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Merry Christmas!

In my annual Christmas tradition, here is my all-time favorite USC picture.
Hollywood screen legend Greta Garbo was sent to USC in 1926 to pose for some publicity photos with the track team.

On February 15th, 1926, C. E. Carle got a call from MGM Studios. They wanted to Garbo pose with the USC track team. Carle was the director of sports publicity at the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC in 1922 and then worked as a reporter for the Pomona Progress in 1924 before getting hired at USC.

Carle went to Paramount Studios in 1927 and then worked for MGM and 20th Century Fox.

Don Gillum was the photographer.

Garbo initially refused until MGM deducted $25 from her salary, which convinced her to head to campus and don a USC track singlet.

She is with a USC track assistant coach in the above photo.

And here she is with some members of the track team

And here she is with USC track coach Dean Cromwell.

20 thoughts on “Merry Christmas!”

    1. Look it’s Cowardly Gabby, for 20 years even on Christmas Day she must devote herself to destroying this blog. “Disgusting” describes Cowardly Gabby perfectly

      Gabby (original)
      JUNE 23, 2023 AT 4:17 AM
      With drool rolling off his chin, plow told his wife, after I clean sh#$#er #2 and #4 at the boxing gym, “I am going to give Gabby a good a@# whipping”….Mrs plow replied “STFU!”

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      2. Plow Horse shared how to manage Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young’s trolling of the blog….

        Although research in this area is still in its infancy, a few psychological studies have attempted to answer these questions. There are three important lessons learned.

        First, trolls are more likely to display noxious personality characteristics, that is, traits that impair one’s ability to build relations and function in a civilized or pro-social way. In a comprehensive examination of their psychological profile, trolls were found to be more Machiavellian (impulsive and charming manipulators), psychopathic (cold, fearless and antisocial), and especially sadist than the overall population. Trolls enjoy harming and intimidating others, so much so that the authors of this study concluded that trolls are “prototypical everyday sadists”, and that trolling should be regarded as online sadism. This is in line with the view of trolling as a form of cyberbullying.

        Second, trolling – like other forms of computer-mediated communication – unleashes people’s impulses by providing anonymity and temporary identity loss. This phenomenon, called deindividuation, is well known to psychologists and has been found to emerge in several areas of interpersonal relations, such as gaming, role-playing and crowd behaviors, particularly hooliganism. Thus, even when we are not naturally sadistic, trolling may bring out the worst side in us, by lifting the moral constrains and social etiquette that regulates our behavior in normal situations, and by fueling dissent and triggering abrasive reactions.

        Third, trolling is a status-enhancing activity: by attracting readers’ attention, upsetting people, sparking heated debates, and even gaining approval from others, trolls can feel important, perhaps much more than they are in their real lives. Thus, trolling is yet another internet activity that promotes narcissistic motives, since trolls may be expected to be far less successful in attracting people’s attention in the physical world. The only effective antidote to their tactics is to ignore them, but even then, trolls won’t suffer a public humiliation because nobody knows who they are. This is what makes trolling so ubiquitous – it requires no skills other than the ability to be obnoxious

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      4. Remember when Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Honk chickened out of this fight?

        Chickens*&t Gabby is a Bu*&hurt Narcissist

        JULY 4, 2023 AT 10:07 PM

        Meet me in Miami at 4pm ET tomorrow, Chickens$#t Gabby! If you aren’t there, you are only proving your name. I don’t want to hear any excuses! None! No fu&^ing excuses! Tomorrow at 4pm ET! Be there or everyone will know for a fact that you are a true chicken

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      5. Remember when Gabby aka GoTroy22 aka SoCal aka Pudly76 aka Michael Guarino aka Scott Wolf aka Lawyer John aka Sparrow Calypso chickened out of this fight?

        What a bu*&hurt Narcissist

        DECEMBER 25 2023 AT 11:46 PM 

        Remember when Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Honk chickened out of this fight? 

        Chickens*&t Gabby is a Bu*&hurt Narcissist 

        JULY 4, 2023 AT 10:07 PM 

        Meet me in Miami at 4pm ET tomorrow, Chickens$#t Gabby! If you aren’t there, you are only proving your name. I don’t want to hear any excuses! None! No fu&^ing excuses! Tomorrow at 4pm ET! Be there or everyone will know for a fact that you are a true chicken

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      6. Plow Horse

        AUGUST 31, 2024 AT 9:42 PM

        I thought Gabby said a few days back that he was going to the USC marching band pep rally today at the Palms at 2:00 and wanted to “meet up” with Scott. Instead, he spent the day trolling the blog. Once again a threat followed by a no show. That’s our Cowardly Gabby. All talk, no walk.

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      8. You first, Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young. You are despised by the blog. You live in a world of illusion in your dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue. You need forced institutionalization at Atascadero State Mental Hospital.

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      10. Cowardly Gabby, you admitted you will never show up for any fights back in July of 2023- remember?

        Plow Horse
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 11:35 PM
        Yesterday Gabby admitted that he had no intention of appearing for a boxing match. “Nobody fights over what is said on a blog.” He was incredulous that anyone should ask for an apology. (Posting fraudulently as steveg) In Gabby’s world, men are not the protectors and providers for their families. You can insult their wives, daughters, and mothers with impunity. He has has no code of honor and therefore believes that nobody else should live by one. Although he admits that he will not back up his words with a boxing match, he has now dishonesty posted at least 10 times the exact same response about how he showed up at the gym in Miami. Is this suppose to be amusing? Please stop ruining our blog with repetitive copy and paste posts.

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  3. Is the person to the right of Garbo a USC student athlete. Man, he looks like he could be 50. Garbo looks like she was enjoying the photo shoot. Merry Christmas everyone.

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