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Wilford Brimley.
I never get tired of his acting in Absence of Malice, including this classic scene.
Strange moments in broadcast history.
A long time ago in an internet discussion forum about this incident I read a comment from a guy in the Chicago suburbs who said he had a hunch this may have been done by a couple of brothers he had known in high school. Without revealing their identities, he made an interesting (although far from air-tight) case.
There are fast talkers and then there are fast talkers.
Try keeping up with John Moschitta.
I’d probably bump one domino and ruin the whole thing.
There are a number of people making tumbling-domino videos but Lily Hevesh is probably the leader of the pack.
Life in unusual places.
If you’re an American, most of Canada is not as bleak as you imagine. Some areas, like the Vancouver-Victoria area are actually an improvement over our weather here in Illinois. But Iqaluit… yes, it’s what you imagine Canada being.
The earthquake I missed.
I turned on the TV, tuned to the World Series, and left the room for a few minutes. I don’t even remember why. I came back and there was a sitcom on. I think it was Rosanne. There was nobody around who could have changed the channel – how did we wind up going from the World Series to a sitcom in five minutes?
“Officer, you couldn’t even do this sober.”
Sound doesn’t start until sixty seconds in.
Word brains.
Fun to watch. (Especially for people like me who can’t draw.)
There are things I can watch someone do, watching very intently, and still not be able to do them. Dunking a basketball would be one. Drawing anything more than a stick man would be another.