The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)
"Sure is a nice horse. What’s his name?"
“You don’t have to put a name on something you might have to eat.”
I’m ashamed of this one after all of the times I’ve seen it and heard the song. Doubly so since I saw Jungle Book again a couple nights ago but only thought of it today. Baloo sings about being lazy but still getting on in life with “The Bare Necessities”. But Baloo is a bear so he is also singing about bear necessities.
Oh @digs! It’s true in my heart. 
Unrelated but his daughter, Ariana, is an amazing singer with Postmodern Jukebox.
She’s on the left in this video. I’m using this one because I adore Haley and Morgan as well.
Unless of course you’re riding thru the desert…
Also, you realize I’m going to hear Wildfire on the radio in the next day or two, and will have no choice but to sing, Toooooooe-ohhhhh-whoa-beeeeee-yee
And it’s no surprise that he’s lazy, seeing as he’s a sloth bear.
SO glad to be able to encourage your delusions (the doctor said that was the safest thing to do…).
You just sing “Toby” forever (sorry!)
Oh, and if you’re evacuating California families, yell at them that they have to leave their homes NOW, because “a Toby is on its way!”
I just reread Terry Pratchett’s first Discworld book, The Colour of Magic, for the fourth or fifth (not millionth) time. I don’t recall in previous readings thinking much about why the scientists of Krull were so determined to discover the sex of the Great A’Tuin, the enormous space turtle on which the disc, supported by four great elephants, rests as it travels through the universe.
This time the image of what might happen to the Disc if a female A’Tuin met a male counterpart popped into my mind.
I was absolutely certain that the actual title of the song was “The Bear Necessities.” Just looked it up and, nope.
I’ve seen the movie Airplane! many, many times. And I only recently noticed this: At the beginning Captain Over gets a phone call from the doctor at the “Mayo Clinic.” When we see the doctor, he is standing in a room full of jars of mayonnaise.
That’s one of my favorite sight gags in that movie. The one I missed for years was the Modern Sperm title in the “Whacking Material” section of the magazine rack.
The turtles I’ve seen going at it, the male didn’t mount the female’s back. Rather, they were sort of end to end, with one of them (I’m not certain which) upside-down.
On the other hand, A’Tuin eggs are relevant in at least one of the books.
This may sound weird to ask but – What Turtles Have You Seen Having Sex?
Every picture I’ve seen of mating turtles shows them is “turtle-doggy style”:
In some cases the turtle’s shells are even shaped to favor this position.
Thanks, @CalMeacham. I can’t claim to be an expert on turtle sex (and wouldn’t, even if I could!) but those photos confirm what I thought I had seen/read about the subject.
Now imagine what would happen to four elephants and a disc that had been resting on top of the female before the male showed up.
I think it was snapping turtles I saw. Maybe they use a different position than most other species. Or maybe those two were just kinky (after all, why shouldn’t other species have just as many positions as humans do?). Or maybe my memory was faulty, or maybe they were doing something else entirely.
Like @commasense , I have no intention of claiming any expertise on turtle mating.
The kama shelltra.
Did you watch it from start, or arrive afterwards? Because maybe they started as per most turtles and then the male fell backwards?
Turtle #1: That’s weird position. Are you kinky?
Turtle #2: No, just clumsy.
You get a line and I’ll get a pole,
we’ll go down to the crawdad hole…
Do you catch crawdads with a pole and line?