An archeologist stole my first real girlfriend then eventually ditched her. While he probably did me a favor in long run, it took a few decades to see that. Until Indiana Jones, I hated them all with a passion. Not sure about this one
Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) was the real-life model for Dr. Jones. But he was a paleontologist, not an archeologist, and was more into planning than improvisation. The leather jacket, hat, revolver, and whip (used for controlling mule teams) were very much part of his kit, however, as was a Savage Model 20 bolt-action rifle in .300 Savage.
Roughly half the dinosaur and etc. skeletons in the Museum of Natural History were the results of his expeditions in Asia between the two World Wars.
People who knew Dr. Andrews say that Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Thurgood Elson in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) did a remarkably good impression of Dr. Andrews in his later years.
Back in the fifties Dr. John Goggin, anthropology professor at U of F, Gainesville, who spent a lot of time in the Yucatan, passed out peyote buttons to us in class.
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“That temple is in the way.”
“No problem.”
A week later;
Local official;
“I could have sworn that structure was fifty meters north of where it is.”
clear ether
eon
That was pretty good right there…
I thought glowing red eyes was the sign of a robot going evil?
Going evil, or seeing evil?
Why not both?
An archeologist stole my first real girlfriend then eventually ditched her. While he probably did me a favor in long run, it took a few decades to see that. Until Indiana Jones, I hated them all with a passion. Not sure about this one
Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) was the real-life model for Dr. Jones. But he was a paleontologist, not an archeologist, and was more into planning than improvisation. The leather jacket, hat, revolver, and whip (used for controlling mule teams) were very much part of his kit, however, as was a Savage Model 20 bolt-action rifle in .300 Savage.
Roughly half the dinosaur and etc. skeletons in the Museum of Natural History were the results of his expeditions in Asia between the two World Wars.
People who knew Dr. Andrews say that Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Thurgood Elson in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) did a remarkably good impression of Dr. Andrews in his later years.
cheers
eon
“An archeologist stole my first real girlfriend then eventually ditched her.”
She’ll probably turn up in one, maybe two thousand years
Back in the fifties Dr. John Goggin, anthropology professor at U of F, Gainesville, who spent a lot of time in the Yucatan, passed out peyote buttons to us in class.