First Baptist Bar & Grill - Very Funny!
On September - 2 - 2009
Funny video! Tim Wilson on the Bob and Tom Show.Christian The Lion - Reunited - From “The View”
On August - 13 - 2009
FOLLOW UP HERE: Ace and John today from the Today Show. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25929574/
I couldn’t find this video with the same music anywhere — so I captured it from July 21st “The View”… I think this music makes is soooo much better! Thanks ABC! It makes me happy to see something POSITIVE … even if it’s an oldie — it’s still heartwarming. Enjoy! Here’s a message from Tad — the guy who originally made this video: To see the whole amazing story, buy the full dvd at http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acata… and help The Born Free Foundation save more wildlife.
FROM JULY 28TH TO AUGUST 1ST, VOTE FOR THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION TO BECOME CHARITY OF THE WEEK AT http://www.optimistworld.com/Charitie…
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Christian the lion Reunion, FULL LENGTH MOVIE, London Lion reunited in Africa
On August - 5 - 2009
FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF CHRISTIAN THE LION CUB REUNION REUNITED, with John Rendall Ace Bourke George Adamson Born Free. ***NEWLY RELEASED INTERVIEW WITH JOHN RENDALL - ACE BOURKE SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY ON TV ABOUT CHRISTIANS LEGACY http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25929574/
A great link here at Snopes all about christian the lion and his story with the born free foundation.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp
Today, Ace Bourke is a museum curator in Australia. John Rendall is a trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust, an organization actively involved in preserving African wildlife. The organization, according to Rendall, is part of Christian’s legacy. Rendall recommends the site www.WildlifeNow.com.
Ace Bourke is the Blonde in the Khaki shirt
*** As seen on THE VIEW, ITV NEWS, SKY NEWS, FOX TV, TODAY SHOW, BRAZILS TV RECORD CHANNEL, INDIA HINDI NEWS CHANNEL, AUSTRALIAN CHANNEL NINE NEWS, CHINAS BEIJING CCTV NEWS, BBC NEWS, ABC NEWS and CBC NEWS. ***
The orphaned baby lion cub is reunited with his keepers in africa a heart warming true story.
He travelled by Bentley, ate in fine London restaurants and spent his days lounging in a furniture shop. The story of Christian the pet lion - and his eventual release into the wild - is as moving as it is incredible.
The furniture shop was on the King’s Road in London. It sold tables, wardrobes, chairs and desks - but anybody peering through its plate-glass window on a Sunday might have noticed something rather more unusual.
Amid all the pine and oak, stretched out languidly on a bench, there was a lion. And it wasn’t stuffed.
“Christian used to lie beside me while I did the accounts at weekends,” remembers Jennifer Mary Taylor, who worked there.
“And every so often, if I’d ignored him for too long, he’d sock me across the head with one of his great big paws.
“He was very loving and affectionate - he liked to stand and put his paws on your shoulders. But he was…”, she pauses. “I mean, he was a lion. Does that sound silly?”
christian the lion (named by someone with a Biblical sense of humour) arrived in Chelsea at a time when the King’s Road - home to Mick Jagger - was the very heart of the Swinging Sixties.
For a year, the Big Cat was part of it all, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at Casserole, a local restaurant, even posing for a Biba fashion advert.
He eventually grew too big to be kept as a pet and was taken to Kenya, where he was rehabilitated into the wild by the ‘Lion Man’, George Adamson.
Now, his story is to be told in a new book, written by the Australian John Rendall who, along with his friend Ace Berg, bought Christian from Harrods in 1969.
So what possessed them to buy a lion cub in the first place?
“A friend had been to the ‘exotic animals’ department at Harrods and announced, rather grandly, that she wanted a camel,” says Rendall.
“To which the manager very coolly replied: ‘One hump or two, madam?’
“Ace and I thought this was the most sophisticated repartee we’d ever heard, so we went along to check it out - and there, in a small cage, was a gorgeous little lion cub. We were shocked. We looked at each other and said something’s got to be done about that.”
Harrods, it turned out, was also quite keen to be rid of Christian, who had escaped one night, sneaked into the neighbouring carpet department - then in the throes of a sale of goatskin rugs - and wreaked havoc.
The store, which had acquired the cub from Ilfracombe zoo, happily agreed to part with him for 250 guineas. So began Christian’s year as an urban lion.
Today, it would be unthinkable for a shop to take such a cavalier attitude towards selling exotic animals (though Harrods did, at least, provide Ace and Rendall with diet sheets).
And it is hard to imagine either the animal rights lobby or any local council condoning a shop as a suitable habitat for a lion. But, back then, no one minded at all.
Christian was given his own living quarters (and a very large kitty-litter tray, which he used unfailingly) in the basement of the appropriately named Sophistocat furniture shop.
“He had a beautiful musky smell that was very distinct,” says Rendall. “But he was clean.”
The vicar of the Moravian Chapel nearby was approached to allow Christian the run of the graveyard, and every day he was taken there to roar around and play football.
Once, when he was brought along to a seaside picnic, he dipped his toes reluctantly in the water and intimated with a shudder that it was disagreeably cold. But he was eventually persuaded to swim in the English Channel.
By the way John Rendal and Ace Bourke both released a book in 1972 called A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN heres a link to it on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/A-Lion-Called-Christian/dp/B000K6LF4Y
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Duration : 0:2:28
Ellen DeGeneres ~ I Love Jesus But I Drink A Little (HQ)
On July - 22 - 2009
To watch in HQ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83JDXXKzOXg&fmt=18
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the award winning syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
She has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in Pixar’s animated film Finding Nemo. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. In 1997, during the fourth season of Ellen, she came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues as well as the coming out process.
In September 2003, DeGeneres launched a daytime television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Amid a crop of several celebrity-hosted talk shows surfacing in 2003 such as those of Sharon Osbourne and Rita Rudner, her show has consistently risen in the Nielsen Ratings and received widespread critical praise. It was nominated for 11 Daytime Emmy Awards in its first season, winning four, including Best Talk Show. The show has won 25 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air. DeGeneres is known for her dancing and singing with the audience at the beginning of the show and during commercial breaks. She often gives away free prizes and trips to her studio audience with the help of her sponsors. On November 17, 2005, the show was played in reverse.
Duration : 0:6:52