Does a single coboys truck matter?

[Tervuren]

Just curious...

[sammyg2]

I think you already know the answer and are just testing us.

[wdfifteen]

Depends on the type of matter that needs truckin.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Depends on the type of matter that needs truckin.

And how much it weighs!

I saw a F550 pickup the other day. A chick that likely did not weigh 100 lbs climbed out of it. I guess that truck mattered to her.

[Dixie]

[sammyg2]

Why do the sides of coboy hats curl up?

So three of em can fit in the cab of a truck!

[sammyg2]

Our beloved Jimmy Stewart wore the same coboy hat and rode the same horse in most of his westerns.
Jimmy rode "Pie" in one of his earliest westerns and chose "Pie" as his horse for every movie until Pie died.
Jimmy wore the same hat in so many movies it just about died too.

Did you know Jimmy Stewart was already a big star by 1941, having earned and Oscar nomination for "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" and the Oscar for "The Philadelphia Story", but he joined the Army Air Corps by march of that year. He knew that war was coming so he signed up nine months before Pearl Harbour and Jimmy Stewart was the first Hollywood personality to join the military.

Jimmy rose to the rank of Colonel by wars end and had logged more than 1,800 hours of bomber flight time.

He earned the distinguished flying cross among other medals and remained in the air force reserve, eventually becoming Brigadier General James Stewart.

When Jimmy returned to Hollywood after the war several studios wanted him for war movies to capitalize on his experience & fame. Jimmy refused to do so and made no war movies.

Jimmy Stewart was the real thing. A great American. What a contrast to some celebrities of today.

Hats and horses

JB: I believe in all the Westerns you made you rode the same horse and you wore the same hat.

JS: Yes, I had the same horse. The hat wore out, I just had to change it. I'm very superstitious and I still have the hat and I keep the hat on the set and that cancels out the curse...


JB: What happened to the horse?

JS: The horse was amazing. I rode him for 22 years. I never was able to buy him because he was owned by a little girl by the name of Stevie Myers, who is the daughter of an old wrangler who used to wrangle horses for Tom Mix and W.S. Hart. He retired and he gave this horse to her. He was a sort of a maverick. He hurt a couple of people. I saw him when I started making Westerns. Artie Murphy rode him a couple of times. He nearly killed Glen Ford, ran right into a tree.


But I liked this darned little horse. He was a little bit small, a little quarter horse and Arabian. I got to know him like a friend. I actually believed that he understood about making pictures. I ran at a full gallop, straight towards the camera, pulled him up and then did a lot of dialogue and he stood absolutely still. He never moved. He knew when the camera would start rolling and when they did the slates. He knew that because his ears came up.



I could feel him under me, getting ready. He always moved. Pie, that was his name. I remember in one picture, the bad guys were in the saloon and I had a little bell on the saddle that was sort of an identifying thing. The baddies were going to get me because they knew when I had come into town because of the bell. The camera started panning on Pie's feet as I get near the saloon and the guys are getting ready to kill me. And then the camera goes up and there's nobody on Pie. And of course I'm back behind and I kill the whole crowd of them.

Somebody came up before we did this and said, "How are you ever going to get the horse to do this?" I said, "Well let me talk to him." And there was a feller who worked with me a lot with the horse by the name of Jack Sanders, wonderful little Western feller. And I talked to Pie. It was three o'clock in the morning with all the lights up. And I said, "You just start here and go to the other end and stop." And Jack Sanders was at the other end. They said, "How long is this going to take?" I said "Do it right now" and Pie did it. And the last picture that Hank Fonda and I made, The Cheyenne Social Club, Pie was getting old. We did it in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pie got sick and I couldn't use him the whole time. And, unbeknownst to me, Hank painted a picture of the horse in watercolour. He's an excellent artist - watercolours, oils, ink, lithograph, anything. He has an amazing talent. When we got home, he brought me the picture and two days later Pie died. It was a great loss. But I have Pie in our library and I consider him a friend.

[sammyg2]

[Skillet83]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Thanks for the link. Great stuff!

[LakeCleElum]

Something I've learned from 40+ years of Motorcycle trips...........Single Coboys don't like you showing up in their town and dancing with their wimmem.......

[Tervuren]

Well, if a single coboys truck matters, why are their single coboys with the same kind of trucks as non single coboys?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by LakeCleElum

Something I've learned from 40+ years of Motorcycle trips...........Single Coboys don't like you showing up in their town and dancing with their wimmem.......

The married one's ain't no better

I needs me a Coboy hat....I'm sorta partial to the one Sammy posted...

The first one.....don't wanna be a poser....

[RKDinOKC]

It only matters if you have one of those clip things that holds a cowboy hat against the roof. Oh yeah, and a gun rack, and a garter hanging from the mirror.

[T77911S]

whats a coboy?

[Crowbob]

Only a maroon doan know what a coboy is. Irregardless, you're domed either way.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Only a maroon doan know what a coboy is. Irregardless, you're domed either way.

The essence of PPOT in a nutshell

[oldE]

Originally Posted by T77911S

whats a coboy?

Aw come on, you can figure it out.
Think of it this way. Pilot is the one who flies the plane.
Copilot does what the pilot tells them to do.
Boy is a young male who is still trying to figure things out.
Coboy just does what boy tells him to do.
Kind of pathetic, really. 😊

Best
Les

[Macroni]

Visited a cattle ranch the owner had 15 pick-ups. The trucks might not have mattered but the ATVs were critical to performing their duties such as round up.

[asphaltgambler]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

That's a great pic of a Brahma bull, btw.........

[sand_man]

I have nothing constructive to add: