When the documentary filmmaker who made the prize winning film "Capturing the Berenstains" researched our family it all came out and we finally found out the truth. It seems that Grandfather Bear was a pervert as well. He ran wild in Berlin in 1931 where he would molest and then kill and eat young brown haired girls. It was such a terrible series of crimes that the police and the army pulled no punches in finding out who was committing these terrible crimes. They questioned everyone and brutalized the underworld until someone would give up this monster. The inspector in charge of the case Karl Lohmann finally found out that Grandpa Bear was the culprit when he realized that all the young girls had one thing in common. They had gone to the circus and loved the dancing bears. It was where Grandpa Bear would pick them out to follow home and do his dirty work.
The problem was that they could not prove anything. And Grandpa was a big star. The circus owner paid off the authorities. Inspector Lohmann got enough money to move to America and open a department store. They pinned the crimes on an ugly little man who nobody cared about and who everyone hated because he was always whistling this annoying tune. Grandpa bear was kept in chains until he could be flown to America and sold to Ringling Brothers. He met Grandma there and had Papa Bear on the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. All the records of his crimes were lost in the bombing during World War 2.
So no one knew we came of bad seed.
That was why Brother Bear became such a monster. It was his fate.
No one can escape their fate.
(Stan and Jan Berenstain "Son of Boo Boo", The E True Hollywood Story of the Berenstain Bears)
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Fritz Lang even made a movie about this guy called "B".
I can't get enough of that video of the crazy lady from Nebraska.
Could it possibly be Ricpic?
Crazy lady from Nebraska? I don't even know where to go to take a look at that video.
My Dad had a '49 maroon Buick that made a big impression on me. He used to park it right in front of the entrance to the apartment house I grew up in: 246 Jamaica Avenue in East New York. Huge status symbol in those days. If I could read grilles I could tell you the make of the two foreground cars that look late 40's or very early 50's. More likely late 40's. It's confusing because the city may or may not be New York. The guy and the bear definitely Russki. But couldn't be a Russian city. Berlin? I think the dark one on the right is GM, maybe an Oldsmobile from the hood ornament. The one on the left might be a Dodge a Mercury a Ford. Pretty sure not GM. Totally boring unless you were there. Those cars were whales.
I can read the letters on the bus. The scene looks vaguely oy-ropean.
"Can't" not "can"
A little searching suggests that the car on the left may be a Chrysler New Yorker, and the one on the right a Dodge, both circa 1949. So I'd say it's a US city.
The bus on the left is electric, so that fact plus the age and height of the buildings lead me to guess Boston.
I found it boring after about a minute Titus. Why do you have to make fun of Carol Herman?
The bus on the left is electric, so that fact plus the age and height of the buildings lead me to guess Boston.
Good catch, Chip. That would explain the bruin too.
This shot predates my memory. However, as long as I can remember Ma. has front and rear plates and those vehicles don't.
ricpic has bingo.
The distinctive design of the bus indicates that it's an MTB-82, Russian-built and used throughout the Soviet bloc from the 1930s on. Definitely not a pic of Boston, although the bus was a favorite of Commies worldwide.
Now the mystery is how all those nice cars found their way to an E. European city. I think the early Russian cars were based on Packard designs, but I haven't found any images yet that look like those..
It is indeed a Russian bus as this is really a shot of Moscow.
The Bear actually had a long and happy life until he died after having sex with Andrew Sullivan.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
It's a shame they couldn't get married. Just sayn'
Hey, I'm pretty tolerant, but if having sex killed him, I'd say there was something wrong with that.
It wasn't the sex it was the cooties he caught from him. Just sayn'
Every day millions of vaginas queef in relief that Andrew doesn't like girls. Just sayn'
Titus, I watched that video of the crazy lady from Nebraska, I love the expressions on the face of the guy sitting behind her, that was laugh out loud funny.
Trooper York said...
It is indeed a Russian bus as this is really a shot of Moscow.
Oh that explains the bruin too.
No wonder so many Bostonians are commies. I never until this day realized the bear facts.
The car on the right, which looks so much like a '49 Dodge, is a 1950-or-later GAZ-12 ZIM (aka "a Molotov").
The car on the left is a GAZ-M20 "Victory".
Obsession?
Is not obsession, comrades. Is dedication to glorious history of revolutions (per minute).
I love this thread.
Gonna stay here until the catfight's over in that other thread.
Say hi if you're in the neighborhood.
cars
I think it's OK to come out now, Chip.
Unless you're Barack Obama.
I'm here, Chips S, but may not be who you were expecting. When I first came to TY, I was drawn to the zany playfulness, and weird connections that cropped up in response to TY's odd pics and stories. They're still my favorite part.
Thanks for stopping by, both of you--and for the all-clear.
I guess I fell into brief hibernation there.
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