Common Leather Myths?

[nstarleather]

Just now, Ed in Tx said:

How about automakers that say their vehicles have "leather seats" when in actuality the seats are really bonded leather. one of those technicality things I guess.

Supposed disclose "bonded" with most products but I'm sure they figure ways around it.  Lots of car makers also do real leather on the "seat part" but all the sides and back are synthetic, which is not good long term. 

[billybopp]

13 hours ago, nstarleather said:

Supposed disclose "bonded" with most products but I'm sure they figure ways around it.  Lots of car makers also do real leather on the "seat part" but all the sides and back are synthetic, which is not good long term. 

Who can ever forget "Rich Corinthian Leather" ... 

 

 

[nstarleather]

6 minutes ago, billybopp said:

Who can ever forget "Rich Corinthian Leather" ... 

 

 

That voice is unforgettable 

[Handstitched]

19 hours ago, Tugadude said:

Don't really have any favorites, but I guess the one I see abused the most is when something is advertised as genuine leather.  Of course it may be, they aren't lying, but they are taking advantage (to a degree) of the public's lack of knowledge.  At least it seems that way to me.

Ditto. 

25 minutes ago, nstarleather said:

That voice is unforgettable 

' The Wrath Of Khan' springs to mind  . Perhaps Captain Kirk can launch an attack on the leather  industry ?  Launch a torpedo at the shonks  ??? 

HS

[fredk]

Here's 3 minutes 33 seconds you'll never get back

 

[Tugadude]

I wasted more time on more trivial pursuits than that.  Videos such as that take an incredible amount of time and effort to create.  I remember observing a friend in high school create a short animation video with clay figures and it was like watching paint dry.  The end result was pretty cool though!

[Sheilajeanne]

7 hours ago, nstarleather said:

That voice is unforgettable 

He is sorely missed!   Wonderful actor - that first scene he did in Wrath of Khan was nearly 10 minutes long, and he did the whole thing in just one take! He kept fit by working out throughout most of his life, which led many people to wonder if the impressive muscles he showed on his bare chest in Khan were real (they were). He was 61 years old at the time, but in very good shape physically. Unfortunately, a horseback riding accident he suffered in a much earlier movie permanently injured his back, and he was confined to a wheelchair for a number of years before his death in 2009.

He never got the credit he deserved, due to being a Latino. 

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by Sheilajeanne

[nstarleather]

4 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said:

He never got the credit he deserved, due to being a Latino. 

 

It’s crazy how syndicated television came from a Latino, I’m amazed how much Spanish there was in I Love Lucy, but by the time I was a kid, there was a lot less and like no Cubans on TV.   
Now you see Spanish more but it’s a recent thing.

I’m not Latino but my wife is Colombian and I’ve learned the language.

[Sheilajeanne]

Yeah, Jay Hernandez is one of the first Latinos to get a starring role in a series (the new Magnum, P.I.) since Ricky Ricardo.  He even joked about it during the first season, when he tells Rick to stay on the boat, because "Sharks prefer white meat." 

 

If you want to see Montalban's acting chops, here he is as Khan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7bExIrjxRc&t=7s&ab_channel=RussellB. This is only a small part of that opening scene, which concludes with Khan inserting the Ceti eel babies into Chekov and the other man's ears.

 

[tsunkasapa]

"He vexes me!"