When camping you try to make a homemade MoonPie,
that S’more.
When the moon hits your eye like a female Canadian pop singer,
That’s AnneMurray.
When Thanksgiving is seen on your SDMB screen,
That’s Orson Bean.
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Astronomers at Hawaii’s Haleakala Observatory reported in the January issue of the *Journal of Lunar Reflection and Bad Puns Over There Quarterly *that if the moon hits your eye like an eel in the sky, that’s a moray. If the moon hits your eye like an indigenous Polynesian in the sky, that’s a Maori, and if the moon hits your eye like an impressionistic water lily in the sky, that’s a Monet.
Claude Monet could tell what time it was by observing the sunlight coming through the window onto a wall. Orson Bean can tell a bad pun anytime.
Claude Monet was at one time very rich, making money hand-over-fist selling impressionist masterpieces to affluent patrons worldwide. However when his wife Allie caught him sharing oils with another woman, she divorced Claude in the famous case that set the standard for court-ordered post-marital provisions. Monet then married his mistress Annie, a respected botanist most remembered now for the flower that bears her name. They had one daughter, Sarah, who invented the ritual celebration.
My great-great-great-great grandmother was the “love child” of Annie and Monet, but got nothing in their wills.
Stingy bastards.
Tommy James and the Shondells originally titled their hit song “Monet Monet”, but critics didn’t have a favorable impression of it.
Ditto Barrett Strong’s “Monet” (and the Beatles cover of it) and ABBA’s “Monet, Monet, Monet.”
Monet suffered as a starving artist until he hit upon the idea of painting pictures of haystacks at various times of day. The changes in palate allowed shoppers to find a palette that matched the living room furniture and his fortune was made.
Monet remained a starving artist even after fame and fortune were his. He was notoriously inept in the kitchen, and shopping consisted of him opening his front door and shouting for food. “Where’s the toast?” was often heard over the countryside, and at one point he was arrested for gnawing on a neighbor’s cow.
Whenever the police went to arrest Monet, they always found him hiding atop one of the very haystacks he liked to paint. They’d cuff him and take him to the station, but thanks to his wealth, Monet was again soon out on bale.
In addition to being a talented painter, Claude Monet was also a musician and composer. He composed extensively in what was, at the time, considered to be a discordant, avant-garde style, and his music never became popular.
As it turned out, he was simply decades ahead of his time, as his compositions foreshadowed rock music. In 1968, Tommy James and the Shondells had a top-10 hit based on one of the long-dead painter’s songs, “Monet Monet.”
See post 10707 above. 
The Claude Monet Museum is located in Westchester County, New York, in the village of Tuckahoe (ZIP Code 10707). This museum does not, in fact, have any Monet originals, though it does have a wide collection of postcards of Monet’s works, and an autographed photo of Tommy James and the Shondells.
Tommy James and the Shondells have been recording hit after hit since 1953, although the band’s membership has varied enormously over the years. There were initially 3 Shondells, which grew to 16 by 1966 and a whopping 413 by 1981 (many concert halls refused to book the band due to lack of space on stage). After a steady decline variously blamed by fans on old age, global climate change, rabid weasels and Pauly Shore, there are now just 22 Shondells.
Orson Bean was briefly a Shondell, in the summer of 1973; he played second cowbell, and also had a flugelhorn solo on the underrated song “Sweet Home Blawnox.”
Other famous Shondells include Mitt Romney (1999-2004), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1955-1957), Michael Jordan (June 2-17, 2000) and Pauly Shore (2014-present).
A shondell is a small, parasitic worm (echinacoccus shondellus trumpus) that can infest ones colon,brain and large toe. It has been known to cause blatheration, pompositude, braggadocio and comboverness in it’s host.