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Okay, I don’t see it… (Open Thread)

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Here’s a photo shared by faithful reader “cope,” who reports it was taken during a rafting trip on the Colorado River between Grand Junction, Colorado and Moab, Utah:

Cope says: “For the observant, there is a formation in the cliffs in the foreground known as Scooby-Doo Rock. See him?”

I don’t see him! If you see Scooby, please share his precise location in the photo in comments.

Otherwise, open thread!

PS: We’re watching the rebooted MST3K on Netflix. If you’re a fan of the original series, check it out!

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  1. 1.

    jl

    I’d venture that Scooby is behind the ridge of rocks to the upper left, ready to spring into action. Just finished saying ‘Ruh-Roh’.

  2. 2.

    k

    In the midst of this scenery I’m supposed to look for Scooby-Doo? What’s wrong with the kids these days?

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Wish I could help, but Scooby-Doo was well after my time so I am only vaguely familiar with him. Sucks to be old.

  5. 5.

    RPh

    Giant rock outcropping in the left of the pic …. at the top, final 1/3 over …. looks like Great Dane snout + ears at top

  6. 6.

    Raoul

    I might be seeing it? Only by clicking and viewing the photo fairly zoomed in. It’s pretty subtle if in fact what I think I’m seeing is what people are calling the Scooby rock.

    eta: Yeah, RPh, that’s what I’m seeing. Snout pointing left? Ears pointed forward?

  7. 7.

    EricNNY

    I’m gonna guess his face us on the right stck. Looks like he’s wearing a hat. Below the hat, kinda looks like his face.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
    We got some work to do now.
    Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
    We need some help from you now.
    Come on Scooby Doo, I see you
    Pretending you got a sliver
    But your not fooling me
    Cause I can see, the way you shake and shiver

  15. 15.

    jl

    @SiubhanDuinne: Scooby Doo is a dog. You just look for something that looks like a dog.

    I also see a horsie and bunny rabbit and a profile of Trump’s moobs and gut belly. But let’x concentrate on Scooby.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    Sitting and waiting for G to get to BJ’s so we can have some Happy Hour deals before I head to dance class tonight.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jl:

    I also see a horsie and bunny rabbit and a profile of Trump’s moobs and gut belly.

    Snicker.

  25. 25.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    I drove thru there years ago… incredibly beautiful area… must go back one of these days…

    Watching the local news (Berkeley)… talking about pro-Trump rally scheduled for tomorrow morning… people are expecting trouble and are probably right… pro-Trumpers have been running truly ridiculous video (not quite sure where… Teebee? On line?) w/ footage of Imperial walkers from SW and digital storm troopers swinging nightsticks to ‘encourage’ patriots coming out and joining…

    Between idiots like that and the Blac Block morons, one of these times they’re going to get some serious violence at one of these affairs… just flat out stupid…

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @trollhattan:

    Mopey or tired out? I had to laugh at Disneyworld when I came out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth and found both of my nieces passed out after a full day at the Magic Kingdom. ?

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    The pointy rocks in the center looks kinda like a pointy-headed Mojo-Jojo and it took most of my attention. ;-)

    The framing made it tough to find Scooby!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  30. 30.

    guachi

    Am also watching MST3K on Netflix.

    I saw the premier in February (because I donated lots to the Kickstarter). It’s great.

    I’m now watching Cry Wilderness and it’s an embarrassing outdoors “adventure”

  32. 32.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    2017 eLit Award Winners Literary Fiction

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  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    Wow. That is some Grade A bullshit from Schaefer.

    He probably should consult a doctor about his raging case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome, since apparently everything that’s wrong with Trump is exactly what Hillary would have done.

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    @Mnemosyne:
    A little of both. Kid laments not living on the coast (well, duh) and puppeh now likes himself some surfline fun. He’s been sleeping reeeeally well the last few nights, though.

  42. 42.

    Denali

    @Tissue thin Pseudonym,

    Yes! Congratulations! Remember when Phoebe was becoming a book!

  44. 44.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @NotMax: You’ve got the wrong rock. Though they might be thinking that’s his tail, I was thinking, a la Sphinx.

    I’m naming that part Tunch Rock, I just decided.

  50. 50.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Lapassionara: Douglas Hofstadter came out with a new book in 2008 and put that cartoon in the front, talking about how it summed up something about his approach to life. I wrote him an email because me too, though it turns out we interpreted it entirely different ways, which was interesting, he wrote back and we had a nice exchange for a bit about it.

  52. 52.

    jl

    Also, a peacefully dozing Jabba the Hut, a teenage mutant ninja turtle, and a profile of Henry the Hawk.
    And an Eryops, but that goes without saying. There is always an Eryops in that kind of landscape.

  56. 56.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @NotMax: I must admit I don’t know the cartoon character in question all that much so not being that detailed about resemblance in my case, I saw a rock that looked like a cartoon dog with mouth and floppy ears and thought okay that must be it.

  57. 57.

    Quinerly

    @SFAW:
    As Poco’s chauffeur on that 7500 mile 6 week road show?, I can say with certainty that he was getting his snore on at the time. He takes his “bedroom” in the “2 bedroom Escape” very seriously. I am the woman who drove a snoozing Poco through 8 states.?

  60. 60.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @schrodingers_cat: I was actually just going by the two images over there in the right column, the one with Tunch with wings and then right above it this same image of the rock. Definitely a resemblance!

  62. 62.

    Hal

    I was hate watching Tiny House Hunters earlier when my favorite episode aired. Mother, Father and four kids. Parents want a 600 square foot home so they can be a closer family. Apparently, everyone can be at home at the same time, but the kids are all in their own bedrooms instead of being the Brady Bunch in the family room. They might go for hours without seeing each other!

    All I can think of is those kids spending the next years of their life listening to their parents getting it on 30 feet away.

  68. 68.

    dance around in your bones

    Scooby Doo was a cartoon dog, no? My experience with kid shows recently was (HUGE gap between my kid and my GRANDkids) was Power Rangers, Paw Patrol, Phineas and Ferb, Dora the Explorer (only if NOTHING else was on!) and my favorite – Adventure Time. THAT was trippy!

    ♪ ♫ Jake the dog and Finn the human ♪ ♫

  74. 74.

    Central Planning

    I see jabba the hut in the foreground

    Quiet night here, I think I’ll go check out mst3k

  76. 76.

    Mike J

    Finished my instructors course yesterday. Last day of class we ran water drills, so while two instructors were in the safety boat, the rest of us bombed around as their students in wind that was a a fun 13 steady with unfun 35mph gusts on the 520 bridge. Every single boat capsized at least once (mine only once, thank you very much). FJs are still not my favorite boat, but it was a fun wrap up to an exhausting week. Exhausting because when we sailed, we sailed hard. Maximum effort into every tack, which generally came every 30 seconds for 2 hours. And we had no low wind days. And of course the 200+ pages of reading every night for the tests and writing lesson plans and chalk talks and land drills and water drills. But I have my official US sailing whistle and know how to corrupt the minds of youth and adults alike by filling them with sailing knowledge.

  77. 77.

    dance around in your bones

    Also, I’m remembering hiking through Bear Canyon in Arizona, close to Tucson. We (husband and I) saw a remarkably detailed Indian Chief in profile along the way, and gazed googly-eyed at it for a while.

    We might have been in an altered state however.

    ETA: Ooh! That was also the time my husband got dehydrated (we carried one gallon of water each, and he was conserving his water for ME o.O ) and I had to run to save him. Scary.

  79. 79.

    J R in WV

    @schrodingers_cat:

    A Cartoon dog, the smartest member of a gang of teens who got involved in mysteries and strange novella plots, usually saved at the last minute by the giant dog, Scooby Doo. Not the same as the really giant dog who caves the little baby, Good Dog Carl.

  80. 80.

    Quinerly

    March for Science here in St. Louis 1:00pm on 4/22, at Union Station. Any folks in the area who are interested, we are carpooling from my neighborhood at 12:15 (Soulard)…Howards Restaurant/Bar at 13th & Lynch (in the shadow of Anheuser Bush Brewery). Meeting back there for drinks/food afterwards. Live music at 6:00, great patio, good food, cheap drinks, locally owned by a friend. I’m salt and pepper hair, braided rat tail. Ask at the bar. If I have a headcount, can reserve a table and make it an official BJ meet up.

  92. 92.

    Lapassionara

    @Bill E Pilgrim: well, I would like to know how you differed from him. I used this in many talks I gave, once upon a time, it is a great example of different perspectives.

  95. 95.

    JoJo

    @Villago Delenda Est: There is going to be a visit to his office in Brookfield this Tuesday. It now promises to be a great deal more enjoyable. We’re asking him to support Trump releasing his tax info, but at town halls Sensenbrenner keeps saying that would an invasion of Trump’s privacy. This has given us an opening you could drive a convoy of trucks through.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    re: his taxes this year, will Dolt 45 claim that as president he’s immune to being audited?

  112. 112.

    Quinerly

    @Lapassionara:
    Can’t tomorrow. Other commitments. You from the St. Louis area? Please join us at Howards. Familiar with Soulard? Straight shot to and from Union Station.

  115. 115.

    eyelessgame

    If y’all are going to have a whole thread about Scooby-Doo, it provides me a tenuous but serviceable excuse to share, with you all, the funniest thing ever to be written on the Internet:

    http://faculty.cord.edu/sprunger/e315/hamlet.html

    Combining the most famous ghost story of Western culture with the most famous ghost investigators of Western culture.

    You must, however, be familiar with both sources, or you will not understand at all.

  120. 120.

    TriassicSands

    The photo brings back fond memories. The formation in the distance consists of Castleton Tower (on the far left), the Priest (on the far right), and the Nuns and the Rectory in between.

    Castleton is one of the Utah desert’s most sought after rock climbing summits. It was the site of a Chevrolet commercial back in the sixties. They used a helicopter to put a Chevy convertible and a model on the summit. It’s always seemed like an incredibly silly commercial — it’s not like you could drive around on the summit. The story is that the model was so freaked out by being up there that she refused to be left up there alone. So, there is someone lying on the floor of the backseat to keep her company. If you want to see the commercial, just go to You Tube and search for 1964 Chevy – Monument Valley. (Note: Monument Valley is nowhere near Castleton Tower, which is located in Castle Valley just outside of Moab, Utah.

    I guess they could have made the commercial even sillier by having the model clad in a bathing suit instead of her white dress.

  122. 122.

    Quinerly

    @TriassicSands:
    Thread be dead. But if you venture back, thanks for the story. I just got back from six weeks in the area, including Monument Valley.

  124. 124.

    WaterGirl

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: That’s so awesome, JMN!

    This news and Cole’s tread about domestic bliss are good reminders of the good things that can happen even in this awful time of Trump.

  126. 126.

    Mr. Prosser

    Late to the party. Have rafted and kayaked this stretch many times. As an old guy (first floated this in the 70s) the formation on the left was called Snoopy because it looked like Snoopy in his Sopwith Camel.

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