Stupid Guest Tricks

felinefan wrote:I saw on the news this morning that they're doing a re-make of The Lion King, and casting someone else to do Zazu's voice. Couldn't hear the reason why.... What's with the change? Why are they remaking it?

They are remaking films in general because the can be confident of making a certain amount of money from a known property. Hollywood is terrified of new ideas.

I expect that most of the voice actors will be changed for a variety of reasons.

Earlier I asked if any of the original Mouseketeers are still alive. I found a site that answers that question, as well as any other concerning celebrities. Not surprisingly, it's called www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com . Of the Mouseketeers who were in all four seasons of The Mickey Mouse Club, here's the list:
Jimmy Dodd, dead
Roy Williams, dead
Bobby Burgess, alive
Annette Funicello, dead
Darlene Gillespie, alive
Cubby O'Brien, alive
Karen Pendleton, alive
Doreen Tracy, alive

The site has the full list in a table, giving birth dates, when the individual appeared, death date where applicable, and if they did anything else, or other special notes--like Mickey Rooney Jr. and his brother getting fired after one season for getting into mischief in the Disney paint department, or Paul Petersen--later of The Donna Reed Show-- getting fired for punching a casting director.

Where's the fourth member?

Taking the picture, perhaps?

So, now that Hurricane Irma is a post-tropical cyclone, how are our SGTers in FL doing? I have a cousin in Micanopy who decided to ride out the storm at home, and an aunt in Oakland Park, but I don't know if she rode it out or evacuated. I see where DW had relatively minor damage.

felinefan wrote:So, now that Hurricane Irma is a post-tropical cyclone, how are our SGTers in FL doing?

I rode the storm out aboard a cruise ship in the Arctic. Word from my cat-sitter is that there was only minor damage, and all at Chez Zazu is in good order.

Except for my cats, who are pissed, but they get angry when I go out for the mail.

Smart move. My Tripod was pretty chill--most cats can't stand fireworks, for example, but Fourth of July and New Year's didn't bother her. Halloween, on the other hand, was what freaked her out with all the strangers coming to the door. I kept her in the bedroom. She also didn't like vacuum cleaners.

At the shelter I live at, they moved the pets--except one dog and its owner--to the pet owner's area, and I have a problem going over there to visit Nimitz, the cat. There's a few other cats, but mostly dogs. Twice somebody there ratted on me and had me leave. I understand about allergies, but Nimitz and his owners--husband's in a nursing home with a broken hip--were formerly in the handicap area, right next to the eating area, and he had people coming up to him and petting him, playing with him, and occaisonally trying to slip bits of human food to him, despite "Please do not feed Nimitz the cat" signs. People should be allowed to visit their favorite four-legged friends. Nimitz misses his public.

This site is too quiet. I know we've lost a few members, but there's lots of people I miss who I wish would at least pop up once a year and say hi, and let us know what's going on in their corner of the world. And it's been so long since we've had any reports of SGTs; have the guests finally become smarter and more polite?

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Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:14 pm

... have the guests finally become smarter and more polite?

Apparently so. We were at DLR for two days in October and didn't see any. It may have been because the temps were in the 107 range both days.

I suppose I've been remiss in posting, but I'm just back from a three-week trip fishing for piranha in the Amazon.

No, really, I took a cruise ship all the way to Manaus, where the Amazon begins, and on a side trip caught a piranha. Ugly, smaller than you might expect from the photos of teeth, but plentiful, and quite tasty when fried in a little butter. Make a great soup, too.

And despite the potential for stupidity on a cruise ship, all the big screw-ups happened in the galley. Well, that and our captain had such a thick Italian accent we couldn't be understand her half the time.