Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his brother Sacha were both born on December 25 but that was no coincidence.
This is pretty trivial, but in the 80s we were playing charades, and my partner and I briefly discussed using the movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek,” even briefly acting out how one might communicate that, but decided it was unfairly obscure.
Lo and behold, his brother was on the other team (the three of us had seen the movie about a decade before), and had no such scruples about using it. Less than five seconds.
[I had forgotten all about this until last night, when I saw virtually the same thing reenacted on “Mama’s Family”, though it was “The Scarlet Pimpernel” in that case]
The house we rent has an overgrown, wooded lot next door – “For Sale” sign badly obscured, a few old tires tossed in there. Our fenced backyard has hedges covering 2 of the 3 property lines; the un-hedged one is the shared line with the wooded lot. The hedges have gone ape-shit over the last 2 years, so I finally got out the trimming tools and set to work. It’s hot, it’s humid. It took me 5 weeks of every-other-day 3-hour shifts to get the job done. (Helpful tip: use the right tools. I didn’t.) Being a bad, bad, bad boy, I tossed the trimmings over the fence into the wooded lot. I finished last Saturday. Monday morning (and without any warning): here comes the landscaping crew to clear the lot for a new house! Bye-bye, hedge trimmings.
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop (Catholic upbringing).
I really pissed off my 9th grade guitar teacher the day we played Musical Charades for class. I offered, Also Sprach Zarathustra. He knew it was me. Daggers from his eyes.
Oh, no, the landscapers taking your clippings was the Good Lord’s way of saying “Hey, you worked enough on that hedge (probably too hard, buy or rent some good tools, man). So here’s a little break!”
“And don’t forget, I invented hops and grapes, so have yourself a drink to celebrate.”
^ You’re a good soul, you are! My wife has a wine cooler in the fridge; it’s mine, now and I’m drinking a toast to you, digs. Salud!
I’m raising my Rum/Sprite/lime juice/Angostura Bitters back atcha!
When I was in college in Middletown CT back in the 80’s we decided one Halloween to take acid and drive to Providence RI (about 2 hours) to see my roomate’s band play a little bar. We did have a DD at least… On the way, as the LSD took effect, we kept seeing this guy in a Gorilla suit driving in the same direction… OK. It’s Halloween, right? We saw him multiple times as he or we stopped then overtook each other, and waved. Got to Providence, attempted to eat some food and failed (acid), and went to the bar where the band was setting up. Things were humming along nicely. Providence is a small city but not a small town, and this was anything but the city center. In walks the Gorilla–“Hey, I saw you guys on the highway!!!” Only on acid…
^ That’s a great story; I love it!
I am about to get an enlarged lymph node removed from near my iliac artery. My diceware generator generated a passphrase with the word “iliac” included.
My father was walking down Michigan Ave. in Chicago when he bumped into his brother. Neither one of them lived in Chicago, or knew the other one was in town.
When I was 29 I started a new job. Sitting at the desk next to mine was my high school girlfriend’s bff. It was quite the reunion.
I remember you!
I remember you!
I didn’t like you.
I didn’t like you, either.
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Many, many years ago, I asked a question on one of the IMDB boards to try to identify two ‘beach’ movies that I had fragmentary memories of. Both movies were successfully *identifed. Some years after that, TCM showed both of them for the first time on that network back to back!
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I saw this in the doc on Carl Laemmle’s life (founder of Universal movie studio) This is probably apocryphal, but, anyway. . .
When Laemmle came to the US, he was attempting to reach his brother, who had preceded him here. All that he knew was that he was in Chicago. Someone suggested that he write a letter to Chicago newspapers and ask them if they would print his request. One of those secretaries who opened the letter was. . . brother Joseph Laemmle! (Pretty certainly manufactured movie studio lore, but it was presented as fact.)
Side note: One of the lines in the doc was something like “He created make-believe monsters, and saved hundreds from a real one.”
*If you’re interested, the movies were “Ride the Wild Surf” and “For Those Who Think Young,” which features a pre-Gilligan Bob Denver and Tina Louise, although they didn’t have any scenes together.
When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, one of my favourite television shows was You Can’t Do That On Television, a children’s sketch comedy show hosted by Christine “Moose” McGlade. (I understand that an awful lot of Dopers had a crush on her when they were kids.)
In 2000, I moved some 2500 km from my hometown to attend university in Toronto. By sheer coincidence, the home I rented turned out to be just down the street from Christine McGlade’s house.
Unfortunately, the two of us never met. In fact, I had no idea that she was my neighbour until after I moved away and chanced upon some document listing her address. (I think she may have had it listed on her web page at one point, since she was running a production company out of her home.) For all I know we may have passed each other in the street dozens of times without my having recognized her.
And that’s how I met your Mother!
Have you seen the recent Hershey’s commercial?: Father and HS freshman-age son are sharing a Hershey bar in the SUV when the son asks What was your favorite part of high school? Father, without missing a beat, exclaims Making out with your mother! Kid does wide-eyed double take as the father laughs maniacally. Highly amusing.
Humm… Hershey Bar. Yeah, that plays.
Years ago, I was in Ocean City on vacation. One day I bought a couple days worth of seafood at a small stand. The owner was apparently a big Orioles fan, the place was decked out in O’s memorabilia, especially Cal Ripken, who was closing in on Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games record of 2130.
Well, my order totaled $21.30.
I grinned to the owner, “Wow, that’s a really good price!” He thanked me without realizing what I meant, so I repeated it, “Good price!”, pointing at a poster of Ripken. We both got a good laugh.
Been working on some sheetrock repair down the road. Lots of filling and sanding. Jumped in the car to go toss the first coat of paint on the repair, hit the stereo button and on comes Primer Coat by The Drive-By Truckers
Earlier this week I was watching a TV show. One of the characters was Gary Newman. I started making
comments about Gary Numan, the song Cars, etc. I did it enough to get a “shut up and watch the show”.
The next TV show was a different series. It also had a Gary Newman.
I once logged onto a website and was instructed to type in the one-time code 19675734.
1967 was the Gregorian calendar year of the Six-Day War, and 5734 was the Hebrew calendar year of the Yom Kippur War.
My Wednesday night routine of late has been to watch a couple of episodes of Brooklyn 99 on Peacock. Coincidentally tonight, the night before Thanksgiving, the next episode up was a Thanksgiving episode.