Tom Holmberg

Indeed! (To quote another insurance ad.) But a talking horse is an almost clichéd costume, usually the back-end does the talking (or complaining).

They have an emu, but maybe a talking horse to compete with the camel.

My current favorite is the Detroit-style pizza from the chain Jet's.

It looks like ZLiving does marathons on Sundays. I just noticed that they are running Roger Moore's "The Saint" all day.

According to Merriam Webster, and they should know: "...the definition [of "desert island"] is simply "an island where no people live," so the desert in desert island is actually an archaic form of deserted: it refers to an island that is uninhabited, not one that is covered with sand (with the obligatory palm tree)." Though I too wouldn't mind being stranded on a dessert island.

Two interesting "Route 66" episodes on FETV this weekend set in Chicago. On Sat. at 5 pm (CST): "Man Out of Time", Tod and Buz are working as cabbies in Chicago and are hired to chauffeur a Prohibition-era gangster just out of prison around his old haunts. On Sun. 6 pm (CST): "Lizard's Leg and Qwlet's Wing", Tod and Buz are working as guest relations reps at the O'Hare Inn in Chicago, their guests are a convention of cute secretaries and the not-so-cute Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Peter Lorre secretly meeting about making an "old fashioned" horror movie. Chaos ensues.

Where do you keep the second refrigerator, then? :)

I wonder how many people think that the whooping cough vaccine ad is for a wolfing cough vaccine?

What we'd get if Kafka was a cat.

He was just as bad when he was a mere Florida Congressman. I'm sure if he was just a manager of the local Piggly Wiggly he'd be at the bar after work being the town blowhard.

This Fri. night TCM is running "Start the Revolution Without Me" a sort Mel Brooks movie pre-dating Mel Brooks. A funny parody of Hollywood costume dramas about two set of twins separated at birth, with Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland as the aristocratic Corsican brothers, the De Sisis, and the peasant Coupé brothers before the French Revolution. My favorite scene is when the sadistic Gene Wilder character brags, "Some day I will be King!" and the gay Donald Sutherland brother states, "...And I shall be Queen!"

Does anybody believe that if Joe was still in Congress that he wouldn't be all in with Trump like every other Republican except Amash?

And being able to pick up "free" TV at sea, where there are no tall buildings to block the signal is some sort of accomplishment.

He might want to rethink that! 🙂 He couldn't figure that out on his own?

I periodically scroll through the guide because AT&T adds channels without any notice or I discover channels that have interesting programming. This is esp. true of the higher number channels or the non-HD channels (MeToo is only non-HD in my selection).

It's also called "eavesdropping", or less charitably, "not minding one's own beeswax."

They show literally hours of yoga, which seems like overkill.

FETV is still showing two episodes of "Route 66" a day on Sat. and Sun., late afternoons/early evenings. https://fetv.tv/current-schedule/

I always argue that the woman has the laundry room, so why shouldn't the man have a room. (I'd be willing to be permanently banned from the laundry room.) However, that argument doesn't go over very well. :)

GSN used to show them and seemed to have more episodes. Then they would occasionally run them, seemingly randomly, but I haven't seen them schedule for a long while.

I've been watching "Route 66" on the channel ZLiving and they play that ad with the ex-judge-turned-zebra-farmer touting colostomy bags at least twice an hour. I forgot how much I hate that ad! Plus the channel ups the volume for the ads so you have to be quick to hit the mute.

Yes, that was a good episode. They had one this morning with Suzanne Pleshette ("The Strengthening Angels") being picked up by Tod and Buz after they almost hit her on the highway in the rain. They take her to the nearest town where all the people want to lynch her. Buz, as usual, gets in a fight protecting her and they all wind up in jail, where they learn (after Buz and the sheriff have a fight in the police station) she murdered a beloved citizen of the town, the younger brother of the sheriff. The story doesn't evolve exactly the way you would assume. Pleshette was very good in a well-written role. There's also an animated series!

An interesting episode, "A Fury Slinging Flame" is coming up (on ZLiving) with Leslie Nielsen as a scientist who's convinced that there's going to be an atomic war on New Years Day and he decides to take his son and a small group of followers into Carlsbad Caverns to wait out the apocalypse. Also in the episode is old-time movie star Conrad Nagel. An interesting look at the early 1960s mentality about nuclear war.

ZLiving, a self-help channel I was unaware even exists, has started showing "Route 66" in the early morning (overnight). They show 3 episodes in a row. They must have just started as they are only about 6 episodes into Season One.

Coincidence, I think not!