“Put the candle back.” My husband and I quote movies frequently and Young Frankenstein most often. I like to say I know a lot of trivia because I have a trivial mind.
A few years ago my husband and I recited the 1959 White Sox batting order. Of course, it wasn't a problem. Can't remember the conversation we had a day ago.
I love the silly string concept. I’ve been hearing the theme from I Spy in my head all day. I know a hundred cartoon characters and themes. Saturday mornings were the scrolling addiction of the 60’s. Loved those quotes too. So many. “ I’m
gonna get me a bottle of tequila and a Keno girl who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.”- Willie Nelson in “Electric Horseman”- an underrated Redford film.
Thanks to this delightful post, I now have two things stuck in my head: the word "sumptuous," which I will probably try to work into a sentence every day from now on....And "The Last Train to Clarksville," which I played on endless repeat (along with many other songs by the Monkees) when I was in junior high. I had all but forgotten it. Thanks. It could have been way worse. Keep em coming.
My girlfriends and I also quote from "Young Frankenstein" frequently, and another favorite is "Everbody wants to be me" and "I'm tacky" from Goldie Hawn in "Overboard".
Is it just me or have you even slightly changed your style a bit. And not for the better, methinks. Use the new medium, ok, but not a different Chris, por favor.
I’m reading your substance post backwards from newest to oldest. I’m about five or six behind because of what I don’t know and the annoying little habit it has of going back to the beginning once you read one and comment. It’s still the same. I will always read your columns.
Chris, I am reading this on a train heading for Brighton in England, and you have soothed any tiny scrap of homesickness I may have floating about. Let me buy you a martini one day.
Love that you mentioned Ernie Banks HR total. It was actually 513 because I was watching a game played in Montreal's Jarry Park, he actually hit one out over the chain link fence in right center but the lighting was so bad the ump called it a ground rule double. Ernie never said anything but when I got to meet him at a charity event years later I told him that Cubs' TV announcer Jack Brickhouse went nuts. Ernie pulled me aside and said that outfielder Rusty Staub (who the Expos fan affectionally referred to as "Le Grand Orange") came to the Cubs' locker room after the game and told him it was a home run.
A hymn to deviance and randomness and the uncommonly common. Variation uber allen. I totally dig it, though it often buries me in trivia, hence the celebrations. Digging out is half the fun, getting buried the other half. Thus do miners wear two party hats, though sadly many adults wear none. Where's the fun in that?
My favorite from Addams Family Values:
Morticia: So... you still desire me after all these years? The old ball and chain?
Gomez: Forever!
Morticia: I'll get them!
“Put the candle back.” My husband and I quote movies frequently and Young Frankenstein most often. I like to say I know a lot of trivia because I have a trivial mind.
A few years ago my husband and I recited the 1959 White Sox batting order. Of course, it wasn't a problem. Can't remember the conversation we had a day ago.
1959 White Sox v Dodgers. World Series LA Coliseum.
WS center fielder a LA Loyola HS kid, Mickey McIlhenny(?).
The Loyola HS kid was that played in the 1959 World Series for the WS was Jim McAnany.
Yep! I attended the game he pitched along with my buddy Dick Garcia who was a catcher for the Loyola Cubs
I love the silly string concept. I’ve been hearing the theme from I Spy in my head all day. I know a hundred cartoon characters and themes. Saturday mornings were the scrolling addiction of the 60’s. Loved those quotes too. So many. “ I’m
gonna get me a bottle of tequila and a Keno girl who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.”- Willie Nelson in “Electric Horseman”- an underrated Redford film.
Thanks to this delightful post, I now have two things stuck in my head: the word "sumptuous," which I will probably try to work into a sentence every day from now on....And "The Last Train to Clarksville," which I played on endless repeat (along with many other songs by the Monkees) when I was in junior high. I had all but forgotten it. Thanks. It could have been way worse. Keep em coming.
My girlfriends and I also quote from "Young Frankenstein" frequently, and another favorite is "Everbody wants to be me" and "I'm tacky" from Goldie Hawn in "Overboard".
If you compound 1% better each day, in only 70 days you should be 100% better.
See? Knew it would work.
Another delightful ramble. Keep them coming.
Is it just me or have you even slightly changed your style a bit. And not for the better, methinks. Use the new medium, ok, but not a different Chris, por favor.
I’m reading your substance post backwards from newest to oldest. I’m about five or six behind because of what I don’t know and the annoying little habit it has of going back to the beginning once you read one and comment. It’s still the same. I will always read your columns.
Chris, I am reading this on a train heading for Brighton in England, and you have soothed any tiny scrap of homesickness I may have floating about. Let me buy you a martini one day.
Love that you mentioned Ernie Banks HR total. It was actually 513 because I was watching a game played in Montreal's Jarry Park, he actually hit one out over the chain link fence in right center but the lighting was so bad the ump called it a ground rule double. Ernie never said anything but when I got to meet him at a charity event years later I told him that Cubs' TV announcer Jack Brickhouse went nuts. Ernie pulled me aside and said that outfielder Rusty Staub (who the Expos fan affectionally referred to as "Le Grand Orange") came to the Cubs' locker room after the game and told him it was a home run.
A hymn to deviance and randomness and the uncommonly common. Variation uber allen. I totally dig it, though it often buries me in trivia, hence the celebrations. Digging out is half the fun, getting buried the other half. Thus do miners wear two party hats, though sadly many adults wear none. Where's the fun in that?