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Prattling Before the Pratfall

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  1. Mih on Tom, Dick, and Drawing a BlankMarch 18, 2026

    More like an ignorance gap, like you or I not recognizing Marx brothers or Laurel and Hardy.

  2. DOuG pRATt on Coke DietMarch 16, 2026

    Maybe he uses a lot of saline nasal spray. His old pal Roy Cohn was a coke head.

  3. jeaniebeanie on Coke DietMarch 16, 2026

    Oh, I thought he just had a heavy cold. NOT! I picked up on that right away. Was his subdued,…

  4. DOuG pRATt on Coke DietMarch 16, 2026

    Sadly true.

  5. tastewar on Coke DietMarch 16, 2026

    Nobody that he would listen to would dare tell him that.

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Still There

The Dobbster has posted another movie still from his collection. Click here to see. This time Mike has chosen an obscure B-movie, The Strange Door, with William Pratt, who was better known by his stage name, Boris Karloff.

Posted on November 21, 2006November 21, 2006Categories All Posts

Chapter XVIII. Away to the South.

Audio Adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961

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Posted on November 21, 2006January 17, 2011Categories The Wonderful Wizard of OZLeave a comment on Chapter XVIII. Away to the South.

Chapter XVII. How the Balloon was Launched.

Audio Adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961

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Posted on November 21, 2006January 17, 2011Categories The Wonderful Wizard of OZLeave a comment on Chapter XVII. How the Balloon was Launched.

Tonight’s Colbert

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Tonight’s Colbert is a re-run, with the Dean Kamen interview that was featured here. The pass-off from The Daily Show was great, so let’s watch that.

Posted on November 20, 2006November 5, 2014Categories All Posts, Stephen Colbert1 Comment on Tonight’s Colbert

More Sparky

First click here to watch a video I posted of Charles Schulz from 1963…

…then come back here and watch an interview from 1985, to see an older Schulz with his daughter Jill. Note how in ’63 Schulz insisted he was Charlie Brown, and in ’85 he denies it!

Posted on November 20, 2006February 10, 2007Categories All Posts, Cartooning, Charles M. Schulz5 Comments on More Sparky

68 Beacon of Hope

Check out the comment that’s just been added to a previous post, by the subject of that post, John Walsh. His e-mail address is hidden from public view, but I’ve seen it and, yes, it’s him.

A follow-up article in the Boston Globe about Walsh’s legal battle with a group of Boston Brahmins, to become a resident of 68 Beacon Street, is here.

Posted on November 20, 2006November 21, 2006Categories All Posts

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