Sunday, June 8, 2008

Zoo keepers take note--The fine art of "blending into the background so as not to overwhelm your animal charges.

Kaliff--RBBB 1984

14 comments:

B.E.Trumble said...

Those boots... You probably wouldn't get a sea lion keeper to dress like that. Perhaps in an effort to contrast and compare you could post a photograph of what the well dressed cat guy wears today when presenting white tigers.

Imagine, on any given day there were probably hundreds of young ladies in Madison Square Garden who left thinking that tiger guy was Adonis. Take a great act and a good costume designer and no matter how silly it may look many years later, it was absolute magic then.

Ben

OrMaggie77 said...

What I want to know is,can you still blend into those pants....LOL....

Wade G. Burck said...

Ben,
He was Adonis. What do you mean silly? Sheez

Margaret,
I can blend into the one leg with the stars, and that is it.
Wade

Anonymous said...

humm.... no wonder you liked Madam Colonel's white riding boots. LOL

Wade G. Burck said...

Hey Madame Col.,
That was until I saw the latest in "Renaissance field boots", with the 1/2 tire tread sole and heel. I would sure hate to try to get it out of a stirrup, being drug through the trees at 22 miles an hour.
Wade

OrMaggie77 said...

humm....Nice patch Wade,you danced right around that one....LOL

Wade G. Burck said...

Margaret,
It wasn't a patch. It's the truth. I could only blend into them for about 45 seconds before I passed out, and they would have to be cut off to revive me. Stuffing 5 lbs of garbage into a 2 lb sack is a similar useless task.
Wade

OrMaggie77 said...

I was speaking of Madam Colonel's white boots....LOL

Anonymous said...

in this pic are you trying to see if any one can tell if you blend with the building behind ? or if we can guess where the building is ? my guess is its in Pocotello Idaho . CleanRaul

Mireille theron arnosi said...

Wade cherie;

the picture is very nice.
in those great day's the RBBB. was
so good.and so fantastic...!
with GGW in one unit...
and you, on the other one...

there will never be repeat of it, again
like that.
sincerely mireille.

Wade G. Burck said...

Mirelle Love,
Do you remember when we used to get into those pants together? I sure do. And yes, there will never be anything like that again. Thank you.
Wade

Anonymous said...

Wade, this picture is even nicer than the one of you and Rajah on Joyce.
Mary Ann

Wade G. Burck said...

Mary Ann,
God bless the Circus Fans of America. Saturday night I was visiting Jim Zychic, the Curator, and John Rooker a fan from Illinois went with us to eat at a truck stop. He just happened to have a bunch of photo's he had taken over the years, and this was one of them, and he gave it too me plus one of Adam, Macho, and Ban-Seri, and myself with Ban-Seri. I will post them later.
Wade

Anonymous said...

I know there's a difference between proper English and the language that you speak, Wade, but "blend in"?!?

John.