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1. about 16 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Another thing I remember was that the next day, a newspaper said that “it was the first timed the Academy Awards had been streaked”. The question then is, was there another time (afterwards)? I didn’t think so either.

2. about 16 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   What I always wondered or suspected about the incident was the idea that it was planned all along. As I remember it, after hearing the gasps from the audience, is that the streaker ran out and the camera was at just the right angle so his shortcomings et al. were hidden behind David Niven (it did not look like the camera was switched to another angle at the time). The picture in the newspaper had just David Niven’s head in just the right place in front of the streaker. I also remember (and was amused by) how unnerved Elizabeth Taylor was afterwards!

3. about 17 hours ago on Fred Basset

   No dog I’ve ever known takes more than about 5 seconds to fall asleep. I wish I could do that.

4. about 17 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   As for the pictures on the cereal boxes, with the "complete breakfast including eggs, toast, a glass of milk, and orange juice (and maybe something else), even as a kid I wondered why, if you’re having all this other good stuff, one would ever bother with having the cereal too.

5. about 17 hours ago on Doonesbury

   True. Two girls I knew in college were examples of this. The parents who were the nicest, most friendly people one could imagine had the weirded out daughter (not a bad person, just very distant and rather out of it); and the parents who were the oddballs, possibly old beatniks, had the completely normal daughter.

6. 3 days ago on Working Daze

   “I have something that no rich person will ever have: enough.”

7. 3 days ago on Adam@Home

   I’m a foot taller than my 5’ 1" wife, so when I bend down to kiss her I tell her that she is “bringing me down to her level”. Also, I’ve noticed, and this is a serious observation, that when I get down and look around from her eye level, my thoughts are that the world now seems to be a much bigger place (the kitchen with its high shelves certainly is)!

8. 3 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Okay, thanks for the information. I’m a bit of a history buff but wasn’t up on that part. I have Irish Catholic ancestors who emigrated to Maryland but that wasn’t until the 19th century (and they ended up owning a brewery!).

9. 4 days ago on FoxTrot

   Bastille Day is of course a big deal in France, but I always wondered why it was also celebrated (to some extent anyway) in Quebec. By the time of the French Revolution, Quebec was no longer a French possession and Quebec would have had nothing to do with the events in France (that would be like Americans celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday, I suppose). But I see it as maintaining an immigrant’s connection to the culture of “the old country”. After all, Cinco de Mayo is isn’t really celebrated by Mexicans in Mexico as much as it is celebrated (at least initially) by Mexican-Americans in the US (and has since evolved to the mainstream)… much like corned beef and cabbage being much more “Irish-American” than “Irish”.

10. 4 days ago on FoxTrot

    I never understood why Columbus Day should be an Italian-American celebration. Sure, Columbus himself was Italian, but that’s about it. He sailed in a Spanish expedition, and Spain (and Portugal) initially reaped the rewards of his “discovery” (and most of Latin America and a good portion of the US now speaks Spanish, not Italian). None of the various Italian states, such as Venice or Genoa, had anything to do with it. The crowning of an Italian-American girl as “Queen Isabella” for the Columbus Day parade in NYC is really too much (do they even still do that?). I might add that when I was a Federal employee, we got Columbus Day off as a paid holiday, and I always thought that was silly, at best.