December 13, 1975 – Richard Pryor hosted NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live on this date. Fearing Pryor would say things that were too offensive for television at the time, the show was placed on seven-second delay for the very first time As mentioned in the opening sketch, Pryor requested that Garrett Morris say “Live from NewContinue reading “Saturday Night Live”
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If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day. Today’s Holiday Theme is A Dean Martin’s Christmas (Dean died on Christmas day in 1995.) As we mentioned yesterday, Frank wasn’t the only member of the Rat Pack to singContinue reading “If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
It’s all the damn man in the can’s fault.
Christmas trees are known to have been popular in Germany as far back as the sixteenth century. In England, they became popular after Queen Victoria’s husband Albert, who came from Germany, made a tree part of the celebrations at Windsor Castle. In the United States, the earliest known mention of a Christmas tree is inContinue reading “It’s all the damn man in the can’s fault.”
Francis Albert Sinatra
December 12, 1915 –It’s the birthday of Francis Albert today. I have been advised by legal council to stop making jokes about Mr. Sinatra’s alleged organized crime connection, especially if I would like to make it home tonight (Please note – I did not use the word, Mafia.) And once again, We here at ACMEContinue reading “Francis Albert Sinatra”
Tallulah Bankhead
December 12, 1968 –If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. After a long and well enjoyed life, Tallulah Bankhead died in St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City of double pneumonia, complicated by emphysema and malnutrition, on this date. Her last coherent words reportedly were “Codeine… bourbon.”Continue reading “Tallulah Bankhead”
I’m actually not sure that ACME still offers these
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The more you know
Unless you are tight with the Thursday afternoon, rosary praying old ladies – you may not know this;) today is the third Sunday of Advent. It is known as Gaudete Sunday. One of the candles in the Advent wreath is rose colored for Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is Latin for Rejoice, as in Gaudete in DominoContinue reading “The more you know”
Elmira Snerd
(You don’t want to know what she had to do to earn this coat.) Demand Euphoria!
More Christmas Trivia:
Christmas decorating sends nearly 15,000 people to the ER. In fact, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 14,700 people visit hospital emergency rooms each November and December from holiday-related decorating accidents. So please, be careful when you’re putting up the holly and the ivy. So now you know.
Cheese is big business (even on the illegal market.)
According to Dairy Industries International, the global cheese sales surpassed $201.99 billion in 2020, and have followed a steady upward revenue pattern year over year. As it turns out, the cheese business is big enough that black market sales of it are also quite lucrative. This may explain why a reported 4% of all cheeseContinue reading “Cheese is big business (even on the illegal market.)”
