I assume that was a joke and that you don’t really think the unique event of the mid-race demise of one jockey riding a frontrunner has any serious bearing on whether mounted jockeys are necessary in horse racing.
If someone disapproves of conventional horse racing and thinks it ought to be replaced by some other type of riderless horse competition, of course that’s, well, a different kettle of fish. But yeah, in conventional horse racing you kind of need the jockey to do stuff like getting the horse to start and stop and speed up and slow down in strategically timed ways.
I would never have guessed he was 95. I mean, I didn’t think he was anywhere near that old in the first place, but I’ve yet to see a picture of him where he looks older than 65 or 70. Look at this picture from when he was 94. If you told me this was a picture of a 64 year old person, I’d have no reason not the believe it.
I know the green m&m’s is sometimes seen as entitled musical act rider, but the reality, as explained by Van Halen who added these kinds of details, was that they had a large show with some very real, very complex instrument/equipment/size needs. And they had found that some of the ones the venue thought were frivolous, or did not apply, would ignore them, causing things not to work as expected. So they started adding these eccentric, but doable, requests to ensure the whole rider had been read and complied with when they arrived at the venue. If when they arrived an in their dressing room there were not, then they knew that it had not been followed and there were likely other parts that were more crucial to the show safety or performance that were missed also.
I was just 8 when Star Trek started and he would have been about 35. So 25ish years older than me. I’m 67 now so he’s low-mid 90s now. It sneaks up on us all.
I suppose it’s harder for something you (any you) only saw as reruns later. You’re seeing 35yo Shatner when you’re 8 or 10, but the show is already 8 or 10 or 20 years old by that point. Leading kidly you to misjudge his age relative to yours. And which impression of age difference sticks with you into adulthood until you have reason to research it and be surprised.
By coincidence I looked him up on wiki yesterday when writing a post in the Dragnet thread. My goal was to check whether he was still alive. He was / is. But I was struck by the same thing. The pic in his wiki article is from 2026 and he looks mostly 70ish.
So he is gonna have to somehow beef up The Transformed Man, or what?
Cool graphic, there, with flames around his head and tongue sticking out - handy little sticker to put on your bumper, or jacket patch.
Or maybe the Priceline approach.
That reminds me of something Johnny Knoxville (Jackass) said a few years back. He’s was replying to a comment about how much older he (seemingly, suddenly) looked and reminded the person that this didn’t happen overnight, Jackass was 20+ years ago.
Well, ack-shoo-ah-leeee… it was the brown M&Ms they wanted taken out.
My mom’s cousin Antonio was the guy who got to eat all those brown ones (he kind of blimped out while they were on tour, and my mom - and his doctor - were relieved when he finally got to take the weight off).
