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Principal Skinner. He would confront people.
Ned was too upbeat and happy to be macho.

If we had imposed these tariffs on Japan in the 70s, there would have been a lot more Triumphs, Harleys and BMWs on the street than Hondas. Imagine that.
-The tariff will be rough on youngsters that depend on a scoot as their only motorized transportation.
-Even with the tariff, Chinese Scoots and motorcycles will remain far more affordable than Taiwanese mounts.

Wild hogs. They get very big here, feeding in the rice fields. When the farmers do their seasonal burning of the fields, we get even more hogs crossing the roads.
I don't see many deer unless I go to the hill country.

David Niven was pretty macho in the Charge of the Light Brigade, but I think Errol Flynn is more nacho.
Niven was in a lot of comedy movies in the last half of his career.
I have confused him with Sir Alec Guinness on occasion.

I saw Deadpool 2 yesterday at the cinema. To me, not as good as the first film. Good for rental or download. But I don't think it is worth the expense of watching it at the theatre.

I suspect that there are many stories about that name, but I found this one on TopSpeed.
www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-news/why-is-a-harley-called-a-hog-ar181162.html
"This is a fun little story that takes us back to Marion, Indiana, in 1920. World War I was over and motorcycle racing was emerging as a popular new sport. Having dominated the podium at the inaugural dirt-track race that had taken place on Memorial Day of the previous year, Harley-Davidson was eager to go for a repeat performance with it’s “Wrecking Crew” team. Yes, they were the original “Wrecking Crew.”

A rider named Ray Weishaar adopted a young pig from one of the local farmers just before the races, named it Johnny, and it became the team mascot. Weishaar beat the field for yet another first-place finish for the MoCo and upon winning, he picked up the pig and rode it around the track on his victory lap. That set up a short-lived tradition of taking Johnny for a victory lap every time a Wrecking Crew member won a race. One of those winning moments is frozen in time in one of the most iconic pictures of the era when Weishaar offered Johnny a victory sip of his Coca-Cola, a product fairly new under the sun at the time and with a much better ingredients list than nowadays, I’m told.
After dominating the field time after time, race fans and some in the media began to informally refer to the team as the "Harley Hogs," whether it be for Johnny’s participation or the media calling the team hogs for “hogging” the first-place finishes. However, the "Wrecking Crew" name was the one that persevered over time. Even as the “Harley Hogs” nickname faded on the racetrack, it persevered as a slang term for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. So ensconced in culture was the name that the 3rd Edition of the Dictionary of American Slang even contains an entry for "hog" as being a "1960s motorcycle or motorcyclist" with a following entry mentioning Harley-Davidson by name.
Of course, in more modern times the factory uses the word as an acronym for its in-house bike club, the Harley Owners Group, as well as its official market name. As for the Wrecking Crew, Indian Motorcycle took that label in the ’50s with its dominant race team, and it was been pulled out of retirement again for the 2017 Indian Flat Track Racing team that proved to be more than the rest of the world could handle right out of the gate in its freshman year after a long hiatus from the sport."

Now that you mention it, Kat, Chewbaca did seem to transform from goon to James Bond in a matter of minutes. Maybe he just learns fast.
Anyhoo, it was fun to see how Solo met Chewy and forged the friendship.
-Prequels do not bother me as much as in the past. I have become accustomed to seeing things out of chronological order.
Some alternate history episodes may be interesting as well.