The high point of Springer’s career was his self-parody in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Weird Al is the best. I end up watching UHF about once a year, and it’s always funny and entertaining.

“...life is technically one big scam...”

Just so we’re all on the same page here, these figures do not appear to consider inflation. Adjusting, here are the top worldwide box office movies, per Wiki:

You left out scuba gear.

You left out scuba gear.

Umm... the Ocean’s 11 figure of $38.1M in 2001 is like $54.3M today. I’m not sure I see how you’re “controlling for inflation”. Or are you saying that the $38.1M figure is already adjusted for inflation?

Wiki says: “A space gun by itself is not capable of placing objects into stable orbit around the object (planet or otherwise) from which it launches them. The laws of two-body gravitation make it impossible to reach a stable orbit without an active (kinetic) payload propulsion process which would perform orbital…

“...a space gun has never fired anything into orbit...”

“Alex Strangelove”

“...a big, scary question about whether Armstrong and his buddies will actually land on the moon.”

I see your point, but in fact a nuclear war did occur, in 1945; it lasted three days.

Interesting. During WWII British mailboxes were painted with gas-detecting paint. In addition, virtually everyone in southeast England, even children, had a gas mask they carried with them all the time.

Fun fact: this uses a device called a thermocouple, composed of two metals with dissimilar electrode potentials, like Iron and Copper, joined together. When one junction is heated and the other is at a cooler temperature an electrical potential is created; the larger the temperature difference, the greater the…

Fun fact: this uses a device called a thermocouple, composed of two metals with dissimilar electrode potentials,…

The Greek goddess Hera had a bigger problem. Her husband Zeus fathered a child with a mortal woman, then tried to sneak the baby into her bed so she would nurse him; her milk would make him immortal. She tumbled to the deception, pushed Heracles (aka Hercules) away, spilling her milk across the sky. It form the band…

We took long road trips all the time with our two girls back in the mid ‘80s. To help make it more tolerable my wife invented movies in cars. Really. She asked me to find a TV and VCR that would run off the cigarette lighter, and I found them. She lashed them with bungee cords to a small shelf she placed behind the…

It can’t come too soon; there’s no such thing as enough Lady Day.

My mother’s family was from south central Mississippi, and we spent most summers there when I was a kid. The heat was a tangible, manifest thing, a stifling blanket that engulfed you body and mind in suffering and sweat. This was in the ‘50s when air conditioning was unknown there; only one aunt had a window unit, but…

“Brother makes some of the only printers you won’t want to punt into an active volcano...”

“Brother makes some of the only printers you won’t want to punt into an active volcano...”

My daughter’s mother-in-law is a flight attendant, and passed along a couple of tips for getting on their right side. Bring a sealed box of chocolates with you, and give it to the attendant as you board, saying it’s for the cabin crew. Also, tell them you volunteer to be an Able Bodied Passenger (ABP); they have to…

I love posts like this. I worked full time for 40 years, in addition to also teaching three evenings a week for 30 years, and doing a seven year hitch in the Army Reserves. I’m retired now, and spend my days reading, listening to music, and watching movies. After a lifetime of toil, now every day is a mental health…