Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for May 24, 2010

Morning, All!

Yes, I am sure he will, Dad!

G’Day, Jason, Usfellers, Joe and ALL the Meggsie fans!

Morning JFri, Joe, Jason, usfellers, and all Meggsie fans far and wide! Yes, if he gets that excited over a poster, he will love the real thing!

Hi Jason, Joe, Dry, Barb, Lonewolf, Bjorn and all Meggsie’s mates.

If I was Ginger I would already have my first souvenir. That poster would be to die for!

I guess Tarzan came from the same breed of men who drove the chariots in Ben Hur or the natives encountered by Indigo Jones.

I often wonder too, if the camera crews ever get as exhausted as the intrepid explorers they follow for TV specials. Are they the same people who survived millienia in tombs so they could film the first archaeologist to break in.

Gday all!

You should see what happens when he actually DOES see the real thing… Stay tuned :)

From what I saw in Ben Hur they certainly have some close shaves. Don’t tell me I missed Tarzan driving one of the chariots.

Seems we are in for a treat. Can’t wait for Ginge to get an eyefull of the Eiffel.

JOE as part of my inheritance, I received first editions of every book Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote. Tarzan found his fathers knife. Reading books, he saw the difference between men and animals was hair. Horrified when his beard began, he tried shaving with the knife. He threw it away upon cutting himself. Returning days later, he found it brown and rusty. He polished and sharpened it, and was able to shave.

Moral: Don’t shave with a rusty instrument..

Lewreader: Well, I’ll be buttered on both sides!!! I have always thought a beardless Tarzan was a Hollywood gag. We learn something every day.

Moral: Always accept Hollywood films as being the epitome of truth.

King’s island is not THAT big a deal

usfellers - what breed of men drove the chariots in Ben Hur and also drove the natives encountered by Indigo Jones?

(that’s what your post says)

rotts They were from the Tellafyoulyes tribe whose native craft is make-up. They not only saw to it that those natives had no beards but would also have us believe the galley slaves in Ben Hur were at least supplied with top-notch shaving facilities.

I never forgave them after I learned Groucho Marx did not have a real moustache.

I wish I knew what the heck all you guys are talking about.

Whatever it is I have to admit it sounds interesting. Do I start by googling Indigo Jones?

Frank: I think it all started off with the grafitti asking why Tarzan never had a beard. The popular thought was that it was simply the movie makers presenting him as a clean-cut lad, just as they did with natives and American Indians in the westerns.

Ginger’s delightful piece of lateral thinking set the pace of the overall atmosphere of misconception.

*usfellers, * you’re kidding aren’t you? That mustache on Groucho wasn’t real?

Dry: Nah, it wasn’t. Sort of bursts the bubble doesn’t it. Earth shattering sort of discovery. It came to me at about the time I realized something was funny about getting threepence from the tooth fairy while my father left all his teeth in a glass overnight without getting anything at all.

Someone is taking the mickey out of someone here. Great thread.

usfellers yeah, kind of like when I found out Harpo could talk! LOL!

Dry: Even worse was finding out that Charlie McCarthy couldn’t really talk.

WOW, that’ll send everyone to do a google!

enjoy your trip gince, you never know if you will get thechance to afford a trip like that again

Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty:

i too have been to tokyo tower, and it was an amazing experience, there was an electronics expo while i was therein 1970

bald716: Ginger doesn’t have to ‘afford’ this trip, his mother won it. I am currently searching all the breakfast cereal shelves at the local supermarket for such a chance.

Drat my luck. There have been a few but on closer inspection at home I have found their competitions to have already closed. How dare they put a ‘Use By’ date that is after the closing of the competition.

usfellers I don’t need to google Charlie McCarthy! I know who he is! Of course, I was a wee one back then, I was!

Joe: You really got it there. Yes - Charlie McCarthy was Edgar Bergen’s alter ego, very cogniscent. Do you remember Mortimer Snood?. Candice Bergen is Edgar Bergen’s daughter.

Don’t worry about anyone making fun of what you write - I welcome it if it happens to me. Sometimes it means that someone has taken me more seriously than I intended to be, BUT, it always means someone has read what I have written.

Please do walk in peace.

JOE You’re right Borroughs never went to Africa. I bet he never went to the moon, Mars, or the center of the Earth.

oh gee, usfellers, Joe got to the Mortimer SNERD before I could! I was going to “razz” you on the spelling!

I used to enjoy Candace Bergen on “Murphy Brown”, and yes, she did feel like she was Charlie’s sister from what I read.

Joe I remember my dad always saying how “lousy” (quote) a ventriloquist Edgar Bergen was, and I too, enjoy your stories!

And I still maintain I was a wee one then!

Dry: Can accept being ‘razzed’ on the spelling, I don’t think I have ever seen the name in print, only heard it on Edgar Bergen’s movies about a thousand years ago.

Can’t wait for the next ‘Meggsie’ in a few hours.

I agree, but I won’t be up that late tonight, so for me, it will have to wait to tmr. What time does the new one come up over there?

I. too, can’t wait. I’ll be up waiting with you, Usfellers! Good deal.