Steve Irwin Nature Fakery

[Texas Star]

While we're on this stuff, have any of you read Sir Henry Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"?

The ancient witch in that was one of my favorite villains of all time!

By the way, I once wrote a college paper on the Zulu tribe, and most of the practices that Haggard's tribe in that book conducted were lifted directly from the Zulu, whom the author had fought in the war with them in 1879.

Now, are we done, or does anyone really have any knowledge about my original question. If anyone really read it?! Or, recalls it...

T-Star

 

[walkinghorse]

And I don't sneer at it, either. At the time of his death, Robert C. Ruark was Travel Editor for, "Playboy." He was a widely experienced hunter, and the ONLY US journalist and popular author who has been honest about African politics.

+1

He did nail African politics!

Ruark's 'The Honey Badger' is considered to be a parody about his relationships with women, and women of the 1940's and 1950's and the relationships, marriages, and divorces of playboys, playgirls, of the so called jet-set!

'Old Man and the Boy' and the sequal, what a time and place for a young boy to be growing up!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I have a copy of Something of Value in paperback from 1967 that is almost falling apart. it is one of my treasures and I have re read it many times. Rock Hudson playing Peter McKensie-I'll pass on that one

Although SIdney Poitier playing Kimani sounds about right.
I'm gonna call the library to see if they habe a copy of Live & Let Die-ought to be an interesting read.

 

[Texas Star]

Originally posted by walkinghorse:

And I don't sneer at it, either. At the time of his death, Robert C. Ruark was Travel Editor for, "Playboy." He was a widely experienced hunter, and the ONLY US journalist and popular author who has been honest about African politics.

+1

He did nail African politics!

Ruark's 'The Honey Badger' is considered to be a parody about his relationships with women, and women of the 1940's and 1950's and the relationships, marriages, and divorces of playboys, playgirls, of the so called jet-set!

'Old Man and the Boy' and the sequal, what a time and place for a young boy to be growing up!

"THe Honey Badger" is widely believed to be somewhat autobiographical, with fiction added.


I think he nailed the modern American woman's nature when he said that, like the African honey badger/ratel, she "goes right for the groin" in arguments.

I once had a wife like that. So did Bob Ruark!

T-Star

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Damn we started off with Steve Irwin refigerating snakes to RuarK

Now THAT's some interesting thread drift

 

[walkinghorse]

Now THAT's some <STRIKE>interesting</STRIKE> typical high quality thread drift

Fixed it for you!

 

[mroyal98]

Yea, but I'd like to see that rattlesnake picture as the start of a new thread. That's the largest Diamondback I think I have ever seen. Just name the thread "Have a look at this, Mate."

 

[Texas Star]

http://www.honeybadger.com/

Here's a Honey Badger.

T-Star

 

[walkinghorse]

According to the popular notion that The Honey Badger is autobiographical:

Female Honey Badger
http://pro.corbis.com/images/J...824A-F4E419C06FE7%7D

And the story of why Ruark left Kenya:
"...Uhuru was the catalyst for Ruark's final departure from Kenya.

Although he later claimed that he was declared a prohibited immigrant because of what he wrote in the book, he actually left the country for the last time to avoid a process server attempting to serve him with papers relating to a lawsuit filed by Chief James Gichuru, a Kikuya politician whom Ruark had falsely named as a Mau Mau.

Harry Selby, Ruark's long-time friend and professional hunter, smuggled him to the airport on July 10, 1962, and Ruark left Kenya. He never returned, and he never saw Selby again...."

http://www.outdoorvisions.org/...uark_the_old_man.asp

Robert Ruark an interesting man, of great talent, but dead at 49 from liver failure!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally posted by Texas Star:
http://www.honeybadger.com/

Here's a Honey Badger.

T-Star

Here's some more badgers

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

 

[Texas Star]

Originally posted by walkinghorse:
According to the popular notion that The Honey Badger is autobiographical:

Female Honey Badger
http://pro.corbis.com/images/J...824A-F4E419C06FE7%7D

And the story of why Ruark left Kenya:
"...Uhuru was the catalyst for Ruark's final departure from Kenya.

Although he later claimed that he was declared a prohibited immigrant because of what he wrote in the book, he actually left the country for the last time to avoid a process server attempting to serve him with papers relating to a lawsuit filed by Chief James Gichuru, a Kikuya politician whom Ruark had falsely named as a Mau Mau.

Harry Selby, Ruark's long-time friend and professional hunter, smuggled him to the airport on July 10, 1962, and Ruark left Kenya. He never returned, and he never saw Selby again...."

http://www.outdoorvisions.org/...uark_the_old_man.asp

Robert Ruark an interesting man, of great talent, but dead at 49 from liver failure!

Gichuru may never have been convicted of being Mau-Mau, but Ruark may have had info that Gachiru wanted repressed. Even Jomo Kenyatta, the founderof Mau-Mau, was only convicted of "running an illegal organization", as I recall. The actual murders and mutilations were laid at the doors of others, like the notorious Dedan Kimathi. See, "Man-Hunt in Kenya", by Ian Henderson, GM.

 

[spearcrow]

All I know for sure is that she doesn't like me looking at the SI Swimsuit Issue...
T-Star

I think she may have been referring to the, somewhat, creepy fact that you start memorizing all the girls lives, from like when they were born, once they appear in a magazine...

Anyway, Steve Irwin was the man. Anyone know how the zoo is doing without him?

 

[wildfiresrozes]

Originally posted by spearcrow:

All I know for sure is that she doesn't like me looking at the SI Swimsuit Issue...
T-Star

I think she may have been referring to the, somewhat, creepy fact that you start memorizing all the girls lives, from like when they were born, once they appear in a magazine...

 

[glypnir]

Lots and lots of nature photography is more or less faked. As time goes on and technology gets better, it's actually been going to less fakery, since they can capture more real stuff. But there's always pressure for drama.

I enjoyed the thread drift.

I don't drink coffee. That stuff is dangerous to me hot or cold. I don't like a rapid heart rate, unles something like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is the cause.

I've been discussing my wife's ancestry with her, and she is part Cajun, and part Finnish, but there also seems to be some kind of Creole in there too somehow. Maybe. Some of the geneology seems to be deliberately obscure.

Voodoo or not, she's a formidable woman, and I'm very glad she's generally on my side.

 

[TNDixieGirl]

I think she may have been referring to the, somewhat, creepy fact that you start memorizing all the girls lives, from like when they were born, once they appear in a magazine...

 

[Texas Star]

Originally posted by TNDixieGirl:

I think she may have been referring to the, somewhat, creepy fact that you start memorizing all the girls lives, from like when they were born, once they appear in a magazine...

Although that's a considerable exaggertion, and mainly something that I noticed because I see them as individuals, not just as images, what has it to do with the topic of the thread?

I'm less into that than some of you think. I do not, for instance, make YouTube videos of my favorite models, which some guys do. Nor have I ever written a fan letter to a model. I mostly just pay attention to what some say about themselves on talk shows and in magazine interviews. And even that is limited to a few favorites. Give it a rest.

T-Star

 

[sipowicz]

Originally posted by Texas Star:
I mostly just pay attention to what some say about themselves on talk shows and in magazine interviews. Give it a rest.

T-Star

I don't bother with magazine and TV interviews when it comes to swimsuit models..I go right to their autobiographies.

 

[Mickey D]

I'm less into that than some of you think. I do not, for instance, make YouTube videos of my favorite models, which some guys do. Nor have I ever written a fan letter to a model. I mostly just pay attention to what some say about themselves on talk shows and in magazine interviews. And even that is limited to a few favorites. Give it a rest.

Hey T-bag, you try giving it a rest, huh?

 

[TNDixieGirl]

I'm less into that than some of you think.

LMAO!!! Oh that's priceless.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/e...904/m/2401094343/p/2

 

[crofoot629]

I'm less into that than some of you think.

You are so done, just change your screen name and come back quietly. Dude.......

Emory