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1. about 12 hours ago on Working Daze

   That was the very first broadcast episode of The Time Tunnel! Actually the most memorable part was that Michael Rennie played Captain Smith. We don’t know if Doug and Tony stopped the sinking, because they got “rescued” via the Time Tunnel when getting blown off the deck in an explosion, but before the ship would have sunk (I’ll bet that it still did). After that they landed in 1978, 10 years in the future from 1968, when The Time Tunnel was supposed to be taking place.

   (Thinking back, I suspect I might have watched the show more to see Lee Meriwether than for any other reason)

2. 1 day 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.

3. 1 day 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!

4. 1 day 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.

5. 1 day 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.

6. 1 day 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.

7. 3 days ago on Working Daze

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

8. 4 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)!

9. 4 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!).

10. 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”.