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I'd love to see this again to see how cringe-worthy and of-its-time it is: Steve Allen appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in the mid-1990s and said, "Here's an idea you can use anytime a guest cancels or you just need to fill a few minutes," and it was a montage of man-on-the-street clips of people answering

It's OK — you were just making your way the only way you knew how.

The whole "Entertainment Weekly" interview with Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott isn't online — it's titled "Yee-haw! The 'Dukes of Hazzard' dudes talk!" if you want to see what IS online — so I'm going from memory here:

In 2010, I was the copy editor at a newspaper desk when an obituary came in that included the line, "There were a few men still alive on the day of her birth who in 1815 had marched with or against Napoleon at Waterloo." I wrote the funeral home and politely explained that this woman was born in 1909, and there was

To this day I cherish that show's "A Very Brady Episode" for reasons other than "1989-era Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Courtney Thorne-Smith are dressed as high school cheerleaders," but WOW that's still a great selling point.

THANK you; I was starting to think I was the only one who remembered any of them (or Olive's ex-fiance, Ham Gravy).

When I was in college, an overeager RA blew up three or four academics-themed "Far Side" strips to 8 1/2-by-11 pages and put one on everyone's door on his floor of the dorm. I replaced mine with a copy of "Go back to sleep, Chuck. You're just having a nightmare…of course, we ARE still in hell."

Maybe the most profound thing I ever read on Usenet was back in 1999: "Did anybody realize we were in a Golden Age at the time when Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, and Bloom County all shared a page?"

In my mind, the scene from "Attack of the Clones" in which Owen says "I guess I'm your stepbrother" is immediately followed by him looking directly at the camera and saying, "So if you had a SON, I'd be his UNCLE. His UNCLE OWEN."

Does anyone else have Facebook friends or people in your town blaming the media for not covering Bill Clinton the way they cover Bill Cosby? My hometown paper carries a column by Domenick Maglio that argued this. Maglio wrote of Bill Cosby, "His crime was criticizing black males for not doing their duty as role models