Gosh Almighty! This Mean Green Team Is: M-A-G-I-C (Nothing Can Stand In Our Way)!🤕

[PlummMeanGreen]

A little Olivia for all you Old Timers! 🧔🏼 😲 🙄

•I heard this Aussie’ sing this one at Reunion Arena in 1980 when y’all were, uh, so much younger. 👶🏼

TO THE 2021 MEAN GREEN: YOU ARE MAGIC (& hard working, goat ropin’ son of a guns). The Mean Green Nation (of all decades) could not be prouder! 
 

🦅

Edited December 1, 2021 by PlummMeanGreen

[Mean Green Matt]

[GBarksdale]

@PlummMeanGreenI really admire your passion and optimism -- almost as much as I admire your courage to admit that you went to an Olivia Newton-John concert. 👍🙂

[Big Z]

23 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

A little Olivia for all you Old Timers! 🧔🏼 😲 🙄

•I heard this Aussie’ sing this one at Reunion Arena in 1980 when y’all were, uh, so much younger. 👶🏼

TO THE 2021 MEAN GREEN: YOU ARE MAGIC (& hard working, goat ropin’ son of a guns). The Mean Green Nation (of all decades) could not be prouder! 
 

🦅

Weak sauce, if you want to get pumped up then watch 👇 

 

[golfingomez]

11 minutes ago, Big Z said:

Weak sauce, if you want to get pumped up then watch 👇 

 

i'm not a big metal fan, but this is the best Metallica song of all time.

[PlummMeanGreen]

55 minutes ago, GBarksdale said:

@PlummMeanGreenI really admire your passion and optimism -- almost as much as I admire your courage to admit that you went to an Olivia Newton-John concert. 👍🙂

😆

I was coerced to buy tickets by a lady who was hooked on “Grease”—John Travolta & thus Olivia. 
_________________

Grease?  It was UNT alum Joan “Rosebud” Blondell’s (the diner waitress in Grease) last movie role before she passed.
Ms. Blondell was actually a Denton native as was another veteran Hollywood actress, one Ann Sheridan.   (I do read my “North Texan” quarterly regularly). 🙃

[GBarksdale]

1 hour ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

Ms. Blondell was actually a Denton native as was another veteran Hollywood actress, one Ann Sheridan.   (I do read my “North Texan” quarterly regularly). 🙃

Funnily enough - I knew an old guy who went to NT in the 30s and was friends with Ann Sheridan at the time.

[PlummMeanGreen]

8 minutes ago, GBarksdale said:

Funnily enough - I knew an old guy who went to NT in the 30s and was friends with Ann Sheridan at the time.

Uh.........wow!  Duly impressed.  

[greenminer]

 

[MeanGreenPatriot]

Please turn in your man card immediately.

[Cougar King]

You post literally anything you think about. Lol

[meaniegreenie]

Does that make Littrell....???

 

 

[Hunter Green]

While we're at it, Jim. From one old timer to another. And yes, I did see the Pointer Sisters in concert, and they were good!

 

[PlummMeanGreen]

1 hour ago, Hunter Green said:

While we're at it, Jim. From one old timer to another. And yes, I did see the Pointer Sisters in concert, and they were good!

 

Did you see them when they were at the Super Pit?  
The Pointer Sisters were superb in their time.  
 

[GBarksdale]

3 hours ago, meaniegreenie said:

 

It goes without saying that Ann Wilson was stunning back in the day.  But I just had to say it.

[southsideguy]

I have the tell the gf something like this:

 

[ADLER]

On 12/1/2021 at 9:57 AM, PlummMeanGreen said:

 

Grease?  It was UNT alum Joan “Rosebud” Blondell’s (the diner waitress in Grease) last movie role before she passed.
 

1906-1979

And now for the "Adler, please tell us more" trivia part.

From James Verinis the co-pilot:

"It was in Bangor, Maine, in September 1942, just before we flew overseas. Captain Bob Morgan and I went to see a movie called ‘Lady for a Night’  Joan Blondell starred in it with John Wayne. In the movie Miss Blondell was repeatedly referred to as 'that Memphis Belle'.

We were walking back to our quarters after the show and Bob suddenly said ‘Gee, that would be a good name for our plane, the 'Memphis Belle’. "

Bob later tried to cover his tail and said that he named his plan after his fiancé'.

They used Joan's 'likeness' or as close as they could get from a pinup pic in Esquire for the nose art...and the rest is, well, literally History.

https://memphisbelle.com/2016/04/22/whats-in-a-name/

[PlummMeanGreen]

13 minutes ago, ADLER said:

1906-1979

And now for the "Adler, please tell us more" trivia part.

From James Verinis the co-pilot:

"It was in Bangor, Maine, in September 1942, just before we flew overseas. Captain Bob Morgan and I went to see a movie called ‘Lady for a Night’  Joan Blondell starred in it with John Wayne. In the movie Miss Blondell was repeatedly referred to as 'that Memphis Belle'.

We were walking back to our quarters after the show and Bob suddenly said ‘Gee, that would be a good name for our plane, the 'Memphis Belle’. "

Bob later tried to cover his tail and said that he named his plan after his fiancé'.

They used Joan's 'likeness' or as close as they could get from a pinup pic in Esquire for the nose art...and the rest is, well, literally History.

https://memphisbelle.com/2016/04/22/whats-in-a-name/

Thanks ADLER!  Very interesting.

I recall reading that Joan Blondell was a hottie & quite a rounder for her era in Hollywood. She was a life of the party type.
Her above bath tub pic proves some of the point. 

She had a memorable role in a Twilight Zone episode, & here’s a video excerpt of a plump, middle aged Joan Blondell. 

 

[meangreen11]

I prefer this one

 

[ADLER]

Our former North Texas basketball player Ann Sheridan's likeness was much more often used as bomber nose art. The "Oomph Girl" as she was commonly called in the early 1940 was unique because, unlike all the tiny frail actresses of the day, Ann was 5'9" and had extremely long thin muscular legs.

Though hundreds of planes, maybe thousands, bore her likeness, only the B-25 Sheridan Express actually carried her name.

Being somewhat modest, she would only let them use her name if the picture wasn't a "sexy cheesecake" pose. It still looks pretty good if you ask me.

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Edited December 2, 2021 by ADLER