I've learned a lot here, too, Dino - a lot from you and the links you put up. I try to add a few tidbits along the way myself.

Awesome, Carl! Thanks! Favorite was the door-to-door one. Close second was RBG/Captain Pike.

And who makes memes out of Jonny Quest? That was a classic from my childhood!

The Trudeau baloney bores me. I could care less what he did in high school, or college or for fun. We have serious matters to consider.

Me dino will never claim to know everything. Now I know a little more. A reason why I like this board. Thanks.
PS Never heard of the Sibley Tent either--until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley_...
https://www.google.com/search?q=sible...

"Don't recall any CW battles anywhere near a desert." Not like the scene in the movie, which had a slim resemblance to Antietam bridge - a long way from the West! However, there were CW battles out west near deserts. CSA General Sibley (mentioned in the movie) battled in Albuquerque and a few other places out there - Sibley's plan was to open up a supply corridor between California and the CSA. I traveled by train between Flagstaff, Az. and Albuquerque and elsewhere in the region (El Paso, Maricopa (Phoenix), etc.) and there is lots of desert out there between cities and towns where CW battles and skirmishes took place. The movie is pure fiction probably based on a composite of real engagements. Sibley wasn't a very great general, but he did invent the 12-man canvas easy-to-fold-up "tee-pee" style tent known as the Sibley tent with a stove in the center, which was copied by armies all over the world post CW. I've slept in one - not bad.

Edit add: I have CW re-enactment friends in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and California that do western battles all the time. I was amazed at how many there were. They gave me an education.

Yeah, the black powder pistols. I fired mine once, cleaned them and put them away.

I've always loved this exchange (copied from Wikipedia, so I'm not sure how accurate it is):

A laconic phrase may be used for efficiency (as in military jargon), for emphasis, for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as Stoics), or to deflate a pompous interlocutor.
A prominent example involves Philip II of Macedon. After invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, he turned his attention to Sparta and asked menacingly whether he should come as friend or foe. The reply was "Neither."

Losing patience, he sent the message:

You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.

The Spartan ephors again replied with a single word:
If.

Another thing that bothered me about TG,TB&TU was that vast dessert Tuco march Blondie through. Don't recall any CW battles anywhere near a desert. Oh, and Blondie's hair wasn't blond. Clint got to keep his natural brown hair for that flick.
Bought a CW Army and Navy Colt $100 each almost three decades ago. Me dino actually had black powder mailed to me! Delivered by the US Mail! Those cheap Spanish made guns fired for a little while before the hammers locked shut on both of them. Kept one for show. Gave the other to my son.

Hah yeah, I noticed the same thing regarding the pistols. I have some CW era pistols - all black powder and ball. Although the Gatling gun was invented in 1862, it would have been rather unusual to find one that far out West during the CW. For that matter they were rare in any theater of the CW. The dynamite gaffe slipped my observation! Good catch.

Creepy Joe, as a young lifeguard, called out a guy called Cornpop and survived...given the state of his brain, we are right to be skeptical.

Baked Potato......LOLOLOLOL

Thanks Exceller! Must have missed this one somehow.

FYI:

https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured...

IMO, "For A Few Dollars More" for an original story beats "Fistful" and "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly," though I enjoyed all three and saw the last one first.
"Fistful" got sued by copying "Yojimbo" by famous Jap director Kowa-something for giving him no credit. Kowa-something also made Seven Samurai (got credit for The Magnificent Seven's story) and Throne Of Blood (guess Kowa-etc. gave Shakespeare credit for Macbeth).
Sergio Leone got off easy for only giving up money his Fistful made in Japan.
TGTB&TU had to be a prequel if about the touted Man With No Name whose name was 1. Joe 2. Manco and 3. Blondie consecutively. Blondie and Tuco blew up a bridge with dynamite before it was invented after the Civil War. They were loading cap and ball black powder with full metal jacket rounds. The remade "conversion" revolvers came mostly after the Civil War. Believe it was Smith & Wesson who made full metal jacket dinky .32-cal. pocket pistols during Civil War but maybe only spies used 'em I dunno.
Correction, that was Kuro-something, not Kowa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_...
Looked this up afterwards. Saw several classic Kuwo flicks.

I must have missed something while working this week. What is the cornpop reference that I saw a couple of times?

Definitely agree about the original "The Magnificent Seven", but haven't seen the remake yet. Yes, I liked "John Wick" as an action movie, but haven't seen the sequels yet. I think Keanu Reeves is a decent actor, but he really blew it in the "Day The Earth Stood Still" remake, which had me eye-rolling and aw c'mon! The B&W original was a much better story - even watching it now you get that "uh-oh we're screwed" feeling when Gort's visor starts to open. In the remake, when Gort turns into a swarm of bugs all I could think of was the bug scene in one of the "Mummy" remakes and big "AW C'MON!".

You got me thinking, Dino! Maybe tonight I'll watch "A Fistful of Dollars". Or maybe "A Few Dollars More"...

Laughing

We can thank the left for a great Meme Week.

Glad you enjoy. I enjoy finding them.

Maybe Triskelion wasn't such a bad place afterall...

My only comment about that is that (yes, I appreciated the Candace Owen clip and agree) it takes Zero talent to make Nadler look like a Buffoon. He does such a masterful job of it himself!

I'm lovin' the Beto memes! All of 'em!

And the Dem's new campaign slogan! Goodness you are really outdoing yourself this week! Love 'em all! Not a bad one in the bunch!

I do think the best of the bunch (a hard choice) is Acme Impeachment rocket!

The eyes began to water a bit at the sight of Justin as a heterosexual ... and then I had to set the coffee cup down. Thank you Carl. Wonderful Monday Morning Medicine.

Two fairly recent "Aw, c'mon!" flicks just popped into me dino head. I enjoyed John Wick but the sequel sucked for all the fancy shooting and the monstrous kill count. So I was very surprised to learn there's yet another John Wick sequel that I suspect is even more cringe-worthy.
Love the original The Magnificent Seven and enjoyed the Chris rides again sequels to a lesser degree. But that recent remake sucks for all the unbelievable fancy trick shots. Saw the whole thing but now realize I can hardly remember any of that tripe. Guess me fragile dino mind just plain doesn't want to.

HAD to +1 for the:

"Aw, c'mon! AW, C'MON!"

If I had a buck for all the times I've said that regarding the same type of stuff in many other today movies, I'd have a sizeable sum to spend here in my retirement, LOL!

I enjoyed all those moves and have a collection of all 3 Spaghetti Dollar Westerns.
Rented Rise from Netflix out of sheer curiosity. 300 was bloody but Rise way overdid it. Early on a man got socked in the face and blood splashed all over the place. Me dino was saying, "Aw, c'mon!" at the sight.
At the end a vengeful queen for a Spartan widow was hopping from Persian ship to Persian ship swinging a sword as expertly as any Spartan warrior.
"Aw, c'mon! AW, C'MON!"
Gave it one star for hating it.