My college graduation speaker was the head of the Small Business Administration. Wow. Friend of mine graduated from SCAD about three weeks later and their commencement speaker was Bernie Casey, who was on the SCAD board. He was awesome.

Yep. One of the most awesome teachers I ever had.

First time I became aware of those was third grade. Our teacher (who had this sly sense of humor that I loved) read us the book "How To Eat Fried Worms" and kept talking about how at the end of the week she'd make us some fried worms. We didn't quite know what to think until that Friday when we watched her make those…

Yeah, but in the meantime I bet Hebrews up some attempts at humor.

You mean that guy who stands on the street corner by the gas station with all the Lyndon LaRouche signs?

(followed by Redbox commercial)

And Cutter would give McCoy heartburn by pulling much the same kind of moves with which McCoy gave Schiff heartburn, which made it even more fun.

The last house we rented before becoming homeowners had hardwood floors. We had a young cat at the time and when he'd go on one of his manic spells and fling himself around a corner, his rear paws would lose traction and he'd spin out. I sometimes mused about making him little kitty-cat shoes with rubber soles to help…

(Vladimir Putin smiles, gives thumbs-up)

I'm imagining it in really old-school National Geographic Special format, done on film in a slow-motion sequence, as Alexander Scourby narrates.

But Otis Nixon would climb an outfield wall for you to rob Andy Van Slyke of a home run.

In the '80s, as the Nixon people were trying to get the project going, the recurring joke was that it would be the "Richard M. Nixon Presidential Bookmobile."

And that Roget guy just ripped it all off. Just a whole bunch of words that meant the same thing. I mean, really?

Also helped by the way the particular color cameras CBS used then (Norelco PC-60s) made such pretty pictures. Certain colors just seemed to pop with those cameras.

(Paley orders more Norelco color cameras to stick it to David Sarnoff)

It's a trap(ezoid)!

The grocery chain we shop with still carries the Enquirer but has one of those opaque plastic covers over the tabloid's cover, same as you see over stuff like Cosmo and other magazines where the covers can get risque. Apparently there had been enough complaints about Enquirer cover antics that corporate responded.

Also the screaming headlines about Michelle Obama's "massive weight gain" with cover photo doctored to make her look like the Goodyear Blimp.

The Extra-Crispy Kenny Rogers.

This morning we were watching one of those DIY hot-rodding shows and the host talked about how he didn't like to use filler for any panel damage deeper than about three-eighths of an inch. I said back to the television, "Hey, where I grew up Bondo is considered structural."