who’s on first

 

1. What’s next, peiper?

   No, he’s on second!

   It’s almost entirely impossible to make fun of this classic.

   Posted by Christopher       06/07/2012  at  02:53 PM  



2. A favorite memory of mine: Damn Yankees! played at Memorial Hall in Dayton. This was in the early 90’s when only my step-father and I were on Compuserve. For my Mom’s birthday, we planned, and I paid for, five tickets to the show: Me, wife, step-Father, Mom, and Mother-in-law.

   Why?

   Because Jerry Lewis was playing the Devil.

   The whole thing came as a surprise because my step-father and I did it via email. I did have to pick up the tickets ahead of time, but Mom didn’t know that. She still hugs me sometimes when she remembers that she got to see Jerry Lewis live, on stage. There was an intermission, where Jerry Lewis performed his usual hilarious antics.

   Posted by Christopher       06/07/2012  at  03:12 PM  



3. Perhaps one of my favorites - I grew up with Abbott and Costello and Red Skelton - they were my Dad’s favorites and back in the day - we were ‘rich’ to have a tv so we all watched what Dad watched (like Sing Along with Mitch). Great material, hollyweird needs to take note.

   Posted by wardmama4       06/08/2012  at  07:19 AM  



4. Yeah, guess we were ‘rich’. We had Grandpa’s hand-me-downs. A 19” B&W TV.

   One night, on a weekend, so we got to stay up late, we were watch the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That was scary enough, but our parents added to it. During a commercial we all turned around to talk to our parents and there were pods by each of us! Yeah, they were cat pods, but they scared us to death.

   Posted by Christopher       06/08/2012  at  07:56 AM  



5. My Dad and older brother did a great Legend of Sleepy Hollow stick - that was guaranteed to scare the heck out of the cousins (i.e. all the little boys in the family) - of course they also teamed up on convincing Aunt Mary (who was a zillion years old) that they brought her to the house in a helicopter. Is it no wonder that we ended up with an alligator, crocodile, fighting cock and being offered a chimpanzee - my Dad in his suit and tie - was a real jokester.

   Posted by wardmama4       06/09/2012  at  06:30 AM  

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