@OnionSoup Remember the song well but never saw the video. Also at one point there was an English version but the German language version was better. I understood enough German to know what was going on in it.
Also an anti-war song from 40 years ago about how easy it is to get into lengthy destructive wars.
(linking Triumph the Dog with Cyd Charisse, whom google tells me had a poodle named Poodle… wasn’t sure if the last post was just an aside or linked to Triumph somehow so had to use google’s help to find a double)
Most crucially, however, it actually had been Ball who had saved Star Trek from cancellation for the very first time, but not directly after the initial “too cerebral” refusal in February 1965 by NBC as claimed by Roddenberry in later years and taken as gospel by 1970s-2000s “Trekdom”. One year later, in February 1966, her small studio found itself unexpectedly confronted with the production of three expensive television properties, all brought in by Oscar Katz and Herb Solow (who were specifically hired to do so, in order to safeguard the future existence of the ailing studio), where there had only been one before, her own I Love Lucy show. Under advisement were Star Trek, the action series Mission: Impossible and the western series The Long Hunt of April Savage (also produced by Roddenberry between the first and second Star Trek pilots), and the conservative board of directors feared, not unjustified, that the studio would financially overstretch itself. Vigorously defended by Solow, not a voting board member but a firm believer in the show, and despite the fact that Star Trek was already picked up by NBC after the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, had been produced, virtually the entire board (including her second husband Morton and her brother Fred, but save for executive Bernard Weitzman) unanimously voted to cancel Star Trek. Katz was also a voting board member, but was not present as he was already on his way out. Yet, as Chairwoman of the Board, Ball had the power to override her board, and this she did with a mere nod of her head towards Solow. “That was all Star Trek needed,” as author Cushman had succinctly put it, “A nod of Lucille Ball.” (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, pp. 32, 94) For all intents and purposes, and contrary to widely held beliefs in Star Trek-lore, this was factually the very first time that The Original Series came exceedingly close to cancellation, were it not for Lucille Ball, or as one of the other nay-sayers on the board, studio accountant Edwin “Ed” Holly, later conceded, “If it were not for Lucy, there would be no ‘Star Trek’ today.”
Il Commissario Montalbano
My favorite detective series
Comisario Anejo
i just want the car with the fine Corinthian Leather.
which I think means vinyl.
@pmarin ah yes!

/image the Chrysler Cordoba
With rich Corinthian Leather - made in New Jersey
https://www.libertyleathergoods.com/corinthian-leather/
@pmarin @ybmuG Hey, it’s vegan leather, you know!
@Kyeh @pmarin comes from vegan cows
@pmarin @ybmuG
In other words, cows.
But it doesn’t. It comes from Naugas!
@Kyeh @pmarin @ybmuG Is this, by chance, a subtle homage to Larry??
@Kyeh @pmarin @ybmuG Nope, real leather. From New Jersey.
@blaineg @pmarin @ybmuG Oh yeah … you guys are right; I guess I got carried away with the opportunity to ridicule the term “vegan leather.”
Tequila Sunrise
@blaineg No love for The Wreath of Khan?
Sunrise
Best listened to on speakers that can reproduce the low end.
/image Sunset Boulevard

/image sunset overdrive

Fiddler on the Roof
(Sunrise, Sunset)
@chienfou
@Kyeh
then forgot!
Thanks. Almost posted the Perry Como version.
/image Zero Mostel

(Played Tevye on stage and in movie adaptation)
@ybmuG IMHO, Airplane! was the zanier version of Zero Hour!
Zero - Imagine Dragons
Zero Dark Thirty
/image Saved by Zero

/image zero candy bar

Zero Kelvin
/image William Thompson first Baron of Kelvin

@OnionSoup Looking at his eyes, I’d guess he’s not well… he might have a temperature.
@ItalianScallion yes, something above 310.15K I would suspect.
/image Kelvin temperature

Zero - Nightmare Before Christmas
ghost dog
/image Balloon Dog

Our favorite balloon

/giphy Meh

@llangley nice double!
/youtube neun und neunzig luft baloon
@OnionSoup Remember the song well but never saw the video. Also at one point there was an English version but the German language version was better. I understood enough German to know what was going on in it.
Also an anti-war song from 40 years ago about how easy it is to get into lengthy destructive wars.
@pmarin yes, the German version is better. They changed it to red balloons in English “99 red balloons”
99 Problems.
Get Smart - Barbara Feldon as Agent 99
/image smart home

/image Paul Smart Ducati

/image Ducati DesertX

(double? - Casablanca set in Morocco a largely desert country)
Dakar Rally.
Crosses the Sahara desert.
/image Drakkar Noir

/image Pinot Noir

Henri, le Chat Noir
/image chat noir poster

Bugatti La Voiture Noire

/image Guy Noir Private Eye

/image Guy Fawkes bonfire

No Fawkes Given cider

/image woodpecker cider

“Perry” Pear Cider
/image Perry Como

@heartny
/youtube Animaniacs perry coma
Lake Como
ELP!
/image Robert Palmer

Robert Johnson
@yakkoTDI And if you need a little variety.
I hate that these tacky shirts are the thing that first comes to mind from “Johnson”.
/image 1990’s Big Johnson T-shirt.

Wait for it…
@ItalianScallion Best part of that movie.
/youtube Triumph - Magic Power
/giphy triumph the insult comic dog

Off topic?
Ricardo Montalbon could do some other things … like this
(w Cyd Charisse)
F
/image Poodle

(linking Triumph the Dog with Cyd Charisse, whom google tells me had a poodle named Poodle… wasn’t sure if the last post was just an aside or linked to Triumph somehow so had to use google’s help to find a double)
/image Poodle Skirt

Electronic Bass Dogz
Big Mouth Billy Bass

/image big mouth

/image Big Bang Theory

2009 Lincoln Bicentennial penny

Lincoln Memorial

“The Embrace” - the controversial memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Boston

/giphy bear hug

/image Care Bears

Mariah Carey

/image Harry Caray

@llangley Holy cow!
Harry Dean Stanton
/image Richard Dean Anderson

/image MacGruber

Gruber (from Bluey)

@llangley Appropriate for tonight’s offer!
Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee

Blue Monday.
Stormy Monday
@ItalianScallion nice one!!! I probably would’ve picked Allman Brothers since they’re more in my wheelhouse but this is great
Monday Monday
Tuesday Weld
Ruby Tuesday
Jack Ruby

Jack of Diamonds
/image Jack Nicholson

/giphy Nichelle Nichols

/image Lucille Ball

(She saved Star Trek)
/image nickle balls

/image Spaceballs

Star Trek: Space Seed

Which brings us back to Ricardo Montalbán! So we can start a new randrom free association thread! Who’s up for it?
@Kyeh i was thinking Lucy would lead to Ricky and be then back to Ricardo, but this was a fun twist! Tell you what - I’ll start the next one at Ricky.
@ybmuG Great!
Also I never knew that about Lucille Ball, that’s so cool.
@Kyeh I assume it’s true. I had heard something to that effect before. I should probably check something like Star Trek wiki
@ybmuG Your link went to a persuasive explanation, so I believe it!
@Kyeh Well - kinda like true. From Fandom Memory Alpha
@ybmuG I see.
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