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Tim Tyler's Luck (ITB chapter a week discussion)
Topic Started: Jul 11 2011, 04:30 AM (11,538 Views)
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The Elephant's Graveyard and a pic of Ashlynn Brooke!
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TTL was still running when I was a kid. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram was carrying the daily strip in the early fifties. (If there was a Sunday strip, the Startlegram didn't carry it.) I only saw the ST on weekends when I visited my grandparents; so, I occasionally saw TTL but did not follow it. By the fifties, Tim had gown up and was a twenty-something member of the Ivory Patrol.
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I followed episode 12 of Brenda Starr (see that thread, if you wanna) with episode 3 of Tim Tyler. Back in the 1930s, broken arms healed really quickly, although seeing the man talk about how he can't shave with one arm while he uses BOTH arms perfectly well is kinda weird.

Say, has anyone ever noticed that the Western Electric logo at the beginning of old films looks like a hot dog? In fact, I always, always think of it as the "Western Electric Hot Dog" but I've never thought to share that before. Anybody else?

FANG the panther? And why is everybody calling what's obviously a LEOPARD a PANTHER, anyway? And FANG? Was it married to Phyllis Diller at one point?

If I'm riding in a tank and a guy's gonna toss a grenade, I'm gonna ask him to go outside and do it, not trust him to be able to toss it accurately though a small porthole in a tank moving quickly over bumpy grounds with twists and turns.

Best line of episode three, from Tim: "Savages, Mr. Conway. The jungle's FULL of 'em!"
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Panther, cougar, puma - allers got 'em mixed up!

All this galloping thru the jungle on horseback - wouldn't it be kinda creepery and tangly and impassable? In other movies it's a slow plod with bearers and machettes to slash a path!

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Mind you, Gordon Scott once rode a giraffe - he said it was painful!
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My pal Talissa told me the only way to ride a camel is with two pairs of pantyhose on. I suppose it would work for giraffes too. if, however, you put the undies on the giraffe, you may not be smart enough to ride wild critters.
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My pal Talissa told me the only way to ride a camel is with two pairs of pantyhose on. I suppose it would work for giraffes too. if, however, you put the undies on the giraffe, you may not be smart enough to ride wild critters.
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LOL - Michael (Robin of Sherwood) Praed said he wore ladies' tights under his trousers when horseback riding thru English glens as opposed to

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Jonas (Robin Hood) Armstrong who haunted an Eastern bloc wood! :D
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I once rode a camel in Jerusalem without ANY pantyhose, but it was only a short ride.
Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...
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Mind you, Gordon Scott once rode a giraffe - he said it was painful!
Its because the giraffe has a unique ( and kind of sharp) cervical vertebrae structure - I don't think pantyhose would help much. ;)
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Well, they sure don't seem to help much in normal situations so you may be right.
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Mind you, Gordon Scott once rode a giraffe - he said it was painful!
Its because the giraffe has a unique ( and kind of sharp) cervical vertebrae structure - I don't think pantyhose would help much. ;)
Correct - in an interview with Gordon Scott, Jonathan Ross showed him a b&w photo where Scott had just slid down the giraffe's neck and tried to grin thru his agony; Roger Moore faced a similar obstacle sliding down a bannister, but was able to machine gun his way out of trubble!
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Last month were visited the Pyramids and you could sit on a camel to pose for a photo for $1, or take a short ride for $3. We asked for just the photo shot, so Trigger got on the camel and they moved it a few feet away to get the Pyramid in the shot, then they tried to charge us $3 because he went for a short ride. My wife was standing by the bus and a 10 year old boy came up to here and sensed she is Russian, so he started speaking to her in very good Russian, praising her how beautiful she is, then demanded a dollar. Gang, the people working the Pyramids are the biggest group of crooks I have ever seen since my family reunion.
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Hey Pa! . . . Good story of the people "working" the pyramids and the photo of Trigger is great. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks, Sarge. I also was going to get up on the camel, but after dealing with those as****es, we just left in anger. As an extra, we could go down into one of the Pyramids into the burial chamber. Only about five of us from the bus went for it. There was nothing inside, no hieroglyphics or anything, but what the heck, just being able to go down inside was quite an experience.
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Never bin to Egypt, but Morocco's Todra Gorge was interesting!

The friendly Berbers would lead you on hosses thru the gorge, packs of wild dogs would try to atttack and the Berbers would throw rocks at 'em - I think that happened about three or four times!

The Berbers were great guys and liked to play football (English soccer) with us; we stayed at the Berbers' Todra Gorge Hotel on the roof under a cliff and there was an enormous overhang - luckily, bits didn't drop off!

The Berbers weren't cadgers, but in other parts of Morocco they were always after your money with the opening...

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Sub-trivial: In 1972 Tim Tyler had a cameo in "The Man Who Hated Laughter." This was an episode of ABC's Saturday Superstar Movie, a random assortment of one-hour cartoons by various producers.

This one, produced by King Features, sort of starred Popeye and featured as many King Features properties as they could cram in. It was generally a notch below the cheap Popeye TV cartoons of the 60s, with poorly animated comic characters interacting in poorly written gags (Spark Plug eats a bass fiddle and plays it while Olive Oyl sings). Between comic bits they had a crack team of adventure heroes searching for them, leading to fleeting cutaways of Flash Gordon, Mandrake and others being "seriously" heroic.

All in all, it's not as good as I've made it sound.

Anyway, the funny characters are trapped in a cave when help arrives: "Look! It's the Phantom and Tim Tyler's Luck!" Both characters smile and wave. And that was evidently the end of Tim Tyler's film career.
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