Is is a rampaging Yeti, or a Northern Glib going out to check if the driveway needs shoveling?
Short Film: Johnny Quest in Monster in the Monastery
I can change my mind. The movie I was going to show was too depressing. Considering the snow storms, I figured The Snow Creature would be a better choice.
Government incompetence results in a wild Yeti on the loose! What could be more libertarian than snarking at government incompetence. If this was modern times, in order to prevent heat stroke the Yeti would have to escape into the US via Canada. I imagine a government representative would hand the confused Yeti a cell phone and a bus ticket. Where would our Yeti go next? Chicago? New York? New Jersey?
This movie was written by Myles Wilder, who also wrote for Get Smart and the Dukes of Hazzard. It was directed by his dad, W. Lee Wilder. So it was a family effort. My observations: The first half moves pretty slow. It’s about 20 minutes in before you see a yeti. Prior to that it’s a lot of vintage camping in snow, which I still enjoyed. I agree with reviewers that the second half of the movie really got going and threw in some good plot twists. If Myles had punched this up a bit and lost some of the camping footage, this film would have been a classic. Clearly that lesson was learned by the time he wrote for Get Smart. Regardless the film is so short at 70 minutes that you may not even notice the excessive camping footage.
Because this film is so short I threw in a related Johnny Quest episode, Monster in the Monastery. Which is also about Yetis. Because Yetis are cool, and Johnny Quest is a classic. So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until you get snowed in by climate change! Next week, Night Feeder. It is high schlock, guaranteed to be better than anything Disney is putting out lately.
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(h/t: The Hyperbole)
N-N-N-Night Feeder, Night Feeder,
We know how to do it.
There is movement all around
There is something goin’ down
And I can feel it
On the waves of the air
There is murder out there
If it’s somethin’ we can share
We can stab it
Gimme that Night Feeder, Night Feeder!
I like British nurses.
So did Benny Hill.
Hello, Nurse!
My nomination for one of the best Benny Hill.
Over 50 years old and still as funny as ever.
I remember as a kid hearing about Benny Hill dying of a marijuana overdose. Then several years later realizing he was still alive. Ah, to be young and stupid.
🤣
Animaniacs! The daughter likes them almost as much as Bugs Bunny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051452
I will queue this up for later viewing. Thanks RJ!
Thanks for stopping by!
Rated G?
Heh. This should be fun.
The airplane didn’t lose any superfluous doors.
I think the Johnny Quest ranks higher at a PG.
Yeti / Irate Glib at 12:00, dropping snow rocks on hapless campers.
Is this a STEVE SMITH training video? Girl-napping wimminz, bonking heads with rocks… what’s next, dare I ask.
My mistake. Yeti just wanted to play soccer.
So it’s a European Yeti…
Never go in the cave.
STEVE SMITH GO IN CAVE
BY GO IN CAVE MEAN…
The Snow Critters visit me every day, to check to see if I’ve put out their breakfast/dinner. The deer are afraid of the turkeys because the turkeys are out of control and have no leadership, totally disorganized. The deer understand that the alpha doe is the queen and she’s kicking the butt of the lesser does and fawns.
We don’t have much snow so the real Snow Creatures have had to travel south to do any terrorizing.
“… the turkeys are out of control and have no leadership, totally disorganized.”
Anarcho-Libertarian turkeys?
I was reminded that I don’t live in the big city anymore when I was Ubering home a couple nights ago and there were two deer moseying down the opposite lane – and this in a fairly well-populated area.
You went to Ithaca right? Ithaca has a whitetail infestation because the locals won’t allow any culling of the antlered rats. So the deer congregate in the urban area, where they’re not going to be attacked.
Some interesting, possibly outdated, info here.
There is deer culling in all the towns outside the city but PETA types of course have ridiculous opinions on it.
But cooler heads seem to be prevailing.
LOL
FYI Cayuga Heights is the fancy suburb where all the Cornell profs live.
WTF I typed a reply and it didn’t take and there was no error.
TL;DR there is deer culling everywhere except the city and the fancy suburb to the north where all the Cornell profs live.
Isn’t that what I said?
By “locals” I did not know specifically to whom you were referring.
I wasn’t in the city when I saw them. I was a bit outside.
Okay, I meant the Cornell folks and their like-minded ilk.
This quote I found is top-shelf derp:
Not linking since the article was from 2011.
Never split the party.
Ooooooh! And the trouble at customs begins.
Is it a man? Or is it Devo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc
why does turbo tax make its product worse every year?
That’s not a joke about my taxes going up, it’s a complaint about their ever worstening UI and the account mandate that doesn’t help.
And no, I will not buy a subscription.
Ugh I’m gonna have to do state taxes this year.
Are you otherwise pleased with your move?
Yep, very much so. The house is good for what we needed and wanted. The land is well suited for homesteading. Our location is close to town but far enough away for it not to encroach. Most of the hustle and bustle is gone. Most of the pretense and flaunting of wealth is gone. It’s a genuine answer to prayer in many ways.
I think the only things we would change if given a magic wand would be to move 15 or 20 miles closer to Springfield and add another 10 or 15 (or 50) acres.
Hmmmm, haven’t bought this year’s copy. Always had good luck, even I can figure the thing out.
It hasn’t driven me away, but I’m unhappy with the changes. They’re wasting more screen real estate.
Pretty much everything is the same on mine from year to year, other than the numbers change a little.
You should claim the Anarcho-Libertarian turkeys as dependents and maximize your deductions.
I’m not sure how many “dependents” I have, they tend to a loosely unknit community. OTOH I could invite one in for dinner on occasion, making that one the guest of honor, so to speak.
An excellent cost-saving measure!
I have never had to make an account with Inuit to use TurboTax.
Unless you mean the free online version… I don’t have an account, but both my kids do.
This year’s wouldn’t let me continue without putting in account information.
And I use a paid version.
Hm. That’s disconcerting.
I hope whichever version of the many iterations you use doesn’t pull the same shenanigans.
Yeti in the Big City. They are searching the sewers. Why do they always search the sewers?
Because the tunnels are getting plugged up?
Look, he could already be attending night school to become a prominent lawyer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzAFqrxfeY
Saying he lurks in sewers is so degrading.
If the house is a rockin’, don’t come knockin’.
“1-Adam 12, there is a gathering of people weeping and limping as if in rectal distress. Suspect is a Yeti, 8 foot tall with a prominent erection…”
Maybe Yeti is a primitive worshiper of Priapus.
My poker tournament ended early, so a little preview of our forthcoming weather seems appropriate. *Hits play*
On another monitor, I’m watching “Charlie Chan’s Secret” from 1936, and a detail is bugging me. In the normal part of the scene, he finds a screw much less patinated than the light fixture it was in, gets out a multitool/swiss army knife/whatever you want to call it, and unscrews the screw. For whatever reason, the writer has him stop between taking the multitool out of his pocket and before undoing th screw to explain to the other people that he’s carrying “a boy scout knife”. Why? Was that style of tool such a novelty in 1936? I wouldn’t bat an eye at the idea that someone was carrying such a tool. He didn’t have any need to explain that he was also carrying the revolver that he pulls out later in the same scene, why belabor the point of the pocket knife that plays no future role in the plot?
In 1936 that would have been pretty novel. It did not become popular with the public at large until well into WWII. Also that could have been clever paid advertising.
Product pracement?
that’s lacist.
While I was busy generating neutrons, it started snowing in Everett WA. I didn’t notice.
When I left just a few minutes ago, it was dark and there is now an 1/8” thick layer of ice over all paved surfaces. I wiped out on my short walk to the Uber.
Might work from home tomorrow!!
Sorry you wiped out. Why aren’t you driving yourself to and from work?
6 months no driving after the seizure.
I think I missed that HS. Shouldn’t the boyfriend be chauffeuring you? 😉
He’s not local.
I’m not sure he’d survive the loss of his precious bodily fluids if he was.
Hope you didn’t pull anything. Stay home, watch B movies. Oh wait, that’s what I do.
👍
Oh my! Be careful, the consequences can be devastating. I know.
I will take it more slowly tomorrow. I don’t need any more damage to this poor body. 😊
Yeah, I have done that on my back steps before. Sucks, big time, and only gets worse with age.
So, the wife bought me Yaktrax!
Yeah I managed to destroy my right ankle at age 31 on a perfectly dry set of concrete steps!!
Had a lot of surgeries since then, but it is still attached 👍
I can’t see Johnny Quest through my eyes as a kid since seeing it skewered by The Venture Brothers.
It still holds up. One irritating thing, the guns fire endless ammo. If you can get over that it’s great. One of the few cartoons where people died.
I completely forgot people died. The endless bullets were a product of the time.
glibz after dark
https://archive.is/EYkwc/35fdf940eb9b01590b9e8ff6ce220fcecc114ae9.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/iaf4z/5c19bcea41997a0da0bfa6fa5677902ce5d743a1.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/qvx97/ea2a97d627ef34efdd31c8761397555d6ad74e44.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/l2a2Z/ccb9cdf901da8ab542ce923859e585273493e4a8.webp
NSFW.
That’s a Union Jack I would salute.
And here we are, about to enter a three day weekend.
Good morning all y’all! ☕
Have some music:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLsBJPlGIDU
🎶🎶
And I actually have Monday off! 🙂
“Attention Men: Your UNjected Wife is Waiting!”
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/attention-men-your-unjected-wife-waiting
Well I’ll be, they’ll monetize anything…paranoid me who’s way less paranoid than the average Zerohedger says this would be a good way to get a lot of information on uncooperative people so I don’t know if this’ll work.
I don’t want anything to do with things aligned with the UN.
Yeah, that was funny too-they need to rethink their capitalization scheme.
Good morning all!
My comments to the Weather Gods: Ween. Mildly NSFW
Good morning, Beau, Stinky, Sean, and Ted’S.
Morning.
Good morning, U! How’s it going?
While I would have preferred to sleep in, I woke up on time. I made it to the office with few red lights and little traffic. I have my caffiene and my breakfast, and I’m avoiding thinking about the workday, because it doesn’t start for another seventeen minutes.
The local weather radar claims it’s snowing, but I can’t see anything out the window. My fondest hope this morning is that I can make it to the office before the rain starts in earnest.
☔💧💧💧🌊
Well, phooey – there it goes. I guess I should have left earlier.
Sorry I jinxed you.
Mornin’, reprobates.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Still above the water line?
Mornin’. Should be interesting. We have more issues in the summer when tstorms produce 2″ of rain in an hour, the brook behind my house can’t handle that. Hackensack River (1/2 mile down the road) may be a problem, it crested at about 6.2 ft earlier this week (flirting with major flooding), and another 2″ of rain tonight won’t be good. At least we’re not by the Passaic, those poor bastards are already underwater with more rain to come.
Have you thought about installing floatation pontoons in place of your foundation?
Flotation pontoons? That’s Q’s department.
I didn’t think he had that many empty 55-gallon drums.
People occasionally enter phases where they almost exclusively listen to one band. My wife has entered an ABBA phase.
I’m so very sorry. Good headphones or earphones are one important key to a happy marriage.
This. Noise-cancelling headphones FTW.
I can name… two? ABBA songs
Mamma Mia!
Once again, the mall is my Waterloo.