Comments on: BostonGeek #115

By: Alejandro

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By: Alex

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By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:22:23 +0000

Touche.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:53:02 +0000

But, he wore mens clothing.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:40:18 +0000

Yeah, I had to look up who Autrey was. Bite me.

Fortunately I remembered enough history to get the cowboy stuff mostly from the dregs of my brain. Little help on the ethnic groups. That’s what encyclopedias are for.

Anyway, you are underscoring my point. Today it is eyeliner and tights. Seventy years ago it was those idiotic shirts and tasseled chaps.

Neither is authentic. Neither was a cowboy. Autry was as much a showman then as Bon Jovi is today.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:54:46 +0000

Also, I think he was showing that a singer could be a cowboy. But, by wearing tights and eye makeup, he basically forfeits that right.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:53:35 +0000

Yay for wikipedia!

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:07:51 +0000

Ironic that you basically used a singer to disprove that a… singer is a cowboy.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:07:14 +0000

Gene Autry was NOT a cowboy. He was a singer. ‘The Yodeling Cowboy’, in fact.

He never worked with cattle… He worked for a railroad until he started singing…

The term ‘cowboy’ comes from the Spanish ‘vaquero’, and of course, most cowboys were Spanish, Mexican, Native American, African-American (ex-slaves) or of mixed descent. The term originated, in fact, in Spain, with cattle herders in the Old World.

By: Karl Kornfeld

Karl Kornfeld — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:15:35 +0000

It’s Gene Autry. Played guitar, sang and poked dogies.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:17:04 +0000

‘Actual cowboy?’

Is that Roy Fucking Rogers?

By: Karl Kornfeld

Karl Kornfeld — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:05:57 +0000

Alright, I'll post it this way... Click here to compare Julian Bashir to Gaius Baltar. Like I said, uncanny. Click here to compare an actual cowboy, Gene Autry, to self-professed cowboy, Jon Bon Jovi. Notice that the actual cowboy isn't wearing eyeliner.

By: Karl Kornfeld

Karl Kornfeld — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:10:36 +0000

Arrghh! Waddya mean I can’t post pictures!? I had a pic of both of them so everyone could see how similar they look….

By: Karl Kornfeld

Karl Kornfeld — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:06:31 +0000

It’s uncanny, really!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:50:59 +0000

baltar does look exactly like bashir from ds9.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:31:15 +0000

Yeah, Morena’s character on Stargate was pretty lame.

Particular seasons of SG1 were good, and particular episodes (eg. the groundhog day episode) were spectacular.