Send them here.
Not sure if it’s sad or useful; either way it is interesting.
Interesting and a good idea I guess, but a little sad. I can understand their need to explain Bruce Ismay and Mathew Brady, but slinky and Hawaii Five-O? If you need crib notes for those, well, you may not even know what an encyclopedia is in the first place.
Am I the only one who thinks Dennis Miller pretends he’s smarter and more well read than he is? I get the feeling he just skims the Coles notes and jots down references that he’ll try to work into a bit someday.
Last night on Monday Night Football he referred to “Flowers for Algernon.” I still can’t figure out what he was talking about even though i’ve read the book.
I think he’s hysterical, but yeah, I still get stumped sometimes.
And yeah, I think he goes out of his way to take note of obscure references.
Last night he finally got Al to laugh. It was a Jerry Lewis reference though. I guess Al doesn’t have any Cole notes.
Hmmmm… This thread looks familiar. In fact, it looks a lot like one I started last week.
Oh, well, imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery.
Reminds me of a site I saw with the lyrics to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire with almost every word being a link to a reference on that topic. I guess that’s what passes for cultural literacy now. I’ve always thought that song was written by flipping through the answers on a deck of trivial pursuit cards (baby boomer edition.)
What are Coles notes? Is that like Cliff’s Notes?
I don’t complain that I don’t get Dennis Miller.
I DO, however, complain that he called off his scheduled appearance in my town last Friday night. I had front-row seats, dammit…
Yeah, Coles notes are like Cliff’s notes, I believe. But maybe I got the name wrong.
I do think DM can be funny, but some of his remarks come off as unnecessarily highbrow. Fer Instance, from that site he says: “We got Vic Fangio versus Dom Capers tonight. I feel like I’m readin’ a Mario Puzo novel.”
What he means is: “They got funny names!” His thought isn’t clever, just the wording.
Yeah Padeye, I think you’re right.
And occasionally someone doesn’t see the first post, like when I mentioned/linked to the Britannica site waaayy back here on 9/14. No biggie, jab1, and thanks for the flattery. 
anybody play along with MNF and make Millerian quotes?
Remember the Jets game, he’s talking about Tupa never having a punt returned for a TD, so I say…<badmillerimp>
So XXX is attempting the Sisyphean task of retruning a Tupa punt </badmillerimp>, someone else does one…
(ok there was alot of chicken wings and beer there…)
sarcasm is the phoniest form of flattery…
I love Dennis Miller-I seriously want him to run for president.
Who here read Rants, and Ranting Again?
I HAVE to get my hands on a copy of I Rant, Therefore I Am.
Sorry, guys 
At least I’m holding up my reputation of being late for everything 
I just love it when Miller trips up Dan Fouts, cutting in with some obscure reference, just when Fouts is about to say something immediately relevant to the play on field. This seems to happen a couple of times per game.
I’ve read Ranting Again and have The Rants on books on tape (read, of course, by Miller). The book on tape version is awesome. It stayed in the tape deck of my truck for months. It got to the point that I could rant right along with him.
Yeah, I need to get I Rant Therefore I Am as well.
:o