Dinner with 5 people

The Indystar recently ran a quick article about who NASCAR star Tony Stewart would have dinner with if he got to choose any five people (Pope John Paul II, AJ Foyt, Kid Rock, Tara Reid, and his mom)

Bending the rules a just bit, here's my list with an annotation as to why I chose each one.
(in no order)

1. Hong Kong Phooey. C'mon. Any dog who can use a file cabinet to change into a crime fighter has got to earn your respect. And who wouldn't want the Phooeymobile?! (I know, I know...Spot the cat did all the real work, but he didn't have a cool karate outfit)

2. Harry Potter. Ya, I know. But dude! Just ONE spell is all I'm asking for. Just one! I don't really care which one it is! Ya, the invisibility cloak would be nice too.

3. Charles "Pete" Paddock. For those in the know, no explanation needed. For those that aren't: a man among men. The only man I ever knew who could rip you a new one and you'd leave his office feeling better about yourself. My first menor. "Kids don't grow up, they just get bigger bodies." "Go Hoosiers."

4. Muhammed Ali. Just to shake his hand would be great! I'd love to meet the man who is light years above today's pro athletes with trash talk...AND could back it up! Not only could he throw some smack around, he was funny!!

5. Anna Kornikova. Hot hot hot!! Ok, I know she's married, BUT! I didn't get my fair shot. If, after meeting me, she still wants Enrique...at least I'll have eaten w/ Anna...preferably at the "Y"!

I am Cheers

This has been kicking around in my head for about 2 weeks now. Inside my head is a very dangerous place for any thought to be.

On with the show.

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I am all the characters from Cheers (ok, most of them). Follow me here.

Norm: Greeted warmly when I enter 106th. I usually don't even have to tell the waitress what I want...she just asks to be professional.

Cliff: Obvious. More useless info in my head than any one human being should be allowed to posses. Roughly the same dating record too. My one advantage is that I don't still live with mama.

Woody: Small town boy, trying to make it in the big city. I'd claim his naivete, but this isn't meant to be a farce.

Carla: Oh come on. Can anyone say "biting sarcasm"?

Coach: Perpetually confused. Check.

Sam: The lovable loser. Once a decent athlete...and like him, my athletic prowess grows with each retelling.

Frasier: Way too smart for my own good. Although I'm not into cardigans or fine wine (Thunderbird suits me just fine)

Diana, Rebecca, Lillith: Sorry, this is where this little analogy of mine falls apart. Suggestions welcomed.

Nothing Trivial

I really wish 106th (our local hangout) had that cool trivia game like at BW3's. (The closest thing right now is the boss man and me trying to stump each other with trivia about the 80's music that is perpetually piped in there. Example: The answer is Susanna Hoffs. What's the question?)

Here's some of the junk that's stuck in my head. Note: If a person's memory is finite, I'm so screwed. THIS is the clutter in my brain as opposed to actual, useable info.

(As always, this in lieu of actual entertainment.)

-Stick bugs mate for month at a time! The male latches onto the back of the female, and she goes about her business...for a month. (I'd LOVE to know what all the females are thinking right now...then again, maybe I wouldn't)

- The dot over an "i" is called a tittle (please tell me I'm not the only one that snickers over that word)

- In the 1800's, ketchup was used as medicine

- The terms "upper" and "lower" case for letters comes from where the typesets were stored: capital letters in the top case, little letters in the bottom case

- Scorpions glow under black light (those crazy party animals)

- The first CD? Bruce Springstein's Born in the USA (sorry, somewhere buried in my brain I do know the first movie on DVD, won't come out of it's hiding place though)

-Casey Kasem (we all remember him for his "Long distance dedications...still upset I never got one) was the voice of Shaggy

-Bruce Less was so fast, most of his movies were SLOWED down so people could actually see his moves. Typically the opposite is done.

-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Well, the female ones have to ask directions first, but get there eventually (and remember, two wrongs don't make a right...but three lefts do.)

-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum

Yes folks, that's all of the top of my head. Welcome to my world. So, until 106th gets a trivia game, I'll just have to satisfy myself knowing that I'm probably the only person here who knows Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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