The John Wayne Diet

Well since I have had my dish turned off and with two young ones in the house, I either watch animated movies all day or I find some time to pop in a JW movie... which I just added "Dark Command" and "The Longest Day" to my collection... yippie!!!!

Other movies I enjoy taking a bit of time out of the day with are "Operation Petticoat", "Father Goose", a few Jackie Chan movies "Mr. Nice Guy", "Shanghai Knights", and a few Tim Allen movies "Big Trouble" and "Joe Somebody"...

Other than that it's "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", "Veggie Tales", "Barbi" and just about every Disney movie that has ever been made...

Anyway to try and get this post back to topic... Right now I don't think I could go a day with out watching the Duke...

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Originally posted by Emmanuel@May 23 2005, 11:58 PM
I remember a doctor asking me, when was the last time I went without booze for six weeks. I couldn't tell him,

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Hm-m-m-m, I remember a doctor asking me when was the last time I went without the John Wayne message board for six days, and I couldn't tell him . . . .

Chester

The best Idea of all, is to have a Duke film on in the background,
a galss of booze in the left hand, and the mouse, in the right hand,
and this here, web-site, lit up, in front of you.
Now that's life, how it should be!

I can understand your desire to not be dominated by anything, and in fact I admire it, and have a similar outlook. It has actually been a week since we last watched the Duke, and that was without even trying, and with no ill effects.

But today I had fun going out and spreading John Wayne's image far and wide, again without hardly trying. I dressed in full John Wayne regalia (blue western shirt with yellow neckerchief, my John Wayne vest, and big, white John Wayne cowboy hat) and pushed my youngest son (he is 9 today!) in a little "Cub-mobile" he made in Cub Scouts, through the lovely redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains in a Memorial Day parade this morning, with the rest of his den. Many people along the way were shouting out, "Hey - John Wayne!" or "It's the Duke!" After that bit of fun, I went with my son and 4 of his friends to a local Civil War re-enactment event for the afternoon, complete with cannons and an 1880's vintage steam train. There were several thousand people there, and again, it was people seeing John Wayne over and over. Several dozen people actually approached and asked to take pictures with me. When I stopped by to chat with an Abraham Lincoln impersonator (he was real good!), then people wanted to take pictures with the two of us. It was really fun!

I hope it doesn't go to my head . . . .

The main thing is that people were seeing the Duke's image, with a positive feedback.

Chester

Dear Mr & Mrs Chester,
Can you do me the honour, and appear
over here, you'd really be appreciated.
You would certainly make heads turn!!!!

hi there JWAngel

well for a few words about this fast, firstly i don't think i could go another week without falling off the wagon so i am real glad that the month is up in just a few hours.

how it has been going without the duke for this month well i have to say we have watched a lot of family movies the little bloke and i have, for myself i found some real old movies on dvd and snapped them up real cheep going for as little as A$10 , oh by the way i managed to get clemtime with henry fonda, desert rats with chips rafferty, we dive at dawn with john mills, as well as a 10 pk of family movies and a western 10disc pk this had jw in it but i resisted (but only just) am looking forward to sitting down and having a watch of one of his movies on the weekendmaybe i will make that 2 :lol: . i think that i will sit back and enjoy some classic jw movies just for the fun factor.

well jwangel we did it but im glad you decided on just the month, theres not much on telly at the moment so i tend to rely on watching a mixture of movies to pass the time (including the dukes movies) so hats off to ya glad we didnt go gaga

cheers smokey

Hi Smokey and JW Angel - Congratulations on the success of your John Wayne diet, though I would have picked something else to abstain from. Hope you folks didn't get anorexic in the process.
Cheers - Jay

JWAngel, Smokey....Congratulations on your diet success, you are both a lot tougher than I would be. A whole month without the Duke I just couldn't do it. I have to know I can pop that movie whenever I can. But be honest, you both have a movie ready to plug in right?!

BabySister

hi there baby sis

tough is how you think we are well im not that tough still i survived just.

plugged in and ready to watch but making up my mind about the firat one i want to watch that is the tough one now as there are so many i want to watch all at once wish i had more that one telly working and more that one dvd player so i could watch more than one movie at a time :lol: . have been tossin up between alamo or rooster but will have maded up my mind by tomorrow night i hope

cheers smokey

Smokey,

I think after a month off I would go with Rooster...something tough and no nonsense.

Baby Sis

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Originally posted by Baby Sister@Jun 3 2005, 04:56 PM
Smokey,

I think after a month off I would go with Rooster...something tough and no nonsense.
Baby Sis

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I second that emotion . . . Rooster all the way!

BTW, smokey, did you make the poor little bloke go on the diet, too, or did he have some opportunity to watch the Duke without you ?

Chester

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Originally posted by JWAngel@Jun 4 2005, 07:16 PM
I'm tempted to go get a western style hat and a pair of boots myself. Not to portray Duke but because I really enjoy the look now.

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JWAngel,

You better watch out - that's how I got started. Then I found myself looking at belt buckles, vests, then western shirts (I really like the style with the bib front), then a custom made hat . . . .

I wasn't necessarily trying to look like John Wayne, just dress like him - but I am 6 ft. 4 in. tall, and kind of a big guy, and without trying I guess I look like him at least a little, but's it really mostly the outfit that does it. Normally, people don't approach me on most days and think I look like the Duke (although since that parade, there is a checker at Grocery Outlet who now calls me "Duke" ).

Chester

hi jwangel and chester

firstly the movie that i watched first off was "the alamo" it was pure bliss i think i picked this one as duke gave his all for this movie (nearly cost him the shirt off his back), and it was just fun to watch.

chester yep if i was on the diet then the little bloke was as well otherwise i would have fallen sooner, and thats why we watched sooo many family movies, so i suppose you could say that there was two who did it in our home :lol:

cheers smokey

Well done you guys. :lol: there's not many of us would want to go a month without him.

Welcome back to the world of "DUKE"

Emmanuel.

hi angel

if you get your dream outfit then you will be our angel in black :lol: if iwas to get a country out fit it would be a pair of mole skins, light blue shirt, ringers boots and i already have the hat. outback aussie wear. so then i would be smokey in blue :lol:

hope you get your dream outfit one day and dont worry what others think just please yourself.

cheers smokey

Chester;

Don't forget to put the Silver Dollar between your Cheeks when you try to walk like The Duke!!!

Chilibill