tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post8415100527560522407..comments2023-10-30T06:50:17.036-04:00Comments on Buckles Blog: From Vickie Cristiani #1Buckleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114738213931098664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-34479609727399039582010-12-15T20:42:23.366-05:002010-12-15T20:42:23.366-05:00Tanglefoot,
"Dick Smith" routine!!!!...Tanglefoot,<br /> "Dick Smith" routine!!!!!! That's too funny. It needs to go in the all time hit's book. LOL<br />Wade BurckWade G. Burckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10571436947092846458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-25833161377053244082010-12-15T16:20:54.809-05:002010-12-15T16:20:54.809-05:00With all of their fantastic resumas and credential...With all of their fantastic resumas and credentials gives thought to I don't see any "whiteys, Blacki4es, Slim, Shorty, etc." So wonder who shovels the shit. Also I note no Capt. of eminence with the moniker of "Deafy","Cheerful", "Buckles""Smokey" that would immediately cause for respect and attention to detail in back and not in front.That would be up too Bobby, Turtle and some of the other glad handlers doing the "Dick Smith" routine. tanglefoot.No biz like showbiz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-17740264571938499162010-12-11T08:42:13.362-05:002010-12-11T08:42:13.362-05:00When I was with Hoxie we had eleven elephants on t...When I was with Hoxie we had eleven elephants on the show and two hands, namely Leo Entwhistle and Art Duval who also drove the water wagon and these guys had to clean the elephant area every morn at 5.30 AM before making the jump on 30 some weeks of one day stands seven days ba week and Leo always got drunk on Mondays but still worked. Two great guys and I cherish their memory cherish their memory. Art got killed when in a windstorm a stake flew accross the lot hitting him in the head.. Little Leo could outwork any hand I was ever around. May they rest in piece, they deserved it.john herriottAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-37916521067580977232010-12-11T08:30:31.762-05:002010-12-11T08:30:31.762-05:00Wade, I guess you could add Tabaya to that group a...Wade, I guess you could add Tabaya to that group as well being that he is the new GGW and will present all of the Ringling major banimal presentations. Howevger I understand that Libby Garcia i9s bringing her elephant expertise to the Baltimore Zoo. The more the merrier and I can well imagine what a congenial group they must be in all pulling on the oars of the boat together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-91066321843675483852010-12-11T03:16:39.325-05:002010-12-11T03:16:39.325-05:00Buckles,
Am I missing something here? Are the...Buckles,<br /> Am I missing something here? Are there 9 elephants listed here, and 11 people, plus a night watchman listed to "look after and present them????" A few years ago, when the Hawthorn elephants were dropped in my lap in 2004, a sage elephant veteran as me if I thought the elephant profession had changed much from the mid 80's. I told him, "not much, except today they use brummel hooks instead of clevis's, and a leaf blower instead of a broom." It appears I was wrong, and it has changed much more then I thought, and myself and my two men with 13 elephants should have been paid a lot more then we were. LOL<br />Wade BurckWade G. Burckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10571436947092846458noreply@blogger.com