... i went there this morning and the automatic countdowner says there are only 365 days 11 hours 33 minutes and 20 seconds until the walleye drops again. ...
... Dang! I just know I'll be up all night waiting for the OTHER walleye to drop! duaneiac looking for the local Zippy For President campaign headquarters...
... i know what you mean, vic. the best part about ordering from pinhead productions is that mailing label with that handwriting on it. i tend to cut them off...
from today's paper: BRASSTOWN, N.C. — For 12 years on New Year's Eve, this Appalachian town has lowered a possum in a Plexiglas cage from the roof of a gas...
Fish farting may not just be hot air http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994343 00:01 05 November 03 NewScientist.com news service Biologists have...
I received a delightful piece of non-sequitorious spam today. I am compelled to share it. I have uploaded it into a new group file called "Found Poetry" (click...
Do you recall where you were 40 years ago today? Well, if you were like most television viewers, you spent part of your evening in Beverly. Hills that is....
A really big reason that they had such a huge market share back then was not that the fare was of such a high caliber, but that there were only a few channels...
Favorite Beverly Hillbillies line (approximately recalled): Jethro has been drafted, and Granny decides to conduct his physical herself. Alas, she discovers...
... I forget his name also but I know the guy who played Jethro in the movie played Lewis on the Drew Carey show Also Buddy Ebsen cameoed as Barnaby Jones (he...
... a quick stop at www.imdb.com the internet movie database, reveals that jethro/jethrene was played by diedrich bader. i didn't see the movie, but i note a...
Friday night I caught the TCM premeire of the 1947 Robert Montgomery starring and directed by noir thrilller "Ride the Pink Horse" (sometimes a horse is just...
An outfit called the Economic Research Institute maintains a Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a list of job titles. Any job title held by fewer than 15...
... Zippy, after he was elected to the presidency in 1984, was described as a "former nougat mixer from Toledo." Another job title I like is "mule spinner." It...
What, no English Muffin fork splitters? I suspect Seal Killer has been changed to a more palatible title such as Pinnaped Puncher. It seems there would be no...
I dated a paste-up artist once back in my newspaper career, but I don't remember her with great fondness. Her pages were together, but she wasn't. Rich ... ...
News of Laffing Sal from today's San Francisco Chronicle. Generations of Northern Californians remember Laughing Sal, the maniacally cackling wooden woman...
Reminder from the Calendar of zippythepinhead http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zippythepinhead/cal Penguin Awareness Day Monday January 19, 2004 All Day (This...
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... Thanks for reminding us of Bill's birthday, Jan 20. Unless I am mistaken he is 60 years old. Also, don't forget the Unofficial Calendar (click on Links)...
Birthday Reminder from the Calendar of zippythepinhead http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zippythepinhead/cal Bill Griffith's Birthday! Tuesday January 20, 2004 All...
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Tuesday's strip featured a comment about Marmaduke: the diner patron had been reading the cartoon for 50 years and had never had even one giggle. When I...
Well I'd have to agree with you about dogs in the comic strips, but as to the t.v. cartoon variety I'd have to admit that Ren of "Ren and Stimpy" gave rise to...
... Well, there's always Howard Huge! The only thing less funny than Marmaduke (if we were to suppose such a thing to be possible) would be a blatant...
... Thanks for reminding me of a few I missed. I agree completely with you, Duaniac, about Howard; I just can't comprehend why these utterly lame and...
In today's strip Griffy pays homage to Ernie Bushmiller. I knew he died back in the 80's, but I didn't know they were still publishing the Nancy strip. It...
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