Tim the Security Guard at the National Cowboy Museum is the wholesome content you need right now

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/24/tim-the-security-guard-at-the.html

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[Lisa_Beebe]

The realization that some people say “please” as they google things is blowing my mind right now (and exactly the distraction I needed)

[asm]

This is either totally legit or amazing work by the media people at the museum.

Either way, great work!

[euansmith]

Every is just better with the inclusion of some Sam Elliot. He’s one of those people who I hope make it in to the history books with an untarnished reputation. The guy can twinkle and smoulder.

[SomeSlightDiscomfort]

Fauci & Cowboy Tim 2020. That’ll pretty much cover everything I need.

[Papasan]

That guy, yeah he is a treasure.

[brad_quinn]

There are only ten men who can get away with that mustache and he’s nine of them.

I should have quoted that. I think its from “Grace and Frankie”.

[euansmith]

Welcome aboard, Comrade; and happy trails.

[wazroth]

@thomdunn it’s doing that thing where the front page article didn’t link to the BBS.

Also, major Poe’s Law vibes here. Have I lost my innocence?

[beOHbe]

My wife thanks Alexa after every answer she gives.

[RandomDude]

This is a wonderful thing and it belongs here

Thanks for making Cowboys classy again Tim!

[Shuck]

“National Cowboy Museum… John Wayne”

So less a cowboy museum and more a fake cowboy museum, then. I’d love to see that as the more truthful name: the “National Fake Cowboy and Hollywood Makebelieve Museum.”

[FGD135]

In a way, the Wild West was made up by the 20th century pretty much like the Middle Ages were made up by the 18th/19th century romantics.
Stuff existed, but popular conceptions are quite wrong.

[MadLibrarian]

This man was the Shaft of the American West:
Bass Reeves

He was one bad motha -(shut your mouth!)

[davide405]

John Wayne gets a little sliver of recognition, but he’s a needle in the haystack.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

It’s just down the street from where I work. In fact, we’ve had company gatherings there

[brad_quinn]

I always thank the gas pump, so that when out robot overlords arrive…

[RadioSilence]

That’s what I thought - and either way it’s delightful

[Professor59]

Ain’t no black cowboys in a John Wayne museum, Son.

[beOHbe]

When pressed, that’s generally my wife’s justification too. “They’ll remember the courteous ones.”

[siloxane]

That’s a strange take. Even the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has had exhibitions on things like Star Trek and Star Wars. It doesn’t mean it is a “fake” museum.