On this day in 1906, the first legal forward football pass was made by Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider.
- And on this same day in 1996, Bill Clinton made his first illegal forward pass to Monica Lewinsky.
Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Thursday!
-Dick
Here are the Top Ten Vote-Getters in the Suburban Collection’s “Great Charity Giveaway”! Congrats to the winners and thanks to all of you for your support!
#1: South Oakland Center - $15,000
#2: The Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation - $10,000
#3: The Animal Aid Foundation - $5,000
#4: Friends For The Dearborn Animal Shelter - $3,000
#5: PAWS For Life: $2,000
#6: Cass Community Social Services - $1,000
#7: Home FurEver Rescue - $1,000
#8: Lighthouse of Oakland County - $1,000
#9: Michigan Animal Rescue League - $1,000
#10: Angel’s Place - $1,000
Today is “Back to School” day for all public school students in Michigan.
- You can tell by all the crying kids and their smiling parents.
A new article in Vanity Fair details how the Church of Scientology goes about finding wives for Tom Cruise by having them audition for an alleged video for the Church. “The Chosen One” has to sign a ton of confidentiality agreements. One woman who dated him for a month claims that she was dumped by Cruise and forced to scrub toilets with a toothbrush and dig ditches at night after she told a friend about her relationship with Tom.
- Don’tcha just love a good old-fashioned love story?
- Most women have to wait for the “scrub toilets” part until after the marriage.
A survey found that over half of US employers are monitoring their employees.
- The other ones are too busy playing “Farmville”…
- Finally some good news if you’re unemployed! At least you’re not being monitored!
Pippa Middleton has written a book about party planning.
- Tip #1: Don’t allow friends to bring their cell phones if you’re planning to play “Strip Billiards”.
- Given what she’s best known for, she should name the book “Bottoms Up!”
- The British public, especially the men, are behind her all the way!
MTV announced that this season of Jersey Shore will be the last one.
- But on the bright side, Hollywood is making a sequel to “Dumb and Dumber”!
- I haven’t been this sad since Charlie Sheen left “Two-And-A-Half Men”.
On this day in 1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
- Before that, the only ones “Googling” were teenage boys.
Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Wednesday!
-Dick
Welcome to Labor Day Weekend! We’re back with an all-new Podcast featuring former “Purtan’s Person” Joe Noune - owner of many voices and master of a few! In honor of the political conventions, he brings former President Ronald Reagan back to life - with observations on everything from Chris Christie’s eating habits to a romantic story about his early days dating Nancy.
Also Jackie, Joe and I discuss Prince Harry’s Royal pickle, the new romance blossoming between Superman & Wonder Woman, and in an effort to cover everything from “soup to nuts”, we also talk about a brand of Pistachio’s available at Costco that I can’t get enough of.
But wait… there’s more!
Elvis’s (previously enjoyed) underpants are going on the auction block and I’ll tell you why I think they should be marked “Return to Sender”, plus Randy Travis, Lindsey Lohan and the new trend in wedding planning that may leave you “shuttering”.
And it wouldn’t be a Purtan Podcast if I didn’t slip in a reference to WWII - Today I share a great story about Winston Churchill and an Italian Cruise ship.
So get out your deck chair and get ready to set sail with Podcast #55!
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
-Dick
Purtan Podcast #55 (37:00)
It appears that the “Mystery Speaker” at tonight’s Republican Convention will be none other than Clint Eastwood.
- When asked by a network reporter how he felt about it, one excited convention-goer said, “Yeah… I’m feelin’ lucky, punk!”
- Mitt Romney said having the famous actor support him will really “Make my day!”
Penn State has banned the Neil Diamond classic “Sweet Caroline” from school events, presumeably because of the lines, “touching me/touching you”.
- Instead they’ll encourage football fans in the stadium to sing M.C. Hammer’s hit “You Can’t Touch This”.
An auction next month in England will offer Elvis Presley’s personal home movies, his family Bible and a pair of underpants he wore, but have never been washed.
- Wow! The chance to own something that was around the King’s ankles when he sat on the throne!
- If only Michael Jackson was still alive… He’d buy the underpants and use them as a giant hammock!
Lindsay Lohan was told that she’s no longer welcome at the Chateau Marmont Hotel after she reportedly failed to pay a $46,000 hotel bill that she accrued over a several-month stay there this summer.
- And that was just the charge for the mini-bar.
- In her defense, Linsday honestly doesn’t remember ever staying at the hotel.
Madonna was booed wildly when she took to the stage two-and-a-half hours late for a concert in Philadelphia.
- Who does she think she is? Madonna?
- She was late because she was bidding on Elvis’s underpants she wanted to wear on stage that night.
The oldest living woman, Besse Cooper, turned 116 this week.
- Which means that one week from now, we’ll be reading that the world’s oldest woman, Besse Cooper, has died at the age of 116.
On this day in 30 B.C. Egyptian Queen Cleopatra killed herself by allowing a deadly snake to bite her.
- She misunderstood her doctor when he said “Take two asp-pirin and call me in the morning”.
Have a great day… and don’t forget that you’ve only got until tomorrow - Friday, Aug. 31st, to cast your vote in the Suburban Collection’s “Great Charity Giveaway”! $40,000 will be given away! To view the ten finalists and make your voice heard… just click on any one of the SC ads on this page!
See you back here Friday with a brand new Podcast!
-Dick
The Republican National Convention kicked off in Tampa last night with a widely praised speech by Mitt Romney’s wife Ann, and the keynote speech given by NJ Governor Chris Christie.
- Christie’s speech ran longer than the time he’d been alloted… because he took a few “snack breaks”.
Rumors are running rampant that there is actually a video of Prince Harry frolicking naked with women at the much ballyhooed “Strip Billards” game in his Las Vegas hotel suite. While no one in the press has seen the footage… it’s supposed to be pretty explicit.
- Actually it’s not so much “footage” as it is “inch-age”.
- If released, the movie will be called “Harry’s Potted and His Magic Wand!”
A soon to be released book about the Navy Seal raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, written by one of the SEALS who was there, has passed 50 Shades of Grey as the #1 book on Amazon.com.
- Actually Bin Laden was about 50 Shades of Grey when they dumped him in the Indian Ocean.
A new trend in wedding planning is to have a photographer go to the hotel and take “morning after” pictures of the bride and groom in bed.
- The stars in Hollywood bypass all of that by making sex tapes of the night before.
- Anyone who’s seen the famous “John & Yoko” Naked Bed Pictures should know this is a baaaad idea!