Cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, created by animation director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese, was based on a quote by what iconic American author?
Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and the Road Runner are a duo of charactersfrom the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In the cartoons, the Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Instead of his animal instincts, the Coyote uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) to pursue his prey, which comically backfire with the Coyote often getting injured in slapstick fashion.
The characters were created by animation director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese. The characters star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts (the first 16 of which were written by Maltese) and occasional made-for-television cartoons.
Jones based the Coyote on Mark Twain's book Roughing It, in which Twain described the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry." Jones said he created the Coyote-Road Runner cartoons as a parody of traditional "Cat And Mouse" cartoons such as MGM's Tom and Jerry, which Jones would work on as a director later in his career. Jones modelled the Coyote's appearance on fellow animator Ken Harris.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Mark Twain
Jones based the Coyote on Mark Twain's book Roughing It, in which Twain described the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry."
Mark. (not Twain) wrote:
From Mark Twain's Roughing It: The coyote is "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry."
Alan J answered:
Mark Twain.
Kevin K., in Washington, DC, said:
Chuck Jones said that he based Wile E. Coyote on a quote from Mark Twain.
Jon L responded:
I'm guessing Mark Twain?
zorch replied:
Based on a quote from Mark Twain.
Dave said:
Mark Twain.
Gene wrote:
Per Google:
Jones based the Coyote on Mark Twain's book Roughing It, in which Twain described the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry." Jones said he created the Coyote-Road Runner cartoons as a parody of traditional "Cat And Mouse" cartoons such as MGM's Tom and Jerry, which Jones would work on as a director later in his career.[7] Jones modelled the Coyote's appearance on fellow animator Ken Harris.[8]
I remember reading words to this effect in Jones' autobiography, Chuck Amuck
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Mark Twain's Roughing It
Deborah responded:
Mark Twain. I had no idea.
The wind has been howling for over 24 hrs. PG&E, our local energy-providing monopoly, has turned off power to thousands of NorCal people in the affected areas, ostensibly to prevent fires. My county isn't affected by the arbitrary outages, fortunately, and I'm still angry that a MONOPOLY that our governor decided can pass on their costs for last year's horrific fires to us, their customers, finds that cutting power to thousands of people is a better option than keeping up with the maintenance of their equipment. My Twitter feed (@Musclegal) has been blowing up with angry, indignant people who have no back up plan to keep their insulin and other meds refrigerated, people with oxygen delivered with electrical power, and so on. IMNTBHO, PG&E should be held accountable for last year's fires, pay the damages, file for bankruptcy, and allow another power-providing behemoth to step in and take over, perhaps at reduced rates. Level the playing field. But, no.
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Micki wrote:
Wile E. Coyote is based on a quote from Roughing It by Mark Twain.
Daniel in The City said:
Mark Twain, Roughing it
Michelle in AZ answered:
Mark Twain
Billy in Cypress responded:
I had to do some enjoyable research to find today's answer and it led to one of my favorite authors/humorists/journalists, Mark Twain. I now remember the description of a coyote that MT gave in one of his writings. I was visiting a wildlife sanctuary in New Mexico a few years ago and an actual roadrunner was slowly walking by the enclosure where a coyote was roaming.
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Rosemary in Columbus
DJ Useo said:
That's a tough question. My guess is Leon Schlesinger. Lol.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Meep meep
Mark Twain is the author in question.
Joe S answered:
It took me a while to discover the answer, but I endeavored to persevere. The American author in question is Mark Twain. I never would have guessed.
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"Many of these people who are tied to Trump are going to be tainted for the rest of their lives," De Niro said. A number of politicians, like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, initially weren't on board with Trump's nomination but have since vigorously backed his agenda - regardless of its moral or fiscal soundness.
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"Tom and Jerry" is expected to be the first live-action hybrid to shoot in 2019 and insiders say timing helped when it came to landing the "Ride Along" director, who had worked in animation. Story recently finished production on New Line's "Shaft" reboot, and was talking to WB execs about what he was interested in doing next. When the classic cartoon property was brought up, Story immediately mentioned his admiration for the characters and how he'd love tackling that property.
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She still had silver and gold hairpins on her head; "there were silver bracelets on her arm and a string of bronze coins on her abdomen, 83 coins altogether," the archaeologists wrote, adding that "underneath her right hand were two zongzi [which are the remains of two sticky rice dumplings], and embroidered shoes were on her feet."
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Secondly, we hate to say it, but we've got even more bad news for anyone hoping to drown their sorrows during that apocalyptic future. According to a new study published today (Oct. 15) in the journal Nature Plants, it looks like rising global temperatures are going to ruin beer for us too - and your next pity pint could soon cost you more than a tank of gas.
In the new study, an international team of researchers from China, the U.K. and the U.S. ran a series of computer models to simulate the impact that increasingly hot and arid weather will have on the world's production of barley - the primary ingredient in beer. They found that, in the worst-case scenario - that is, if current global carbon emissions levels are allowed to persist through the end of the century - the world will lose an average of 17 percent of its barley harvest, while some regions, including parts of Europe, could lose nearly half their yield. According to the researchers, that crop failure will have a severe impact on both the availability, and the price, of beer around the world.
"Our results show that in the most severe climate events, the supply of beer could decline by about 16 percent in yearswhen droughts and heat waves strike. That's comparable to all beer consumption in the U.S.," study co-author Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement. "Future climate and pricing conditions could put beer out of reach for hundreds of millions of people around the world."
While barley is best known for its starring role in beer, the grain is mainly used as a food source for livestock; according to Davis and his colleagues, only about 17 percent of the world's barley production went to feed the beer industry in 2011. So, as global crops diminish during the extreme heat and drought events to come, barley-growing nations will have to make a tough choice about how much of the limited harvest gets fed back into agriculture, and how much gets to spend its final days as a frothy pint.
What do you do when you have an experiment that's over too fast for even the fastest cameras in the world to see?
Previously, the fastest video cameras in the world had framerates of one-one-hundred-billionth of a second. That was fast - A hundred-billionth of a second is just enough time for a beam of light to travel the length of a sesame seed. But it wasn't fast enough.
Researchers working with advanced lasers had developed a technique called "temporal focusing" where a laser pulse could be made to fire over incredibly short, compressed periods of time. The whole beam of light would rush out all at once, and researchers knew that temporally focused lasers behaved differently from lasers emitted over longer periods of time.
But the existing cameras were just too slow to study them. There were some ways to get around this problem in other ultra-fast exeriments. Researchers would sometimes run the same experiment over and over in front of the same, too-slow camera until it had collected enough different frames of action to string together into a single, complete movie. This wouldn't work for crashing a compressed laser into a surface like etched glass though; the researchers wanted to see what that looked like, but they knew it would look different each time. There was no way to string multiple experiments together into a single movie.
So the three scientists came up with a technology they call single-shot 10-trillion-frame-per-second compressed ultrafast photography (T-CUP). One hundred times faster than the previous fastest recording method, T-CUP works by combining movie data with data from a still image. As the researchers described in a paper published Aug. 8 in the journal Nature, T-CUP splits the image of the laser into two devices: a motion recorder and a camera that makes a single exposure of the scene. The movie camera captures the scene at the screaming edge of what's possible for it to see. The still camera makes a single, smeared shot of the laser's whole motion.
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