Battle of the Network Stars Open Thread

How about a little Battle of the Network Stars' T&A?

Jan Smithers -- "Bailey" on WKRP -- gets into the dunk tank.

For the ladies: the race between Robert Conrad and 70s heart-throb Gabe Kaplan.

Posted by: Ace at 12:08 PM

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1 Afternoon

Posted by: Ann at December 26, 2024 12:08 PM (4neFu)

2 Good old fashion jiggle

Posted by: steevy at December 26, 2024 12:09 PM (KQk9m)

3 When was Gabe Kaplan a heartthrob?

Posted by: Ann at December 26, 2024 12:09 PM (4neFu)

4 Okay…so what was happening that made looking these videos a thing? Or do I even want to know?

Posted by: Piper at December 26, 2024 12:09 PM (2N3ca)

5 Afternoon Ace. Mmmm Jan Smithers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2024 12:11 PM (URPU1)

6 Ancient TV stuff.... looks almost... alien.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2024 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)

7 Damn, Jan Smithers. Yowza.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (v6JzV)

8 The 60’s and 70’s were the braless age ( for some ) yes??

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Hi, Piper. Hope you had a great Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (v6JzV)

11 Sid graced us with his presence and willowed the last thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Peak Americana.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (fs1hN)

13 70's heart throb?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Big day

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (5Cy8I)

15 13 70's heart throb?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Boss Snark, Sponge, Boss Snark…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

16 I ran into Ms. Smithers up in Maine some time ago. A very nice lady. I tried to not be an asshoe, but well, you know - I'm pretty sure my asshoe meter has long been inoperative.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:14 PM (WXNFJ)

17 The actress who played Kotter's wife was quite attractive, as I recall.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:14 PM (v6JzV)

18 4 Okay…so what was happening that made looking these videos a thing? Or do I even want to know?
Posted by: Piper
---

Million dollar men and million dollar women, now it's all gay.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 12:15 PM (5Cy8I)

19 The wonderful part is that we knew they were women. I miss those times.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 12:15 PM (lXCUP)

20 I ran into Ms. Smithers up in Maine some time ago. A very nice lady. I tried to not be an asshoe, but well, you know - I'm pretty sure my asshoe meter has long been inoperative.
Posted by: Tonypete

She, like Cathy Ireland has aged very well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:15 PM (v6JzV)

21 Well, I’ll repeat what I just said below.

Horde! Headed to the airport and then on to London. I’ll do my best to stay in contact. Love yall, have a happy new year!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:16 PM (3nqLb)

22 Consider we used to watch TV in a 4:3 format.

We were monsters back then.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at December 26, 2024 12:16 PM (sMwSS)

23 Battle of the Network Stars made a man of me. Also Hee Haw.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Y6IkP)

24 Perverted sex is now the only sanctioned sex by “ them”… hetero sex portrayals is a vanishing thing… Deviant Puritanism, or something…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

25 Posted by: BCochran1981

Have a great trip! Say hi to King Tampon for us.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (v6JzV)

26
Boss Snark, Sponge, Boss Snark…
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

It was so subtle, I hardly noticed. He's usually so much more brazen than that.

I mean, they guy coined "Sweetdick Honeycum."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Also Hee Haw.
Posted by: banana Dream

Misty Rowe or Barbie Benton?

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (v6JzV)

28 Cathy Ireland seems a nice lady gracefully entering into old age…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (PCK5/)

29 Those shows were taped at Pepperdine U, on the same fields where they hold their graduations.

Posted by: Bud Norton at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (6cOMd)

30
I miss Howard Cosell. He had an amazing voice.

Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (pSotA)

31 Safe travels, BCochran1981!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (lXCUP)

32 Sweet merciful Lord, protect us.

My wife, my Far Too Good For Me Wife, is the most outrageously aggressive road raging driver ever in the history of vehicles.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (3nqLb)

33
She, like Cathy Ireland has aged very well.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:15 PM (v6JzV)

__________

There are - thank God! - women who look great even when they're older. I'm married to one. 71 years old and still a fox.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (dxSpM)

34
Horde! Headed to the airport and then on to London. I’ll do my best to stay in contact. Love yall, have a happy new year!
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:16 PM (3nqLb)

Safe travels!

Try to avoid the acid baths on the bridges there. I hear they're torture.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

35 She, like Cathy Ireland has aged very well.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:15 PM (v6JzV)

Didn't Heather Locklear have a rough go?

Like she's been arrested a few times, and looks like she's been run over by a fishmonger's cart?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (+H+tg)

36 There are - thank God! - women who look great even when they're older. I'm married to one. 71 years old and still a fox.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If only she would learn to drive under 50 mph.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (v6JzV)

37
I miss Howard Cosell. He had an amazing voice.
Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (pSotA)

_________

I am not and never was an admirer of Howard Cosell.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (dxSpM)

38 Those shows were taped at Pepperdine U, on the same fields where they hold their graduations.
Posted by: Bud Norton at December 26, 2024 12:18 PM (6cOMd)

And the sets and props used for the show were fabulous!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (8zz6B)

39 Randi Oakes was the most prolific of the dunk tankers. She was plunked into the water 16 times.

Posted by: Wet Willie at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (G5+As)

40 Didn't Heather Locklear have a rough go?

Like she's been arrested a few times, and looks like she's been run over by a fishmonger's cart?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (+H+tg)

She was married to Richie Sambora for quite some time. Being subject to that much shitty Bon Jovi music takes it's toll.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

41 "Get on the right side of the road, ya stupid Limeys!"

Posted by: BCochran1981's Wife at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (i0F8b)

42 34

Safe travels!

Try to avoid the acid baths on the bridges there. I hear they're torture.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

World has gone to shit in a lot of places… the usual suspects…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (PCK5/)

43 I met Robert Conrad once when he visited NAS Pensacola in the early 1990s. He was being given a tour of the base and stopped at the simulator building which housed the flight trainers for the T-34, T-2 and A-4. I was the COTR overseeing the civilian maintenance program on said simulators.

He was just a little guy.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (Y1sOo)

44 29 Those shows were taped at Pepperdine U, on the same fields where they hold their graduations.

pepperdine makes their graduates run an obstacle course to pick up their sheepskins? brutal.

Posted by: anachronda at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (IKg+A)

45 It's incredible that such cheesy voyeuristic material was ever put on network TV, let alone only a few decades ago. Hotties in skimpy attire strutting and preening before falling into a wet-t-shirt tank?

No way that could be done today. At least not unless the dunkees were perverted trannies or Lizzo.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

46 Sargon just did a bit that compared Pamela Anderson, who has aged gracefully, to Madonna, who looks like a gelfling from the Dark Crystal.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (lhenN)

47 Fuck. No. She’s not driving when we get there. No sir.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (3nqLb)

48 I used to love Battle of the Network stars when I was a kid. I can't see the videos at work but i have a vague memory of being really surprised at how fast Gabe Kaplan could run.
The other memory i had was being impressed by Mark Harmon being good at almost everything; if memory serves, he was some kind of college athlete, maybe the feetsball.
And of course, seeing my favorite leading ladies in tshirts and shorts. Even as a little kid, i was captivated.

Posted by: Nelly at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (bcr4y)

49 Consider we used to watch TV in a 4:3 format.

We were monsters back then.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

I'm so old, I remember when having a 26" color tv meant you were from the rich side of the tracks.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (H9VzD)

50 Re: yacht rock and rap in the sidebar. I submit that Rapper's Delight is yacht rock.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 12:22 PM (Dm8we)

51
If only she would learn to drive under 50 mph.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:20 PM (v6JzV)

_________

She learned to drive in India. Nuff sed. New York cabbies are scared of her.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:22 PM (dxSpM)

52 "What are you thinking about Robert?"
"Is that Locklear or Thomas?"

lol, he captured what a lot of people used to wonder too. The great thing is, as a teenage boy, it didn't matter if you got them mixed up.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 26, 2024 12:22 PM (NMT5x)

53 She was married to Richie Sambora for quite some time. Being subject to that much shitty Bon Jovi music takes it's toll.

*******************

Which goes to show being married to soygots is bad for your health

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at December 26, 2024 12:22 PM (sMwSS)

54 There's a meme out their of a photo of Cosell standing between Bruce Jenner and OJ, and the caption is something like. "If he could see them now." (This was before OJ was mort, of course.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:22 PM (v6JzV)

55 I used to love Battle of the Network stars when I was a kid. I can't see the videos at work but i have a vague memory of being really surprised at how fast Gabe Kaplan could run.

Getting beat up in school every day taught one to run fast.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 26, 2024 12:23 PM (H9VzD)

56 Horde! Headed to the airport and then on to London. I’ll do my best to stay in contact. Love yall, have a happy new year!
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:16 PM (3nqLb)

Don't forget to take your Koran Toilet Paper. They don't sell it over there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2024 12:23 PM (8zz6B)

57
The 70's. What a time to be alive.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 26, 2024 12:23 PM (+oR7L)

58 The other memory i had was being impressed by Mark Harmon being good at almost everything; if memory serves, he was some kind of college athlete, maybe the feetsball.
And of course, seeing my favorite leading ladies in tshirts and shorts. Even as a little kid, i was captivated.
Posted by: Nelly at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (bcr4y)

He was a QB.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

59 We used to be a proper Country.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 26, 2024 12:23 PM (xaNfJ)

60 Bruce Jenner is a man's man!

What people said in 1977 unironically.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (taOK4)

61 >>> Okay…so what was happening that made looking these videos a thing? Or do I even want to know?
Posted by: Piper at December 26, 2024 12:09 PM (2N3ca)

Basically they took various stars from different TV shows and had them compete in made-up state fair style sports. Like three legged races, and dunk tanks, etc..

For my part, many of the women were on shows where they normally wore suits or dresses etc. Normal beautiful women. But on BOTNS some of them would be in swimming suits or track suits for the first time. And all the camera men were very generous. Everyone was smiling and laughing, everyone having a good time.

It was the nice intersection of mostly wholesome fun and sexy that rarely exists these days.

I was in my early teens, naïve but in love with every woman I saw.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Y6IkP)

62 Bruce Jenner is a man's man!

What people said in 1977 unironically.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (taOK4)

He might be proof that too much easy tail can change a guy.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

63 60 Bruce Jenner is a man's man!

What people said in 1977 unironically.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (taOK4)

The Kardashian Effect, I maintain…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:24 PM (PCK5/)

64 >>if memory serves, he was some kind of college athlete

Quarterback at UCLA

Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2024 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)

65 The other memory i had was being impressed by Mark Harmon being good at almost everything; if memory serves, he was some kind of college athlete, maybe the feetsball.
And of course, seeing my favorite leading ladies in tshirts and shorts. Even as a little kid, i was captivated.
Posted by: Nelly at December 26, 2024 12:21 PM (bcr4y)

He was a QB.
Posted by: Sponge

I think you're thinking of his father, Tom Harmon. He was QB at Michigan and won the Heisman, in 1940(?).

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:25 PM (v6JzV)

66 They put Danielle Brisebois into the dunk tank at 14 or 15 years old. Prolly go to jail for that now.

Posted by: She Had A "Stage Mom" at December 26, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)

67 Perverted sex is now the only sanctioned sex by “ them”… hetero sex portrayals is a vanishing thing… Deviant Puritanism, or something…
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

I've seen more teevee in the past week than I do all year.

I can't stand the interracial commercials, not because I'm opposed to interracial couples, but I resent you forcing it down my throat. Also the gay couples. Stop it!

Oddly enough though, jewelry commercials appear to be mostly hetero. I wonder if that's just simply because the gays don't buy it in large enough numbers.

Lesbians may sure like their Wendy's ice cream, and the gays may love fabric softener, but if you want to sell rings, you get the normies to smooch on camera.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2024 12:26 PM (JwsKw)

68 Jan Smithers was way hotter than Loni. Fight me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:26 PM (v6JzV)

69 I also remember that bras were very very optional during that time.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:26 PM (Y6IkP)

70 66 They put Danielle Brisebois into the dunk tank at 14 or 15 years old. Prolly go to jail for that now.
Posted by: She Had A "Stage Mom" at December 26, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)

Of course talking her into cutting off her teenage breasts is totes okay now… progress… bullshit.

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (PCK5/)

71 >>Tom Harmon. He was QB at Michigan

Halfback

Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (Y1sOo)

72 He was just a little guy.
Posted by: one hour sober

Schwarzenegger and Cruise are very short also.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (WXNFJ)

73
"I am not and never was an admirer of Howard Cosell."

Are you proud?

Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (pSotA)

74 Barbie Benton

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (fwDg9)

75 The 80's were the age of "jiggle TV." It was quite the sight to behold. The list of shows with gratuitous T&A was impressive. Like at least one every weeknight and bonus shows on the weekends.

I miss those days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2024 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

76 Still no mention of the SNL skit of that day.

Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:29 PM (i0F8b)

77 Tom Harmon. He was QB at Michigan

Halfback
Posted by: one hour sober

I stand corrected. You'd think I would've known the correct position. Damn.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:29 PM (v6JzV)

78 Schwarzenegger and Cruise are very short also.
Posted by: Tonypete

Redford as well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:29 PM (v6JzV)

79 No way that could be done today. At least not unless the dunkees were perverted trannies....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Oh hey, now there's a beauty in her bathing suit. Let's follow her up the steps to the dunk tank. Bob, pan down and zoom in and...oh sweet lord, what is THAT???

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 26, 2024 12:29 PM (NMT5x)

80 Nice wholesome 70's and 80's T&A. We use to be a proper country...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 26, 2024 12:30 PM (TN5A0)

81
I think you're thinking of his father, Tom Harmon. He was QB at Michigan and won the Heisman, in 1940(?).
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:25 PM (v6JzV)

Mark Harmon started as QB for the UCLA Bruins in 72 and 73.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

82 Petticoat Junction was way ahead of its time.

Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:30 PM (i0F8b)

83
Battle of the Network Stars

The inspiration for part of my nickname here -- jazzed up and re-contextualized, of course

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 26, 2024 12:31 PM (xG4kz)

84 I think you're thinking of his father, Tom Harmon. He was QB at Michigan and won the Heisman, in 1940(?).
Posted by: Bulg

Mark Harmon was the quarterback for UCLA in the early 70's.

Posted by: Tuna at December 26, 2024 12:31 PM (oaGWv)

85 Jan Smithers was way hotter than Loni. Fight me.
Posted by: Bulg

Nothing to fight about.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 26, 2024 12:32 PM (H9VzD)

86
Fvck, was Bob Conrad a heavy smoker or something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (O/0gI)

87
I miss those days.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2024 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

_________

Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer (though not our Mike Hammer). Long-legged, big-boobed ladies who never wore bras.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (dxSpM)

88
Oh hey, now there's a beauty in her bathing suit. Let's follow her up the steps to the dunk tank. Bob, pan down and zoom in and...oh sweet lord, what is THAT???

I warned y'all

Posted by: Tone Loc at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)

89 but if you want to sell rings, you get the normies to smooch on camera.

Dude. It's Zales.
Where every fuck ends with Kay.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (zdLoL)

90 62
'He might be proof that too much easy tail can change a guy.......'

Damn, I'm lucky I never had to face that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (3wi/L)

91 8 The 60’s and 70’s were the braless age ( for some ) yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (PCK5/)
________
It was a wonderful time to be young. Miniskirts, too.

And no girls had penises.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (1bNHn)

92 those were fantastic clips thanks ace!

btw did anyone watch that weird as sh*t beyonce thing yesterday?!?!

It looked like the mummers parade meets the gayest army ever

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (Pv3Rg)

93

SNL's classic Battle of the T&A Stars was filmed at the athletic field of my alma mater, Brooklyn College as were some of the exteriors of "Debbie Does Dallas!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (x0n13)

94 Robert Conrad was great in those First Alert commercials.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (v6JzV)

95 Jennifer vs Baily or Ginger vs Maryanne. Which is the bigger fight?

Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (i0F8b)

96 Oh hey, now there's a beauty in her bathing suit. Let's follow her up the steps to the dunk tank. Bob, pan down and zoom in and...oh sweet lord, what is THAT???

WHAT'D I tell you?
Posted by: Mick Dundee

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (H9VzD)

97 74 Barbie Benton

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (fwDg9)

No 'e' on the end of Barbi!!!!

Posted by: Barbara Klein at December 26, 2024 12:35 PM (aBgBM)

98 I warned y'all

You ain't down wit no Oscar Meyer weina?

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 26, 2024 12:35 PM (NMT5x)

99 ‘He might be proof that too much easy tail can change a guy.......'

Good news, folks. I’ll always be the same asshole I am right now.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:35 PM (pbmKi)

100
WHAT'D I tell you?
Posted by: Mick Dundee
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (H9VzD)

The crock from the movie died the other day. They say it was over 90 years old.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

101 91 8 The 60’s and 70’s were the braless age ( for some ) yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:12 PM (PCK5/)
________
It was a wonderful time to be young. Miniskirts, too.

And no girls had penises.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 26, 2024 12:33 PM (1bNHn)

Watch reruns of American Bandstand and Soul Train from the early 70s!

TUbe tops, Landlubber jeans and giant cork-heel shoes.

As an adolescent and teen at that time all through JHS and High School I had an almost perpetual stiffie!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (x0n13)

102
Famous Celery Trivia:

Who was born "Benjamin Kubelsky" in 1894 and died 50 years ago today in 1974?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (J4gi/)

103 I can't stand the interracial commercials, not because I'm opposed to interracial couples, but I resent you forcing it down my throat. Also the gay couples. Stop it!

White husband, black wife, asian daughter, hispanic son

Can they pander more?

Oddly enough though, jewelry commercials appear to be mostly hetero. I wonder if that's just simply because the gays don't buy it in large enough numbers.

Jewelry is a status thing for heterosexual* women. I don't get it - this expensive shiny rock means you are cool. Oh that cheap shiny rock? LOSER

*well until after marriage of course

Posted by: Tone Loc at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (oZhjI)

104
Good news, folks. I’ll always be the same asshole I am right now.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:35 PM (pbmKi)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Who was born "Benjamin Kubelsky" in 1894 and died 50 years ago today in 1974?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (J4gi/)
----------
Jack Benny

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (6K6Eu)

106 I remember being at Cedar Point in the summer of '74. That was when I noticed all the young ladies wearing halter tops. There was one particularly comely one that is seared into my 9-year-old brain's memory bank.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (v6JzV)

107 Jennifer vs Baily or Ginger vs Maryanne. Which is the bigger fight?
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:34 PM (i0F8b)

Britta vs Alison

and the answer is Alison

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (Y6IkP)

108
Who was born "Benjamin Kubelsky" in 1894 and died 50 years ago today in 1974?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:36 PM (J4gi/)

_______

"Oh, Rochester!" "Yes, boss?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (dxSpM)

109 It was a wonderful time to be young. Miniskirts, too.

And no girls had penises.

Oh how I love a feminine mini-skirt. Nothing flatters a young woman's legs more. And if you can see a hint of lady penis? Oh...chef's kiss!

Posted by: David French at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (oZhjI)

110
Jack Benny
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Lard o' the Sea

Correct!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (J4gi/)

111 55
'i have a vague memory of being really surprised at how fast Gabe Kaplan could run.

Getting beat up in school every day taught one to run fast.'

Was that Lynda Carter that kept kissing him while he was being interviewed?

Don't make the poor man run with a stiffy, Lynda.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (3wi/L)

112 @77 Tom & Mark Harmon did an ad together, early 70s, where they were playing basketball one-on-one. Tom won, very pleased, and then Mark gave that grin, and asked to borrow the car keys.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 26, 2024 12:38 PM (NcvvS)

113 Robert Conrad was history's greatest battery salesman.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2024 12:38 PM (szMU5)

114

And at that time, try to find commercials for Pearl Drops tooth polish with the actress running her tongue across her teeth. Yikes! How the hell did that get past standards and practices on every network and local station.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2024 12:38 PM (x0n13)

115 [Robert Conrad] was just a little guy.

Before Alan Sues played, or "played", a drunken flamer on Laugh-In, he played a cowboy on The Wild Wild West. The director of the episode called Sues aside to ask him to stand in a hole so he wouldn't tower over Conrad in the shot.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 26, 2024 12:38 PM (taOK4)

116 "We wear short-shorts!"

Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:39 PM (i0F8b)

117 Mark Harmon's sister is the woman in the old Tic Tac commercials.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2024 12:39 PM (szMU5)

118
Other famous celeries who died on This Day, Dec 26th:

Harry Truman, d. 1972
President Gerald Ford, d. 2006
NFL Packers Sacker Reggie White, d. 2004

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (J4gi/)

119 Battle of the Network Stars was so popular and such a money-maker (very low production costs) that a spin-off was soon created, Circus of the Stars.

Posted by: Gref at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (aBgBM)

120 [Robert Conrad] was just a little guy.
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Not as short as Larry Manetti, I think.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (6K6Eu)

121 He was just a little guy.
Posted by: one hour sober

Schwarzenegger and Cruise are very short also.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:27 PM (WXNFJ)
____

Cruise is indeed short and very small overall. Ahnuld is not as tall as depicted in movies, but he is not short. There are many pics of him at bodybuilding contests where you can see his barefoot height compared to others. He was taller than the guys in the 5-10 range, but shorter than monsters like Lou Ferrigno.

I think the "Ahnuld is short" idea also stems from that famous pic from the set of Princess Bride where he looks like a midget compared to Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant. He does look tiny. But Wilt and Andre were 7+ feet tall.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

122 116 "We wear short-shorts!"
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2024 12:39 PM (i0F8b)

"TICKLE With the Big Wide Ball!"

A stubby dildo disguised as a woman's deodorant bottle.

Oh the 70s!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (x0n13)

123 Battle of the Network Stars made a man of me. Also Hee Haw.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Y6IkP)

Saaaaaaaaaaaalute!

Posted by: mrp at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (rj6Yv)

124 Jennifer vs Baily or Ginger vs Maryanne. Which is the bigger fight?
Posted by: davidt

I think Ginger vs. Maryanne is the more difficult choice. Baily easily wins her contest.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (v6JzV)

125 SNL's classic Battle of the T&A Stars was filmed at the athletic field of my alma mater, Brooklyn College as were some of the exteriors of "Debbie Does Dallas!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I bet I know where that salsa commercial got their idea.

We're gonna make a film about a girl f***ing everybody in Texas, but film it in New York City.
*New York City????*
*Get a rope*

Nah, no one cared, they were more interested in the interior of Debbie.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (NMT5x)

126

"Oh, Rochester!" "Yes, boss?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You got it, too!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (J4gi/)

127 I remember being at Cedar Point in the summer of '74. That was when I noticed all the young ladies wearing halter tops. There was one particularly comely one that is seared into my 9-year-old brain's memory bank.
Posted by: Bulg

Ah yes, the Point. We didn't know how good we had it. Also, for the uninitiated - there was a picnic pavilion just outside the gates. Folks would drop off their picnic baskets on a table and then go into the park until lunchtime. No one bothered any of the baskets or lunches left on the tables that were not their own.

As I said - It was an amazing time.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (WXNFJ)

128 I still remember the 'ladies' who went topless sitting on blankets in a park. The press loved it and the 'ladies' really needed to keep their bras on, noting to look at. This was in the 70's at the height of the bra less movement. Rather ugly women and sagging tits galore. They probably got arrested, but I don't remember.

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (wlQdF)

129 Cruise is indeed short and very small overall. Ahnuld is not as tall as depicted in movies, but he is not short.
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Arnold is about 5'11". Cruise is about 5'9".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (6K6Eu)

130 >>> Battle of the Network Stars was so popular and such a money-maker (very low production costs) that a spin-off was soon created, Circus of the Stars.
Posted by: Gref at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (aBgBM)

Oh yeah, I remember that too.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (Y6IkP)

131
I think Ginger vs. Maryanne is the more difficult choice. Baily easily wins her contest.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (v6JzV)

I would reverse this statement.

Maryanne wins easily.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

132 102
'The crock from the movie died the other day. They say it was over 90 years old.'

That was a pretty good run for having a Bowie knife stuck into its head.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:42 PM (3wi/L)

133
oh, I forgot famed Baseball pitcher Phil Negro, d. 2020

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4gi/)

134
That was a pretty good run for having a Bowie knife stuck into its head.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:42 PM (3wi/L)

They say crock's brains are small, so Dundee must've missed the vitals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

135 And let's not forget Samantha vs. Jeannie.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)

136 I think they stole the idea from the Laff-A-Lympics, which also sucked.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (Dm8we)

137
Neikro

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

138 Mark Harmon's sister is the woman in the old Tic Tac commercials.
Posted by: Mark1971

Oh, that would be Kelly Harmon. A mondo babe. A babealonya!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (WXNFJ)

139 Robert Conrad autographed my baseball mitt when I saw him at the Sikeston Rodeo. Probably late 60's or early 70's.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (hoCmQ)

140 oh, I forgot famed Baseball pitcher Phil Negro, d. 2020
Posted by: Soothsayer

Phil of Color.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)

141 Tom Cruise is 5’9””?? That is not tiny…. seen all the Aztecs running around lately??

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (PCK5/)

142 oh, I forgot famed Baseball pitcher Phil Negro, d. 2020
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4gi/)

Unintentional racism.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

143 Any vid of Brianne Leary? Recently saw an old Match Game where she was a contestant. 19 she was. Looked damn good.

Only person to have been both a contestant and a panelist on the game.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (0eaVi)

144 Schwarzenegger and Cruise are very short also.
Posted by: Tonypete

Redford as well.
Posted by: Bulg
-----

Uh...

Posted by: Audie Murphy at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (XeU6L)

145 Don't watch TV much but how a 4 person's family can have 4 different racial backgrounds is puzzling

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (fwDg9)

146
oh, I forgot famed Baseball pitcher Phil Negro, d. 2020
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4gi/)

Neikro
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

________

Niekro

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (dxSpM)

147 Tom Cruise is 5’9””?? That is not tiny…. seen all the Aztecs running around lately??
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (PCK5/)

I don't think he's that tall.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

148 Oh, that would be Kelly Harmon. A mondo babe. A babealonya!
Posted by: Tonypete

Just looked her up. She looks a lot like her brother, in the face.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:45 PM (v6JzV)

149 Cruise is indeed short and very small overall. Ahnuld is not as tall as depicted in movies, but he is not short.
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Arnold is about 5'11". Cruise is about 5'9".
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:41 PM (6K6Eu)
______

I think Ahnuld is a little taller than that, but I have no personal experience. I do with Cruise. I stood not 6 feet from him. I don't think he's even 5-7, let alone 5-9. Very little guy overall.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

150 I'm old enough to remember a guy coming in here and giving the blow-by-blow of how to baldshave the entire male pubic region, with details of how great it felt and all the practicality. And thinking, this is the bottom. Conservative site, shaved pubis, country can't get gayer than that. "Generational change."

Might as well just ship him to England.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 26, 2024 12:46 PM (zdLoL)

151 The inspiration for part of my nickname here -- jazzed up and re-contextualized, of course
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

It must have left a lasting impression on you then. Good thing you trademarked your nic though! Those corporate assholes at the big 3 would steal it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 26, 2024 12:46 PM (NMT5x)

152 Today also seems to be the anniversary of the Rendelsham UFO event in 1980

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 12:46 PM (fwDg9)

153 5'9 is average male height in America

I think Cruise is about 5'7

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2024 12:46 PM (oZhjI)

154 And let's not forget Samantha vs. Jeannie.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)

Jeannie...hands on...errr...down. Hands down!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2024 12:47 PM (W/lyH)

155 Is Tom Harmon still married to Pam Dawber?

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:47 PM (v6JzV)

156 111 55
'i have a vague memory of being really surprised at how fast Gabe Kaplan could run.

Getting beat up in school every day taught one to run fast.'

Was that Lynda Carter that kept kissing him while he was being interviewed?

Don't make the poor man run with a stiffy, Lynda.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:37 PM (3wi/L)

Ace, ace, ace...

How can you possibly put up a post like this without putting up Lynda Carter in the swim competition in BOTNS? Absolutely classic video.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 26, 2024 12:47 PM (IlAew)

157 Robert Conrad and 70s heart-throb Gabe Kaplan

Um… Conrad, sure, but I never thought of Kaplan as a "heart throb." But maybe the ettes would confirm?

Happy 2nd Day of Christmas, Ace, and alla y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - former heart throb at December 26, 2024 12:47 PM (KQIe6)

158 We’re gonna die. It was nice seeing you all again.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (fz7Mb)

159 Al Pacino is short, yes?? Also, that asshole DeNiro, right?

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (PCK5/)

160 IIRC 5'7" is the average height for adult males worldwide. 5'9" for US males.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (hoCmQ)

161 >>> And let's not forget Samantha vs. Jeannie.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)

You just divided by zero. There is no solution. Or it's quadratic and there are two solutions Samantha or Jeannie.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (Y6IkP)

162 I think Ahnuld is a little taller than that, but I have no personal experience. I do with Cruise. I stood not 6 feet from him. I don't think he's even 5-7, let alone 5-9. Very little guy overall.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Nicole must've towered over him.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (v6JzV)

163
Is Tom Harmon still married to Pam Dawber?
Posted by: Bulg[/i

Yes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (xG4kz)

164 Audie Murphy was 5'5". Must have made cast selection for movies difficult.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

165

Battle of the PBS Network Stars

https://youtu.be/10WDGYBJYwE

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (63Dwl)

166
Here's something interesiting I learnt last night on the interwebs:

James Cagney's (d. 1986) last movie was a TV movie made in 1984 about a sickly old former boxer, Terrible Joe Moran.

Cagney couldn't speak well at the time, so the Idiots decided to have Rich Little dub all Cagney's lines.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:49 PM (J4gi/)

167 Mark Harmon is also the uncle of Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. His sister was married to Rick Nelson.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2024 12:49 PM (szMU5)

168 164 'Audie Murphy was 5'5". Must have made cast selection for movies difficult.'

If that doesn't show badass doesn't depend on height, I don't know what does.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:50 PM (3wi/L)

169 Here's Tom and Arnold standing together in an ordinary situation.

https://tinyurl.com/3r3afjce

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:50 PM (6K6Eu)

170 I often saw Cruise and Arnold at Will Rogers Ranch (where I was a docent). Cruise came for quiet hikes with his family just as we were closing. He wasn't terribly short in my opinion, somewhat below average. Schwarzenegger appeared to be about 5/10 or so, but it seemed more startling in his case as I expected him to be a giant.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2024 12:51 PM (h/ffs)

171 Al Pacino is short, yes?? Also, that asshole DeNiro, right?
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:48 PM (PCK5/)

_________

I've met both. Pacino is tiny. Maybe 5-4 if that. DeNiro stood about 5-10, but he was wearing boots with obvious tall heels. I doubt he's more than 5-7 or 5-8.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

172 Heh. I see by the comments I was far from the first to question Kaplan as heart-throb.

Posted by: mindful webworker - former heart throb at December 26, 2024 12:51 PM (KQIe6)

173
docent:

noun
1.
(in certain universities and colleges) a member of the teaching staff immediately below professorial rank.
2.
a person who acts as a guide, typically on a voluntary basis, in a museum, art gallery, or zoo.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (J4gi/)

174 If that doesn't show badass doesn't depend on height, I don't know what does.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

One more reason that, back in the day, you didn't get into a fistfight at the bar with a guy you didn't know.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (WXNFJ)

175 Heh. I see by the comments I was far from the first to question Kaplan as heart-throb.
Posted by: mindful webworker

He was no Ron Palillo.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (v6JzV)

176 >>>It was the nice intersection of mostly wholesome fun and sexy that rarely exists these days.

I was in my early teens, naïve but in love with every woman I saw.
Posted by: banana Dream
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And trash sports Saturday or Sunday. Professional athletes, usually football and baseball, stars of the time, trash talking while competing at canoeing, swimming (watching linemen compete with track stars was hoot) weight lifting etc.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 12:53 PM (5Cy8I)

177 2.
a person who acts as a guide, typically on a voluntary basis, in a museum, art gallery, or zoo.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (J4gi/)

So a docent doesn't make decent money.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2024 12:53 PM (W/lyH)

178 135 And let's not forget Samantha vs. Jeannie.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)
--------------------------

This is one where all correct answers are purely subjective. There is no way to objectively, definitively answer this question.

For me, it's obvious, because Elizabeth Montgomery is possibly the hottest woman to have ever drawn breath. But, subjective.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (QdGJh)

179
If that doesn't show badass doesn't depend on height, I don't know what does.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:50 PM (3wi/L)

_______

They found in the Civil War that little wiry guys made the best cavalrymen. Big husky guys couldn't take it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (dxSpM)

180 Heh. I see by the comments I was far from the first to question Kaplan as heart-throb.
Posted by: mindful webworker
_______

Remember that Gene Shalit was big then as well. Maybe it was a thing.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (Dm8we)

181
He was no Ron Palillo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (v6JzV)
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Heck, he's no Marvin Kaplan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (6K6Eu)

182 Do any of the nostalgia stations run Welcome Back, Kotter. I could stand to watch a few of those again.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (v6JzV)

183 Cagney couldn't speak well at the time, so the Idiots decided to have Rich Little dub all Cagney's lines.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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My favorite movie-long over-dub was Andie MacDowell. Glenn Close did the entire over-dub.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (XeU6L)

184 Heh. I see by the comments I was far from the first to question Kaplan as heart-throb.
Posted by: mindful webworker
_______

Remember that Gene Shalit was big then as well. Maybe it was a thing.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (Dm8we)
__________

[Smirking mischievously]

-- Ron Jeremy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

185 They found in the Civil War that little wiry guys made the best cavalrymen. Big husky guys couldn't take it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:54 PM (dxSpM)
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They also don't wear out the horse.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (6K6Eu)

186 Jim West Vs Mr. Kotter.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (WPL6O)

187
And trash sports Saturday or Sunday.

________

Cliff diving from Acapulco!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (dxSpM)

188 179
'They found in the Civil War that little wiry guys made the best cavalrymen. Big husky guys couldn't take it.'

It helped the horse too.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (3wi/L)

189 So a docent doesn't make decent money.
Posted by: Diogenes

See also: an adjunct professor at any University.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2024 12:55 PM (WXNFJ)

190 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979. National Geographic hardest hit.

https://is.gd/0OKPNj

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2024 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

191 They found in the Civil War that little wiry guys made the best cavalrymen.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Jockeys, in other words.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:56 PM (v6JzV)

192 Jockeys, in other words.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 12:56 PM (v6JzV)
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Willie Shoemaker was what? 4'11"?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:57 PM (6K6Eu)

193 Jack Benny employed Mel Blanc quite often. Jack once said there were only 5 people in Hollywood. All the rest are Mel Blanc.

Posted by: Mary Livingston at December 26, 2024 12:57 PM (G5+As)

194 expected him to be a giant.

Giant asshoe.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 12:57 PM (GSHbq)

195 If it weren't for BotNS I wouldn't even know women had nipples.

Posted by: CrustyB at December 26, 2024 12:58 PM (l4AV/)

196 Giant asshoe.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

Yes?

Posted by: Buttigig at December 26, 2024 12:58 PM (WXNFJ)

197 Phil Sheridan, Union cavalry great, was 5’3” or 4 and a total mean as hell badass…

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:58 PM (PCK5/)

198

What I need is a good squeek-hole pronging!

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at December 26, 2024 12:58 PM (VLH5c)

199 Ahnuld had the opportunity to be more than a hack actor when he won the governship in CA.

He decided no.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2024 12:59 PM (oZhjI)

200 Phil Sheridan, Union cavalry great, was 5’3” or 4 and a total mean as hell badass…
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 12:58 PM (PCK5/)
--------------
One of the very few people who caused Ulysses Grant to lose his temper in public.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:59 PM (6K6Eu)

201 194
'Giant asshoe.'

'Fock your free-domm!'

Posted by: Arnold S. at December 26, 2024 12:59 PM (3wi/L)

202 There's been a lot of modern day height inflation because I'm 6' and I don't know if that's even considered tall now.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (Y6IkP)

203 docent:

noun
1.
(in certain universities and colleges) a member of the teaching staff immediately below professorial rank.
2.
a person who acts as a guide, typically on a voluntary basis, in a museum, art gallery, or zoo.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 12:52 PM (J4gi/)

and not a slang term for "two-hundred"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (D7oie)

204 Giant asshoe.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 12:57 PM (GSHbq)

He was lousy with people, I thought. Charmless.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (h/ffs)

205 Gabe Kaplan was a heart throb? Gee I don't remember that.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (wDJaI)

206 Bonus:
STP Oil Treatment with Jan Smithers & Suzanne Somers (Commercial, 1975)

https://youtu.be/R1nyRs7nqgE

Posted by: Chuck C at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (D0HYP)

207 You'll never get rich being a docent. A curator, however, the sy's the limit.

Posted by: Curate This!! at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (G5+As)

208 If it weren't for BotNS I wouldn't even know women had nipples.
Posted by: CrustyB

Hopefully, future experience informed you differently.

Posted by: Buttigig at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (WXNFJ)

209 Ron Jeremy

Passed him in an office hallway. Smelly stinky doesn't say enough. Worse than a homeless hobo.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (GSHbq)

210 There's been a lot of modern day height inflation because I'm 6' and I don't know if that's even considered tall now.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (Y6IkP)
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Not in The Netherlands.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 01:00 PM (6K6Eu)

211 One of the very few people who caused Ulysses Grant to lose his temper in public.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Wasn't that because he mistreated a horse?

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:01 PM (v6JzV)

212 1 year of pack ice doesn't make or break Global warming. Ask Shackleton about it

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 01:01 PM (fwDg9)

213 I remind myself from time to time that height is NOT an accomplisment… unearned.. short or tall, asset or liability..

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 01:01 PM (PCK5/)

214 191 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979. National Geographic hardest hit.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26,

And this is the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indonesian Quake/Tsunami that killed nearly one quarter million people.

I remember footage of Maldives getting hit and some journalist back then speculate that the low lying island would disappear soon anyway due to climate change.
Of course it's still there

Posted by: Rex B at December 26, 2024 01:01 PM (A75H2)

215 Hey.

I did what I could with what I had.

Posted by: Gabe Kaplan's Porn 'Stache at December 26, 2024 01:02 PM (RIvkX)

216
Wow, 2025.

Can you believe it's really here?

Not what we expected, right?

The worst thing about 2025 is that 1975 was 50 years ago. And we were there. We lived it, and we remember it. Fifty years ago...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 26, 2024 01:02 PM (J4gi/)

217 Cocaine can be the only explanation for how and why these shows got made.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 26, 2024 01:02 PM (dQfJF)

218 If it weren't for BotNS I wouldn't even know women had nipples.

Why hello there!

Posted by: Rachel from Friends at December 26, 2024 01:02 PM (oZhjI)

219 Wasn't that because he mistreated a horse?
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:01 PM (v6JzV)
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No, that one was some random muleteer. Sheridan got into an argument with Grant on a railway platform (one of them was going to take the train) and they were screaming at each other as the train pulled up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 01:03 PM (6K6Eu)

220 200
'One of the very few people who caused Ulysses Grant to lose his temper in public.'

Not much on the personality side but Grant considered Sheridan utterly reliable.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 01:03 PM (3wi/L)

221 Nipples… same thing as “pokies”, yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 01:03 PM (PCK5/)

222 Kotter's wife was a babe, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:04 PM (v6JzV)

223 The worst thing about 2025 is that 1975 was 50 years ago. And we were there. We lived it, and we remember it. Fifty years ago...
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Bell bottom blues.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 01:04 PM (Dm8we)

224 209

'Smelly stinky doesn't say enough. Worse than a homeless hobo.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism'

Sounds like he gassed you.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 01:04 PM (3wi/L)

225 As an adolescent and teen at that time all through JHS and High School I had an almost perpetual stiffie!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

A few years back, I was getting bagged on by some co-workers. While they had been on football teams, I was a swimmer. I let them finish insulting me and then retorted.

"All right, you have a point. I was a swimmer so I didn't bulk up like you guys. But I went through puberty surrounded by girls in swimsuits. What did you have? Your tight little pants and your huddle?"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 01:05 PM (lXCUP)

226 Cocaine can be the only explanation for how and why these shows got made.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

HR Pufnstuf has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:05 PM (v6JzV)

227 I wore a leisure suit to my HS class graduation party.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2024 01:06 PM (Y1sOo)

228 Speaking of women from the 80s, my neighborhood was blessed with the girls who eventually played the "Doublemint Twins". they went to the same dance school as my sister, so I saw them quite a bit for a few years. Even in junior high, they had all of us drooling.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 26, 2024 01:06 PM (2cS/G)

229 The biggest stars, with the biggest T’s, and the nicest A’s!

Featuring Cheryl Ladd; “Wonder Woman” Lynda Carter; Suzanne Somers; Lola Falana; Valerie Perrine and Adrienne Barbeau.

All your favorite T’s & A’s, including “Hootchie Cootchie” girl Charo; and special guest star Carol Wayne; plus the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 26, 2024 01:06 PM (aD39U)

230 Speaking of women from the 80s, my neighborhood was blessed with the girls who eventually played the "Doublemint Twins". they went to the same dance school as my sister, so I saw them quite a bit for a few years. Even in junior high, they had all of us drooling.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Damn, I remember them. Yummy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:07 PM (v6JzV)

231 Due to my fascination with female primary and secondary sex characteristics, from an early age, my course in life was established, with no confusion. At all.

Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2024 01:07 PM (PCK5/)

232 Arnold was dwarfed by Chamberlain and Andre in Conan The Destroyer. The two henchmen in Conan the Barbarian were also 6-4 to 6-8, but accidentally go the whole movie without being sized up.

Locklear appeared on SNL after being salivated over again and again in "Wayne's World". At the start of the skit, she sleeps with just the top of her head visible, and Wayne says "Garth wake up!".

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 26, 2024 01:07 PM (lhenN)

233 Cocaine can be the only explanation for how and why these shows got made.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

HR Pufnstuf has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:05 PM (v6JzV)
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Sid and Marty Krofft were doing a lot of acid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2024 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

234 Not much on the personality side but Grant considered Sheridan utterly reliable.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2024 01:03 PM (3wi/L)
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Much later during the Overland Campaign, Grant came up as Meade and Sheridan were on the verge of pulling off their coats and laying into each other (Sheridan had that effect on people). Grant calmly asked what was going on and it turned out that it was a disputation as to whether the Cavalry Corps should be cut loose to find and kill JEB Stuart. Grant observed that Sheridan generally knew what he was doing, and gave orders sending the Cav Corps into the rear of the ANV.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 01:07 PM (6K6Eu)

235 Wow. Gabe whipped his ass.

I guess Conrad's short legs were a disadvantage.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 26, 2024 01:09 PM (aD39U)

236 Sid and Marty Krofft were puffing stuff alright.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 01:09 PM (GSHbq)

237 One more reason that, back in the day, you didn't get into a fistfight at the bar with a guy you didn't know.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Re Jerry 'Mad Dog' Shriver

Medal of Honor recipient Fleming says Shriver "convinced me that for the rest of my life I would not go into a bar and cross someone I didn't know."

Pic of Shiver, what is not evident is that he is holding a suppressed M3. t.ly/O2NKa

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 01:09 PM (XeU6L)

238 225 As an adolescent and teen at that time all through JHS and High School I had an almost perpetual stiffie!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

A few years back, I was getting bagged on by some co-workers. While they had been on football teams, I was a swimmer. I let them finish insulting me and then retorted.

"All right, you have a point. I was a swimmer so I didn't bulk up like you guys. But I went through puberty surrounded by girls in swimsuits. What did you have? Your tight little pants and your huddle?"
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 01:05 PM (lXCUP)
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While all of us rocker dudes in marching band got to ride home from away games, after dark, on the same bus as the cheerleaders. And the majorettes. And the flag team. And the band girls.

They were days of plenty.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 26, 2024 01:10 PM (QdGJh)

239 IIRC Gabe Kaplan was a runner, part of the Jim Fix health-nut crowd. I do remember that he bombed in standup; without a script he was not a very good comedian.

Posted by: ZilWerks at December 26, 2024 01:11 PM (0MpOC)

240 Wiry guys, medium build can carry heavy loads better. Think linebackers trying to go backpacking. Big and tall is no longer an asset at some point.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2024 01:11 PM (DYCNj)

241 IIRC Gabe Kaplan was a runner, part of the Jim Fix health-nut crowd. I do remember that he bombed in standup; without a script he was not a very good comedian.
Posted by: ZilWerks at December 26, 2024 01:11 PM (0MpOC)
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I thought "Welcome Back, Kotter" was developed from characters he talked about in his stand up routine.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 01:12 PM (6K6Eu)

242 Not in The Netherlands.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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I felt like a midget in Denmark.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

243 Speaking of women from the 80s,

Forgot her name but she was in gasoline TV ads. Met her at a gas station. She had the same make model and color motorcycle as I did. I was speechless. Probably better off that way.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 01:13 PM (GSHbq)

244 190 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979.

That because climate change causes all the ice to melt, so there's more water to make more ice! Science!

Posted by: National Geographicloves science sexually at December 26, 2024 01:13 PM (VLH5c)

245 While all of us rocker dudes in marching band got to ride home from away games, after dark, on the same bus as the cheerleaders. And the majorettes. And the flag team. And the band girls.

They were days of plenty.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 26, 2024 01:10 PM (QdGJh)

I was a cross country runner. We spent a lot of time with the girls team on long bus trips to other schools in Montana, plus staying overnight in hotels with them.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 26, 2024 01:14 PM (3Ev2O)

246 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979.

Big Penguin must be involved somehow.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:14 PM (v6JzV)

247 107
Britta vs Alison

and the answer is Alison

Britta versus Annie.

And yes, Annie wins.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 26, 2024 01:14 PM (I0ZPN)

248 I thought "Welcome Back, Kotter" was developed from characters he talked about in his stand up routine.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Where did sweat hogs come from. It's in Sweet Emotion, which came out the same year as Welcome Back, Kotter."

Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 26, 2024 01:15 PM (Dm8we)

249 And to think, James Brolin traded Jan Smithers for BS.

Posted by: Germanicus at December 26, 2024 01:16 PM (oFjuQ)

250 190 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979.
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More bad news, re Polar bears:
"from a population estimated at about 12,000 bears in the late 1960s, numbers have almost tripled, to just over 32,000 in 2023.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 01:16 PM (XeU6L)

251 Is Tom Harmon still married to Pam Dawber?
Posted by: Bulg[/i

Yes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Due to a mixup at the entrance, I got to ride a ski lift with Tom Harmon. His wife, in a skin tight ski suit was in front of us. Hard to not stare at her derriere with her husband next to me.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2024 01:16 PM (6DCVr)

252 The Jan Smithers video took so long to load I had to tell my boss "Not now" 3 times.

Posted by: Wally at December 26, 2024 01:16 PM (NMvV5)

253 241 IIRC Gabe Kaplan was a runner, part of the Jim Fix health-nut crowd. I do remember that he bombed in standup; without a script he was not a very good comedian.
Posted by: ZilWerks at December 26, 2024 01:11 PM (0MpOC)

For some reason the University of Montana hired him for a show. You could hear him bomb 20 miles away.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 26, 2024 01:16 PM (3Ev2O)

254 And to think, James Brolin traded Jan Smithers for BS.
Posted by: Germanicus

I don't think he hooked up with Babs until well after his divorce from Jan. But still...

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:17 PM (v6JzV)

255 Kaplan's comedy was successful, and he toured the country with his act based on his childhood experiences in Brooklyn. He appeared five times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from May 1973 to December 1974. During that time, he also recorded the comedy album Holes and Mellow Rolls, which included long routines about his high school days and other topics. The sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, whose central characters he helped Eric Cohen and Alan Sacks create and whose core format he helped them to develop, was in part based on his comedy act.
-Wiki

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2024 01:18 PM (RIvkX)

256 >> There's been a lot of modern day height inflation because I'm 6' and I don't know if that's even considered tall now.

It's the Min Height for Manhood.

But it is not Tall.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2024 01:18 PM (j6KoD)

257
Okay…so what was happening that made looking these videos a thing? Or do I even want to know?
Posted by: Piper at December 26, 2024 12:09 PM (2N3ca)

You're welcome.

Posted by: The 1970s at December 26, 2024 01:18 PM (y9nCu)

258 As an adolescent and teen at that time all through JHS and High School I had an almost perpetual stiffie!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

A few years back, I was getting bagged on by some co-workers. While they had been on football teams, I was a swimmer. I let them finish insulting me and then retorted.

"All right, you have a point. I was a swimmer so I didn't bulk up like you guys. But I went through puberty surrounded by girls in swimsuits. What did you have? Your tight little pants and your huddle?"
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 01:05 PM (lXCUP)
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I was also a swimmer. Before big meets the popular uys and popular girls on the team would have "shave parties" in the locker room showers. It was the girls shaving the guys down. As a naive freshman on the varsity team, I was excited to get an invite. I didn't understand why the other dudes all changed into baggy shorts. We all practiced in the speedo nuthuggers. That's what I wore. I very soon fought out why the other guys changed into baggy pants . . . .

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 26, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

259 Due to a mixup at the entrance, I got to ride a ski lift with Tom Harmon. His wife, in a skin tight ski suit was in front of us. Hard to not stare at her derriere with her husband next to me.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Pam was a cutie, no doubt about it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:18 PM (v6JzV)

260 258 Before big meets the popular guys and popular girls on the team would have "shave parties" in the locker room showers.

hm. Never heard of that but I was an outcast back then.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2024 01:20 PM (lXCUP)

261 School plays was where the action was. Backstage romances...

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:20 PM (v6JzV)

262 Speaking of women from the 80s, my neighborhood was blessed with the girls who eventually played the "Doublemint Twins".
Posted by: Lincolntf

Were they the Doublemint Twins who were in Quark (TV, 1977)?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/

Posted by: Chuck C at December 26, 2024 01:21 PM (D0HYP)

263 The girl who got gonorrhea from the tractor (Seinfeld) was a fishing buddy of mine's babysitter when he was growing up.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2024 01:22 PM (j6KoD)

264 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979.

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Yeah? Well, but for global warming the ice would be 100' thicker and we'd have polar bears as far south as Miami!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 26, 2024 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

265 Mark Harmon is married to Pam Dawber. Tom was father and a great football player

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2024 01:23 PM (URPU1)

266 You know who was surprisingly small was Terry Bradshaw. We rode the airport shuttle together to the same hotel, where he was giving a speech. Not a big guy compared to the other football players I have met.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2024 01:24 PM (6DCVr)

267 OK, I'm gonna have to sign out for a bit. I'm getting a little stir crazy and feel the need to get out.

Later, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2024 01:24 PM (v6JzV)

268 Popped up as a YooToob suggestion on the Jan Smithers video:
JAN SMITHERS 💛 THE UNTOLD TRUTH (9:00)
https://youtu.be/OgLbyh-RBuM

Haven't watched but a few minutes of it, so, not recommending, just mentioning.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Bailey, MaryAnne, and Betty at December 26, 2024 01:27 PM (KQIe6)

269 Shit, they were the Coors Twins, I could've sworn they did the Doublemint ads for a while, but I can't find it. They show up in this clip a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKfK7ysJZw

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 26, 2024 01:28 PM (2cS/G)

270 [Robert Conrad] was just a little guy.
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Not as short as Larry Manetti, I think.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 26, 2024 12:40 PM (6K6Eu)
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I believe Conrad and Manetti are cousins.

Posted by: Kreskin at December 26, 2024 01:29 PM (3ZSjf)

271 I somehow managed to miss the sidebar item until now: "The secret symbiosis between rap and yacht rock".

OMG. What's next? "Yacht rock's debt to Flatt & Scruggs"? "Beethoven foreshadowed yacht rock 200 years ago in his 'Ode to Joy'".

Posted by: Paco at December 26, 2024 01:32 PM (mADJX)

272 I worked with a guy who got to know Arnold a little bit. They were both long-term staying at same hotel in Europe - colleague on temp assignment, Arnold shooting a flick. They used to drink and smoke cigars on bar patio. My colleague, who was 6'2" or 3", said Arnold is around 5'10", not close to 6".

Posted by: Kreskin at December 26, 2024 01:32 PM (3ZSjf)

273

I like to put my finger in it!

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at December 26, 2024 01:32 PM (VLH5c)

274 Marianne Williamson launches bid for DNC Chair.

Because obviously the problem there is not having an actual witch in charge.

Posted by: blaster at December 26, 2024 01:34 PM (QfvaV)

275 Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2024 01:24 PM (6DCVr)

I ran into Bradshaw at the FBO at AFW one afternoon. The guy seemed freakishly huge to me. Then at a hockey game one evening Kevin Gogen and Bernie Kosar sat a few rows down from us. Gogen was monstrously large.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 26, 2024 01:35 PM (3Ope8)

276 191 They found in the Civil War that little wiry guys made the best cavalrymen.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Smaller target & higher power to weight ratio for person and horse.
Effective horsepower was important.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 01:35 PM (5Cy8I)

277 Marianne Williamson versus David Hogg for DNC chair?

Epic choices, there, Democrats.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 26, 2024 01:36 PM (tT6L1)

278 Short nap

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2024 01:36 PM (fwDg9)

279 Hogg? The Pillow magnate? Really? That would be interesting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2024 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

280 264 More bad news: Antarctic ice coverage is 17% higher today than in 1979.
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We're all gonna' die, we're going to freeze to death.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 01:38 PM (5Cy8I)

281 >>>I ran into Bradshaw at the FBO at AFW one afternoon. The guy seemed freakishly huge to me. ...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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And he was one of the smaller players on the field.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2024 01:41 PM (5Cy8I)

282 How do you know she's a witch?

Posted by: Monty Python at December 26, 2024 01:41 PM (dg+HA)

283 Took my kids to see the Harlem Globetrotters and sat courtside under the goal. Holy cow....those guys are huge.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 26, 2024 01:45 PM (3Ope8)

284 I remember watching the Conrad-Kaplan race live. Conrad was making a fuss that his team had been cheated, and they ran the race to decide the issue, and Kaplan dusted him. I did not see that coming!

Posted by: JHP2 at December 26, 2024 02:42 PM (UIvnv)

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