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Sad to see this today: https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fess-parker19-2010mar19,0,3352776.story
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Fess Parker is Gone
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bgbassplyr
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Davey Crockett is dead?
martx-5
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Yeah, I grew up during the Davy Crockett era. He had a good run. After the acting dropped off, Fess got involved with some real estate and, more importantly, a winery. He won some awards for his wines. And, of course, he continued to sell coon skin caps!
Here's the complete "Davy Crockett" song if you can stand listening to more then 6 minutes of "born on a mountain top"... :laugh:
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Here's the complete "Davy Crockett" song if you can stand listening to more then 6 minutes of "born on a mountain top"... :laugh:
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He did well (with the wine, the real estate and the acting).
When my Mom and I landed in Toronto (in '56) the first thing my Dad gave me was a coon-skin cap (Dad came to the New World six months before us on a cargo ship from England...fare was 10ÂŁ!).
Good memories.
Skip: I disagree: I see plenty of optimism and creative efforts in today's generation. It's just <span style="font-style: italic">different</span> than our's. And much of that is because the world and its challenges are different.
I agree that *our* generation is doomed: I'd say that's as it should be.
In fact, after working the last 10 years as a tech mentor to my local FIRST Robotics team (as well as 30+ years of teaching working-class kids in a community college), I find a lot of the current kids really amazing. But it takes time working with youngsters, to really start to understand how they differ in attitudes, and what they are responding to.
The Moon landings, etc were wonderful but not so technically surprising. Much of the success of the '60s space program really depended on Brave Men. There are still plenty of them around, mostly in uniforms (women too).
The tech-shifts today (in chemistry, material science and (obviously) computers are astounding, and all being done by "the youth"....and they are getting *more* complex; not less. <span style="font-style: italic">Astounding</span> is an insufficient word.
Reminds me of a comment attributed to Socrates 2500 years ago: :wink:
<span style="font-style: italic">"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." </span>
When my Mom and I landed in Toronto (in '56) the first thing my Dad gave me was a coon-skin cap (Dad came to the New World six months before us on a cargo ship from England...fare was 10ÂŁ!).
Good memories.
Skip: I disagree: I see plenty of optimism and creative efforts in today's generation. It's just <span style="font-style: italic">different</span> than our's. And much of that is because the world and its challenges are different.
I agree that *our* generation is doomed: I'd say that's as it should be.
In fact, after working the last 10 years as a tech mentor to my local FIRST Robotics team (as well as 30+ years of teaching working-class kids in a community college), I find a lot of the current kids really amazing. But it takes time working with youngsters, to really start to understand how they differ in attitudes, and what they are responding to.
The Moon landings, etc were wonderful but not so technically surprising. Much of the success of the '60s space program really depended on Brave Men. There are still plenty of them around, mostly in uniforms (women too).
The tech-shifts today (in chemistry, material science and (obviously) computers are astounding, and all being done by "the youth"....and they are getting *more* complex; not less. <span style="font-style: italic">Astounding</span> is an insufficient word.
Reminds me of a comment attributed to Socrates 2500 years ago: :wink:
<span style="font-style: italic">"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." </span>
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DrEntropy said:
Lighten up, Bro! Good times are ahead!
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DrEntropy said:
I want my own Coonskin cap and a Shootin' Rod.
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aerog said:
I remember visiting my grandma in San Antonio as a lad ('55 0r '56?), and going to see the Alamo. Never mind the history - I wanted one of them coonskin caps and a Bowie knife!
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You couldn't tear me away from "Daniel Boone" or "Davey Crockett" on TV as a kid. And, the geniuses at Disney couldn't have found more interesting subjects for a TV screenplays than Boone or Crockett, truly legendary figures in American history.
Those shows spurred a lifelong interest I have in the American colonial period. In fact I just read a new biography on Daniel Boone, very riveting stuff (one tough hombre, he was!).
Parker was a very cool guy, seemingly one of those lucky ones who seemed to have it all. By all accounts a nice guy to boot and married to the same girl for almost 60 years.
Hollywood could use more like him IMHO.
RIP, Fess. :angel:
Those shows spurred a lifelong interest I have in the American colonial period. In fact I just read a new biography on Daniel Boone, very riveting stuff (one tough hombre, he was!).
Parker was a very cool guy, seemingly one of those lucky ones who seemed to have it all. By all accounts a nice guy to boot and married to the same girl for almost 60 years.
Hollywood could use more like him IMHO.
RIP, Fess. :angel:
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DrEntropy said:
Optimist vs Pessimist
A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.
Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.
That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.
"Why are you crying?" the father asked.
"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.
Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.
To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
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I was so sad to hear the news. I was a *huge* fan of the series when I was a kid. I actually convinced my parents to buy me a 'coon skin hat (fake fur for the hat part, but a real tail) at a hunting store. I still have it, and was just wearing it around the house for laughs over the weekend. My kids love it.
King of the wild frontier!
King of the wild frontier!
