Ribble, Ribble!

After a week without a post due to a personal vacation in Las Vegas (tips: the Cirque du Soleil Ka show is a must-see, but the MGM Grand buffet is far from worth the money), I am back with some of the things I did during my week back at the adult school.

In this post, I share the story is another one of the shows I have made up for the mythical BMN (Barefoot Media Networks) television service.  It stars the Ribbles, who I debuted as the Bryants in chapter 7 of my original book.  Billy Bob Ribble is a famous former pro football player and bull rider.  He is the redneck version of Bo Jackson, known for mythical feats and first-class performances in both sports.  How he met his wife, barrel racing champion Krista, is the stuff of legends: When both were teenagers, Krista Bamburg (as she was then known) was traveling back from a rodeo while Billy Bob was delivering farm equipment.  When the truck approached Lake Waco in central Texas, Bamburg was involved in a single car accident which left the car she was riding in floating in the water.  Ribble dove into the water, swam up to Bamburg, and pulled Bamburg from the water thereby saving her life.  Years later, the two were at the same rodeo in Arizona when the two recognized each other.  Once the shock passed, Bamburg and Ribble began dating and married some years later.  They went on to have two children, Adam Michael and Michelle MacKenzie ("Mac" for short).  The Ribbles now have a "reality TV" show called The Best Little Ranch House in Texas.

I derived the show title by substituting "ranch house" for "whorehouse" (which was a 1982 movie that starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton).  As for the people themselves, they are based on the Jeters, an actual clan captured in this gallery by a North Carolina-based photographer.  Only three people were in the original picture, so I had to duplicate the original long shot, flip and trim the second picture, merge the photos together, and resize the original people.  The faces were placed on the originals as follows:

• Billy Bob is Brian Barefoot, a professional steer wrestler with the International Pro Rodeo Association.
• Krista is a woman whose name I unfortunately have not recorded, but who carried a gun.
• Mac is Kaleigh Forney, who is a student at Union University in Jackson, TN in one of Steve Beverly's classes.

When the photo was expanded, I was finally able to put in Adam, whose body shot was taken from a selection of Billy Bob's reduced to about half size.  The face is that of former Oklahoma State University tight end Bo Bowling.

Here's the end result: