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Ocean with “Ghosts” You may not recognize this paint from the Dodge Viper in the previous picture – but that’s how drastically the prism paint called “ocean” changes. Here we see one of the amazing effects a pro with prism paint can achieve: we call it “ghosting”. Since prism paint contains many colors, the color it reflects at any given moment depends on how the prisms are aligned. We can mask off a logo and paint the prisms on in reverse direction there. In practical terms this means that when the background is purple, the logo shows blue – and it reverses as the light changes. A subtle but amazing effect!

Underpants let down would-be hold-up man

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A would-be robber who held up a shop wearing underpants on his head as a mask fled empty handed after injuring his face.

The attempted robbery, at a Spar shop in south Wales, began badly when the blue and white briefs slipped over his eyes at a vital moment.

Matters took a turn for the worse when he yanked the cash till with such force it hit his head, knocking him to the floor and cutting his face.

Gwent Police detectives said today the man, aged in his late teens or early 20s, then ran out of the shop, in Blackwood, empty handed.

He then made a second unsuccessful attempt to rob a nearby shop before running off still hiding his face behind a pair of Y-fronts.

A police spokesman said: “He entered the shop wearing the pants on his head but they slipped down at a crucial moment.

“They apparently had two holes cut in them for him to see through. But this does not seem to have been the best prepared attempt.”

He said the man left the shop with an injury above his left eye and eventually escaped empty handed.

He added that they were looking for a person with a skinny build, shaven fair hair who was wearing a cream coloured jumper.

Story filed: 19:04 Friday 6th June 2003

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Seldom Asked Questions

Below are the answers to some questions that are not asked often enough–because incorrect answers have been printed in newspaper articles, TV reference books, T-shirts, or other sources.

* Hans Conried’s name is not spelled Conreid.

* Walter Tetley, not June Foray or Paul Frees, was the voice of Sherman.

* Skip Craig, Barbara Baldwin, and Adrienne Diamond were not voice actors. Craig was the editor; Baldwin and Diamond were artists.

* Bullwinkle Moose’s middle initial is J., not T.

* Rocky says “And now here’s something we hope you’ll really like”, not “And now here’s something you’ll really like”.

* Boris and Natasha are Pottsylvanian, not Russian.

* Natasha’s surname is Fatale, not Nogoodnik. She and Boris were often referred to as nogoodniks, but this was not either one’s name.

* Natasha’s surname is Fatale (as in femme fatale), not Fataly. The confusion may have arisen because in one early episode, narrator Bill Conrad pronounced Fatale as if it were Italian or Spanish (fah-TAH-lay) instead of French (fah-TALL).

* There is no character in George of the Jungle called Bella (allegedly played by June Foray). The theme song contains the line “While Fella and Ursula stay in step.” George never seemed to recognize that his mate was female, and often referred to her as “fella”. Hence the double-vision effect of the title animation: Fella and Ursula are really just two names for the same person.

* Bullwinkle played football for Wossamotta U, not Whatsamatta U or Wossamata U or Wassamotto U.

* Gidney’s partner is named Cloyd, not Cloide.

* Do-Right is hyphenated.

* Dudley Do-Right’s horse is named Horse, not Steed.

* Dudley Do-Right’s enemy is named Snidely Whiplash, not Snively, Snidley, Snidly, or Snydely.

* George of the Jungle lives in Mbwebwe Province, not Imgwee Gwee.

* No “Francis Scott Key” episode of “Peabody’s Improbable History” was ever produced. The script was rejected by the ad agency.

* There is no “Peter and the Three Pennies” or “Sweeping Beauty #2” episode of “Fractured Fairy Tales”.

* After two years of Rocky and His Friends (1959-1961), new episodes of The Bullwinkle Show played for three years (1961-1964). Network reruns lasted until 1973, at which time the shows went into syndication.

* Rocky and His Friends was not the first animated series produced specifically for TV. Jay Ward and Alex Anderson’s Crusader Rabbit (1950) had that distinction.

* The Bullwinkle Show was shown in primetime during its first season (1961-1962), but it was not the first primetime animated series. The Flintstones, The Bugs Bunny Show, and The Gerald McBoing Boing Show are among the primetime animated series that preceded it.

* Rocky and Bullwinkle can hardly be said to have followed in the footsteps of Rowan and Martin. Although Dan and Dick teamed up in 1953, Laugh-In did not debut until 1967. Incidentally, that show bore a considerable resemblance to Jay Ward’s 1964 pilot The Nut House.

* Fractured Flickers premiered in 1963, not 1961.

* Bill Scott, not Jay Ward, voiced and manipulated the Bullwinkle puppet.

* Bill Scott, not Alex Anderson, was co-producer of Rocky and His Friends and all subsequent Jay Ward cartoons. (Alex Anderson was co-producer of the earlier Crusader Rabbit.)

* Bill Hurtz was a director, not a writer.

* Chris Hayward, not Allan Burns, was a writer and producer for Barney Miller.

* Lloyd Turner, not Chris Hayward, wrote for The Jeffersons.

* June Foray, not Helen O’Connell, was the voice of Rocky.

* Nell Fenwick has red hair, not blond.

* Super Chicken’s assistant Fred is a lion, not a rooster.

* It is not the case that “Box Top Robbery” has never been seen since the original broadcast in 1960. It is part of the syndicated Bullwinkle Show.

* The hat in “Missouri Mish Mash” was referred to sometimes as the Kirward Derby and sometimes as the Kirwood Derby. But the real person’s
name was Durward Kirby, not Durwood Kirby.

* Cedar Yorpantz Flying School is from a Rocky t-shirt. It was never mentioned in a cartoon.

* The Isle of Lucy was the home of Merlin Brando in an episode of “Super Chicken”. It was never mentioned in Rocky and His Friends or The Bullwinkle Show.

* Votane, the gas that turns Democrats into Republicans and vice versa, appeared in the 1948 pilot for “Hamhock Jones”, but not The Bullwinkle Show.

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Patrick Hickerson
The Birmingham [Alabama] News
5 June 2003

Just a hunka, hunka burning intrigue surrounds the apparent theft of a
velvet Elvis Presley portrait from a Homewood restaurant.

Dave Morrison, owner of Dave’s Pizza on 29th Avenue South, noticed April 5
that one of the staples in his restaurant was missing.

Nothing pizza-related, but someone took the velvet Elvis bolted to a wall
above the toilet in the restroom.

The portrait, which Morrison bought in the late ’70s from a roadside vendor
for a forgotten price, depicts Elvis in his high-collar white jumpsuit days,
like the 1973 “Aloha from Hawaii” concert. He put the work in his
restaurant’s bathroom 10 years ago.

“A sort of a satirical shrine to the king,” he said.

His speculation is that during Talladega race weekend, a trio of mischievous
men from Louisiana visited the bar and removed the portrait during an
opportune moment, leaving the bottom wooden portion of the frame on the
wall.

About three weeks later, the restaurant began receiving packages with
Louisiana postmarks. The packages contained pictures showing the portrait
visiting obvious and not-so-obvious stops in the Southeast and West.

One has velvet Elvis propped against the gates to Graceland in Memphis.

Another has waitresses at the Red Bar in Grayton Beach, Fla., with the
portrait.

Another is the portrait being held by a man standing on an ice rink.

The theft has additional signs of a kidnapping with a misspelled ransom
note.

“Elivs has left the building . . . but will be back. Don’t worry . . . he’s
in good hands and has been spotted around the U.S. visiting some of his
favorite hangouts. (We’ll keep you updated.)”

The dozen pictures and correspondence now grace two of the four walls in the
bathroom, taking up some of the space once occupied by velvet Elvis.

The latest package came last weekend with the portrait paired with one of
Presley’s gold records.

“They’re definitely on a mission,” Morrison said.

Though he and his son, Brett Morrison, say the theft is not a hoax to gin up
new customers, it does arouse skeptical thoughts, calling to mind the R.E.M.
song “Man on the Moon” about whether something is authentic or just “goofing
on Elvis.”

The mailings also bear similarities to the 2001 film “Amelie,” in which a
stolen garden gnome is photographed before world landmarks.

Earlier this year, the restaurant sported swiveling spotlights to draw the
hungry, but the Morrisons say the Elvis mystery is not an advertising ploy.
Father and son said restaurant business keeps them close to Homewood.

“We haven’t had the time to go to those places,” Dave Morrison said.

His son added that, while the painting had a lot of sentimental value, they
didn’t file a report with the Homewood Police Department.

“We’ve got bigger fish to fry than trying to track down a velvet Elvis,”
Brett Morrison said.

The initial anger about the theft has been replaced by anticipation of the
next package of photos and by envy of what they say probably are a couple of
guys having fun with Elvis. They think it might return this fall with
NASCAR’s date at Talladega.

Dave has some words for the captors.

“Take good care of him,” he said. “But some day, bring him back.”

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