Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 Quote 20 December 1973, Spanish fascist prime minister who was hand-picked as general Francisco Franco’s successor, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated in Madrid. Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 20 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Blanco the nickname of “Spain’s first astronaut”. His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and so this action was credited by some for helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco’s death. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 That was a heck of a blast! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 That's, like, Matchbox cars, and a model of a city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 32 minutes ago, M&P15T said: That's, like, Matchbox cars, and a model of a city. Yeah, but the details are legit. I doubt if anyone was standing around with a camera when the original blast happened. That pic is probably from a Spanish movie about that, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 But what about Jose Jiminez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Eric said: Yeah, but the details are legit. I doubt if anyone was standing around with a camera when the original blast happened. That pic is probably from a Spanish movie about that, or something. This picture is the recreation of the blast in Marxist filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's movie Operacion Ogro (1978). Bet it took a while to fix that road. Edited December 23, 2020 by Historian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Historian said: This picture is the recreation of the blast in Marxist filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's movie Operacion Ogro (1978). Bet it took a while to fix that road. Yeah, that is a man-size hole. Thanks for looking that up. Merry Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Eric said: Yeah, that is a man-size hole. Thanks for looking that up. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, my Friend. I just had to look this. If that was a real photograph i would have been most impressed. Still. I have to wonder when it went off...if they were not impressed with their handy work. They set a car over the top of a building. "Juan....i think...it worked...." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 1 minute ago, Historian said: Merry Christmas, my Friend. I just had to look this. If that was a real photograph i would have been most impressed. Still. I have to wonder when it went off...if they were not impressed with their handy work. They set a car over the top of a building. "Juan....i think...it worked...." They should be. That is a hell of a launch, not to mention timing the blast to go off directly under a moving car. Blanco had a frontrow seat to one spectacular. I bet he didn't even appreciate it. Pfft, dictators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 8 minutes ago, Eric said: They should be. That is a hell of a launch, not to mention timing the blast to go off directly under a moving car. Blanco had a frontrow seat to one spectacular. I bet he didn't even appreciate it. Pfft, dictators. From what i understand he died at a hospital shortly after re-entry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 Just now, Historian said: From what i understand he died at a hospital shortly after re-entry. I'm amazed he survived the blast and landing. I wonder if he was conscious for the ride? It would have been a wild one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 18 minutes ago, Eric said: I'm amazed he survived the blast and landing. I wonder if he was conscious for the ride? It would have been a wild one. Well. There's not much on the actual condition of the admiral. Alive...but...still...that is some Wile E Coyote stuff right there. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 27 minutes ago, Historian said: Well. There's not much on the actual condition of the admiral. Alive...but...still...that is some Wile E Coyote stuff right there. I wonder if there was a ‘Free Birdseed’ sign on the road above the bomb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 14 minutes ago, Eric said: I wonder if there was a ‘Free Birdseed’ sign on the road above the bomb? So....Miguel... What was in...that bomb? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, Historian said: So....Miguel... What was in...that bomb? Maybe some Acme packaging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 Back when the Roadrunner cartoons were popular, I wonder if they helped or hurt the many companies actually named Acme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Eric said: Back when the Roadrunner cartoons were popular, I wonder if they helped or hurt the many companies actually named Acme? A long time ago when i started in law enforcement i was also our department quartermaster. We did not have a dedicated person. So new guy got to clerk a little. Anyway. We issued Acme Thunderer whistles to everyone. And naturally i had a page long complicated liability form that prevented us for being used from falling off cliffs, anvils to the head, particularly if you were involved with attempting to stop a road runner. It got a lot of laughs. Enough so it ended up in officer''s files. https://www.amazon.com/ACME-NPB-Thunderer-Metal-Whistle/dp/B0000BY93O There you go. You can buy your own. Edited December 23, 2020 by Historian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2020 1 minute ago, Historian said: A long time ago when i started in law enforcement i was also our department quartermaster. We did not have a dedicated person. So new guy got to clerk a little. Anyway. We issued Acme Thunderer whistles to everyone. And naturally i had a page long complicated liability form that prevented us for being used from falling off cliffs, anvils to the head, particularly if you were involved with attempting to stop a road runner. It got a lot of laughs. Enough so it ended up in officer''s files. I used to have some old Acme brand body hammers and dollies. I used them on a '68 GTX and a '69 Superbee, but I never got a chance to use them on a Roadrunner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Eric said: I used to have some old Acme brand body hammers and dollies. I used them on a '68 GTX and a '69 Superbee, but I never got a chance to use them on a Roadrunner. ACME made a lot of things. I've always wondered what the odd connection was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, Eric said: I used to have some old Acme brand body hammers and dollies. I used them on a '68 GTX and a '69 Superbee, but I never got a chance to use them on a Roadrunner. Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood: “Since we had to search out our own entertainment, we devised our own fairy stories. If you wanted a bow and arrow, you got a stick. If you wanted to conduct an orchestra, you got a stick. If you wanted a duel, you used a stick. You couldn't go and buy one. That’s where the term acme came from. Whenever we played a game where we had a grocery store or something, we called it the ACME corporation. Why? Because in the yellow pages if you looked, say, under drugstores, you'd find the first one would be Acme Drugs. Why? Because “ac” was about as high as you could go. It means the best, the superlative.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 And, thus, The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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