As for “how horrible” Thing was, I do remember reading on the old “Cult TV” book that it was “word of god” that Thing was originally pictured by Charles Addams himself as being a disembodied head. The TV producers thought that that was indeed horrible, so the monster with hands (later just a hand) got the name and the role. The Wiki of the Addams Family mentions that I did not imagine that:
Thing was based on a New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams that depicted a shocked mailman reacting to a sign posted on The Addams Family Mansion which warned “Beware of the Thing.” While developing the television series, Charles Addams was asked what, exactly, was the “thing”? He opined that “thing” was a disembodied head that rolled through the house on various ramps and pulleys. It was decided that a hand would be a bit more palatable.
It would be interesting to check if the monster with hands was ever called that before or after he was identified as “Thing” in the TV Show.
Now reports say there will be a support yacht (sometimes called a shadow boat) that will carry the helicopter and other stuff that will not fit on the main yacht.
The reply you answered to was actually to a much older post (about Prince Phillip, who won’t be doing anything anymore), not to your superyacht scandal, but if you are interested in the Bezos, this article might be worth reading.
BTW: While I agree that the Bezos is a supervillain, I believe the Zuck and the Musk are way worse, the one because he willfully ignores the evil he causes, the other because of hubris worthy of the sorcerer’s apprentice.
How would the Dodger numbers compare with those of the Yankees - considering the latter played in a much larger stadium since the 1920’s (until they replaced it)?
The Dodgers are well ahead. Once they moved to Los Angeles they crushed the major leagues in attendance for a very long time.
Prior to the Dodgers moving to LA the Yankees were the attendance kings but it wasn’t as much as you might think and Yankee Stadium, big though it was, was rarely even half full. In the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig years the Yankees averaged about 13,000 fans a game - great at the time, and more than the Dodgers. After the war, the Yankees jumped up to over two million fans a year, declining to about 1.3 million towards the end of their superdynasty; Brooklyn pulled about 1.2 million the entire time.
Once the Dodgers moved to LA they were an attendance machine. Dodger Stadium set huge new records. They outdrew the Yankees every year from 1958 to 1998, 41 straight years, and it was usually not a small margin - sometimes more than a million fans a year. The Yankees have beaten them in a number of years since, but it’s been a tight race and the Dodgers have outdrawn them every year again since 2013.
IF you look at their attendance over the years it’s fairly clear Yankee fans are more responsive to team success; their attendance during leaner years is not good for the size of the market but then it jumps when they’re good. (Attendance has dropped since the new Yankee Stadium opened. I guess it has fewer seats.) The Dodgers ALWAYS draw well, no matter what. In 1990, a lousy year for them, the Yankees drew two million. The Dodgers, not doing any better, drew three million.
I’m going to suggest that flying a helo off a ship with masts and rigging and such is asking for it. Far better to have a few less hard-to-see obstacles nearby.
Pal, later known as Pete the Pup, a.k.a. Petey—the dog in “Our Gang” (the Little Rascals)— was enhanced a bit by makeup artist Maksymilian Faktorowic.
The original Pete (sired by “Tudor’s Black Jack”) was a UKC registered American Pit Bull Terrier named “Pal, the Wonder Dog”,[3][4][5][6] and had a natural ring almost completely around his right eye; dye was used to finish it off.
Maksymilian Faktorowic gave others their signature looks.
MLB baseball - in 1941, the AL St. Louis Browns (later moved to Baltimore) had a pitiful team, and appropriate attendance. So it was proposed to move the team to Los Angeles. This was accepted by all the team owners in the league, and a formal vote was set for December 8. They had taken into account the transportation problems (mostly by train - maybe the odd air trip) and additional expenses for visiting teams.
We all know what happened the day before, and at the vote, all owners - including that of the Browns - voted to keep the team where it was.
It’s still amazes me that there was no major sports team on the west coast until 1958. I think the population of LA County was already well over 4 million by then.
In baseball, yes, but the NFL got there first. The LA Rams move to the west coast in 1946 and the San Francisco 49ers were founded the same year. They joined the NFL in 1949