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Two great music shows from the 60's: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour- Tommy and Dickie Smothers were great on their own, satirizing the folk boom of the early 60's. When they got a chance to host their own variety show, they managed to give exposure to some great acts that would not have fit...

Back around 1973, the saga of Big Bird and Snuffy is real/imaginary was starting to gain momentum. Once Luis was outside the Fix-it Shop repairing an antique scale. Bird comes by, and Luis asks him to watch the scale while he gets something, "And don't let anything happen to it, Big Bird!" Well...

Not so much a rant, but an observation. On Jeopardy, a contestant can win tens of thousands of dollars, and might just crack a smile or indulge in a little golf clap. Meanwhile, over on The Price Is Right, a contestant might be screaming their head off, high-fiving everybody, and running victory...

You must be as old as me to remember this one. It was Grover, who looked left,right, up, down, even straight into the camera lens (Grover that close-up was pretty freaky to this three-year-old). He couldn't find any danger, then he trips over the sign. Thanks for jogging my memory! :)

One other famous book from my childhood- The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. Tells the story of the real-life Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse located underneath the George Washington Bridge in New York. When I was little, my dad used to work in Edgewater, New Jersey, right across the...

There's also a cartoon from the 70's demonstrating "walk" with a bunch of VW's "walking" across the street.

Got to meet Fran Brill, Pam Arciero, Carroll Spinney, Jim Martin, and Noel MacNeal. So now Jerry Nelson, Peter Linz, and Kathryn Mullen are on my bucket list.

Bowling a strike. The sound of the ball rolling down the alley and hitting all ten pins is like sonic crack to me. That would be the ultimate ringtone.

Not necessarily weird, but one movie that will definitely try your patience is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Back in 1978, Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees were cast in this plotless mangle of Beatle tunes, dizzying camera zooms, and ten tons of dry ice. The only redeeming scene was...

No pun intended, but Pam Arciero had a hand in there too! :)

Two- Buck Chuck! :)

I actually got to wait on her once. The restaurant I was working at in college during the 80's, in she came one night with Tommy James (Crimson and Clover, Mony Mony,etc.) on her arm. Supposedly the Queen of Disco and the 60's pop icon- both WAY past their primes at that point- were planning to...

Not technically a pet, but a tragic story nonetheless. When I was three, my dad had a friend we called Uncle George who had a big farm with every critter you can imagine. My brother, sister, and I used to viisit Uncle George's farm often and had the time of our lives playing with all the...

22 years . That was half my life ago. I was a week away from graduating from college, and was ready to make that leap into the big bad adult world, feeling I had to leave a big chunk of my childhood behind. I watched Sesame Street from Day One, grew up on the Muppet Show, cherished Emmet Otter...

Superstitions. Old wive's tales. It still amazes me how some people let them affect their lives, when you're dealing with unfounded rumors and exaggerated claims. There was a video on youtube of a couple with an outdoor wedding, and as the bride is walking down the aisle, someone let a black...

Last August I was in the hospital, and the day before I came home our oldest cat, Peanut, passed away. She was 13. Her heart just gave out on her. I miss her dearly but I'm glad she didn't have to suffer long. She had the quietest little "meow" but she could purr like a lawn mower. Peanut kept...

Sweet potato fries.

I've never been a big fan of shopping at Wal-Mart, but my biggest pet peeve with them is being in there on a Saturday afternoon, their busiest time of the week, they have 15 registers, but only three are open. Meanwhile the lines are a mile long, everyone's getting cranky, kids are crying (some...

Sad to hear he passed, but still eternally grateful for Bumble Arty. Which isn't bad, in fact, it's fine.

And keeping things in the family, that's brother John's 1 belly button, and sister Lisa's 4 dolls and 9 noodles.