Thursday, 10 May 2012

I Never Met a Dead Leopard I Didn’t Like



With apologizes to Will Rogers I love leopard print, glad it came back into fashion (did it ever really go away) I attribute it to my affliction for all things fifties and outré.

Found these very high heels with black and white leopard fur print and they fit! At a local thrift store…score! God knows where or when I will ever wear them but I am sure I will find an occasion. I believe they are at least five inches, as "J" would say F me pumps, I have no idea what she is on about….so much to learn still.


I think I better curtail my leopard obsession otherwise I will start to resemble Edith Prickley on SCTV. A character on the 1976-1984 Canadian comedy show that always wore leopard print.  Edith was the fictional stations manger, described as a  "an amalgam of Rona Barrett, Joan of Arc and Auntie Mame.



Too bad Cadillac never offered a leopard print interior option….oh but April I hear you saying how could you forget the 1950 Cadillac convertible show car dubbed the Debutante. The Cadillac Debutante  featured "Tawny Buff" paint, gold-plated interior hardware, and most importantly leopard skin upholstery….real leopard I bet!


GM Executive, " Chicks dig leopard print, get me the upholstery department stat..."






















4 comments:

  1. April, you are *too* funny! This had me laughing out loud.

    And I had no idea you were a fellow SCTV buff either! I was telling a friend if I ever have a telethon to raise transition funds, I want Sammy Maudlin and Bobby Bittman to host. (Bittman will do it, I think, if "On The Waterfront... Again!" doesn't pan out.)

    And of course, the musical guest could only be 5 Neat Guys:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmexAJ06Soc&feature=related

    Oh, God... I'm gonna be up all night giggling at SCTV clips on YouTube now. Thanks a whole bunch, April! lol

    Hugs,
    Cass

    P.S. Tawny Buff... boy, they sure knew how to market back then, eh?

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  2. How about Mel's Rock Pile and Harry the Guy with a Snake on his face? My brother and I watched them all after school, was on reruns here for years.

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  3. lol Ah, yes... Mel's Rock Pile. He truly understood the punk rock movement, don't you think?

    I just rediscovered this one, which literally had me gasping for breath from laughing so hard:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ehxdlAlHQ

    Casually taking the turkey as walks off... just when you think it couldn't get any funnier! (How much says he improvised that?) John Candy was a genius.

    They used to show them here late on Friday night/early Saturday morning; I was an insomniac even back then, so that's when I got hooked.

    Thanks for bringing back some happy memories. It's been a stressful few weeks - OK, months - and I needed the laughs...

    == Cass

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  4. yowza! and that leopard looks snazzy on you!

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