Today I learned: Camel Cigarettes designed a new character who would be a love interest for Joe Camel, but she tested poorly with male focus groups.
Joe Camel's female counterpart was depicted in the mock-up ads wearing a leather jacket as she drove a motorcycle, and playing softball.
Ahem.
This guy out walking a dog, they walked past a hot dog stand, his dog flopped herself down on the sidewalk, deadweighted, and cried until the guy bought her a hot dog. I can’t believe how spoiled that dog is. I bet that guy felt pretty stupid with everyone staring at him while he bought the hot dog.
January 1989--a fan at the Philadelphia Spectrum holds up a sign revealing the identity of a masked wrestler, and the director of the show actually zooms in on it.
I am completely surprised at what an unremarkable grave this is.
I woke up in the middle of the night because Olive was sitting on the floor, crying. It became clear that she was upset because I was sleeping on the right side of the bed. There was plenty of room on the left side. She was able to sleep on the left side. But she WANTED the right side.
I spent my latest round of freelance unemployment self-publishing four books, for any of you who are interested in 200,000 words' worth of me recapping stuff that happened in Knoxville-based wrestling promotions that went out of business 30 years ago.
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I want to travel back in time, wrap my arms around 7-year-old Adam, and warn him that a day is going to come when he orders a new sponge mop and he's actually going to be excited about it because the one he bought comes with special features. Cherish your childhood, little Adam. It's fleeting.
Family is having a picnic in the park and the dad just came over and yelled at me for having my dog there at the same time because she’s dangerous and he doesn’t appreciate having his family menaced by her. These photos were taken while the dad was yelling at me.
Here’s what I don’t understand. How could he be a pedophile if he was so polite to Bill Maher?
My parents went through a box in the garage, found my first friend, and mailed him out to me. Grover here is about 40 years old now but he’s still looking good!
I did, in fact, buy a new bed this past week. Not only is it bigger (upgraded from full to queen), but it sits so high that pit bulls with cat-like tendencies can crawl underneath it and use the bed as a cave.
40th anniversary screening, followed by a
live panel with Dottie, Simone the waitress, Francis, and the clay animation team that made Large Marge’s face.
Fun fact: Burger King is not allowed to have a restaurant within a 20-mile radius of Mattoon, Illinois, because Mattoon has a completely unrelated restaurant that was already using that name before the Burger King corporation trademarked it.
Tattoo this on your forearm if you have to:
FAZE: To disturb
FAZED: To be disturbed
PHASE: Thing that the moon has
PHASED: To introduce in stages
Nobody is allowed to post anything on the internet until they've proven that they know the difference.
"They start with ice cream, and then they use a special machine to remove all the joy from it. What's left after that is yogurt."
Talking to an actress who's trying to remember the timeline of when something happened in her life.
"That happened around 1999....NO, WAIT, it was 1997 (grabs her own chest) because I hadn't bought these yet."
Amazing joke by comedian Maureen Murphy on a 1985 "Tonight Show":
"I can't understand why anyone who was born a man would want to undergo surgery and become a woman. Think about what a painful cut they have to endure...you know, the salary."
Olive’s new habit.
Not a lot of people are going to get this, but I'd just like to say after five years of this, the best part of game show production being predominantly work-from-home has been that there's now only one set of rules for how to fill out a timesheet.
The year is 1985. We pause for a word from our sponsor, Diet Coke, and LOOK AT THE CAST OF THIS COMMERCIAL.
Tony Randall wants to outlaw what now?
Today's fun fact: You can get blocked by a radio station's Facebook page if you point out the Fiverr watermark that's visible in their station's logo.
The beauty of aging: I have entered the “I need glasses because I’m nearsighted, but I actually have to take my glasses OFF if I want to read something” stage of my life.
ABC presents another encore presentation of "The Game Show Show" on Tuesday night. If you missed it the first time, tune in on Tuesday night to catch the hilarious blooper where I accidentally throw a tomahawk at the Whammy's crotch.
Sorting through my bookcases tonight and pulled out this beauty—17 years ago, I got one of the coolest pieces of mail I’ve ever received in my life. No way would I ever throw away the envelope.
That’s former Pantages Theater usher Hayley O’Connor completely owning a really funny scene in “A Fantastic Relationship,” now on Prime Video!
