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My wife Sharon and I celebrate our 21st anniversary today. Our marriage is old enough to buy beer.

I was only there once, and the food was decent. But the main draw for a lot of guys was to see half-naked women serving them. The same as back in the 70s they had a number one f Playboy clubs. Girls serving cocktails in sexy bunny outfits. You can look, but you can’t touch. Hooters was like that...

Once you’re married, you really don’t look at hot waitresses anymore (or at least you’re not supposed to). There used to be a chain called Hooters, for obvious reasons. It was a sports bar with single guys drooling all over the waitresses. Then, in their infinite wisdom, the management decided...

Dead Lobster may not be long for this world. They’re owned by the same company that run Ruby Tuesday’s. The one near me closed, but they’ve been sliding down for a few years now.

When, I was 20 years old, my first job at JCPenney was selling shoes on commission. Made a decent living at it. A number of shoes walked out the door too, but came right back in with the SHERIFF and the SHOPLIFTER.

We got spared. 24 hours of solid rain, but others got the brunt of it. Hurricanes can come as late as November, so we’re not out of the woods yet. The worst damage comes when hurricanes hit landfall, so Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are all targets. Most of the time storms...

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but it’s leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will it cease from bearing fruit. Jeremiah...

In the late 90s a documentary was made called “Supersize Me”. The guy who made it ate nothing but McD’s for a whole month. At the end of the month, he punished his body. Gained twenty pounds,, , blood pressure shot up, lost sleep, he was a mess. I was just a little too old for Happy Meals. But...

Two more “sh” bits. I don’t know if we covered these yet. One cartoon had this thing that looked like a dustball with feet. “Shucks! I need a SHOWER!” “Shucks! I need a SHAMPOO!” “shucks! I need a SHOESHINE!” He has the coolest white sneakers on his feet. “Shucks! Don’t I look SHARP!” And his...

When it comes to fries, McD’s gets the nod. There’s a great documentary on YouTube that chronicles the war between the two. BK came out with the Whopper ten years before the Big Mac, but McD’s had most of the big nnovations first. Even in my lifetime, I saw the introduction of breakfast...

The burger wars are still going strong between McD’s and BK. It blows my mind, there are seventeen Big Macs sold every second. Having worked there, I can say BK’s flame broiled patties taste better than McD’s, but I was never crazy about the Whopper. Throughout the years, their chicken...

Like I mentioned, way back when, our local drugstore (Pink’s Pharmacy) used to have a candy counter. Back in the 70s, a candy bar or a pack of gum would be a quarter. This jaw breaker was $1.75, about six dollars today. This thing was the size of a baseball. It was white with colored specks on...

I know that all too well.. Back in 1979 we got hit by two hurricanes back to back, David and Frederick. We had an a closed patio with an aluminum roof. David took the roof off (luckily the rest of the house was spared). We also had an above-ground pool. Frederick made the pool collapse and...

16 years to the day of Katrina, Hurricane Ida is now bashing Louisiana. A friend who used to go to my church now lives in Biloxi, Mississippi. I’m praying for her safety. New Jersey is not usually in the path of most hurricanes, until we got hit by Sandy in 2012. We lost power for twelve days...

The thing that put me off about ToughPigs, it seemed like a very exclusive elitist club. They gave the impression of being cooler-than-thou, and even with my vast knowledge and love of the early Sesame days, it left me feeling cold. I’m grateful nobody here treated me like that, and if anyone...

“Never underestimate the power of Joe Biden to screw things up”. -Barack Obama, 2011

You might have stumped me this time, which is a near impossible feat. I do remember Crank asking Bayn Johnson for words that b gin with “WH”. He gets ever more frustrated as she replies “Why?” “Which?” “When?” “Where?” Crank fires back “So ya’s can learn how to read! Uddawise ya can’t enjoy yer...

Ironically, Ray Kroc started his business selling lkshake machines to the McDonald brothers. Then he decided, if they open more stores, he could supply more milkshake machines. He thought that was where he’d make his fortune. He wasn’t too crazy about the burgers, but if ten thousand joints had...

Something else I’m curious about. Wherever you call home, do you have Disco Fries? Basically it’s a diner specialty since the 80s. It’s French fries with melted mozzarella and gravy.. Something different than just ketchup.

I never found out how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie pop. (That commercial aired for decades). I’d put one in the side of my mouth and let the lollipop melt away. I’m happy Tootsie pops still exist. Everlasting Gobstoppers we’re neat too. They had different...