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03/28/2026 📺Retro TV Quiz📺   Leave a comment

I’m what some people would call a member of the “TV Generation”. I’ve never taken that description as a negative because it’s the truth. I’ve lived through seven decades of TV and I’m sure it only damaged me a little. I’ve enjoyed huge hit shows and series in almost very decade except for my years overseas with the Army. Truthfully I enjoy it just as much now as I did then. There have been huge changes over the years but if you see TV as simply entertainment then you won’t be too disappointed. Todays post is a short quiz about TV in the 90’s. Answers will be listed below.

  • A Festivas celebration includes the airing of what?
  • The famous catchy theme song for Friends, “I’ll Be There For You” was played by what duo?
  • Who hosted the first Academy Awards show in 1990?
  • Who did Mila Kunis play on That 70’s Show?
  • In what year did the final episode of Cheers air?

  • What type of animal is Ren from The Ren & Stimpy Show?
  • From what show was the Chicago-set Family Matters a spin-off?
  • What are the twins name on Rugrats?
  • What was the most popular salad dressing in the USA in 1992?
  • What was Ross’s reason for believing he didn’t cheat on Rachel?

📺BONUS QUESTION📺

What was the Seinfeld’s creator Larry David’s motto for the show, ensuring there would be no sentimentality or character growth?

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Answers

Grievances’, The Rembrandts, Billy Crystal, Jackie Burkhart, 1993, Perfect Strangers, Phil & Lil, A Chihuahua, Ranch Dressing, “They were on a break.”, BONUS- No hugging & no learning.

12/18/2025 “WELCOME TO THE 60’s Quiz”   3 comments

I’ve been posting quite a few quizzes in recent months with some truly difficult answers. Todays quiz is a general knowledge quiz from the 1960’s and the answers should be somewhat easier to remember unless you were a teenager during that time. Drugs will do that to anyone’s memory. As always the answers will be listed below.

  • Which Academy-Award winning film about two misfits was originally rated X?
  • What Nobel Prize winning author shot himself to death in 1961?
  • What animal did the Yippies run for president in 1968?
  • What disastrous military maneuver did the US back in 1961?
  • What was the center piece of the Seattle World Fair?
TWIGGY

  • What London street rose to prominence in the fashion conscious 60’s?
  • Which member of the Kennedy family survived the crash of a small plane?
  • What was the better-known name of the decades most famous model, Lesley Hornby?
  • What was the fourth nation to detonate a nuclear bomb?
  • Complete this anti-war chant, Hell, no . . .”

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🥎My Required Baseball Item🥎

  • Name the two Yankee baseball players who chased Babe Ruth’s homerun record in 1961?

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Answers
Midnight Cowboy, Ernest Hemingway, A Pig, The Bay of Pigs invasion, The Space Needle, Carnaby, Ted Kennedy, Twiggy, China, . . . we won’t go!, Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle.

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01/08/2023 “Sarcasm”   Leave a comment

I’m feeling somewhat sarcastic today. That shouldn’t surprise anyone who knows me because I’ve been accused by many of using sarcasm every time I open my mouth. I can’t deny that accusation because it’s mostly true. I use sarcasm as both a weapon and also for defense against ignorance and noitallism. Noitallism is a word I’ve created to describe a common malady among certain people who think they know everything and can’t wait to rub your nose in their vast quantity of knowledge. It’s an ongoing game of verbal chess that I really do enjoy. Those of us who live for sarcasm have an interesting way of thinking as reflected by our sarcastic definitions of common words. Here are a few examples:

  • AARP: American Association of Retired Persons. An organization that sends out welcome letters to people over 50 to remind them that they will soon be dead.
  • ACADEMY AWARD: Recognition of achievement in the motion picture industry. Given annually to a group of people who are 100 times prettier, richer, and more popular than you will ever be or have any hope of being.
  • ABS: A part of the human body that can, apparently in only minutes a day as part of this exclusive TV offer, become rock hard.
  • ACNE: Nature’s way of telling you that you are not quite ready to have sex.
  • ADULT: What you become when you finally give up drinking, sleeping around, and bouncing from job to job. Also known as the kill-me-now syndrome.

  • BANK: A place to enjoy waiting in line when you can’t make it to the post office.
  • COFFEE: A laxative that you can buy in the same place that sells croissants.
  • EROTIC: Titillating, causing arousal. In other words, all the things you have to picture to look like you’re enjoying it with someone who would never let you do the things you’re picturing.
  • FOREPLAY: Two minutes of boring displays of affection that must be endured if you want to get to the good stuff.
  • FRIEND: A person you use to pass the time between relationships.

  • INTERESTING: A word meaning “I have no idea what the hell I’m supposed to say.”
  • LIKE: A word that somewhere in the late 20th century began to be used as the connective tissue in all spoken sentences, despite the fact that the words on either side of it need nothing to connect them in the first place.
  • LOVE: A deep and abiding affection that compels you to go to the bitter end with someone you should probably have ditched at the altar.
  • SHAME: The realization that nobody else thinks the thing you were caught doing was as wholesome as you thought it was.

There you have it folks, your first introduction to some of the new and improved sarcastic definitions. A special thanks goes out to the VP of sarcasm, James Napoli, and all of us sarcastic SOB’s that seem to piss off just about everyone.

SARCASM RULES!