Archive for July, 2008

From The Salt Lake Tribune….

A Sandy, Utah man took offense to a motorist, who, after getting him to roll down his window, asked, “Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?” 

After hearing the request for Dijon mustard, the 22-year-old driver pulled a black handgun from his glove compartment, cocked the weapon and pointed it at the three people in the other car. 

“Here’s your Grey Poupon, roll your [expletive] windows up,” he responded.

If you’ve never seen the original 1985 commercial here it is:

Here’s a look at the perp from The Smoking Gun.

Loved this Twitter post about ChaCha so much, I printed it and posted it in my cube at work:

“@erindowney someone thought I named my phone ChaCha once because I’m always saying “let’s ask ChaCha.” have you tried ChaCha? it’s awesome”

Today we take for granted comedy TV shows like “The Office”, “Two and a Half Men”, “My Name Is Earl” and others. They are “sitcoms” short for situation comedies. What’s the history of the sitcom? How did we get to the comedic form we are all so familiar with. Sure there are roots in theatre from Shakespeare on through Vaudeville, but mass market sitcoms started first on radio twenty years before the first commercial TV comedy.

One of the first, and by far the most sucessful radio comedy shows was “Fibber McGee and Molly”. It ran on NBC from 1935 thru 1959. Twenty four years is a long run for any show, radio or TV. 

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The lightning struck him in the top of the head. He was soaking wet so when it struck instead of traveling through his body, hitting major organs, the bolt went on the outside of his wet clothes. Kent Lilyerd of Minnesota is a lucky to be alive.  But CNN has to get the award for the most obvious quote/headline of the week.  Here’s the video story.