Willie B. Back at SCU HQ

Loved it Dave! Let's just hope the mystery driver isn't taking Willie to the Hotel California!

I was thinking more along the line of “Ballad for a Friend” by Bob Dylan

Lyrics: “A diesel truck was rolling’ slowly / Pulling’ down a heavy load / It left him on a Utah road”

somekindajoe wrote:

yeah she shoulda plugged him!

What kinda plug are we talking about 'ere?!

LeStryge wrote:

Hmmm, very nice!
So who's the spiffy driver in the Prince of Wales check coat and straw fedora?

He looks like a psycho mass murderer to me...

Awesome!

I apologize for the delay in continuing the story. The weather has been uncooperative of late. Plus, y'know, holidays and stuff. Here's a quick update:

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Well done Dave! Can't wait to see more...

"Oh Toto, ...I don't think we're in Utah anymore!"

Willie must have been transported across a State Line somewhere!
Just how far did that strange driver take him? Hitch-hiking can be so dangerous!
Now perhaps another of those unprincipled Phicens may be approaching in that flat-bed truck, and with her eyes fixed firmly on the new arrival for who knows what purpose.
Willie sure is attracting some attention.

Willie's hitch-hiking trek continues:

Outstanding! Ii knew that 'Utah or Bust' sign wood come in handy!!

somekindajoe wrote:

Outstanding! Ii knew that 'Utah or Bust' sign wood come in handy!!

It did, indeed! Looks like he's finally made it. And he's still alive! But what now?

Well I never realised interstate travel was so difficult and involved in the USA!
I thought he'd just catch a Greyhound or somesuch!

LeStryge wrote:

I thought he'd just catch a Greyhound or somesuch!

That would have been a much simpler approach, but it seems that somebody rifled through his pockets before he left, leaving him a bit short on cash.

Fantastic stuff Dave! Really great to get back and find Willie B is still motoring on!

SCU_HQ wrote:

That would have been a much simpler approach, but it seems that somebody rifled through his pockets before he left, leaving him a bit short on cash.

Serves him right to travel without a credit card or being unable to locate a teller machine.
So he's a true "innocent abroad" then?
I though he was slow on the uptake with that Phicen sleigh girl!

Superb pics Dave!
Super job!

LeStryge wrote:

I though he was slow on the uptake with that Phicen sleigh girl!

He was slow on the uptake when he kept falling for Hank & Joe's pranks and schemes.

Let's face it!
Sorry to have to say this, but Willie certainly ain't the sharpest tool in the shed!

LeStryge wrote:

Let's face it!
Sorry to have to say this, but Willie certainly ain't the sharpest tool in the shed!

I suppose I should try to re-write the character a bit to make him a bit less passive. That's the thing about a Traveling Action Figure, he just kind of shows up to see the local sites, usually has some abuse piled on to him, and then he is sent on to the next host.

SCU_HQ wrote:

That's the thing about a Traveling Action Figure, he just kind of shows up to see the local sites, usually has some abuse piled on to him, and then he is sent on to the next host.

Well I am shocked, ....shocked I say Sah, at the lack of respect shown to a visiting guest!
Rest assured, that if Willie ever manages to make it this far to the South, I'ma fiks-in tuh ensure he will be treated with nothing but the finest of hospitality!

LeStryge wrote:

SCU_HQ wrote:

That's the thing about a Traveling Action Figure, he just kind of shows up to see the local sites, usually has some abuse piled on to him, and then he is sent on to the next host.

Well I am shocked, ....shocked I say Sah, at the lack of respect shown to a visiting guest!
Rest assured, that if Willie ever manages to make it this far to the South, I'ma fiks-in tuh ensure he will be treated with nothing but the finest of hospitality!

Sounds like he will have relaxing time

LeStryge wrote:

Rest assured, that if Willie ever manages to make it this far to the South, I'ma fiks-in tuh ensure he will be treated with nothing but the finest of hospitality!

Death adders, redback spiders, box jellies, great whites, and wildfires... not to mention bunyips and drop bears; ol' Willie would be lucky if he even got to throw a single shrimp on the barbie!

SCU_HQ wrote:

ol' Willie would be lucky if he even got to throw a single shrimp on the barbie!

OH PLEASE!
Allow me to say this here once and for all, ...because it's a personal bugbear of mine.

No one in Australia, ....NO ONE EVER.....called it a "shrimp"!
NEVER EVER!  (Such a prissy damn word!)

It's just not a word we use here at all.
Damn it, the correct, Australia wide understood term for the delicious crustacean is "PRAWN".

The shrimp thing dates all the way back to that 1984 cringe-worthy commercial made by the even more cringe-worthy Paul Hogan...(yes, he of Crocodile Dundee fame) where it was thought that the American target audience would not be able to understand what a prawn was, ...hence the regrettable "shrimp" was substituted.
(So Yanks could get that when a "barbie" was mentioned in the same ad, it didn't refer to the doll, but were too dumb to grasp what a prawn was???)
WE all laughed about it even back then!

Now Europeans and Americans may indeed eat shrimp, (and good luck to 'em) but here in Oz we eat, and have always eaten PRAWNS!
You have been told!

I figured that reference might get a rise out of you!

SCU_HQ wrote:

I figured that reference might get a rise out of you!

They do grow 'em big here!