Monthly Archives: December 2017

Hollywood Squares Ha Ha

December 18, 2017 – 6:30 pm

From my brother in law David You remember the Original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this may bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when the “Hollywood Squares” game show responses were spontaneous and clever, not scripted and (often) dull, as they are now. Peter Marshall was […]

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The Great One – Jackie Gleason

December 18, 2017 – 4:19 pm

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you think you have it, then you have it. Jackie Gleason

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How Sweet It Is

December 17, 2017 – 8:29 am

“How sweet it is.” Few youths of today are familiar with Jackie Gleason’s famous aside. The big man was a star. TV, Broadway, Miami Beach. He symbolized joie de vivre. Jackie Gleason was no athlete. A good golfer and gambler, but no Olympian except for drinking and eating, especially at Toots Shor’s West 52nd Restaurant. […]

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Alligator Protection

December 15, 2017 – 6:35 am

Florida has about 1,000,000 Mesozoic inhabitants i.e. alligators and 800-1000 crocodiles. None exist on Palm Beach, except as shoes, belts, and pocketbooks for the filthy rich, however alligator attacks occur in the Sunshine State and every resident and visitor should know the proper response. First scream. Won’t scare the ‘gator, but it’ll alert people to […]

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A Messenger From Afar Visting First

December 11, 2017 – 9:28 pm

Hawaiian astronomers spotted a cigar-shaped asteroid traversing the solar system at 87,000 mph. The star gazers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory determined that the 1400 foot long object’s origins were from an unknown star system and named it ‘Oumuamua’ or a ‘a messenger from afar arriving first’. Astronomers added that they had never seen this shape […]

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