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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Okay, I don’t see it… (Open Thread)

Okay, I don’t see it… (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  April 14, 20178:52 pm| 126 Comments

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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

    April 14, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 8:56 pm

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

  3. 3.

    PaulWartenberg

    April 14, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    I see the main city of Jedda, before the Death Star showed up.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 14, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    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.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    It’s a beautiful stretch of river. Anyone going through that area should be sure to check out Fisher Towers.

  9. 9.

    Woodrowfan

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    I think you have to be as stoned as Shaggy to see it.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    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

  11. 11.

    Gvg

    April 14, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    Just his head and ears. Upper left.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    April 14, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Don’t act like you weren’t begging for it.

  13. 13.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 14, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Who is Scooby Doo?

  14. 14.

    EricNNY

    April 14, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @RPh: Now I see it. Disregard mine!

  15. 15.

    jl

    April 14, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @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

    April 14, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    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.

  17. 17.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Head. Top left, nose pointing left.

  18. 18.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    @jl:

    I also see a horsie and bunny rabbit

    Reminiscent of an all-time classic.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    April 14, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    Here are puppeh and kid at the beach. All are now home and mopy–no more beach. But it stopped raining, so there’s that. Weird spring.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    @jl:

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

    Snicker.

  21. 21.

    Michael Bersin

    April 14, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    After Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D) sixth open public town hall in Missouri in two days:

    Senator Claire McCaskill (D): press availability – Parkville, Missouri – April 13, 2017

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    April 14, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    That castle overlook in the right far ground looks ominous if you ask me.

  23. 23.

    Quinerly

    April 14, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Just through there 3 weeks ago. Beautiful area of the country.

  24. 24.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    April 14, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Easter came early for me

  25. 25.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    April 14, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    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…

  26. 26.

    mai naem mobile

    April 14, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: seriously? You don’t know Scooby-Doo? I am genuinely surprised. He’s a cartoon dog.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @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. ?

  28. 28.

    geg6

    April 14, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Top left. Head pointing left and drooped ears.

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    April 14, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    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”

  31. 31.

    jl

    April 14, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    Looks like the US Chamber of Commerce is going to put up serious opposition to Trump’s plan

    I’d say repeal is done bigly
    https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/853050218417356800

    If you click through Marshall’s tweet to the issue brief, they are explicitly targeting Trumps goofy BS on sabotaging PPACA.

  32. 32.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    April 14, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    2017 eLit Award Winners Literary Fiction

    -Gold: -Wisdom Tree-Nick Earls
    -Silver: -Becoming Phoebe-J. Michael Neal
    -Bronze: -Unassimilated-Michael Benzehabe

    Sports/Fitness/Recreation
    -Gold: -Play Golf Better Faster-Kalliope Barliss
    -Silver: -Baseball Dads-Matthew S. Hiley
    -Bronze: -Becoming Phoebe-J. Michael Neal

  33. 33.

    debbie

    April 14, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Leaping contest?

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    debbie

    April 14, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Congratulations!

  36. 36.

    RPh

    April 14, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    @Woodrowfan: That wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t think the river guides would appreciate that :-)

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Nice! Congratulations! ?

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    April 14, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @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.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    April 14, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    @k:

    What’s wrong with the kids these days?

    Too much meddling?

  40. 40.

    Spanky

    April 14, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congrats, JMN! Although you blew right through that tissue-thin nym.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    April 14, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    Scooby snacks were more addictive than heroin.

    Much more evocative of Droopy Dog than the Scoobster. Comparison

  42. 42.

    Denali

    April 14, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    @Tissue thin Pseudonym,

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

  43. 43.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 14, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    @mai naem mobile: Was snarking, I have some vague idea that Scooby Doo is some cartoon character, I have never actually seen him in action.

  44. 44.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @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.

  45. 45.

    Lapassionara

    April 14, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: yes, a classic for sure.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    April 14, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
    Congratulations.

  47. 47.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 14, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: That’s great! Congratulations.

  48. 48.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    April 14, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    @Mnemosyne: He was easily the worst pundit during the election cycle, which is not a statement I fucking make lightly. Try reading any ten articles of his from August 2015 to last November without your IQ rapidly plummeting.

  49. 49.

    Iowa Old Lady

    April 14, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Go you!

  50. 50.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @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.

  51. 51.

    SFAW

    April 14, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Just through there 3 weeks ago. Beautiful area of the country.

    What did Poco think of Scooby?

  52. 52.

    jl

    April 14, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    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.

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    April 14, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Nice! Congratulations!

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    April 14, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    @Bill E. Pilgrim

    The formation to the left looks a helluva lot more like FDR’s Fala than it does Scoob.

  55. 55.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    @jl: I actually typed Jabba the Hutt earlier then decided to change it to Tunch.

  56. 56.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @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

    April 14, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @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.?

  58. 58.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 14, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: That’s just mean. Tunch was not fat, he was floofy and big boned.

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    April 14, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    “JFK profile” weathered lava outcropping here on Maui.

  60. 60.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @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!

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    April 14, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    Bad linky. Fix.

    “JFK profile” weathered lava outcropping here on Maui.

  62. 62.

    Hal

    April 14, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    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.

  63. 63.

    Feebog

    April 14, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Also in the area, near Grand Junction, Colorado Monument NP, some amazing scenery.

  64. 64.

    efgoldman

    April 14, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Scooby-Doo was well after my time

    He first appeared on the teevee in 1969.

  65. 65.

    eclare

    April 14, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @trollhattan: Great action pic!

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    WOW! Also YAY! Also too FANFUCKINGTASTIC!!!

  67. 67.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 14, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Like I said….

  68. 68.

    dance around in your bones

    April 14, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    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 ♪ ♫

  69. 69.

    eclare

    April 14, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Awesome! Congratulations!

  70. 70.

    efgoldman

    April 14, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    -Becoming Phoebe-J. Michael Neal

    Congratulations!
    If I remember correctly, the gestation was endless and problematic. But you stuck with it.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 14, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Well, sheeet! Congratulations!

  72. 72.

    JoJo

    April 14, 2017 at 9:37 pm

    Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Sensenbrenner: “No one has to use the internet…”

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/dont-like-privacy-violations-dont-use-the-internet-gop-lawmaker-says/

  73. 73.

    efgoldman

    April 14, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    Try reading any ten articles of his from August 2015 to last November without your IQ rapidly plummeting.

    At my age I’m already losing too many brain cells, thanx.

  74. 74.

    Central Planning

    April 14, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    I see jabba the hut in the foreground

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

  75. 75.

    trollhattan

    April 14, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    @eclare:
    Thanks! They both selected breakfast from the “extra springy” portion of the menu, I think.

  76. 76.

    Mike J

    April 14, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    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

    April 14, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    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.

  78. 78.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    April 14, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    @efgoldman: Scott still won’t cite me in frontpage post updates.

  79. 79.

    J R in WV

    April 14, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    @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

    April 14, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    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.

  81. 81.

    eclare

    April 14, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @trollhattan: Hahaha…amazing you got them both mid-leap.

  82. 82.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    April 14, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    @J R in WV: Isn’t he actually the second dumbest, though?

  83. 83.

    trollhattan

    April 14, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    @eclare:
    Here’s another, with a puppeh-as-kite motif.

  84. 84.

    efgoldman

    April 14, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    Isn’t he actually the second dumbest, though?

    For a minute I thought you were talking about Shafer

  85. 85.

    jacy

    April 14, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    WOOHOO!

  86. 86.

    eclare

    April 14, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    @trollhattan: Amazing!

  87. 87.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 14, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    @JoJo: Even for a Rethuglican, “Representative Kotex” is an asshole.

  88. 88.

    J R in WV

    April 14, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Hey, haven’t I heard of “Becoming Phoebe” somewhere around here?

    WOW!! That’s so good to hear!!!!

  89. 89.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 14, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: FWIW, he really hates the nickname Tex.

  90. 90.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 14, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: You are to be congratulated profusely!

  91. 91.

    Felonius Monk

    April 14, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Looks like Politico has taken down Shafer’s column. Wonder why?

  92. 92.

    Lapassionara

    April 14, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    @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.

  93. 93.

    Lapassionara

    April 14, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @Quinerly: this sounds promising. Are you doing the tax march tomorrow?

  94. 94.

    satby

    April 14, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations!!

  95. 95.

    JoJo

    April 14, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    @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.

  96. 96.

    efgoldman

    April 14, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    Looks like Politico has taken down Shafer’s column

    Link from LG&M still works.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    April 14, 2017 at 10:06 pm

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

  98. 98.

    satby

    April 14, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    @Mike J: sounds like a heck of an achievement! Congrats to you too!

  99. 99.

    Millard Filmore

    April 14, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    @dance around in your bones:

    Adventure Time

    Other good ones were Chowder, and Courage The Cowardly Dog. I really liked Power Ranger SPD, none of the others.

  100. 100.

    OldDave

    April 14, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    I think I lost five IQ points watching the first 30 seconds or so, but if anyone doesn’t remember Scooby Doo: YouTube Video.

  101. 101.

    Corner Stone

    April 14, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    @OldDave: Don’t you fucking blaspheme Scooby. You son of a bitch.

  102. 102.

    JoJo

    April 14, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: By the way, I love “Representative Kotex.”

  103. 103.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    @Lapassionara: Oh interesting.
    This was actually a little motif in Peanuts as you no doubt know, there’s at least one other on the same theme.

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/23/5a/9f/235a9f5ea51d7bef7a04888d50ac8c42.gif

  104. 104.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 14, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    Scooby and Shaggy busted!

  105. 105.

    japa21

    April 14, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    @NotMax: By law the President’s and VP’s taxes are automatically audited.

  106. 106.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    April 14, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @Lapassionara: If you can figure out how I can send you something I can describe the difference. TMI to divulge here.

  107. 107.

    J R in WV

    April 14, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    Maybe, I was too old for it really. More of the Zorro and Lassie era. Zorro was OK, but Lassie was too too even when I was a little kid. Everyone on Scooby Do was pretty dim, really.

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    @J R in WV:

    Everyone on Scooby Do was pretty dim, really.

    Not Velma; she wore glasses.

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    Steve in the ATL

    April 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: congrats from an envious wannabe author!

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    Lapassionara

    April 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: ok. Let me think about that.

  111. 111.

    Steeplejack

    April 14, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Congratulations! Well done.

  112. 112.

    Quinerly

    April 14, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @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.

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 14, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: @Lapassionara: Anne Laurie has been known to act as an intermediary of sorts.

  114. 114.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    April 14, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @J R in WV: I watched Scooby-Doo from perpetual Cartoon Network reruns in elementary school (i.e., early 2000s).

  115. 115.

    eyelessgame

    April 14, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    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.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    April 14, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    @eyelessgame: Why do I have to leave?

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    stinger

    April 14, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations! Richly deserved!

  118. 118.

    Yarrow

    April 14, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations! How exciting!

  119. 119.

    Wag

    April 14, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    @RPh:

    The giant rock outcropping you reference is named The Nunnery. To the left of it is a tower named Castleton Tower which was used for a car commercial in the early sixties.

  120. 120.

    TriassicSands

    April 15, 2017 at 12:06 am

    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.

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    Cckids

    April 15, 2017 at 1:53 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations ?!! I know I’m very late, but woot!!! A great achievement.

  122. 122.

    Quinerly

    April 15, 2017 at 2:37 am

    @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.

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    SWMBO

    April 15, 2017 at 2:57 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations! Well done, you!

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    WaterGirl

    April 15, 2017 at 4:40 am

    @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.

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    JimV

    April 15, 2017 at 7:08 am

    “Moab, Utah”

    There’s a Mother-of-all-bombs, Utah?

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    Mr. Prosser

    April 15, 2017 at 10:18 am

    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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