around her all night and it did not dawn on me who she was til I overheard two girls talking about her in the bathroom. Yes, it was a unisex bathroom, and more fun that the club was! The guy showed me a hell of a good time, and when I left, he went outside with me and put my name in the "book", so I got in whenever I went from then on. I never saw her in there again, but did see other celebrities from time to time.
I only lived in Dallas for 4 months before moving to Houston, but I had some pretty good adventures in that place, especially when my Pittsburgh friend was in town.
As a teen, I was shy and awkward, 6'2' and 120#. I wanted to be cool, and someone who things happened to. and who was out and about where the "action" was. I made it a point to do just that. Most of my friends were older than me, and helped me in many ways, and made a lot of introductions. I spent a lot of time in nightclubs and after hours places, and fancy events, and I wouldn't change a minute of it. I was known as Mr Pittsburgh, and one of the best dressed guys in the city. I moved to Dallas in '89, then to Houston, got married and settled down and never looked back. But I've got stories for days, and thinking of them puts a smile on my face!
One of the places we used to frequent was pretty high class, one Sunday night after a concert, THE James Brown came, and was turned away at the door because he was wearing tennis shoes. He went across the street to his hotel, changed shoes, and came back ad received the red carpet treatment. And he was not mad, society had standards back then and we all knew it.
One of the places we used to frequent was pretty high class, one Sunday night after a concert, THE James Brown came, and was turned away at the door because he was wearing tennis shoes. He went across the street to his hotel, changed shoes, and came back ad received the red carpet treatment. And he was not mad, society had standards back then and we all knew it.
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kmakar
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Californians having trouble adjusting to life in Texas !
Perfect! Micro-aggression, bwahaha
Chevelle_Nut
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OMG!!! he has a gun!!!
Masks forever. Damn I hate maskers. Should have told them he was unvaxxed.
Masks forever. Damn I hate maskers. Should have told them he was unvaxxed.
Playing "fetch" by himself.
He looks like he's having a great time !
He looks like he's having a great time !
Dick Dasterdly and Dasterdly dog! ... One of the best, teeheeehee
kmakar
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It was Dasterdly and Mutley.
AwHaw, you are correct sir. I think I crossed Deputy Dog into that.
There were several dogs that had the wheezing laugh !
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera weren’t above borrowing—especially from themselves—when coming up with new characters. But as time marches on, it becomes fuzzy in the minds of new viewers who came first.
Say the words “snickering dog” and the response you’ll likely get is “Muttley.” He first appeared in Wacky Races, which began its broadcast life on Saturday mornings in 1968. It was one of the last Hanna-Barbera shows I really enjoyed, mainly because of the voice work, and the fact I liked the movie The Great Race. And breaking out into stardom were Dick Dastardly and Muttley, who ended up with their own vastly ho-hum cartoon later. Dastardly was Hanna-Barbera’s less funny version of Snidley Whiplash while Muttley was Hanna-Barbera’s version of, well, a bunch of Hanna-Barbera characters.
It was only a few years earlier (1965) on the Atom Ant Show that the best segment featured a character named Precious Pupp. Precious would loudly bark, which would surprise a robber, postman or other antagonist into getting bashed, and then snicker in a close-up. Muttley did the same thing. Sometimes, Precious would do a rassen-frassen-rattle-dattle mumbling-swear routine that Muttley expropriated, too. Ah, but none of this originated with Precious Pupp.
While the bark-scare routine was lifted from the Frisky Puppy-Claude Cat cartoons that Mike Maltese wrote for Chuck Jones at Warners, Joe and Bill borrowed from themselves for the snickering Pupp. The earliest instance I can find is in ‘Fireman Huck’, which first appeared on December 11, 1958. Maybe because this is written by Charlie Shows, the concept is a little different. The dog begins to snicker not because of anything he’s done, but because the “poor, li’l old, frightened” kitten Huck’s trying to rescue bares its claws, swipes and Huck lands on his head.
The wheezy laugh came from the larynx of Don Messick, whose financial planner probably came to appreciate it as much as cartoon fans.
Shows brought the evil snickering back in ‘Barbecue Hound’, released on January 26, 1959. Unlike the previous dog, or the later Precious, this one only snickers once, at the end of the cartoon as it fades out.
In a newspaper story here, Joe Barbera mentioned Kellogg’s liked certain incidental characters and wanted them to make return appearances in case they could be marketable. So Huck again tangled with Iggy and Ziggy the crows, Powerful Pierre and Leroy the Lion. And a nameless dog with the wheezy laugh was brought back, too, to complicate Huck’s life in:
• Postman Panic, aired February 26, 1959 (written by Charlie Shows).
• A Bully Dog, aired November 2, 1959 (written by Warren Foster).
• Nuts Over Mutts, possibly aired October 2, 1960 (written by Warren Foster).
• Two for Tee Vee, possibly aired October 13, 1961 (written by Tony Benedict).
It would seem odd, given the obvious love that Hanna and Barbera had for the idea of a snickering dog, that the next major canine characters in their cartoons went in a different direction. Snuffles on Quick Draw McGraw, merely leaped into ecstasy over dog biscuits (and occasionally grumbled under his breath, something H-B repeated with Precious Pupp) while the Jetsons’ Astro pronounced all his words starting with an ‘r’ (something H-B repeated with an unfortunately far more durable character named Scooby Doo).
But there was at least one other snickering character in the early H-B cartoons, and it wasn’t a dog. It was the wildcat in the Augie Doggie cartoon ‘Cat Happy Pappy’, released December 26, 1959. Mike Maltese wrote this cartoon and uses the snickering differently and logically. Augie tries to defend his dad’s honour by telling the cat to put up his dukes, and the cat raspily snickers at the absurdity of it.
There have been other similar-sounding animals since. There was a one-shot watchdog on The Flintstones named Buzzsaw in the first season’s ‘The Golf Champion’ (1960). It was the only cartoon written that year by Syd Zelinka, who was a live action writer from The Honeymooners. One can speculate that Warren Foster, who wrote the majority of Flinstones episodes that year, added the snickering gag. Even more Muttley-esque was Mugger, the bad guy pet/sidekick in Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! (1964).
Other snickerers were regular characters. Hanna-Barbera paid Dan De Carlo to rip off his own drawing style to rip off Filmation’s wretched Archie and invent the somewhat-less-wretched Josie and the Pussycats, featuring a snickering Sebastian the cat. Then a few years later, someone, somewhere came up with something called Mumbly. But he isn’t Muttley, he .. um .. er.. just sounds like him and almost looks like him! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
There may have been others, but by this time, Hanna-Barbera cartoons became completely unwatchable for me. Viewing the animation credits for something like Mumbly with names like Carlo Vinci, Ed Benedict, Dick Thompson and Dave Tendlar just makes me sad. Many of those artists did fine work for Warners, M.G.M., Fleischer, Lantz, even Disney. Some provided enjoyable characters when H-B was starting out, a time when Huck took on a dog with a wheezing laugh in a show that gave at least one generation of young cartoon fans lasting memories.
And that’s nothing to snicker at.
Update from Yowp: It’s been pointed out to me that Hanna-Barbera may have borrowed the evil snickering from the brilliant Tex Avery and one of his finest M.G.M. creations—‘Bad Luck Blackie’, (released January 22, 1949). The cartoon begins with the laughing dog (who snickers only once) being cruel to a desperate, defenceless kitten running terrified from him, and ends with the kitten becoming the evil snickerer with the desperate, defenceless dog running terrified into the sunset. Avery used it later that year in ‘Wags to Riches’ when Spike decides to kill Droopy to get his fortune (in a skunk-transformation gag, yet), and again in ‘Daredevil Droopy’ (1951) when Spike bends a rifle before handing it to Droopy.
And due to popular demand, you can listen to the snicker here. It’s a Muttley version, but it’s the same.
Posted by Yowp at 05:06
The Dog that Snickers in the TV Flickers
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera weren’t above borrowing—especially from themselves—when coming up with new characters. But as time marches on, it becomes fuzzy in the minds of new viewers who came first.
Say the words “snickering dog” and the response you’ll likely get is “Muttley.” He first appeared in Wacky Races, which began its broadcast life on Saturday mornings in 1968. It was one of the last Hanna-Barbera shows I really enjoyed, mainly because of the voice work, and the fact I liked the movie The Great Race. And breaking out into stardom were Dick Dastardly and Muttley, who ended up with their own vastly ho-hum cartoon later. Dastardly was Hanna-Barbera’s less funny version of Snidley Whiplash while Muttley was Hanna-Barbera’s version of, well, a bunch of Hanna-Barbera characters.
It was only a few years earlier (1965) on the Atom Ant Show that the best segment featured a character named Precious Pupp. Precious would loudly bark, which would surprise a robber, postman or other antagonist into getting bashed, and then snicker in a close-up. Muttley did the same thing. Sometimes, Precious would do a rassen-frassen-rattle-dattle mumbling-swear routine that Muttley expropriated, too. Ah, but none of this originated with Precious Pupp.
While the bark-scare routine was lifted from the Frisky Puppy-Claude Cat cartoons that Mike Maltese wrote for Chuck Jones at Warners, Joe and Bill borrowed from themselves for the snickering Pupp. The earliest instance I can find is in ‘Fireman Huck’, which first appeared on December 11, 1958. Maybe because this is written by Charlie Shows, the concept is a little different. The dog begins to snicker not because of anything he’s done, but because the “poor, li’l old, frightened” kitten Huck’s trying to rescue bares its claws, swipes and Huck lands on his head.The wheezy laugh came from the larynx of Don Messick, whose financial planner probably came to appreciate it as much as cartoon fans.
Shows brought the evil snickering back in ‘Barbecue Hound’, released on January 26, 1959. Unlike the previous dog, or the later Precious, this one only snickers once, at the end of the cartoon as it fades out.In a newspaper story here, Joe Barbera mentioned Kellogg’s liked certain incidental characters and wanted them to make return appearances in case they could be marketable. So Huck again tangled with Iggy and Ziggy the crows, Powerful Pierre and Leroy the Lion. And a nameless dog with the wheezy laugh was brought back, too, to complicate Huck’s life in:
• Postman Panic, aired February 26, 1959 (written by Charlie Shows).• A Bully Dog, aired November 2, 1959 (written by Warren Foster).
• Nuts Over Mutts, possibly aired October 2, 1960 (written by Warren Foster).
• Two for Tee Vee, possibly aired October 13, 1961 (written by Tony Benedict).
It would seem odd, given the obvious love that Hanna and Barbera had for the idea of a snickering dog, that the next major canine characters in their cartoons went in a different direction. Snuffles on Quick Draw McGraw, merely leaped into ecstasy over dog biscuits (and occasionally grumbled under his breath, something H-B repeated with Precious Pupp) while the Jetsons’ Astro pronounced all his words starting with an ‘r’ (something H-B repeated with an unfortunately far more durable character named Scooby Doo).
But there was at least one other snickering character in the early H-B cartoons, and it wasn’t a dog. It was the wildcat in the Augie Doggie cartoon ‘Cat Happy Pappy’, released December 26, 1959. Mike Maltese wrote this cartoon and uses the snickering differently and logically. Augie tries to defend his dad’s honour by telling the cat to put up his dukes, and the cat raspily snickers at the absurdity of it.
There have been other similar-sounding animals since. There was a one-shot watchdog on The Flintstones named Buzzsaw in the first season’s ‘The Golf Champion’ (1960). It was the only cartoon written that year by Syd Zelinka, who was a live action writer from The Honeymooners. One can speculate that Warren Foster, who wrote the majority of Flinstones episodes that year, added the snickering gag. Even more Muttley-esque was Mugger, the bad guy pet/sidekick in Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! (1964).Other snickerers were regular characters. Hanna-Barbera paid Dan De Carlo to rip off his own drawing style to rip off Filmation’s wretched Archie and invent the somewhat-less-wretched Josie and the Pussycats, featuring a snickering Sebastian the cat. Then a few years later, someone, somewhere came up with something called Mumbly. But he isn’t Muttley, he .. um .. er.. just sounds like him and almost looks like him! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
There may have been others, but by this time, Hanna-Barbera cartoons became completely unwatchable for me. Viewing the animation credits for something like Mumbly with names like Carlo Vinci, Ed Benedict, Dick Thompson and Dave Tendlar just makes me sad. Many of those artists did fine work for Warners, M.G.M., Fleischer, Lantz, even Disney. Some provided enjoyable characters when H-B was starting out, a time when Huck took on a dog with a wheezing laugh in a show that gave at least one generation of young cartoon fans lasting memories.
And that’s nothing to snicker at.
Update from Yowp: It’s been pointed out to me that Hanna-Barbera may have borrowed the evil snickering from the brilliant Tex Avery and one of his finest M.G.M. creations—‘Bad Luck Blackie’, (released January 22, 1949). The cartoon begins with the laughing dog (who snickers only once) being cruel to a desperate, defenceless kitten running terrified from him, and ends with the kitten becoming the evil snickerer with the desperate, defenceless dog running terrified into the sunset. Avery used it later that year in ‘Wags to Riches’ when Spike decides to kill Droopy to get his fortune (in a skunk-transformation gag, yet), and again in ‘Daredevil Droopy’ (1951) when Spike bends a rifle before handing it to Droopy.And due to popular demand, you can listen to the snicker here. It’s a Muttley version, but it’s the same.
Posted by Yowp at 05:06