8.26.2008
Tim in Cambodia
8.20.2008
And This is Simply Cool
I tried to add a photo, but I am completely unable to. It uploaded, I'm not sure where it landed. Sorry.Fooled Ya!
For some reason I thought the inhabitants of T-land would enjoy this.
8.15.2008
Do I get a Prize?
Do I get some sort of Tabishland prize for finding this? Notice that when they read the roster of reporters- there's not a single woman.
Vintage 70's Comedy
Christopher Guest is my comedy hero. I love him asking the athletes if they slept last night. This is pre-snl Bill Murray. "big car comfort"
8.11.2008
Not the Olympics, but pretty cool
8.08.2008
Today's "Word A Day"
Tim, you must have been channeling this word last week with the Ninth Grade Dance post. Coincidences don't just happen after all...
Wordsmith.Org : The magic of words
Yvette Best and Carlos Atwell; Oval Awaits First Monarch; Nation News (Barbados); Jul 31, 2008.
Wordsmith.Org : The magic of words
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargdark horse
PRONUNCIATION:
(dark hors)
MEANING:
Someone little-known who ends up winning a contest unexpectedly.ETYMOLOGY:
From the idea of a relatively unknown horse winning a race. The term is also used for a person who unexpectedly wins a party's nomination for a political contest, often as a compromise candidate. The OED shows the first citation of the term from the novel The Young Duke by the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.USAGE:
"John King thinks he, RPB and Sheldon Hope, all from De Big Show, are the three front-runners, with Adrian Clarke as the dark horse."Yvette Best and Carlos Atwell; Oval Awaits First Monarch; Nation News (Barbados); Jul 31, 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. -Alice May Brock, author (b. 1941)8.07.2008
Tabishland Denizen Makes Good!
8.05.2008
All Men are 31
I too told Meredith I couldn't believe I was as old as Tony Soprano.
September 19
If you recall, it's "Talk Like A Pirate Day"
8.02.2008
She's back.....
I actually saw this commercial the other day and thought it was totally bizarre. I guess I'm not alone.
8.01.2008
Pick a fave
Since we haven't mentioned the 70's again for, oh, about 2 hours now.
"June 7, 1975, 7.45 to 10.45 pm"
Music by "Dark Horse"
"Ninth Grade was....
Selling magazines for the dance
Winning Georgeous George
The play and the musical(*)
The "snake assembly"
(*) "Swingin' High", of course, starring Almost Dramatical Geoff Day
I wore a powder blue leisure suit with dark piping and my dad's white patent loafers. It was my first dance but I didn't have a date. I didn't dance with anyone but stood to the side of the Jr High cafeteria with George Bertha, who also wore white patent leather loafers. Mandy Williams danced with her boyfriend Randy to Barry Manilows "Mandy". I think I went home early.
But more importantly, why did I save this program, and why haven't I thrown it out? It's a sickness: nostalgia is a form of depression perhaps?
