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CVO Social => Off Topic => Topic started by: iamtrker2 on January 20, 2007, 08:58:14 PM
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I have decided to change my web site name from iamtrker2 to Desert Rat, since im out here in the desert this would be a better name, maybe i should have changed it to Fat Desert Rat!!
Thats even closer to the truth.
As always my best to all of you
Ernie
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Much better choice if I do say so myself.
Cheers, Moe [smiley=banana.gif]
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Much better choice if I do say so myself.
Cheers, Moe [smiley=banana.gif]
Thanks Moe i feel better now
Ernie
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Like the new name:
Brought back memories of the Rat Patrol series of the 60's
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Like the new name:
Brought back memories of the Rat Patrol series of the 60's
As a matter of fact a lot of that series was filmed about 16 miles from me in the Caiifornia sand dunes.
I want to tell you a secret, we are showing our age!!!
Thanks
Ernie
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As a matter of fact a lot of that series was filmed about 16 miles from me in the Caiifornia sand dunes.
I want to tell you a secret, we are showing our age!!!
Thanks,Ernie
Wife said today I was 57 going on 19.
It was a compliment since she usually says 16 [smiley=huepfenjump3.gif]
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19's not bad, and think about all that extra riding you have now, to get back to 57
Hoody
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OK what was the "Rat Patrol" ?
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OK what was the "Rat Patrol" ?
You Asked. For a kid it was a great action show and very exciting in the late 60's.
Rat Patrol
More a case of "The Dirty Quartet" than "The Dirty Dozen", The World War Two action/adventure series, The Rat Patrol ran on the ABC network in the US from September 12th 1966 to September 16th 1968.
With an utter disregard for historical accuracy, the unruly elite team of misfits consisted of four young men, (three Americans and one Englishman), fighting General Rommel's elite Afrika Korps in the North African desert as part of the Long Range Desert Group. Tough, unorthodox, Sgt. Sam Troy (the excellent and charismatic Christopher George) was the head rat, Jack Moffit, the team's British demolitions expert was played by Jason and the Argonauts co-star Garry Raymond, whilst the remainder of the US contingent was made up of Lawrence P. Casey as the young private, Mark Hitchcock, (a man trying hard to live down a reputation for being a "sissy") and Justin Tarr's Tully Pettigrew, a charming con-man with a decidedly deadly edge.
The Patrol's main mode of transport were two machine-gun-mounted jeeps, while the on-going villainy was supplied by the character of Capt. Hauptman Hans Dietrich, C.O. of a German armoured unit, played by German actor, Hans Gudegast. (Who, following a name change to Eric Braden would go on to enjoy a successful movie and TV career ranging from the on-going central character of Victor Newmann in popular daytime soap The Young and the Restless to a featured role in James Cameron's water-logged movie blockbuster Titanic). Variety was sometimes added to the dramatic mix by means of having the two antagonistic groups of combatants join forces against the common enemy, the bloodthirsty native Arab tribes who inhabited the region.
Bringing an added element of authenticity to the series was the fact that it was filmed far away from the overly familiar backdrop of the LA studios back-lot, in the actual deserts of Spain where a great deal of war material left over from the filming of the movies Battle of the Bulge and The Great Escape further enhanced the show's air of reality.
Although very much riding to success on the blood-spattered coat-tails of the then current vogue set by the big screen war movies, The Rat Patrol benefited from a potent combination of good acting, tough, hard edged writing, and the sun drenched desert locations, which aided immeasurably in providing a persuasive air of action packed believability to the series.
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1966 - 1968.
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OK what was the "Rat Patrol" ?
Hard 10, found a clip on the net. Got to the link below , it has the fall 1966 lineup, then scroll to Monday 8:30 Rat Patrol, it runs a minute forty second clip
http://www.tvparty.com/fall3.html
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Much better than the Law & Order I'm watching now. I had never seen it before but then again that was the year I was born. Cool Jeeps!
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I have decided to change my web site name from iamtrker2 to Desert Rat, since im out here in the desert this would be a better name, maybe i should have changed it to Fat Desert Rat!!
Thats even closer to the truth.
As always my best to all of you
Ernie
much better [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
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Hey Ernie,
If your actually thinkin' that "Fat Desert Rat" sounds more appropo, why not stick to the un-obvious double entendre/alliteration and call yourself the Dessert Rat? ::)
As I always say,
Ride to Eat,
Eat to Ride
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Hey Ernie,
If your actually thinkin' that "Fat Desert Rat" sounds more appropo, why not stick to the un-obvious double entendre/alliteration and call yourself the Dessert Rat? ::)
As I always say,
Ride to Eat,
Eat to Ride
I like your style, when i worked for an oilfield service company that was our motto Thru rain hail or sleet we will be there as soon as we eat!
Thanks
Ernie