The Headless Flintstones

The Flintstones was the very first prime time cartoon, the first two years the show was aim at adults and came on Friday nights on ABC at 8:30 PM ET 

After which it was aim for teenagers but came on Thursday nights because they thought most of them would be on dates on Fridays.The show it seems is loosely base on Jackie Gleanson's Honeymooners.

Where does the headless Flintstones come in ? Most of the cartoon cels had headless characters drawn on them, it was a way to save time and money by just drawing, and animate just the heads.

 For example if a character is talking for about a minute with his/hers hands on the side of their body it would make NO sense to re-drawn the same stationary body over and over again. They would just lay the head cels first then place their body cel the reason they bob their heads slightly up and down.

Not only that, but in some of their cartoons they would have repeating backgrounds. Remember seeing the old movies? Were people was suppose to be on a train , you look outside of the train window and notice they pass the same tree over and over 
again.

Computers make cartoon making simpler now, just animated a character walking, once that is animated, the computer will automatically moved the background at the chosen speed. Heck one does not even need an ink and paint department anymore, nor do they need a cartoon camera.

The Flintstones are now on METV at 6 PM ET weekdays, and on Sundays 10 AM to 12 NOON, and they were made the old fashion way, with ink and paint and a cartoon camera that aimed down on the drawings.(end)
                        click here for Pebble's Birthday

SCRABBLE

One of the board games I like to play is scrabble, there are lot of various ways to play the game, but I like the original rules once a person places a triple or double word score the extra bonus points become delinquent to the other players.This way people will play all over the board instead of staying in the same area.

But if a person is playing with their foreign friends they will have to realize; If the words sound the same doesn't mean they are spelled the same. For example: 'An American gentleman traveled, and a British gentleman travelled' 

On Halloween an America kid puts on a mask, while a British kid puts on a maskque, there is also a bank check (American) and bank cheque (British)

Now let's try German. When an Americans plays shoe, the German would play Schuh (they both are pronounce the same) and remember the German 'J' sounds like a English 'y' the words below mean the same thing and pronounce the same in German and English, except they are spelled differently.

                      American- German
                           young -  jung
                         English-Englisch
                              fish-  Fisch
                            swine- Schwine
                              mine- mein
                               beer- Bier
                         October -Oktober 
                             uncle  -Onkel
                             yodel - jodel
                      December -Dezember
                             house -Haus
                             mouse- Maus
                                 man -Mann
                                 here -hier
                               brown -braun
                                green -grun
                                    fat  -fett
                                    tea  -Tee
Also when a noun is use their plurals are different on 'minute' Americans add an 'S" while Germans add a 'N"
                             minutes-mintuen but in this case they are not pronounce the same;  Minuten is pronounce Min- nute- ton.There are other ways Germans plural their nouns not always with a N or S. 

There are exceptions of the 'J' sounding like a 'Y' in German, for example the word 'job' is pronounced the same in both English and German and means the same thing, and spelled the same.

Now let's try Spanish; Even if the word is spelled the same in both  English and Spanish  and means the same thing; The pronunciations are different, in Spanish 'idiot' is pronounced "Id- dee- oat-Ta" 

Another word that means the same in both Spanish and English but pronounce different is 'general' . We all know that the Spanish 'J' sounds like a 'H',  so does a 'G' if it becomes right before an 'E' making the pronunciation 'Hen-R-Al" 
       click here to heard general in Spainish

Now words do change meanings in time, in the early 50's and 60's the word 'Gay" meant happy and care free. You probably even heard The Flintstones theme song with one lyric saying "We will have a gay old time". (end, fin, ende)  :)

New Joker Movie--Free Speech ?

The new Joker movie is rated 'R' and it's going to be bloody, I DO watch some 'R' rated movies if they do not contain grapic/gory violence; A few 'F' words and/or nudity I can handle. 

Yes, there is a such a thing as free speech, but that does not mean you can yell "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater if no danger exist. I believe that is both endangerment to the public because it may cause unnecessary panic and  it is also disorderly conduct.

The movie wants to teach people a lesson on what would happen if a person gets push   too far, they push back and care for nobody.This is how the Joker was in the comics before there was a comics code authority, after which the Joker was toned down.

The country of China has banned the Joker movie  and other European countries  have followed suit,as well; I believe it will be banned in most of the United States,not only the movie, but their related products as well, Joker masks, Joker toys, and maybe white geese paint etc.The new Joker movie ? Not for me.

Our local theater on one Friday night had shown the movie "Jackass The Movie" the next day on Saturday morning there were lot of sirens heard , teenagers were trying to do the movie's fake stunts. A sheriff came to the theater and seized  the film and the theater was ordered not to show that movie any more.The sheriff locked the film in his desk, before it was mailed back to the studio.I believe - this will also happen to the new Joker movie.

As for all the adjectives saying The New Joker movie is a good movie-WELL, movie companies will pay magazines on what to say and what to post

If The Joker movie is legal in your locale, go at your own risk (end)