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Some Post-Halloween "Snickers"...

The New York Stock Exchange reopened yesterday after being closed for two days during Hurricane Sandy. 

- In keeping with Halloween, the traders wore costumes! They all dressed up as money-grubbing guys in expensive suits! No wait…that’s how they dress everyday. 

 

The National Retail Federation reports that this year, so much candy corn was sold for Halloween that if you laid all the pieces end-to-end, it would circle the moon 20 times. 

- It would circle Chris Christie only 17 times.   

- To think the US can repeatedly go around the moon with candy corn and North Korea can’t even get a nuclear missile to fly 50 feet! 

 

A Florida woman just cast her first vote at age 108. 

- Good for her! At least she didn’t wait to vote until she was dead like people do in Chicago! 

- She said she’s hopeful her vote will help elect Herbert Hoover. 

 

Disney has purchased Lucasfilm and is taking over the Star War’s franchise. 

- In the next film, instead of a light saber, “Pinnochio Vader” will tell a lie and then fight with his nose. 

- And instead of taking place in a galaxy far, far away…all the action will take place in A Small, Small World.  

 

Actor Gene Hackman slapped a homeless man who called his wife a bad name outside a New Mexico restaurant. 

- That name: Lindsay Lohan. 

 

Clocks “fall back” this weekend. 

- That means the networks will have to wait a whole extra hour to make incorrect exit poll predictions on election day. 

 

On this day in 1896 the first women’s bare breast appeared in National Geographic magazine. 

- And later today, another woman’s bare breast will appear onstage at a Madonna concert. 

 

Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Friday with an all new Podcast! 

-Dick 

 

 

 

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween… As always, I will be handing out my traditional Halloween treat to the little nippers:  Soup! But this year I’ll be ladeling up two different kinds - Campbells Tomato and for those kids trying to keep their figures, Fat-Free Cream of Mushroom. Yum! 
 
According to e-mails obtained by the Detroit News, Kwame Kilpatrick, who has always vowed to return to Michigan has no intention of ever moving back to Detroit, and actually considers himself “a Texan”. 
- Five Words: Yippee-Ay-Oh-Ay-Eh!!!!!
- We should have known he was thinking of heading south permanently when duirng his “apology” press conference he said,  “Y’ALL done set me up for a comeback”. 
- All he needs to do is learn the Rodeo thing. He’s got the clown part down pat. 
 
The Agriculture Department has cut it’s estimate of the amount of sugar the average American consumes each year by 20 pounds.
- Of course with today being Halloween, tomorrow morning they’ll be adding that 20 pounds back on.
 
Officials are reporting an increase in the number of people being hit by lightening while talking on cell phones.
- It explains Apple’s, “Want To Get Hit By Lightenting? There’s an App For That!”
 
Police in Florida arrested a man aftr they caught him having sex with a traffic sign. 
- Apparently he doesn’t understand that a red stop light means “Stop!” 
- The man claims his eyes aren’t very good and he thought the sign said, “Ped Sexing”. 
 
Arnold Scharzenegger will reprise his role as Conan in a new movie. 
- It’s tentaively titled: “Conan Knocks Up The Hired Help”. 
 
On this day in in 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 
- People originally thought it was a book for grade school kids, since he kept saying, “It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson”.

Happy Halloween… As always, I will be handing out my traditional Halloween treat to the little nippers:  Soup! But this year I’ll be ladeling up two different kinds - Campbells Tomato and for those kids trying to keep their figures, Fat-Free Cream of Mushroom. Yum! 
 
According to e-mails obtained by the Detroit News, Kwame Kilpatrick, who has always vowed to return to Michigan has no intention of ever moving back to Detroit, and actually considers himself “a Texan”. 
- Five Words: Yippee-Ay-Oh-Ay-Eh!!!!!
- We should have known he was thinking of heading south permanently when duirng his “apology” press conference he said,  “Y’ALL done set me up for a comeback”. 
- All he needs to do is learn the Rodeo thing. He’s got the clown part down pat. 
 
The Agriculture Department has cut it’s estimate of the amount of sugar the average American consumes each year by 20 pounds.
- Of course with today being Halloween, tomorrow morning they’ll be adding that 20 pounds back on.
 
Officials are reporting an increase in the number of people being hit by lightening while talking on cell phones.
- It explains Apple’s, “Want To Get Hit By Lightenting? There’s an App For That!”
 
Police in Florida arrested a man aftr they caught him having sex with a traffic sign. 
- Apparently he doesn’t understand that a red stop light means “Stop!” 
- The man claims his eyes aren’t very good and he thought the sign said, “Ped Sexing”. 
 
Arnold Scharzenegger will reprise his role as Conan in a new movie. 
- It’s tentaively titled: “Conan Knocks Up The Hired Help”. 
 
On this day in in 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 
- People originally thought it was a book for grade school kids, since he kept saying, “It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson”.

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It's Almost Halloween... Where Were The Bats???

And so… The Tigers lose the World Series - giving up four straight games to the Giants. Disappointing? Yes. But, being the “glass is half full” kind of guy that I am, I say we should still celebrate that we were actually in the World Series and are the American League Champions! And as my Grandson Charlie said to his mom this morning - “That’s still pretty good Mom. I mean we’re still the second best team in the world right?”.  

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The Day "National Geographic" Became Obsolete...

Today is Internet Day…marking the anniversary of the first usage of the Internet to send a message electronically way back in 1969. 

- The first message was “Watson, come here. I need you.” No wait… that was Alexander Graham Bell. Oops. 

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Guy With Good Credit Scores Big Time...

A 20-year-old Brazilian student has sold her virginity online to a Japanese man for $772,000. 

- VISA will be changing their slogan to: “We’re Everywhere You Wanna Be…And No One Else Has Ever Been Before”. 

- I guess it really does “Pay to Discover”! 

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Madonna Gets Her Share Of "Boo's" Before Halloween!

Madonna got booed during a concert over the weekend when she told the audience to vote for Obama. 

- She should learn to keep her political views to herself like Barbra Streisand. 

- Turns out they weren’t booing her endorsement, they were booing the fact that her boob was hanging out again.  

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Today's Almanac

On this day in 1993 Luke and Laura returned to “General Hospital”.

- They left an hour later after finding out the hospital didn’t accept their insurance.   

 

Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Tuesday!

-Dick 

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Purtan Podcast #62: "Everything But Baseball...So Relax!"

Want something to keep your mind off the Tigers 2nd loss to the Giants? You’ve come to the right place! 

In today’s Podcast, Jackie and I touch on just about everything but baseball… from old movies (I actually sat through an Elvis flick ALL THE WAY THROUGH) to a rather unusual habit I have of Googling “certain things” while I’m watching TV (you’ll have to listen to find out!). From “Hollywood Squares” to “Young Frankenstein”, it’s all part of our verbal meander down entertainment memory lane. 

We also bounce from Meredith Baxter Bernie to Hitler’s Bunker (even I can’t explain how that happened). 

Then, in a flash-forward to the present, Jackie reveals the repercussions of accidentally texting your mom - when you think you’re texting your sisters. (Can you say “Fifty Shades of Humiliation”)?

And, ironically, since this all happens live and in one-take, Jackie gets a surprise text from her college boyfriend and we end up discussing the relationship between her ex-husband and her current boyfriend - (let’s hope at least one of them doesn’t listen to this Podcast!)

Finally, you’ll find out something I did recently that, apparently, is a clear “danger signal” that I’m really “retired”! 

So put on your mental cleats and get ready for a run around the bases of Podcast #62! 

Have a great weekend! 

-Dick

Podcast #62 (28:02)

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The Donald Manages To Trump His Own Ego!!!

Donald Trump’s big anti-Obama “October Surprise” was that he offered $5 million to charity if Obama will release his college transcipts and passport documents. 

- Mitt Romney said he’ll donate $10 million to charity if Donald Trump will just disappear.  

- Here’s an idea: Why doesn’t everybody in the country donate a buck to get Donald to take time off and think up a better publicity stunt than that one! 

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Attn Moms & Dads: Don't Throw Out That Pull-Out Couch Just Yet...

A new survey has found that Americans in their late 30’s are now the group that doubts they’ll be financially secure after retirement. 

- Of course that’s assuming they’ll actually have a job to retire from. 

- So in the future, “Retirement Community” will actually mean “Mom & Dad’s Basement”. 

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Lindsay Escapes Hit & Run Charges So She Can Concentrate On Stealing!

It’s a good news/bad news day for Lindsay Lohan. She won’t face charges in her latest hit-and-run case in New York, but the National Enquirer claims that she took $15,000 worth of clothing from the set of “Scary Movie 5”. They claim producers let it go…considering it’s part of the cost of hiring Lindsay Lohan. 

- Her publicist insists she didn’t “take” the clothes, she just sold them for beer money.  

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Chris Matthews: "I Coulda Been A Contender!"

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that if he had decided to run for Senate, he could’ve been a star in the Democratic party.

- He would not only have had “a tingle” up his leg,

 

 

but he could have taught Joe Biden how to interrupt and make faces… oh wait, Joe already knows how to do that! 

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Today's Almanac

On this day in 1936 a radio station in Berlin broadcast the first call-in request show, called “You Ask - We Play”. 

- The first caller was an A. Hitler who asked to hear “Eva-destruction”. 

Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Friday with an ALL NEW PODCAST! 

-Dick 

P.S. Come on Tigers!

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