Oh man, that’s a name I haven’t heard in years. Probably my favorite Meat Puppets song.
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I hope a horse rides them.
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Speaking of:
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Jim Abrahams, the writer/director of Airplane! and Naked Gun passed away at 80. Dude was responsible for some of the funniest movies ever made. 
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Surely you can’t be serious?
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I’m serious, and quit calling me Shirley. 
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The best part of Airplane! was Lloyd Bridges as the deadpan air traffic controller.
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue”
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I always loved the scene in Naked Gun where Frank Drebin is struggling to look through a microscope to see some fiber samples and exclaims, “I can’t see anything!” His buddy Ed (George Kennedy) helps out by suggesting, “Use your open eye, Frank.”
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I own the DVD of the six episode run of, “Police Squad! (In color).” One of the funniest shows of all time and one of the dumbest cancellations. ABC execs thought it was too smart for the public.
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I concur.
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Since its basketball season, this is my favorite.
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They did something similar in Airplane II in the court scene.
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Man I can relate to this., because when my foster father Virgil tried to teach me to shoot a shot gun in the early 70s He didnt understand how I kept missing EVERYTHING. I was closing the eye lined up with the sights and keeping the other one open.
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…and that’s why you joined the Navy.
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Actually it was because I did JROTC Army at Ogden High and had no desire to join the Army. I would have gone AF but the recruiter was a massive slimeball
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Whoa …
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He was amazing and I read that someone would need to steal 60 bases a year for 20 seasons to beat his record.
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This column about Rickey (always just the first name) is by the dean of Bay Area sports writers, Ray Ratto.
“Which is why, in the end, Rickey Henderson, who died Friday at 65 years old, was not merely arrogant and justifiably so, but the next step beyond merely arrogant. He had the gift, but he also knew that he didn’t need to sell himself except to himself, because (a) he was his own best audience, as great performers tend to be, and (b) he figured that eventually everyone else would have to see it his way. And in this case, he was right.”
This video was linked in the article by Ratto, and is fun to watch.
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