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The Cat is a Witness?
I have watched the Men in Black movies dozens of times, and I still get a little puzzled at the scene in which Agent J ask the deputy medical examiner (Laurel) where the cat Orion is. Orion is carrying a tiny galaxy on its collar. You’ll have to see the movie to get the context…
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Earthquakes and Railroads and Magic Fingers, Oh My!
The hotel we’re staying in while our house is being built is very close to railroad tracks. We hear the whistle and then, we feel the train going by. No kidding, we can feel the rumble. It shakes the chairs, the sofa, the bed. The whole room shakes for as long as the train passes…
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The Haunted Bellman’s Luggage Carts
When we moved into the hotel we’re camping in to wait for our house to be built, I rediscovered the joy of driving the bellman’s luggage cart. Does anyone besides me find this a major challenge? I always get the cart with the crazy, wobbly wheel. Worse yet, they are impossible to steer and the…
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The Svengoolie Movie the Leech Woman and What About the Pineal Gland?
OK, so I watched the Svengoolie movie, “The Leech Woman” a couple of weeks ago and I think I missed the part where the June Talbot was told that the potion containing the pineal gland secretion and powdered flower parts entailed the requirement that the pineal gland secretion should come from a man. You can…
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The United States Postal Service is in Code 101 Lockdown!
No matter what I do, the USPS Change of Address (COA) snafu team makes the situation worse. It reminds me of this scene in Men in Black 2 in which the MIB headquarters goes into something called Code 101 Lockdown. Agents J & K return to headquarters and Agent J fires a sort of space…
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Svengoolie Movie: The Tingler!”
We saw the 1959 movie “The Tingler” starring Vincent Price on the Svengoolie show last Saturday. Price plays a prison pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin, who’s trying to scientifically study a parasitic creature called the tingler (tingles up and down your spine means you’re scared right out of your mind!). It sits on your spine and…
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Ahm a Fan of the Svengoolie Movie The Land That Time Forgot
We watched the Svengoolie movie, The Land That Time Forgot last Saturday night. Doug McClure stars as Bowen Tyler. He and others passengers of a ship are taken prisoner by the crew of a German U-Boat (World War I era) which torpedoed the ship. Officers of the torpedoed ship and Tyler overpower the U-Boat crew.…
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Svengoolie Movie Trilogy of Terror!
Last Saturday we watched the movie Trilogy of Terror on the Svengoolie show. Well, we tried anyway. There were a lot of interruptions from severe weather warnings. We didn’t mind them because you ignore them at your peril. It’s hard to forget the 2020 derecho in Iowa, which affected a lot of Iowans, including us.…
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Yet Another Study Affirming Stair Climbing Is Great Exercise!
There is yet another study showing that climbing stairs is great exercise and could help you live longer. It’s not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, but it was presented at the recent scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Preventive Cardiology. Conclusions were that, compared with not climbing stairs, doing so was…
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Svengoolie Saturday Night Movie: The Wolf Man
Here’s a suitable sort of dad joke Svengoolie style for the 1941 horror movie classic, The Wolf Man: What do you call a dirty joke about the wolfman given at the strait-laced werewolf convention? A howler. See what I did there? It puns on the word “howler” defined as an embarrassing mistake that evokes laughter,…
