One of my favorite Road Show moments was watching a yuppie couple find out they'd paid hundreds of dollars for a "pre-Columbian" statue that was tourist crap from Africa, worth maybe $25. I liked it because I knew it was fake as soon as I saw it, and I'm no antiques expert. It was a statue of a guy on horseback and,…

Malcolm, is that you?

How odd. I lived under the same sort of strictures, which (unfortunately) included never going to a doctor unless it was necessary to prevent death, and going to the cheapest dentist they could find, and never allowing me to do things, like class trips, because it cost too much.
Then one day I watched my father drop…

My first Roald Dahl was a book of short stories written for adults. I never read any of his children's books until I was well into middle age. Not sure it wasn't better that way.

My idiot brother is not only considerably older but also definitely not cool by any measure. What I remember from his music collection are albums by Jackie Gleason—yes, that Jackie Gleason—and Julie London. He claims to be a jazz fan, but I sent him a Chet Baker CD one Christmas and he never even mentioned it.

John Travolta on horseback sounds like horror to me.

3th? Is that like 3rd?

I always thought Marvel's Sub-mariner was based on Fred Astaire. The face, I mean.

To date, my high school has two notable alums: Joan Rivers, who did graduate, and Chuck Connors, who got kicked out. Both before my time. Connors was sort of a mini-legend by the time I went there.

I guess this opens things up for Gilbert Godfried.

According to roadfood, there are 5 places either in or within 5 miles of D.C. that have food to seek out.
Quite a variety of stuff, too. Check it out online.
Roadfood is invaluable if you're taking a road trip.

Wasn't it Tom Slick who raced in the Appleless Indian 500? There's something about jokes with long build-ups and minor payoffs that amuses me more than it should, probably.

I envision some sort of sit-com with Lohan and Charlie Sheen. Randy Quaid as the whacky next-door neighbor.

So this is also in Shia LaBoeuf's future.

My parents personified middle-class conservative America, and they never missed He & She. Go figure. They watched Lawrence Welk, Bonanza, HeeHaw, Beverly Hillbillies, Gunsmoke and all the other programs you'd expect.

Rocky & Bullwinkle = free life pass.

Cassidy was more of a Broadway performer, good singer and so on. I have no idea what being an actor is like, but I'd guess that being loved by a live audience every night is a bit better than the boredom of making tv shows or movies.

You asked the question. Don't blame the messenger. It's possible that hundreds of people want to sit on Carl Kassel's face.

Perhaps you should try looking through the merchandise available at the Wait Wait/NPR shop.
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