Sunday, October 21, 2012
Day 206 - My Drinking Problems Aren't Related To The Shape Of The Glass, Gilligan's Island Of The Dead, Slots Are Still Available For Mr. Brown, A Near Miss With A Steely-Eyed Beast, Advertising That Is Totally BS, The Nobel Blasted-To-Pieces Prize, Who Was The Raven Quoting Anyway?, and He's Never Gonna Fall For Huey Lewis,
Mr.
Silver
"And
so, to slow down drinking to a minimum, we've suggested the following
glass design:
2:24
PM Mr. Silver
"It's
difficult to grasp without both hands, requires uncomfortable head
and lip positioning to drink from, and is nearly impossible to drain
after two or three without falling over on your back."
2:25
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
That’s
a good idea!
2:32
PM Mr. Silver
"UK
scientists have also considered introducing mass-produced American
'beer' to British drinkers in an effort to reduce desire for more
drinks."
2:32
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
2:34
PM Mr. Gray
That'd
do it!
2:35
PM Mr. Gray
To
quote Billy Connelly .... “Drinking American beer is like Sex in a
Canoe....Its F*ckin close to water!”
2:38
PM Mr. Silver
"We
tested something called 'American Lite' and couldn't get a drinker to
finish a full pint in an experimental fluted glass with a top as
wide as a tuba bell, given any amount of time to complete."
2:38
PM Mr. Amethyst
lol
2:39
PM Mr. Brown
American
beer is all right.
But
yeah, not as full of achole as British beer.
2:39
PM Mr. Silver
What
is an achole?
2:39
PM Mr. Brown
I
don't know
Mr. Gray
Bob
Denver died.
No
More Gilligan.
1:53
PM Mr. Silver
Little
Buddy?
1:57
PM Mr. Gray
Yep
in
2005
My
Bad LOL
LOL
wasnt just me
"Twitter has been afire with news of Bob Denver's passing. Trouble is, the Gilligan's Island star has been dead since 2005."
"Twitter has been afire with news of Bob Denver's passing. Trouble is, the Gilligan's Island star has been dead since 2005."
2:05
PM Mr. Silver
Gilligan's
Island of the Dead
"Skiiiiiiiip
(shuffle shuffle) peeeeeerrrrrrr....Skiiiiiiiip (shuffle shuffle)
peeeeeerrrrrrr...."
2:07
PM Mr. Gray
I
suddenly have images of the drowned couple from Creepshow
2:08
PM Mr. Silver
I
suddenly had images of where the pilot from "B-17" in Heavy
Metal parachuted to.
2:14
PM Mr. Silver
"On today's
last episode of the season, Gilligan opens the mysterious vial
that the professor had been escaping from his job at the bio-weapons
lab with, when he jumped aboard The Minnow to escape some federal agents."
Professor
"Gilligan! Don't open it! It's evil!"
Gilligan
"It smells like strawberries, not evil."
(canned
laughter)
Ginger
"ooOOooh...strawberries. Like me! Strawberry blonde,
and oh so sweet!"
Professor
"You've unleashed Hell on Earth! That vial held the
extinction of humanity!"
(canned
laughter)
Professor
"There's no God! (sobs as Gilligan and Ginger start foaming and
convulsing)"
(canned
laughter)
2:35
PM Mr. Gray
LOL
Hell
on Earth = Redheads and Strawberry Scent. I can see this possibility.
2:37
PM Mr. Silver
It's
a rather nasty scenario, altogether.
Every
week a new guest star and supporting cast arrives to be stalked and
devoured.
Now
we're HOPING they never get rescued
2:38
PM Mr. Gray
I
bet you could sell the concept.
Zombies
are in right now.
2:38
PM Mr. Silver
Probably.
Mr.
Silver
Scully
"The Gilligan Triangle? You're joking, right?"
Mulder
"Not at all. It was named for an occasional radio signal
that came from the area in the 60s and 70s."
Scully
"And you're saying more than 100 ships and planes have vanished
out around there over the years...all of them with B and C-list stars
aboard?"
2:59
PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
2:59
PM Mr. Silver
Mulder
"Check the list...look them up."
3:01
PM Mr. Silver
Scully
"I'll trust your sources say exactly what you're telling me. So why name it 'Gilligan'?"
Mulder
"The transmissions were strange...his name was mentioned most of
all...mostly bitching about him."
3:04
PM Mr. Brown
The professor can make a coconut radio but not fix a boat.
3:06
PM Mr. Blue
I
thought Zsa Zsa (?) was on Green Acres.
I
guess not
3:11
PM Mr. Silver
Eva,
wasn't it? Loved the accent.
3:11
PM Mr. Blue
Yeah
3:14
PM Mr. Brown
Zsa
Zsa was on Love Boat
3:14
PM Mr. Silver
Everyone
was.
3:14
PM Mr. Brown
lol
3:14
PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps
they could crash on Gilligan's Island.
3:14
PM Mr. Brown
Zombie
Love Boat
Sweeeettt
3:20
PM Mr. Silver
The
Braaaaaaiiiiiiin Booooooatt...
1:03 PM Mr. Brown
Hmm
My
foot is itchy from the damned paper wasp that stung me yesterday.
1:04
PM Mr. Amethyst
*slides
money back to Mr. Gray* Deathbed.
1:04
PM Mr. Blue
lol
How
do I get in on the Mr. Brown death pool action?
1:06
PM Mr. Silver
You
have to call his insurance company. They set it up.
1:06
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yup
1:08
PM Mr. Amethyst
I've
got $50 on next Tuesday.
1:09
PM Mr. Brown
Hey,
I stopped smoking.
1:10
PM Mr. Amethyst
Wednesday
then.
Mr.
Silver
Interesting
about the Butler "Mothman".
I
figured someone else had seen that statue too but I didn't expect him
to say which road it was on...heh.
(Butler
Mothman - Mr. Silver)
11:41
AM Mr. Blue
I
don't have the article in front of me. Did the eye witness actually
mention wings? Because I don't remember that being specifically
mentioned.
11:42
AM Mr. Gray
I
figured you guys would take interest in that
11:42
AM Mr. Silver
Yup
I
love that stuff.
It
just clicked for me I'd seen it though.
"Researchers
learned that the beast appeared to be moving because the driver was
drunkenly weaving down Prospect Road at the time."
11:43
AM Mr. Gray
LOL
11:44
AM Mr. Blue
Heh
Maybe
he was seeing the shadow of the statue moving because his headlights
were moving.
11:45
AM Mr. Silver
"It
was almost 8' tall and the color of headlights on metal! It leaped
in front of me and threw a mailbox and a bush at me before I could
swerve away."
"It
just clipped me with a garbage can before I made my escape. The
beast was clearly visible in the rear view. it had turned an
angry red...like tail lights on metal."
"It
had torn up the lawn of the property it was standing
on...horrible...horrible."
11:48
AM Mr. Brown
That
stare it had; it would not blink!
11:49
AM Mr. Blue
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
(gasp!)
11:51
AM Mr. Blue
THE
HORROR...
8:45
AM Mr. Blue
Check
out this business name - “BS Graphics”
Why?
8:49
AM Mr. Silver
"Our
focus is on politicians and tel-evangelical charities"
8:52
AM Mr. Silver
"Check
our new line of investment and financing signage"
8:53
AM Mr. Blue
Heheh
They
do a lot of comic sans and stock clip art, I’ll bet.
"The
industry leader in MSPaint graphics."
9:04
AM Mr. Silver
(Woman
in commercial) "This artwork and lettering is total BS."
(Spokesman)
"But, of course!"
9:57
AM Mr. Blue
It’s
weird that Alfred Nobel, the peace prize guy, invented dynamite and
owned over 90 armament factories.
9:59
AM Mr. Silver
"I'd
like to inaugurate a prize trust that I can't qualify for any of the
awards in."
10:00
AM Mr. Blue
Oh,
but it says he was a pacifist
"I
hate war! But not as much as I love money! *rubs hands
evily*"
10:01
AM Mr. Gray
LOL
10:01
AM Mr. Silver
"Wait...all
this stuff is being used to kill
people? WOW! Who knew?"
10:02
AM Mr. Blue
"Didn’t
you read the label on these torpedoes? 'Not for military use'.
Sheesh!"
10:03
AM Mr. Silver
"See...I
told you. Right here in black and white. All my customers
are private international citizens named Mary."
"That's
'Army'."
"(wipes
glasses) Funny name for a girl."
12:55
PM Mr. Brown
Interesting
1:07
PM Mr. Blue
I
remember the previews for that. It sounded dumb.
Poe
the detective?
1:11
PM Mr. Silver
"Quoth
the raven...AWK! AK AK AK!"
1:13
PM Mr. Gray
"Quoth
the raven....The butler did it!!"
1:23
PM Mr. Silver
"Quoth
the raven...she's not coming back, stop moping!"
1:27
PM Mr. Blue
"Quoth
the raven…a modern day warrior mean mean stride, today's Tom Sawyer
mean mean pride."
1:27
PM Mr. Gray
LOL
Mr.
Brown
Anybody
know that song where they keep saying ‘work on time’.
I
need to know to clear it out of my head.
I
need to read about it.
LOL
(Mr.
Silver here. He’s referring to my discovery about earworms
after having been tortured, all day and night, for weeks, by “Hot
Rod Lincoln”. I considered the possibility that the reason
the damned thing was stuck was because I didn’t know the lyrics.
So I looked them up…a harder task in the earlier days of the
net…and read them through at the same pace as the song. The
curse lifted immediately. The method isn’t perfect, but it
works often, and even if the worm is not destroyed, the effect is
much weaker. I, for instance, am a chronic ABBA victim and used
this technique just the other day to escape from “Waterloo”.
I’m still singing it, but can dismiss it much more easily.)
2:04
PM Mr. Silver
"Work
On Time" by The Work On Times
2:04
PM Mr. Brown
lol
2:05
PM Mr. Silver
Do
you recall ANY other lyrics?
2:05
PM Mr. Brown
It’s
in a lot of movies.
Umm
2:05
PM Mr. Silver
Singer:
man or woman
2:05
PM Mr. Brown
Man
The
only words I hear him singing clearly in my head are ‘work on
time’.
Then
chorus repeats ‘work on time’.
Kind
of 80's-ish
2:06
PM Mr. Blue
I
don't think those are the lyrics.
2:06
PM Mr. Silver
Probably
not.
2:07
PM Mr. Blue
Maybe
it's “Men at Work”?
2:08
PM Mr. Silver
That
doesn't sound like any chorus I know from them.
Can
you name a film?
2:12
PM Mr. Blue
Huey
Lewis and the News “Back in Time”?
"gonna
go back in time"
2:12
PM Mr. Brown
No
Hell
no
2:12
PM Mr. Blue
Yeah
that's it. That’s what you're thinking of.
2:12
PM Mr. Brown
Not
that song
Not
that beat
2:13
PM Mr. Blue
Case
closed
2:13
PM Mr. Brown
Too
upbeat and fun sounding
2:14
PM Mr. Blue
So
you're saying it was Huey Lewis all along.
2:14
PM Mr. Silver
Tone
Loc singing Cindy Lauper's "Time After Time"
2:14
PM Mr. Brown
Hell
no
Too
slow
2:14
PM Mr. Blue
Male
or female singer
2:14
PM Mr. Brown
Male
2:15
PM Mr. Silver
Oh!
Huey Lewis then.
2:15
PM Mr. Blue
Clearly.
2:15
PM Mr. Silver
There
you go.
2:15
PM Mr. Brown
LOL
2:16
PM Mr. Silver
The
Bangles singing ‘Manic Monday’ after chain smoking cigars all night.
2:21
PM Mr. Silver
So
you know it's in a bunch of movie soundtracks but can't name any
movies?
2:22
PM Mr. Blue
Or
any lyrics, apparently.
So
what we have narrowed down to is that it's a male singer and from the
80's
2:35
PM Mr. Brown
It
has to be 80's or before.
Not
60's, so 70's or 80's
2:35
PM Mr. Blue
Oh!
It's Huey Lewis
2:52
PM Mr. Brown
A ha! I think its David Bowie
A ha! I think its David Bowie
“Modern
Love”
I
got it!
Yay!
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