Neat pics, but the longer I look at their use of the word "SUCCEED", the more it strikes me as a FAIL.

-T

I'm inordinately pleased that "cromulent" made it into the dictionary. And a little disappointed that the article fails to mention how Flickr yoinked "embiggen" for one of their slideshow options ("Embiggen small images to fill the screen").

-T

Wacky "Gong Show"-type moments don't qualify as "neat"? I respectfully disagree.

I feel like I understood that clip, and that worries me.

Looks like an evolutionary response to enable survival in Biology class.

-T

UPDATE: Cursory research indicates it was Pawtucket RI and the city was Belfer, England. Gettin' old…

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,622453,00.html

-Tony Cabral

One of the weirder bits about the whole Rhode Island "Ambassador of Fun" thing was that the city of Providence featured these giant fiberglass Mr. Potato Head statues painted for specific locations. Found a nice collection of them here:

http://www.mrpotatohead.net/statues/statues.html

I used to play piano at the Chapel where the Friar Potato lived; someone kept stealing his robe. And I was on the Main Green at Brown the day someone swiped a potato downtown and unveiled it on the Green. I also recall hearing that some other city in RI sent their sister city in Italy a "goodwill Potato Head" that was met with a less-than-stellar response. Weird times.

-Tony Cabral
Brown University '00

Correction: Sammy Petrillo was an AWESOME Jerry Lewis impersonator.

-T

Cookie Monster only had a pipe in the early "Monsterpiece Theater" sketches, and never really smoked it; he'd end up eating it by the end of the bit.

Meanwhile, stuff like this used to happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

-T

I'm terribly sorry, my last post was in error.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20frank.html

McCourt began teaching at Ralph McKee in 1958, meaning this remembrance dates to circa 1961.

Just to put the exercise in context, the story comes from McCourt's third year of teaching, which would put it around 1970 or so.

That would be Jay-Z and Beyonce. The girl pulls it off better than the boy.

I would also like to point out that the same board demographic that left this question unanswered all day is the same one that tripped all over itself recognizing a set of thumbcuffs. This says something about... something.

-T

Aw, man! What a $##@!%^'n rip-off. I was expected the whole Sgt. Pepper cover done in Lego, not that Photoshopped cop out.

I want names!

-T

Martin Gardner's "The Annotated Alice", in any of its forms, is a big fat must.

-T

Oh, I can see it. Crown of thorns and everything. Then again, I'm waiting for the headline: "Throng of believers see face of Virgin Mary in Rorschach Test".

I also think that going around drawing the face of Jesus in the dust on cars could be the new crop circles.

-T

Can we get a Terry Schiavo-style media circus on this one? Presidential statement? Anyone? Bueller?

-T