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Archive for 2007/11


Correction

Welcome back!The other day I posted a list of TV series that we (various members of my family) have either bought or been given over the last few years. It seems that I left some off of the original list. The reason I know this is because all the smart alecs in my family (you […]

Ah, the good ole’ days

When it comes to television. our family doesn’t have much interest in the typical network fare. A few Christmases ago, my wife bought her mother a DVD set containing the first season of The Waltons. Since then, every member of the family has gotten a season or three of some TV show from the […]

Separated at Birth #3: Buddy Hacket and Lou Costello

Buddy Hackett has a film career going back to the 1940s. Personally, I remember him best from the 1963 movie, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and as the voice of Scuttle in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Lou Costello was one half of the comedy team Abbott & Costello, a team responsible for such […]

Pardon me?

Drug Rehabilitation.
Think about that phrase. Does that not sound like one of the dumbest phrases ever invented, once you think about it? What reason would anyone have for trying to rehabilitate a drug? It seems to me that the process of rehabilitating a person who has been addicted to drugs should be called simply “rehabilitation” […]

For the race car driver who has everything

My uncle has been racing stock cars for longer than I can remember.
Daughter Number Three: “Wow. That’s a LOONG time!”
Me: “Go away!”
Anyway, What do you get for the race car driver who has everything? I thought about sending him a couple of dozen donuts just because when I was a kid he would show […]