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Post by Hoss Ragen on Mar 14, 2009 20:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by CBG on Mar 15, 2009 0:28:02 GMT -5
Excellent puzzles, all, Hoss.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Mar 15, 2009 13:33:33 GMT -5
Ooooo, pretty! Thanks for sharing those.
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Post by hugo on Mar 15, 2009 14:36:37 GMT -5
That slanty palm tree has me thinking of another famous movie. Imagine if Jimmy Durante had said "It's buried under a big, italicised Letter 'I'"
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Post by Don Quixote on Mar 15, 2009 19:00:36 GMT -5
My stars and garters, them's some fine and fancy photographs y'all took.
Actually, they are quite beautiful. Peacocks are not native to the area, are they? I know nothing of those birds.
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Post by impr3ssion on Mar 15, 2009 21:24:42 GMT -5
Wow, nice pics. That place is gorgeous--they did some nice location scouting.
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Post by hugo on Mar 15, 2009 23:53:15 GMT -5
My stars and garters, them's some fine and fancy photographs y'all took. Actually, they are quite beautiful. Peacocks are not native to the area, are they? I know nothing of those birds. While certainly not indigenous, peacock communities are found in a number of areas in southern California (Palos Verdes springs to mind, where they are regarded as more of a nuisance than a treat) No doubt there are all sorts of theories on how various peacock communities emerged here, possibly "leftover set dressing from some epic movie from the silent era" or somesuch. But any bird that makes such a gawd-awful racket as them had better look damed pretty! Survivalism at its best! |
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Mar 16, 2009 0:42:48 GMT -5
A set of puzzle worthy pictures that graphically depict sometimes SEEING peacocks and sometimes NOT seeing peacocks.
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Post by hugo on Mar 16, 2009 1:16:40 GMT -5
Start SEEING peacocks, won't you?
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Post by ilmatto on Mar 17, 2009 10:42:17 GMT -5
Plus, the shrieking peacocks makes a nice connection to #912 The Screaming Skull.
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Post by Hoss Ragen on Mar 17, 2009 14:35:50 GMT -5
The peacocks were imported from India and bred by Lucky Baldwin when he and the county built the park. Apparently, based on what one of the guards told me, you'll get arrested and have the book thrown at you if you try to steal one. I don't know how you can pull that one off, but I guess it was a huge problem at one point.
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Post by Don Quixote on Mar 17, 2009 19:43:16 GMT -5
I hear peacocks make excellent guard animals, since they're so damn loud.
What's that flower in the third picture down?
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Post by Ron Codpiece on Mar 17, 2009 19:50:31 GMT -5
Peacocks make good cover for machining tools in your garage. Or so I've heard, anyway.
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Post by hugo on Mar 17, 2009 21:36:32 GMT -5
The ironic thing about this thread is that in the ACEG, Paul (I think) goes on and on about how "authentic" he thinks the settings and characters in this movie are. Indeed, he really gushes about the locations and the overall "atmosphere" of the movie.
If only he'd known that Mr. Rourke and Tattoo were just a few feet (and a decade or two) away!
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Post by BilLumberg on Mar 17, 2009 22:50:33 GMT -5
We used to have peacocks freely roaming here at the Oregon zoo for years until some stupid kid tried to pick one up and the poor peacock defended itself. Now we have them no more. Another childhood memory destroyed by people who try to childproof the world, instead of teaching their children to respect animals (or other people for that matter).
Boy that sounds bitter, but the peacocks were there for 40 or so years with no problems till then.
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