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Open Sunday!

 

One of my favorites from a while back:

 

Teri Garr makes her first of dozens of appearances on Letterman (1982)

 

Dave was soooo hot for her, it was pathetic.

 

I may have shared this here before. I met Garr around this time when I was in college. She was a Cal State Northridge alum and she was there for an interview they were recording. I happened to be in the hallway when they were gathering people to up the crowd. I got to ask her a question about working with Mel Brooks. I saw where Dave’s attraction came from.

 

Spotted this in my town today. Are fava beans and a nice Chianti also on the menu?

 

Reminds me of the message sign outside a restaurant where I worked as a kid.

Some ingenious person, in the dark of night, got up there and removed an "E," so now the sign screamed this in bright lights on a busy highway:

EAT HER
OR TAKE
IT HOME

I laughed my ass off. Manager was a dick, so I just went home for the night without telling him. ... Got to work the next day, and the altered message was still up, so I got to be the guy who told the dick manager that he might wanna check his sign out front. ... Hijinks ensued.

Just an all-time great sign prank, and still my favorite to this day.

 

When I was kid, the nearby outdoor shopping center had a four-screen theater, and they put the marquee across the parking lot by the street so passersby could see what was playing.

So, "The Blue Lagoon" was at the theater and one day my mom's driving me by the center and I see someone took out a couple of letters and it read "The Blue Goon." My 10-year-old self giggled at that, but it was nothing compared to when the theater got the Willie Nelson movie "Honeysuckle Rose" (known for "On The Road Again") and they listed it above "The Blue Lagoon." A couple days later, we drove by again and the marquee said "The Goon Sucks It Blue."