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I Think I'll Go For A Walk - Death Pool Thread

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leswp1 said:
7 stations? that was more than we had when I was a kid.
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I remember having 1 station for most of my kid years. Then cable came into the local market and we miraculously had 4 stations. What luxury!
 
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Bill said:
I remember having 1 station for most of my kid years. Then cable came into the local market and we miraculously had 4 stations. What luxury!
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What we now call cable originally was called Community Antenna TV, and employed community antennas wired to rural homes to bring them distant, big city stations. Some folks out in the boonies wound up with more choices than folks living in small to mid size cities. We had 6 channels in Chicago,including WGN which broadcast EVERY Cubs home game and an equal number of White Sox games.
 
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joecct said:
Ahh the days when all the Yankees and Met games were on free TV. Sunday doubleheaders from the west coast that would not get over until 9 PM! (I am too young to remember the Dodgers and Giants)
Ch 2 - WCBS
Ch 4 - WNBC
Ch 5 - Metromedia (forget the call sign)
Ch 7 - WABC
Ch 9 - WOR - Mets/Knicks/Rangers
Ch 11 - WPIX - Yankees
Ch 13 - WNET - PBS or whatever it was.
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I go back a bit further-when we had 4 channels which were the 3 majors and the Dumont network. But you have the 7 listed that I saw most of my ealry years. And yes, many of the Dodger, Giant and Yankee games were televised free!
 
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joecct said:
Ahh the days when all the Yankees and Met games were on free TV. Sunday doubleheaders from the west coast that would not get over until 9 PM! (I am too young to remember the Dodgers and Giants)
Ch 2 - WCBS
Ch 4 - WNBC
Ch 5 - Metromedia (forget the call sign)
Ch 7 - WABC
Ch 9 - WOR - Mets/Knicks/Rangers
Ch 11 - WPIX - Yankees
Ch 13 - WNET - PBS or whatever it was.
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I think that 5 was WNEW.
 
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Old Pio said:
Actor Dale Robertson. Doc will remember.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/actor-dale-robertson-dies-california-hospital-18613823
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Tales of Wells Fargo-was one of the myriad of westerns my dad would sit and watch and of course since we had one small Dumont black and white TV-I watched all of them. In those days it seemed that westerns made up 50% of television-shows and movies. I may be alone here with some of these memories but Johnny Mack Brown and Whip Wilson-at least one guy here remembers!
 
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USCHO 2013 Dead Pool submissions are now being accepted. Please submit your list of 30 people to tjbraun at gmail dot com by the end of the day on 3/10/2013. This contest will start once your list is submitted and go through 3/1/2014. If anyone on your list dies during that time you will receive points calculated as follows:

1) A point for each year under the age of ninety for the person on March 10, 2013, example: Jimmy Fallon is currently 38, if you picked him and he dies you would 90-38 or 52 points
2) Bonus points will be awarded if you are the only contestant that selected a given person to die in the amount of 50 points
3) The fetus rule is in effect, if a person you pick is pregnant when she dies, and takes the fetus with her, you get a bonus in the amount of 100 points
Note, if you are not the only person who selects someone over the age of 90, you and all the other contestants who selected that person will received negative points.

Eligible picks are (and these aren't set in stone, there are some people that are hard to put into a category):
Movie/TV - Actors, Actresses, Producers, Directors, Reality Stars, Comedians, Hosts, Singers
Politics - National elected officials of the USA, Governors, Supreme Court Justices, Current and Former Presidents/VP, Cabinet Members, Foreign Presidents/Prime Ministers, Royals, Prominent Spouses, High Ranking Military Leaders, Mayors of Large Cities, High ranking Judges
Sports - Current and Former Players, Coaches, Owners, GM's, Referees, Announcers, Commissioners
Others - Radio Personalities, Writers, CEO's, High Profile Criminals (cannot be on death-row), Religious Leaders, Musicians, Composers, Scientists

People that are famous only because they're the oldest man/woman/survivor of wars, fattest, dumbest person, etc will not be allowed.
Protests of the validity of picks will be allowed until March 17 at which time we will review any protests and make a decision. Do not make your posts public until I confirm we have closed submissions. We have a thread dedicated to these discussions here: http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?91118-USCHO-Dead-Pool

Thanks
 
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joecct said:
Maj. Thomas Griffin, 96. A Doolittle Raider. That leaves 4.
http://www.wtop.com/209/3236524/Doolittle-Raider-WWII-vet-Tom-Griffin-dies-at-96
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Taking off a huge Army bomber from the deck of a carrier, on a one way mission. Man, those guys had huevos. Insignificant in terms of the damage inflicted, the raid was an enormous boost for the morale of Americans still recovering from the shock of Pearl Harbor. And an enormous punch to the solar plexus for the high command, which apparantly believed they were truly invulnerable to attack. They were forced to rethink many of their assumptions. Six weeks later, the United States tore the bottom out of the offensive capability of the Imperial Navy at Midway. From then on, the war in the Pacific was a matter of how long the Japs could hang on. Their dream of driving the United States out of the war and establishing permanent hegemony over their conquests was over. Admiral Yamamoto was right.
 
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DrDemento said:
Tales of Wells Fargo-was one of the myriad of westerns my dad would sit and watch and of course since we had one small Dumont black and white TV-I watched all of them. In those days it seemed that westerns made up 50% of television-shows and movies. I may be alone here with some of these memories but Johnny Mack Brown and Whip Wilson-at least one guy here remembers!
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Maybe one or two of us will remember that every night there was at least one, live dramatic show. And that there would be more than one cowboy show. ABC absolutely filled the airwaves with cowboy shows, some of which, like Maverick, were huge successes. Others, not so much. I really liked Yancy Derringer, starring legendary Hollywood stuntman Jock Mahoney ("The Range Rider")*. In one memorable episode, some prissy Frenchman in New Orleans challenged him to a duel. Yancy showed up with a British broad sword. And while the Frenchman was poncing around, Yancy lopped off the blade of the dude's foil and left him with just a handle.

Yancy was accompanied by a "fathful Indian companion" named Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, who never spoke a line but carried a sawed off shotgun under the blanket draped over his arm which did the talking for him. From time to time Pahoo had to demonstrate the shotgun for the bad guys. Always came as a big surprise.

*Jock was step father to Sally Field. And the character in Burt Reynolds' "Hooper" Jocko O'Doyle, is based on Jock.
 
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Old Pio said:
Maybe one or two of us will remember that every night there was at least one, live dramatic show. And that there would be more than one cowboy show. ABC absolutely filled the airwaves with cowboy shows, some of which, like Maverick, were huge successes. Others, not so much. I really like Yancy Derringer, starring legendary Hollywood stuntman Jock Mahoney ("The Range Rider"). In one memorable episode, some prissy Frenchman in New Orleans challenged him to a duel. Yancy showed up with a British broad sword. And while the Frenchman was poncing around, Yancy lopped off the blade of the dude's foil and left him with just a handle. Yancy was accompanied by a "fathful Indian companion" named Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah who never spoke a line, but carried a sawed off shotgun under the blanket draped over his arm. From time to time Pahoo had to demonstrate the shotgun for the bad guys. Always came as a big surprise.
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Speaking of sawed off shotguns, I was a big fan of Nick Adams (Johnny Yuma) in The Rebel.
 
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joecct said:
Speaking of sawed off shotguns, I was a big fan of Nick Adams (Johnny Yuma) in The Rebel.
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That was a good one. He had a big role in "No Time for Sergeants," playing Andy Griffith's inept little buddy. I also remember him as a guy who brought down a airliner with a bomb in the Jimmy Stewart movie "The FBI Story." IIRC, Nick ultimately took his own life.

And Steve McQueen had that cut down Winchester rifle in "Wanted, Dead or Alive."
 
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Old Pio said:
That was a good one. He had a big role in "No Time for Sergeants," playing Andy Griffith's inept little buddy. I also remember him as a guy who brought down a airliner with a bomb in the Jimmy Stewart movie "The FBI Story." IIRC, Nick ultimately took his own life.

And Steve McQueen had that cut down Winchester rifle in "Wanted, Dead or Alive."
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How about "Have Gun - Will Travel" with Richard Boone. Paladin Paladin... where do you roam.
 
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Bill said:
How about "Have Gun - Will Travel" with Richard Boone. Paladin Paladin... where do yo roam.
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"A night without armor in a savage land" What a concept. A sophisticated gunman for hire, with business cards. That series launched Boone into a significant film career. He was the lead bad guy in "Big Jake." And as he was dying, asked John Wayne "who are you? Wayne replies "Jacob McCandles." Boone: "I thought you wuz dead." Wayne: "Not hardly"
 
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Old Pio said:
Maybe one or two of us will remember that every night there was at least one, live dramatic show. And that there would be more than one cowboy show. ABC absolutely filled the airwaves with cowboy shows, some of which, like Maverick, were huge successes. Others, not so much. I really like Yancy Derringer, starring legendary Hollywood stuntman Jock Mahoney ("The Range Rider")*. In one memorable episode, some prissy Frenchman in New Orleans challenged him to a duel. Yancy showed up with a British broad sword. And while the Frenchman was poncing around, Yancy lopped off the blade of the dude's foil and left him with just a handle.

Yancy was accompanied by a "fathful Indian companion" named Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, who never spoke a line but carried a sawed off shotgun under the blanket draped over his arm which did the talking for him. From time to time Pahoo had to demonstrate the shotgun for the bad guys. Always came as a big surprise.

*Jock was step father to Sally Field. And the character in Burt Reynolds' "Hooper" Jocko O'Doyle, is based on Jock.
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OP: Major congrats for remembering one of my favorites in Pahoo (and his entire name) but without googling can you tell me the listed name of the actor who portrayed the faithful companion? You get 50 points and my vote for poser of the year for this one.
 
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Old Pio said:
"A night without armor in a savage land" What a concept. A sophisticated gunman for hire, with business cards. That series launched Boone into a significant film career. He was the lead bad guy in "Big Jake." And as he was dying, asked John Wayne "who are you? Wayne replies "Jacob McCandles." Boone: "I thought you wuz dead." Wayne: "Not hardly"
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And do not forget his part as the companion to a wonderful Charleton Heston as the War Lord. Which, BTW, Heston felt was his favorite and best role that he ever played.
 
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DrDemento said:
OP: Major congrats for remembering one of my favorites in Pahoo (and his entire name) but without googling can you tell me the listed name of the actor who portrayed the faithful companion? You get 50 points and my vote for poser of the year for this one.
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Easy: X Brands. Who was not, of course, an Indian. Another favorite moment from that series occurred when somebody got the drop on Yancy and made him give up his weapons. There was one in his belt, one in his hat, one underneath his arm, one in his pants, etc. etc. It went on and on and on 'till he finally gave up about a half dozen of his namesake weapons. And, Jock Mahoney also appeared in at least one 3 Stooges short, playing a numbskull cowboy actor, IIRC.
 
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