#billy morris

[rotten-downer]

Next bunny, Billy!! He's so cute I love him

Close-up:

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Warrant promo pic from 2000 (this picture also on the back of Under the Influence cd)

[denimbex1986]

'On the Wall of Honor in the Commons Area at Paris High School hang photos of several noteworthy graduates. One noteworthy graduate is missing; you won’t find Billy Morris up there … yet.

After he attained a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Texas, for most of his working career, beginning at E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, his accomplishments remained in a “classified” mode. Yet, he is a prime example of how often Paris links to things of importance. This month he is not mentioned in the new movie “Oppenheimer,” but his role was at the Manhattan Project’s Hanford Engineering Works [HEW], in Washington state. His work in 1944 and 1945 was essential to the success of the plutonium delivery to Los Alamos for testing and building the bombs scientists assembled.

Morris was there on assignment. Not too long after he arrived at the Wilmington, Delaware, facility as a new employee, DuPont gave in to the aggressive desires of Gen. Leslie Groves, who had just completed direction of the construction called the Pentagon. He was now the chairman of the newly formed Combined Development Trust [CDT] which was given the task of the Manhattan Project. DuPont decided to participate in the building of the elusive bomb that would hopefully end World War II. Most assumed the race was to beat the Germans to the punch. Morris was sent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. However, it was decided it was too dangerous to work on the separation of uranium and plutonium there, so a committee went west looking for a huge area away from the danger of destroying civilians if something went awry. Morris never discussed the process with his family or high school friends, but he most likely was part of the search. Thus, Hanford was chosen. Morris’ duties moved to that virtual wasteland next to the Columbia River; the residents were bought out and moved, and reactor buildings began to rise up.

Jokingly called “Ears” by his high school mates, he was tall, skinny and did have large auricles over-emphasized by short hair, much like his 1935 mates Tom Steely, James E. Brown and James Jenkins. Several in that class of very few athletes and many Young Sheldon Cooper-type “nerds,” were at least 6’2” in height. Morris could easily be mistaken for the older Sheldon in a television series called “The Big Bang Theory.”

The whole class, including women like Edith Johnson and Ruth Barnes, were highly successful in life. This entire mid-depression group might deserve a class composite on the east wall of the school’s cafeteria area. Jenkins became a surgeon and then a teacher at Emory University Medical School near Atlanta, Brown a Chamber of Commerce manager and insurance agent in Jacksonville, Texas, Steely a Paris newspaper owner, Johnson an interior designer, and Barnes a soda pop plant owner and manager. And, on and on with this group, who all served in some capacity during World War II.

At Hanford, Morris headed radiation safety. The first plutonium production reactor began operating Sept. 26, 1944. Years later, in a letter to his daughter and two sons, he wrote, “I was assigned to be in charge of health protection.” He added, four engineers were working under his direction when he arrived, but later this was increased by four female technicians. Morris explained this task was before the 231 Isolation Building received its first “feed material from the two canyons [name for the chemical separation plants] where the irradiated uranium was brought by rail from the three ‘piles’ [name of reactors B, D, and F].” This building later called 231-Z was in an area called 200 West. The canyon plants were four miles away from each other for safety reasons. Morris was at the location of the final step of the product extraction process. Still there, Building 231 began a demolition process that will be final in 2025.

The uranium story is a book of its own. If you have made a ski-run down a slope at Telluride, north of Durango, Colorado, it is an hour and a half from Uravan, now a ghost mining town where some of the vanadium tailings containing uranium were refined as a byproduct and sent to Hanford. Ironically, uranium was first discovered by a German scientist, and in Berlin during 1938 the fission process was revealed. Other uranium sources were from an underground mine in Canada and an open air facility in the Belgian Congo. The “Little Boy” bomb dropped on Hiroshima, for example, used the more pure Congolese uranium.

Work went on with plutonium production after the surrender of Japan. Apparently, Morris had troubles retrieving the empty containers from Los Alamos. In late September or in October, the letter told his kids, he traveled to Los Alamos with a Major Valenti. It was probably September because Oppenheimer was meeting with President Harry Truman in late October. That clash is shown in the movie.

Morris wanted the people remaining at Los Alamos to do additional cleaning of the shipments before returning the containers for reuse in Washington State. “I was only the second Hanford DuPonter,” he thought, “to visit Los Alamos.” Hanford’s Technical Director Lom Squires had already been there giving advice on how to expand the plutonium processing capability. After some difficulty being admitted at the guard gate, Morris said he finally met Robert Oppenheimer.

While Oppenheimer left duty at Los Alamos in November 1945 for years of political pressure, ridicule and turmoil, Morris returned to DuPont’s Grasselli Chemicals Department about the same time. After superintending in Cleveland, Ohio’s heavy water production function, and subsequent work at the Dana, Indiana plant, he moved to the Savannah River Laboratory, a site that won over competition with a potential Red River placement in Texas. He was director of separations, then director of reactor engineering and materials, and later in charge of University relations. He retired in 1983. His half-brother Don, a 1950 PHS graduate, was a Navy career deep-sea diver with quick thoughts about the recent submersible that imploded near the Titanic, also worked at the plant, a long way from the Morris home on Bonham Street.

The Class of 1935 held reunions as long as possible. They were fine examples of what could be accomplished from a small town education.'

[wolfsbanesparks]

Do you think Sterling Morris ever considered adopting Billy?

That's a good question.

I think that Billy often tries to downplay his own situation to Mr. Morris a lot, sometimes by pretending to be his own dad, but that Mr. Morris still has his suspicions and tries to do a lot for Billy because of it. He takes him on little outings and trips so that he can have some childhood fun despite his very adult responsibilities. I also think that if he'd ever known for sure that Billy didn't have a family/anywhere to go, he would offer to take care of him (similar to how Uncle Dudley does in some continuities) but would respect Billy's decision to be independent if that's what he wanted. And that's what makes his relationship with Billy so special--the respect.

Thanks for the ask!

[warhead]

[dcbinges]

The Power of Shazam! #7 (1995) by Jerry Ordway & Peter Krause

[jihef03]

Lucky Luke, les Dalton, Ran-Tan-Plan, Calamity Jane, Billy The Kid, par Morris, 1981.

[sillymeowmeows]

me at the most pathetic men you've ever seen:

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #69

[paigemathews]

I’m sick and it sucks, so have some headcanons about how Charmed characters react when they’re sick!

Prue Halliwell - will not quit working unless she is actively dying, and even then. She’ll take meds and soup when Piper shoves it at her, but will not actually rest. When someone else is sick though, she is hardcore bossing them to go back to bed and quit getting up. She’s an absolute hypocrite.

Piper Halliwell - initially, she’ll try to ignore it and keep going until someone tells her to rest. As soon as someone else has it under control, she will be happily retire to her bed and be a (mostly) model patient. The key is someone else actually has to have it under control because otherwise Mom Mode activates and she has to do something (as Phoebe and Paige discovered when they burnt dinner and had Piper cooking while she coughed every other breath). When anyone else is sick, however, she is The nurse. Soups, popsicles, hair pets, the whole nine yards.

Phoebe Halliwell - look, Pheebs was the youngest for a long time. She is absolutely whining the entire time and making it known that everything about being sick sucks. She is not trying to be annoying, but like. It sucks and it has to be known. When other people are sick, she like. tries? But Piper made homemade chicken noodle soup and Phoebe dumped some Campbell’s in a bowl, so. She’s great at the entertaining you while sick though, she has all of the movies to watch and gossip to catch you up on.

Paige Matthews - at first glance, you’d think she’s like Phoebe with the being terrible at being sick thing. And she is! But she tends to isolate herself more and hole up in a corner of her bed because it’s been a while since there’s been someone who could take care of her. Eventually, she starts learning how to let other people take care of her but it Is a Journey. On the flip side, she kinda just. left others alone when they were sick, but after having Piper take care of her when she was sick, she left meals on Piper’s nightstand with things like orange juice. She’s still not great at being comforting with the person though.

Leo Wyatt - in theory, a perfect patient. In practice, “I’m a doctor, I know what I’m doing.” Which? For other people? Sure, Leo’s a great caretaker. When it’s himself though? Baby, lie down please. The only one who can really wrangle him is Piper, mostly bc she doesn’t feel bad yelling at him to go back to bed. He isn’t trying to be a bad patient, but he spent like sixty years never getting sick and now he’s been brought down by the cold four-year-old Melinda’s class spread. (Piper teases him one time “Betcha regret becoming mortal now, huh?” And Leo, with a fever and has already thrown up once today, looks at her with adoring eyes and says, “To be with you? Never.”)

Andy Trudeau - a lot like Prue in that he hates resting. He’ll be working on a case while Darryl makes pointed comments about rest and sick days and not getting your partner sick. Eventually, however, he’ll actually take the sick day and rest (always in-between cases or when it’s time to go into field though). He’s a great caretaker though, not the superhuman type like Piper but just. good.

Darryl Morris - finally, someone who is a good patient! He’ll take the sick day and go home to his family. If it’s more than a few days though, he starts getting bored and will start going over case files. He always sheepishly puts them back once Sheila catches him and just gives him a deadpan look. He just hates the boredom part of being sick where you can’t really do anything. He’s a good caretaker though, but you will be getting your soup and gatorade at random times due to whenever he comes in.

Cole Turner - this man’s first cold was when he was over a century and he made it v clear that he thought he was cursed. Once they figured out that he just had a cold, Piper nearly did curse him. The mighty Belthazor brought down low by a couple of germs. It’d almost be funny if he didn’t nearly exhaust even Leo’s near limitless patience. On the flipside, he.... also has no idea how to caretake but he does try! He goes a little overboard tho and just provides unnecessarily dramatic solutions. (If things had went differently, he probably would have kidnapped a nurse to wait on Phoebe hand and foot during Queen of the Underworld arc while Phoebe went, what? no, I don’t need- COLE!)

Henry Mitchell - he denies that he’s sick and basically powers through it. Like Paige, he didn’t have anyone to care for him when he was sick but I also headcanon that he was. a bit worse off than Paige (who had Glen and his family and the mentioned exactly once Aunt Julie and Uncle Dave to turn to if she needed it, even if she wouldn’t choose to) so he didn’t really have much of a choice. He gets even grumpier when he’s sick though. Eventually, he also learns how to take it easy and let others care for him but he. struggles with it a lot. On the flipside, he’s a surprisingly good caretaker. It’s because he just does what he wishes he had someone there to do for him, which leads him pretty well. (I am also now imaging Henry with a sick teenage parolee and like. It’s cute. I can’t provide specifics but it’s really cute.)

Coop Halliwell - okay, based on how I indicated that Whitelighters and demons can’t get sick, I don’t think that I can make an argument for Cupids getting sick. So he doesn’t get sick, I guess. (Lucky him! Can’t relate.) He’s a really good caretaker though, especially with the comforting side. He’ll sing the girls to sleep and make toast and be really freaking sweet that no one can even be snarky about how he doesn’t get sick. (Piper tries once when she and the kids are sick while Leo is at some Magic School thing but then Coop and Phoebe come by and Phoebe is entertaining the kids while Coop makes lunch and cleans up the house so that Piper doesn’t have to worry about it and like. this is really good chicken noodle soup so she can’t say much.)

Chris Halliwell - literally, no one finds out that he’s sick unless he fucking passes out because he’s a dumbass who lived in a world where sickness was weakness and weakness meant dying so he just hides it until he physically can’t anymore. No one has a good time when this happens. It takes... awhile. for them to get through to him that he can tell them when he’s sick and they’ll help. He still doesn’t really like it and still struggles to share that info, but. it starts getting a little better and then he dies and it doesn’t matter anymore. Similarly, his response to others being sick is rooted in his time. He doesn’t particularly know how to handle it in the past, so he just. lets the others take over while he keeps a watch over the Manor, in case anyone tries anything while someone is down sick.

Billie Jenkins - she’s the type of person to insist that she won’t get sick and is brought down in the next chapter. She hates it and she grumbles but besides the whining, she’s actually a decent patient. She’ll take her meds and eat the soup and lie in bed, but just. lots of complaining. On the flip side, she’s. not exactly a stellar caretaker. She’s like twenty years old; they’re not exactly known for their caretaking ability and Billie is a lot of things, but a Mom Friend™ she is not.

[legendarytragedynacho]

Ultrafoxx Ultravox! - John Foxx era

📷 Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/GettyImages

[rotten-downer]

Billy ran into a spot of trouble with the Bobbies...

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@KruegerFAngel on twitter

Missing Jani Lane today! These are live photos I took from the "The Metal Edge 2002 tour! @KidWickedBilly and @mikefasano added alot of fire to @warrantrocks in this lineup! Crank up some Warrant, Jani Lane today! Heaven Isn't Too Far Away!

11/8/2019

[turquoiseaardvark]

my OCs featuring Ramses rabbit and Archimedes Aardvark

Ramses and Archimedes are commonly based on Arthur and Merlin from the sword in the Stone respectfully.

Ramsey was inspired from six cartoon characters:

Sam-i-am (green Eggs and Ham by Dr seuss)

Morris the Moose (Morris by bernard Wiseman)

Billy (billy and Mandy by Maxwell Atoms)

Wander (wander over yonder by Craig mcCracken)

SpongeBob SquarePants (Stephen hillenberg)

Uncle Grandpa (Peter Browngardt)

[wolfsbanesparks]

What's one Fawcett character you would want to write more about? Outside of the main Marvel family.

Thanks for the ask!

There are quite a few I'd love to write about but I think the one I'm most interested in writing at the moment is Sterling Morris! His relationship with Billy is so important to me because while he is Billy’s boss and mentor he treats Billy as his equal, trusting him to do his job and get the story which is exactly the sort of thing Billy wants and needs in most continuities.

He's also perfect for exploring WHIZ radio in general!

[sparkledst4r]

Happy birthday to the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow!!!Him with the beloved cast ad plush toys as a gift.

Me and LL fandom to him:

Thanks to @ireneead for reminding me