Snoozles, 1970s
The International Committee For the Glorification of Snoozles (or ICFGoS) has notified me that today's first photo might be the Snoozliest of all Snoozles. It's quite an honor just to be considered, and I'm already airing out my powder-blue tuxedo for the ceremony in Geneva.
Just look at this beauty! It's practically a photo of nothing. Sure, there are plants. Even shrubs! But nobody likes shrubs, according to a 2011 Gallup Poll (an astonishing 0% of biker gangs - the target of this study - said that they approved of shrubs). But let's look a bit closer! Is this Frontierland? Hmmm. One might think so, until the horns of a shy black rhinoceros are just visible. So it's Adventureland!
The next one isn't so bad - I can't ever be too disappointed in a view from the old Submarine Voyage. A pair of loggerhead sea turtles (notice the one to the extreme left) are dining on some delicious seaweed, which is full of nutrients such as Vitamin L and potassium. Bone app the teeth, fellas!
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I like how "ICFGoS" just rolls off the tongue. :-p
Yesterday we had "Viagra" and "enlarging". Today we have rhino horns. I'm sensing a theme. I guess we're still in "GDB After Dark"? I wonder if the photographer got a better picture of the rhino a second later, and kept that one. Releasing this one to the winds of fate. Where we, Junior Gorillas, are graced with its magnificence.
"Loggerhead sea turtles". Hmmm, I wonder if they have scruff on their faces and wear wool caps on top their heads? Maybe they also paint their shells in a red and black buffalo plaid pattern. They don't carry axes slung over their shoulders though... they don't have fingers. They aren't real loggerhead sea turtles, they're hipster loggerhead sea turtles.
Too bad the turtles weren't positioned more in the center of the photo. Then, this wouldn't be a Snoozle at all!
I'm sure you'll get the ICFGoS award for that first photo, Major. Don't forget to wear your frilly shirt with your powder-blue tux. Thanks for setting up a humorous response with your commentary.
Today’s photo category: “Pictures Taken One Second Too Early or Too Late”.
It’s one of the bigger ICFGoS categories, Major, but these are real contenders!
The turtles are almost just fine. Thank you!
JG
ICFGoS is a lot to type...I had to cut and paste. My feedback is possibly a "re-think" of acronyms. That being said, the rhino fits right into GDB AFTER DARK. Very sadly, horrible people poach the rhinos for their horns as it may "do things" for you. We must do everything to save this and the many other species that are facing extinction: especially since there are so many medical advances that don't involve killing wild animals. That is my Sunday PSA for all. Otherwise known as SUNPSA4ICFGoS. Also, let's save a turtle or two! This photo took me right back to the very insulated sounds of the sub....when they close the hatch and your ears pop...it gets really super quiet like a sound proof booth. With the sound of the little air vents in the portholes. It might be kind of fun to re-fit the subs as hotel rooms...spend the night underwater...a bit claustrophobic for some, but I would sleep like a baby. After being "sealed in" there would be no chance for after hours park shenanigans. Have to think about an emergency escape....hmmmm.....my ideas don't involve lawyers and insurance companies, and honestly everyone should dream big and then let those people do those things after the idea people are done with them. I've been told in my career "we can't do that", where I respond "figure it out". I have found that everything is figure-out-able.....with money of course. Thanks Major for the very snoozle snoozles!
Bu, I love your comments from GDB yesterday about your mom going to Tijuana to get the leather purses… my mom would go with her sister and girlfriends on trips to California in the 1970s and they’d go to Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios AND Tijuana—to buy those leather purses and also those big colorful crepe flowers—to bring home from their trips. The women LOVED those indestructible purses! (Thanks for stirring that memory in my old brain.)
JB, ICFGoS is easy to pronounce, just remember that the “G” is silent. As for “GDB After Dark”, I like to make the blog unpredictable! If the photographer got a better photo of the rhino, it wasn’t in this batch. I can’t recall ever seeing a really good picture of the rhino, he was always half-hidden. Loggerhead sea turtles got their name because they crawl onto land and chew down trees. They lay their eggs on the trees, and then arrange them into geometric patterns. You can see it in the True Life Adventure, “Turtle Crazy”.
JG, I’m hoping to win the ICFGoS grand prize, because it is for a one week all-expenses paid trip to Oxnard. Second prize, two weeks!
Bu, the ICFGoS predates typewriters, they weren’t thinking about how easy or hard it would be to bang out those letters. Some say the organization was founded by Eadweard Muybridge, who knew a thing or two about weird spelling. I hate that animals are killed for various body parts, it’s so dumb. But we are a dumb species in many ways. Your description of the sudden quiet when the sub hatches are closed brought back some amazingly vivid memories. I did ride the Nemo subs less than a year ago (the line was so short I couldn’t resist), and you get the same effect today. I’m not so sure about your “subs as hotel rooms” idea. For one thing, no bathrooms! But I don’t want to be one of those “we can’t do that” people.
“ SUNPSA4ICFGoS. Also, let's save a turtle or two!”
I agree! I am that person you sometimes see in the middle of a road, helping the turtle get across…I also keep a box in my trunk with old towels, etc., and have rescued a few critters over the years.
Major, "a one week all-expenses paid trip to Oxnard. Second prize, two weeks!"Ha! I chortled out loud at that one. An oldie, but goodie.
Sue, Aha! So that was YOU I saw in the video on TV, helping the baby ducklings across the street and then lifting them up onto the curb. And then getting attacked by the alarmed mother duck! ;-)
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