Mildly interesting
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I can remember when my father, a high school hockey coach, brought home one of the original goalie masks. Nobody in the NHL was wearing a mask, or helmet, at the time.
It was a futuristic-looking sheet of curved plexi-glass. I remember that I couldn't get it to fit right. I thought, those things will never catch on.
Then Teddy Green got his brains bashed in and they wouldn't let him play without a helmet.
Then some kids came up from the minors wearing helmets.
Then it all became a little safer.
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Then Teddy Green got his brains bashed in and they wouldn't let him play without a helmet.
I remember that incident. Seems to me it was a preseason game between the Bruins and Blues. Green got into a stick swinging fight with Wayne Maki. Bruins went on to win the Cup later in the season.
I can also remember the only NHL goalie who wore a mask was the Blackhawk’s Glenn Hall. Earlier Jacques Plante was the first to wear one but he went into a brief retirement in 1965 before returning to play with the Blues in 1968. Really didn’t see many masks until the first expansion took place when several goalies came into the league from the minors with masks. Best mask ever was the Bruins Gerry Cheever’s - it was well scarred with electrical tape for every time it stopped a puck or stick that would have resulted in facial stitches or surgery.
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The First Hollywood Film To Spoof Hitler Was A Three Stooges Short Called ‘You Nazty Spy!’
Hollywood's relationship to the Third Reich before Pearl Harbor was a complex one. Film producers - particularly Jewish ones - had ample reason to dislike Nazis, but the US was not yet at war with them, and it wasn't necessarily good for business to lampoon the government of a large foreign market. So, with some exceptions, Hollywood tended to tread carefully in the late 1930s.
Charles Chaplin famously lampooned the Third Reich leader in The Great Dictator, which was released in October 1940. The Three Stooges got the jump on Chaplin by nine months, however, releasing their own quickie Third Reich parody in January that year, although Chaplin's film had started production first.
In January 1940, the Stooges released a two-reel short called You Nazty Spy! in which they play dimwitted wallpaper hangers who are installed as dictators of the country of Moronica; the businessmen who elevate them think they are stupid enough to be easily controlled.
Moe plays the Hitler-like leader, while Curly plays Field Marshal Gallstone (a mashup of Goering and Mussolini), and Larry is Propaganda Minister Pebble (a spoof of Goebbels). Various comic hijinks ensue, culminating in the dictatorial trio getting deposed and eaten by lions. In 1941, a sequel came out called I'll Never Heil Again.
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We have all those Stooges shorts on DVD here. Regularly watched as well. The Moronia shorts are among of favourites.
Our teen loves those oldie comedies. Just last evening we watched Another Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Shemp Howard from the Stooges appears in it uncredited. My son found the whole series of 6 movies on the net and downloaded them onto DVD. We also have all Marx Brothers movies as well some Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy.
Am trying to talk him into down loading some Borgart/Bacall film noirs.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Mildly interesting:
Our teen loves those oldie comedies. Just last evening we watched Another Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Shemp Howard from the Stooges appears in it as uncredited. My son found the whole series of 6 movies on the net and downloaded them onto DVD. We also have all Marx Brothers movies as well some Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy.
Am trying to talk him into down loading some Borgart/Bacall film noirs.You've raised him well.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I was in Dallas a couple of years ago. Here is the view from the window where President Kennedy was shot. It was a lot closer than I thought it was. I always thought it was a super long distance, but it wasn't really.
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All hail the Bar-Tailed Godwit!
This bird is a champion flyer and once again an individual has broken the world record for the longest continual flight.
This week a juvenile godwit just 5 months old landed in Ansons Bay in northeast Tasmania, Australia. It had been tagged in Alaska and departed there on October 13, 2022 before flying non-stop to Tasmania.
Godwits are regular visitors to Tasmania so it’s likely that many undertake a similar flight but it's the first time a tagged bird has flown between Alaska and Tasmania.
This bird flew a minimum of 13,560 km in 11 days 1 hour, that’s an average of over 51kmh continually for those 11 days. And don’t forget there will be no eating, drinking or sleeping during that journey!
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Speaking of air travel
In flight entertainment at 1925
