For some reason this morning I started singing The Three Little Fishies song. I remember some old sitcom had an episode where one character was trying to remember how this song went. Someone told a third person that this person was crazy, and when the first person suddenly remembered “And they thwam and they thwam all over the dam,” the third person was very convinced. I want to say it was on WKRP in Cincinnatti, with Les Nessman the third person, but I really don’t know…anybody have a better recollection?
Month: January 2004
After the Pirates production meeting today, several of us were sitting around finishing up some stuff when I thought aloud it’d be cool to get a neat domain name for the group, since http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/ doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue like one of Gilbert’s lyrics. rlos.com, rlos.org and rlos.net were all taken, so we started brainstorming on a good alternative, and came up with hailpoetry.com. GoDaddy has a deal for $7.95 a year to register, so we got it set up for two years. It will probably just point to the space on ruf since that is already there and no need to incur hosting expeneses.
And we still need some basses!
I get a big kick out of the Ragu commercial for Sloppy Joes, with Joe Theismann, Joe Frazier, Joe Piscopo, and Evan Marriott (“Joe Millionaire”). I have no idea why.
I really liked Eb’s new Acura TL. I want one. So I’m selling my Audi A6. Wanna buy it?
Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill’s parrot. The BBC report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate, have gone through their photographs and records and found no evidence that he ever owned a parrot. The Straits Times has a story that Lady Soames, Churchill’s daughter, says the great man only had an African Grey, and that it never talked.
But what about the Norwegian Blue? Beautiful plumage! I’ll have more on this story as events warrant.