#Billy Sands

[papermoonloveslucy]

THE DESILU DAIRY

Milk!  It does a sitcom good!

The Desilu Dairy is in business providing milk, cream, and yogurt to the Queen of Comedy!  Mooo!

At their Chatsworth Ranch, Lucy and Desi had a dairy cow named the Duchess of Devonshire. Devonshire Cream is a clotted cream dairy product produced from North Devon Cattle in Cornwall and Somerset England.

“The Elves” (1949) ~ Liz (Lucille Ball) and George (Richard Denning) arrive home from vacation to find that someone has been ordering strawberry ice cream from the milkman every day, and the pink trail leads to the doorstep of their new neighbors.

Upon arriving home, the Coopers notice that their porch has been painted white. Upon closer inspection, they realize it isn’t paint - but milk. Their ‘milk card’ has been tampered with to order strawberry ice cream while they were away - yet none is found. During the early part of the twentieth century, dairy products were usually delivered to homes, rather than shopped in a market. The milkman was part of daily life. Housewives would leave notes (or cards, as above) to request items outside their standing delivery order: Milk, eggs, yogurt, butter, and ice cream, were all offered. It was not uncommon to see back porches with milk boxes and or empty bottles ready to be returned to the dairy.  This service has all but disappeared in favor of supermarkets.

“The Sleigh Ride” (1949) ~ Mr. Negley the mailman decides to use his motorcycle to pull the holiday sleigh, but the load proves to much and the milkman’s old horse is pressed into service. Unfortunately, the horse stops at every milk stop on his route. In the days before milk truck delivery, the dairyman in rural America would deliver dairy products by horse and wagon.  

“The Gum Machine” (1949) ~ When George finds the cream for the coffee has soured, he insists Liz tell the milkman about it - stand up for her rights. The milkman arrives, delivers the milk, and then leaves. Liz chickened out. George calls him back to tell him Hogan’s Frolicking Milkmaid Cream was sour. The milkman (Hans Conried) says that Mr. Hogan will take it out on the cow!  He gives them free items instead of losing their business.

MILKMAN: “You see, we can’t afford a radio program!”

“Valentine’s Day” (1949) ~ When Mr. Negley the butcher storms off, Katie the maid (Ruth Perrott) isn’t too bothered. She has a date with the milkman instead! She’s written him a poem which she left it in an empty milk bottle.

I love you, dear, don’t be surprised. Leave two quarts of homogenized!

“The Gossip” (1952) ~ When Lucy overhears a juicy story about Grace Foster running away with the milkman, Ricky bets her she can’t go without gossiping. To win the bet, Lucy enlists the milkman and a jealous Mr. Foster in her scheme. 

MILKMAN: “He’s after me!  All my milk’s gone sour!” 

Bobby Jellison played the milkman, the “cottage cheese Casanova” and “cow juice peddler” (as Bill Foster calls him).

MR. FOSTER: “From now on, we drink goat’s milk!”

“Lucy’s Bicycle Trip” (1956) ~ The gang bikes from Italy to France and takes shelter in a barn for the night. For breakfast, the farmer brings them bread and cheese, but the milk must come from the cow!  

Lucille Ball was able to produce one good stream of milk from the cow, but she didn’t think the lights caught the stream enough for it to show on camera. Writer Madelyn Pugh later said, 

"It was the mangiest cow I’d ever seen. I went down to the set, and Lucy said, ‘You wrote it, YOU milk it!’” 

Lucille Ball shared the cover of a March 1960 issue of “The Police Gazette” with a cover story claiming that “Milk Can be the Drink of Death”!

“Together For Christmas” (1962) ~ After trying in vain to share their holiday traditions, Lucy and Viv decide to go back to traveling to their respective relatives for the holidays. Lucy says she left a note for the milkman. 

Until the end of the 1960s or so, most suburban homes had daily milk delivery, which involved leaving milk bottles on the porch (sometimes in a milk box). If a customer did not wish to have milk (or other dairy products) delivered that day - or for a period of days - it was standard procedure to ‘leave a note for the milkman’.

“Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton” (1965) ~ Newton sings an ode to his dairy cow, “Bessie the Heifer,” a 1951 country-western novelty song.

Bessie turns up again in the final recording studio sequence - with all Newton’s other farm animals. 

“Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight” (1965) ~ On a lunch break at the health farm, Lucy and the Countess realize if they want a drink with lunch, they are going to have to milk a cow. 

To calm Bossie the cow while Lucy milks her, the Countess hums “The Blue Danube”. Lucy punctuates the downbeat with squirts of milk from the cow’s udder.  

“Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50?” (1968) ~ Van Johnson sings “Happy Birthday to You” to Ethel - the prize dairy cow of a Texas oil tycoon. 

“Lucy the Shopping Expert” (1969) ~ Lucy teaches Kim about getting the best deals in the grocery store. In the dairy aisle, Lucy loses control of the nozzel on a can of whipped cream. 

“Lucy’s Lucky Day” (1971) ~ Lucy goes on a game show named “The Milky Way to Riches” that is sponsored by the Dover Dairy. 

When Mr. Larson the milkman (Billy Sands) rushes in with good news, Lucy teases him by guessing that Elsie the Cow had triplets. Elsie was the cartoon cow mascot of the Bordon Dairy Company from 1936 until it went out of business in the mid-1990s. Larson tells Lucy that she has won Dover Dairy’s customer of the year and will receive a free pint of raspberry apricot yogurt every week for a year.

“Lucy and the 20/20 Vision” (1971) ~ In order to pretend to be surprised by Harry at the door, Lucy acts as if she was putting out the milk bottle. At the time, rural delivery of milk and other dairy products to residential homes was common. In order to ‘recycle’ the milk bottles, homeowners would put the empty bottles on the porch at night, so the milkman could take them away early the next morning. A famous example of this was seen in the closing credits of the primetime cartoon sitcom satire “The Flintstones” (1960-66, inset photo).

“Lucy, the Other Woman” (1972) ~ Lucy's milkman has a crush on her but his angry wife (Totie Fields) thinks Lucy is having an affair with the dairy deliveryman. Herbie Faye plays Lester Butkus the milkman. According to the insignia on his hat, he works for the Cloverleaf Dairy. This means that in the year since “Lucy’s Lucky Day” the Carter family has switched dairies. 

Mr. Butkas brings Lucy a free pint of banana fudge yogurt, adding to his wife’s conviction that he’s sweet as cream over Lucy.   

The Butkus living room. A milkman lives here! 

#Lucille Ball #Milk #Dairy #Cow #Cows #Milkman #milk bottles #milk boxes #My Favorite Husband #Richard Denning #I Love Lucy #The Lucy Show #Here's Lucy #The Flintstones #Herbie Faye #Billy Sands #Bobby Jellison #Lucie Arnaz #Van Johnson #Ann Sothern #Wayne Newton #Desi Arnaz #Vivian Vance #William Frawley #Police Gazette #TV #CBS

[aziraphale-is-a-cat]

DPXDC Community Service Mentor

After Dan's redemption arc and subsequent chilling out, the observants still feel he hasn't paid back for what he ruined, and decided that rather than incarcerate a perfectly nice guy, he's going to have mandatory community service.

And thus, Dan Phantom is shunted off into the mentor program for shitty powerhouses known as Marvel Duty.

So when Billy Batson is chosen and meets his new head mates, he's faced with morally questionable mythical figures such as Zeus, Hercules, Solomon, Atlas, Achilles, Mercury and,,, some guy named Dan???? Who, for the record, gives horrible life advice.

-

Billy: Batman kinda scares me.

Dan: oh, he's one of the easier ones, actually. Just go after him first real quick when he has no reason to suspect you, worked real well.

Billy, very concerned: ...what?

Dan, doesn't realize how insane that was: what?

-

Billy: How do I get rid of this rogue? He's really persistent!

Dan: kill him.

Billy: NO!

-

Dan: That rich guy, the Wayne one.

Billy: yeah?

Dan: don't let him get your genetic material, crazy billionaires are an epidemic.

Billy: what the hell happened to you?

-

Flash: so what were the crusades like, did you participate on either side?

Billy, put on the spot and panicking: uhhhh

Dan: say you were in China, Kublai Khan was trying to relive his grandfather's glory.

Billy awkward as hell: oh I was in China for that. Kublai and all that jazz.

Billy: were you alive in ancient China? You sound American?

Dan: I am, time travel.

Billy, confused: oh...

#dan phantom #billy batson #captain marvel #dpxdc #dcxdp #most of dan's shitty life advice is to kill people #but he eventually chills out when billy's plans work out sand murder #billy on the other hand vets tempted sometimes.

[why-i-love-comics]

Shazam! #9 - "Creeped Out!" (2024)

written by Mark Waid art by Emanuela Luppacchino & Trish Mulvihill

#shazam #the creeper #billy batson #jack ryder #DC #shadow thief #carl sands #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[badly-drawn-bbu]

THE MORE ELAINES SELL AFTER 500 THE MORE SAND HE GETS.

#he’s gonna eat sand on march 27th because it’ll be elaine lesbian wednesday and also MORE IMPORTANTLY THE ADMINS WILL BE TOGETHER IRL!!! #ITLL BE FUN AND ITLL BE WORTH THE WAIT I PROMMY HEHEHE #billie bust up #admin maah #elaine bbu #buck bbu #emmaah bbu

[melaninpov]

Trevante Rhodes

#trevante rhodes #calvin klien underwear #calvin klien #trevante rhodes fanfiction #smut #moonlight #burning sands #bird box #billie holiday #trevante x reader

[7nessasaryevils]

I am of the opinion that every fandom requires a coffee shop au. Here’s my offering for The Sign.

#the sign #the sign the series #the sign cast #the sign bl #bl series #thaidrama #thailand #babe tanatat #tharn #phayatharn #billy patchanon #the sign phaya #yai the sign #sand the sign #yaisand #coffeshop #au #ao3 fanfic #ao3 writer #ao3fic #fanfic

[cicadasketch]

Here’s a bunch of silly messy little sketches for the mungrove peeps

#mungrove #thought abt cleaning these up but I have homework 😔 #did billy help Eddie to graduate in 85 or was billy actually a junior when they came to Hawkins #you decide #billy graduated with honors specifically so he didn’t have to wear god awful Hawkins high green #tell me I’m wrong #in any case last one they are definitely in Cali #Eddie is perhaps not as much a fan of fun in the sun as billy #but he persists! #and complains about sand in his converse for weeks even though billy offered him some flip flops #and definitely still gets sunburned despite Billy’s best efforts #they have fun though #he’ll do it again and again just to see billy do what he loves #I do know that’s not what a diploma looks like #I have one #but we’ll pretend Hawkins gives out fake diplomas at grad ceremony bc they think they’re fancier than they really are #Eddie probably doesnt know it’s fake and that’s why Billy’s actually laughing so hard #my art

[catsr-reallycool]

scrimshaw eats sand (real)

#billie bust up #bbu #scrimshaw #bbu scrimshaw #billie bust up scrimshaw #HE EATED IT #SAND???

[atmilliways]

Wrong On The Money (32)

part 32 of ?? | 1207 words | Teen+

Blackmail fic on Ao3 | on tumblr

Summary:

Steve bursts through the door like some sort of floppy haired, athletic puppy. “Hey Eds, look who I found!”  He’s dragging someone behind him by the wrist, and a very nonplussed Jeff waves hello.

(cw references to Billy's racism)

32.

Eddie has finally moved up from bed rest to shuffling around the house sometimes as long as he takes frequent breaks. Which he’s happy to do, because his PT exercises always kick his ass right into nap time. The new couch in the new living room is actually comfortable, and it's a relief to escape from his now over-familiar bedroom.

Steve bursts through the door like some sort of floppy haired, athletic puppy. “Hey Eds, look who I found!” 

He’s dragging someone behind him by the wrist, and a very nonplussed Jeff waves hello. Mouth dropping open, Eddie raises one hand for a weak wave back. 

“I have to go back to the store,” Steve says, all but bouncing on the balls of his feet as he circles back to the door. “I kinda forgot about groceries for a minute there, so, still need to get those. But you two should catch up!”

“Uh, okay?” Eddie says, and Steve flashes him a grin and two thumbs up before disappearing again. 

“What,” Jeff starts, sounding shaken, “just happened?”

Eddie shrugs. “Steve Harrington.”

“He knows where you live? He calls you Eds?”

“If it helps, the nickname is new. And, uh . . . he kind of lives here too. Loooong story.”

Jeff shoots him an incredulous look. Then he asks where the PBR is, shaking his head when Eddie admits that he can’t drink on his meds so there's none in the house. (“I can have one beer,” Eddie has whined many times, but always gets a blunt no from Wayne or Steve in response. He’s given up on sulking about it.)

First, they sit on the couch with a can of Coke each and catch up. 

Jeff’s family did leave Hawkins, but only until it was declared safe again. They’re staying with his aunt on the outskirts of town—and Eddie doesn’t know her number, which is why his calls never went through. Jeff’s actual house is still undergoing repairs before they can move back in. He’s taking a year off before college to take some of the financial pressure off his parents.

Gareth and his mom are camped out in a hotel, taking advantage of the government’s emergency subsidies for families whose houses were totally leveled. They’ll probably stay in town and buy new. 

“Frank’s folks had to move, though,” Jeff admits. “He’s on the other side of Roane County now. The high school over there doesn’t even have a D&D club.” A pause. “Oh, and I wrote to Margaret, she’s coming to visit next month to, and I quote, ‘take in the ineffable shitshow that is Hawkins, Indiana.’ I think New York is getting to her, man.”

And shit, it’ll be good to see Margaret again, same way it’s good to see Jeff and it’ll be good to see Gareth. Frank too, whenever he can swing by. Because the thing about being suddenly folded into a new friend group of monster hunters is . . . Eddie still misses his old gang. One is silver and the other’s gold, and all that bullshit. 

Eddie, for his part, gives a perfunctory explanation of the house (“Government restitution for our old place and my criminal record going through the meat grinder”) and Steve’s presence (“We talked it out, the past few months he’s just been . . . paying rent in advance”). 

Silence creeps in. Eddie sips at his Coke, slurping it in little mouthfuls as if that might continue to delay the inevitable. 

It doesn’t.

“So . . . what the hell happened, man?” 

Eddie tries not to look directly at his friend. “You mean to Hawkins?” He’d signed a shit-ton of NDAs while high off his ass on painkillers, but that still feels like the easier question to answer. 

“Dude, everyone knows about the earthquake,” Jeff scoffs. “I mean with Harrington. If you talked it out with him, why is he playing the Alfred to your Bruce Wayne?”

Thinking back to the demobats, Eddie snorts. If only Jeff knew. 

He doesn’t tell him, though. Not because of the legalities—fuck that shit, this whole mess was the government’s fault to begin with, he’s pretty sure. It’s just that, Eddie wishes he didn’t have to know. He’s not going to inflict that on a friend. 

But he does explain about Steve, more or less. 

“Okay,” Jeff says finally. “So you’re telling me that gas leak a few years ago killed Barbara Holland actually in his backyard, and the government covered it up but he still felt guilty for some reason, so he started making up for it by being less of a douchebag.” Pausing for a moment, Jeff frowns as he goes over it in his head the same way he would a campaign, ticking unspoken points off on his fingers. “The timeline works, I guess. . . . I don’t remember him causing much trouble for anyone after that fall. Hagan got worse, and Hargrove was a fucking nightmare, but the worst Harrington did was not be quite popular enough anymore to keep them in check.” Jeff looks up at Eddie. “And then . . . he started babysitting nerds? Our freshman nerds.”

They’d literally seen Steve pick the kids up from Hellfire games all school year—from a distance at first, and then close up once the blackmail had been set in motion. But Eddie gets it, because he hadn’t understood it at first either. 

“Dustin’s got him wrapped around his little finger,” he confirms. “All the little shits do. Remember when he came to school with his face all rearranged by Hargrove? Asshole was gunning for Lucas.”

That makes Jeff’s eyebrows twitch together and his mouth set in a grim line that Eddie doesn’t often see. Eddie can practically see his opinion on Steve going up based on Jeff’s own run-ins with Hargrove. “Christ.”

“Yeah.” Eddie plays with his now empty Coke can, pushing the aluminum sides in and then popping them back out again. “And then I fucking blackmailed him.”

“Not very successfully, though,” Jeff points out, scratching at the side of his jaw. “Not if his real motivation for giving you money was wanting to help out and work off some of his guilt about Barbara. Actually, he’s the one who led you on, and nobody was being intimidated by anybody. Which—I’m not going to say I told you so, but I definitely called it.”

Sputtering, Eddie tugs the tab off his can and flicks it at him. “Dick!”

“And are you still crushing on him hard?”

This time, he throws the whole can, but Jeff ducks it. 

“That’s a yes.”

“We’re friends now,” Eddie hisses, pulling hair across his face to hide his embarrassed flush. “He saved my life, and based on his cooking alone I think he’s slowly becoming Wayne’s favorite son. I can’t—”

“You said Steve was the one who brought up living with in the first place,” Jeff points out. “He knows you were both at that club for the same reason, maybe he’s . . . you know, interested. Did you ever think of that?”

“No,” Eddie grumbles, lying. “Look, Steve didn’t want to live under his asshole parents’ roof anymore. That’s it.”

He refuses to read anything else into it. That way madness lies, and too much seeing what he wants to see rather than what’s actually there. 

#steddie blackmail fic #cw references to billy's racism #eddie munson #steve harrington #jeff (stranger things) #if steve is a golden retriever then eddie is a gangly ostrich sticking his head in the sand #steddie #steddie fic

[blinkasaurus]

Monster: A Zabka fan edit for @cutesynamehere featuring her footage from various fan events! Plus one I added for funsies! Happy birthday, my friend!

#william billiam zabka #billy zabka #william zabka #fan edit #my edit #Sands says #he’s a monster #it’s the truth

[fandomfanservice]

#thai boys love #thai bl #saturdaysgirl #kinnporsche #bl drama #the sign the series #babe x billy #last twilight the series #laws of attraction #laws of attraction the series #cooking crush the series #my school president #msp #moonlight chicken #midnight museum #ofts #ofts sand #ofts ray #only friends the series #only friends #cherry magic thailand #last twlight the series #last twilight #pit babe bl #pit babe the series #pit babe #kiseki: dear to me #kiseki series #the sign #the sign polls

[fuckyeahtomblyth]

Tom Blyth + Billy the Kid castmates

Alberta, 2023 before the SAG-AFTRA strike

via x x x x

& the 6th one is from an IG story posted by Mark Krysko.

#tom blyth #billy the kid #epix billy the kid #daniel webber #Dakota Daulby #Sean Owen Roberts #horatio james #nuria vega #josh cruddas #Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen #brendan fletcher #lisa chandler #Sara Thompson #luke camilleri #alex roe #tom’s gf is in some of these but not tagging her til he does on his IG

[celestial-sapphicss]

reblog and put in tags the prominent musical artists phases in your life

#im just intrigued what music would consume you beyond repairrrrrr #if you're not acting a little crazy while consuming music are you really doing it right???? #bon's queen gifset of sand made me think of this so bon if u see thissss #prior to 2013 i was a bollywood girlieeee and bollywood is almost entirely playback singing which an entire different thinggggh #2013 - enrique iglesias #2014 - maroon 5 #2015 - coldplay #2016 - sam smith #2017 - ed sheeran & calvin harris #2018 - Queen & george ezra #2019 - p!atd (i KNOW) & khalid #2020 - harry styles & idkhbtfm & troye sivan #2021 - billie eilish & conan gray & hozier #2022 to present - taylor swift #vi.txt #the embarrassment i feel when i remember some of the absolute unhinged stuff i have done in some of then phases AAAAAAAA #i have never truly been a normal fangirl smh especially as a fucking teenager #in class 9 my friends and i LEGITIMATELY CUT A BIRTHDAY CAKE for shahid kapoor IN THE CLASSROOM during recess infront of all #he wasn't even really that popular at the time WHICH IS EVEN MORE STUPID GOD THE THINGS I HAVE DONE #and like i wasn't even that big of a fan but my closest best friend at the time was into him hence so was i #although in hindsight it was just because i had started exhibiting gay feelings subconsciously but wE wErE jUsT tHe bEsTeSt oF fRiEnDs ufff #im not wiser of course i can be tempted to be that unhinged again #the reblog game is just an excuse for shitposting this in the tags tbh #idk why i am even making this post tho #only friends has rotted my brain tbh #ALSO in 2015-2017 the internet stand up comedy scene was booming in india and that phase was truly even more embarrassing for me #it was the reason i joined instagram and the CRINGE i feel when i sort my likes and comments from oldest to newest GOODNESSS #truly an insufferable fan rip my mom and my friends #such a core teenage girlhood (genderneutral) experience methinks #if this flops.....you never saw it heheh

[valsyngur]

Just had to think about all the possibilities for Harringrove if it was Steve's parents who divorced during the last Semester and now Steve has to move to Cali with his dad and there he meets a happier Billy at a beach party.

#harringrove #billy x steve #billy hargrove #steve harrington #coco writes #not rly #text #just think about Billy genuinely laughing with his friends #and Steve sees him there for the first time #grinning and wet from the sea #sand and salt dried in his hair #and their eyes meet and BAM #Steve fell in love a little #and Billy looks at him #the pale new kid with the doe eyes #and he's immediately enchanted #SIGH #happier billy pls #i want my boys to thrive

[averyeastonwrites]

IT IS TODAY! I am so excited that Dion + Henry’s story is out in the world. Click the link below! I hope you love them as much as I do.

#broadway #romance novel #musical theatre #new books #romance books #queer books #books #musicals #authors of tumblr #theatre kid #stark sands #billy porter #community theatre #broadway guys

[nico-di-genova]

Concept: Max teaching Billy to skateboard, and Billy teaching Max to surf whenever they get to visit California. Max smiling and giving him a thumbs up as he shakily skates down the driveway, and Billy scowling at her because he feels like a five year old learning to ride a bike for the first time. And when Max catches her first wave, he cheers her all the way to shore. Billy with skinned knees and elbows, road rash on his hands from when he fell and tried to catch himself. But he doesn’t mind the injuries because they came from something positive. And Max with a sunburn and sea salt knotted hair that she spends forever detangling, but it’s okay because Billy took her out for ice cream afterward and they got to watch the sunset from the beach shore.

#something about max using skating as an outlet #the same way Billy uses surfing as an escape #both of them living for the thrill of speeding toward the bottom of a hill or the sand of the beach #finding overlap between their hobbies and sharing that with each other #siblings bonding and being happy basically :) #billy hargrove #max mayfield #stranger things