A Year of Billy Carter--Day 10
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this one is a classic ad on a 12 pack showing billy having a ho-down. billy's got a couple of cases iced down as the sun sets. some of the boys are out in their pick-up ready to do some night shooting.
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Jeff
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I had an empty can but that 12 pack is awesome.
Love it!
No offense to the other Carter thread but I like this one better.
Jeff
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<< <i>Nice cans barf!!! when were those around? >>
I had to look them up on eBay because all I could remember was 1990's. Found a listing and the date they say is 1997.
Jeff
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Gotta love it.
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Sorry HUN, this thread is legit, no saving needed.
Now back to day 2 in the year of Billy Carter.
Kind of an awkward moment here. Billy appears with Merv thinking that Merv is getting him ready to appear on one his game shows. When Merv drops the news that Billy isn't really Wheel of Fortune material and most definitely not good enough to be on Jeopardy. Billy smiles politely until he figures out what truly is going on and ends up storming off the set.
Billy ended up going on the Price is Right but got confused playing the cliff hanging yodeling game and came home with nothing.
<< <i>something tells me there will be no Day 2 >>
damn, I hate it when I'm wrong
<< <i>this thread is worthless without Lynda.
mmmmmmm Wonder Woman
Years later when it was discovered that much of Haley's work had been stolen or plagiarized, Billy demanded to have the Prize awarded to him as his book was clearly written by him and alone. Alas much like the Mike Greenwell/Jose Canseco 1988 MVP controversy, Billy never got his public due. Still it is on the required reading list for all incoming freshmen at Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Vassar and Wellesley. Former first lady and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did a major thesis over Billy's work.
question - What does Ted Kennedy have that Jimmy Carter wished he had?
answer - A dead brother
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Ralph
an argument has broken out in scholarly circles who debate whether this photo was the model used by e.j. gallo for their successful bartles & jaymes wine cooler campaign in the mid 80's to the early 90's. i'll let the readers decide for themselves.
<< <i>nice save of this thread with legit cans ...
Sorry HUN, this thread is legit, no saving needed.
Now back to day 2 in the year of Billy Carter.
Kind of an awkward moment here. Billy appears with Merv thinking that Merv is getting him ready to appear on one his game shows. When Merv drops the news that Billy isn't really Wheel of Fortune material and most definitely not good enough to be on Jeopardy. Billy smiles politely until he figures out what truly is going on and ends up storming off the set.
Billy ended up going on the Price is Right but got confused playing the cliff hanging yodeling game and came home with nothing.
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Billy would have done well on the Gong Show.
I really wish the american public would gong out the constitutional pagans or what I really wish for is for a fact finding stop , with the whole bunch , in Guam . Then Rep. Johnson from Georgia's concern about it flipping over , could become real.
Dreams , the fuel of fools , even if its a horrible nightmare come true.
During the 1950's there was only one place to play at that was Montreal. Billy thought he would never make it to be a Hab, but his play in the 1952 Olympic games held in Oslo Norway made NHL scouts sit up and take notice. He quickly got offers from five of the six teams (bad decision there Rangers) and signed with Montreal. He quickly moved up their juniors system in and made his NHL debut on February 16, 1955 as the Canadiens took on the Maple Leafs. Billy got an assist on an empty net goal in a 4-2 and his career was ready to take off.
His name is on the Stanley Cup for three wins and he won the Lady Byng award in the 1957-58 and 1959-60 season. As Montreal was switching long term direction Billy was traded to Boston on May 14, 1960. He gave the Bruins several quality seasons but fell into a Wally Pipp situation as an injury kept him out of the line-up due to a teammate's stick to his eye in a preseason game on September 25, 1966. Bobby Orr took his place in the line-up and Billy's career was essentially over.
However his love on the sport was not finished. He moved back to Plains, Ga and was the driving force behind the Atlanta Flames gaining a franchise. On October 14, 1972 Billy dropped the ceremonial puck in the Flames first home game against the Buffalo Sabres. Years later Mario Lemiuex said that Billy was a pioneer for keeping and gaining franchises. Lemiuex spoke in a 2002 60 minutes episode: "Billy Carter has been an inspiration for me in my attempt to keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh. Without him paving the way, there is no way that I would have the confidence or a plan to save my franchise. All hockey fans owe a major debt to Billy."
In 1980 as the Carter Administration was suffering several setbacks both domestically and internationally NHL owners were making back room plans to unfairly punish Billy over what was occurring in Washington. They secretly came up with an obscure loophole in the teams charter and the Flames were playing the 1980-81 season in Calgary where they remain today.
Billy Carter passed away on September 25, 1988 exactly 22 years after his eye injury. The Calgary Flames wore a "BC" patch on their uniform for the 1988-89 season to honor their franchise founder. That was the only season that the Flames have ever won the Stanley Cup. Who says that there aren't guardian angels?
From the collection I present to you a 1960 PSA 10 Gem Mint Shirriff Coin depecting Billy Carter.
Loyal drinkers of Billy Beer were devestated. Would the Burger King be caught with a Big Mac? Would George Steinbrenner wear a Red Sox cap? Would Michael Jordan wear Reeboks? NO-NO-NO.
Naturally this was the beginning of the end of Billy Beer. Once regarded as a major threat to Budweiser, Billy Beer sales plummetted. Of course one products loss is another ones gain as Pabst beer sales rose 106% for the fiscal quarter following these photos.
(And yes that is an empty case holder of Miller in the corner)
Fast forward less than two years later. In July of 1979 in a dramatic, nationally televised address, Carter addresses what he calls a "crisis of confidence" in America. Though initially well-received, many object to the tone of what is soon dubbed the "malaise" speech. Two days later he asks for the resignation of his entire cabinet eventually accepting five of them. In November Islamic extremists take over the embassy in Tehran holding American hostages. With the economy in shambles, Soviet troops cross their southern border to invade Afghanistan on Christmas day 1979.
Not a good year to say the least. However the most damaging thing occurring was that Ted Kennedy decided to challenge an incumbent for the parties nomination the following year.
The pressure of the presidency is overwhelming. Most men age rapidly. Nixon got drunk and talked to paintings, Clinton had his interns to relieve stress. Obama watches reruns of Good Times and Sanford and Son. For Jimmy Carter it was watching the Godfather movies part 1 and part 2.
The more he watched the film, the more he is thrown into a frenzy, particlularly one scene in part 2. The president keeps asking who is feeding information into the Kennedy camp? Finally the truth sets in. Billy is a spy for the Kennedy's. It all makes sense. His book is a hit with the Ivy League crowd (see day three of this thread) and is trying to be someone.
On December 31, 1979 Jimmy goes to a party in Plains Georgia with Billy. It is twenty one years to the day that is portrayed in the movie.
At midnight, the guests cheer the coming of the New Year - it becomes 1980. Everyone cheers, embraces, and throws confetti into the air. Jimmy whispers into Billy's ear as they grab each other. "There's a plane waiting for us to take us to Washington in an hour, all right? Don't make a big thing about it. (He forcefully grabs him on both sides of the face and kisses him - Georgian style. It is the kiss of death on his lips.) I know it was you, Billy. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Years later on the pier next to the local fishing hole, Billy teaches young Jeffrey Carter "how to catch the really big fish" with his secret technique of saying a "Hail Mary" every time he put the line in the water.......
Again for you viewing pleasure we bring you eerily similar photos of art imitating real life.
Bosox1976
czar is that finger.
<< <i>Linda's got man hands >>
Good God that is a buzz kill.
Only now can I turn my Beavis-like attention span to Frank's Billy Carter insights.
Bosox1976
Bosox1976
The film is received with amazing fanfare by the public and critics alike. It did a record (since broken by Avatar) in box office sales for an opening weekend. All is well as White Castle signed a lucrative contract with the producers to market items from the movie with cheese fry sales.
Then a tragic mistake is made at Oscar time. The producer figures that it should go in the foriegn film category due to no one being able to comprehend what Stallone is saying the movie without subtitles. The academy disqualfies the movie from all Oscar possibilites and the movie goes straight to VHS at that time.
Below is an original full length poster advertising the movie.
<< <i>The year is 1991. Billy is safely in the arms of Abraham, but his legacy remains in high regard. The public is clamoring for more Billy and Hollywood decides to cash in with a movie of Billy's life. Unfortunately in their haste to get the picture the only "star" they can get at that time is Sylvester Stallone.
The film is received with amazing fanfare by the public and critics alike. It did a record (since broken by Avatar) in box office sales for an opening weekend. All is well as White Castle signed a lucrative contract with the producers to market items from the movie with cheese fry sales.
Then a tragic mistake is made at Oscar time. The producer figures that it should go in the foriegn film category due to no one being able to comprehend what Stallone is saying the movie without subtitles. The academy disqualfies the movie from all Oscar possibilites and the movie goes straight to VHS at that time.
Below is an original full length poster advertising the movie.
I thought the movie " deathrace 2000" was Stallone's (machinegun Joe ) high point in his movie effort ( I have a difficult time in calling it a career ) , but not has high a point , than , what I believe to be his first wife . She was a babe.---- Sonny