OT...Disturbing little fact...crazy world.

[Soonersincefitty]

There are over 200 frozen corpses on Mt. Everest.
I knew there were some but geez? 200?

It's so desolate and dangerous that even the green movement have ceded the bodies to just remain as they lay, and focus on the trash, spent oxygen bottles, et al.

One hapless fellow even has a name, GreenBoots. (explanation? no, next!)

You know, in closing that certainly wouldn't bolster ones confidence when you started coming up on them in your last push for the pinnacle.
Wow...macabre.

 

[stuck in del rio]

Those dead bodies eventually became the White Walkers on Game of Thrones.

 

[Section22Sooner]

Tell 'em that one of them is Jimmy Hoffa. They'll have those stiffs down that mountain by tomorrow.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

True that 22.

Or Amelia Earhart.

Or Glenn Miller.

 

[humblesooner]

Glenn Miller?
What did I miss here?

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Oh, that was a stretch.
Just conjuring up some other folks missing and never recovered.

Glenn Miller was a 'big band' leader from the 1940s as you probably already know.
He was doing his thing in the European theater and his plane disappeared, widely believed to be in the English Channel.

Hence, the aforementioned 'stretch'.

 

[Scottsdale.Sooner]

I found a pair of glasses just like Jimmy Hoffa's in a can of Spam in 1970.

 

[K2C Sooner]

Oh, that was a stretch.
Just conjuring up some other folks missing and never recovered.

Glenn Miller was a 'big band' leader from the 1940s as you probably already know.
He was doing his thing in the European theater and his plane disappeared, widely believed to be in the English Channel.

Hence, the aforementioned 'stretch'.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Man, it's hard to believe that was the hardcore, cutting edge, radical music of its time. (jazz too)

 

[K2C Sooner]

Man, it's hard to believe that was the hardcore, cutting edge, radical music of its time. (jazz too)

And it beget a whole new generation of Big Band sounds. My favorite was Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys...........

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Yep, I still like Texas swing. It's timeless.

(steel guitars, you can make them weep)

 

[Section22Sooner]

My favorite was Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys...........

K2C My brother! I have a whole library of Bob Wills CDs. Did you know that a TON of new unreleased Bob Wills music is getting ready to be released? The family donated a bunch of recordings to the Oklahoma Historical Society and several new albums are forthcoming. Link.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-historical-society-releases-bob-wills-record/article/5422416

 

[Section22Sooner]

Yep, I still like Texas swing. It's timeless.

(steel guitars, you can make them weep)

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame. Wanna know one of the reasons why? First band to use Electric Guitars. 1930's.

 

[K2C Sooner]

Yep, I still like Texas swing. It's timeless.

(steel guitars, you can make them weep)

Well, I tried to find a video of my cousin playing the steel. This all I could come up with. he was recently inducted to the Bob Wills Hall of Fame...........

K2C My brother! I have a whole library of Bob Wills CDs. Did you know that a TON of new unreleased Bob Wills music is getting ready to be released? The family donated a bunch of recordings to the Oklahoma Historical Society and several new albums are forthcoming. Link.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-historical-society-releases-bob-wills-record/article/5422416

Thanks for the link. I need to send it to my cousin, a member of the Bob Wills Hall of Fame, He is a steel guitar player and still plays in all the Playboy and Turkey Texas reunions...............

 

[Medic007]

I found a pair of glasses just like Jimmy Hoffa's in a can of Spam in 1970.

Despite all of the great posts in this thread, this one gets my +1.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Oh, I liked that too indeed.

The graphic gut punch it delivered rendered me without speech...until now.
Excellent.

 

[stuck in del rio]

Maybe I'm the idiot, I probably am, but still have to post - you know Hoffa didn't disappear until 1975, right? Maybe you found Harold Holt or Anthony Strollo...Charles Ogle, Jim Thompson, et al...