No Longer Squeaky

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme not only got out of prison in 2009, but she also just found out that she has inherited the WD-40 Corporation, the producer of the household product WD-40. “Squeaky” now owns WD-40? You can’t make this stuff up…although in this case you can.

Shocking Development...

All time, thought, consciousness, and existence itself nearly came to a screeching halt last Tuesday, April 23^rd, at 2:17 in the afternoon at the work offices of Pullman and Sons when William Paement from accounting, in attempting to see if his pen was working properly, restrained from scribbling on a co-worker’s paper out of respect for the co-worker.  Instead, Mr. Paement proceeded to check the amount of ink in his pen and went forward from there. It was the first time in the recorded history of offices that this had happened.

Dundalk Oil Change

Do you think you have had a weird day? Well, I know I was having one the other day when I went to the Dundalk Lube Center for an oil change and discovered that the oil-changing business was now being operated by the Skeleton Army from the “Jason And The Argonauts” movie from 1963. I can’t say much for their customer-service techniques, but I did get a lube job to a fare-thee-well. It was made all the stranger since I didn’t bring in my car. Just kidding. I guess what was really strange is that the Skeleton Army from the “Jason and the Argonauts” movie of 1963 was running a “Lube Center”.

 

Dead Thatcher

Let me take you back to a simpler time, a time when Washington DC was a bubbling cauldron of scorching heat. A time of the summer of 1986 when I was employed as a bellhop at the Washington Premier Hotel. The Washington Premier Hotel was a magnificent paean to the wealthy elite and bragged to all that, unlike the “Watergate Hotel” no burglaries there had ever been successfully attempted or not attempted.  Who did I see but none other than the Great Margaret Thatcher walking with her entourage into the lobby? Unfortunately for me, I was tired from the night before trying to create a mixed-tape on a Sony recorder.  When Mrs. Thatcher asked me to get her bags, I ill-advisedly answered, “Hey, you’re the Iron Lady, you carry your own bags.” Oops. Probably not the best thing to say to a visiting dignitary and Head of State. That summer was great afterwards working at Shakey’s Pizza.  Yet another reason to hate England.

Lucy Explained It all..in 1956

 A ‘lost episode” of “I Love Lucy” entitled “The Red Bird Sings” (original air-date: October 12, 1956), was recently unearthed by Lorimar Productions. The episode, guest-starring Phil Silvers as Lucy's therapist,  focuses on Lucy finally explaining to Ricky everything she had needed to explain throughout the run of the show. A “lot of explainin’ to do” was done. All of it..Lucy’s “love me” Daddy issues, her constant need for attention, her wicked narcissism, her relentless self-absorption, and her obsessive desire to be in Ricky’s shows. The upshot was that it was all brought on by profound abandonment issues from childhood. Conversely, there has yet to be an episode unearthed that satisfactorily explains Ricky’s friendship with Fred Mertz.