Archive for June 2025

06/05/2025 BRING BACK B&W   Leave a comment

Since my retirement I’ve become addicted to watching old black and white movies and TV shows. Say what you want, it takes more than special effects to make a movie or TV worth watching. I’ve been hooked on the old Wyatt Earp shows, Peter Gunn, and The Saint (both movies and TV). It amazes me how well they’ve held up over the decades since their production. Todays quiz involves ten questions about old movies and TV shows. As always the answers will be listed below.

  • What famous character actor prepared for a career in psychiatry, studying and working with pioneer psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, before turning to acting?
  • Who wrote the scripts for his own films under pseudonyms that included Otis T. Criblecoblis and Mahatma K. Jeeves?
  • Who provided Mickey Mouse’s high-pitched voice in the early Walt Disney film starring the animated mouse?
  • Who sung Miss Piggy singing voice in The Muppet Movie?
  • Who played Scorpio, the statistic killer, in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 film, Dirty Harry?

  • What was Boris Karloff’s real name?
  • Who was Fred Astaire’s first silver screen dancing partner?
  • Who played Vincent Price’s menacing music assistant in the 3-D horror film House of Wax?
  • Where did Charlie Chaplin place when he entered a Charlie Chapman look-alike contest in Monte Carlo?
  • In what film did the star propose by saying, “Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse?”

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Answers
Peter Lorre, W.C. Fields, Walt Disney, Johnny Mathis, Andy Robinson son of Edward G., William Henry Pratt, Joan Crawford, Charles Bronson, Third Place, Groucho Marx.

06/03/2025 A LOOK BACK – POLITICAL COMEDY   Leave a comment

I really do try to avoid writing about politics and politicians. No matter what you write your going to piss off a great many people. I’ve always found politics to be a necessary evil but I avoid political discussions religiously and religious discussions politically. It can be a great source of humor which is it’s biggest selling point for me. I do miss the days of Marion Barry in DC and his constant stream of misstatements and BS. I prayed that he would eventually run for Congress and be elected because the shit-storm he could have caused would’ve had me laughing for years. In his honor I dedicate this post of some of his most incredibly stupid quotes and nose-sniffing behavior. It makes me very nostalgic.

  • “I’m providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised . . .”
  • “The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.”
  • “I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.”
  • “I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria, or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?”

  • “What we have here is an egregemous miscarriagement of taxitude.”
  • “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
  • “There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made-up truths.”
  • I am a great mayor, I am an outstanding Christian man, I am an intelligent man, I am a deeply educated man, and I’m a humble man.”

My Fav

“What right does Congress have to go around

making laws just because they deem it necessary.”

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