I'm proud of my useless knowledge...

Oh yeah, who can forget ol' DipStick? Although I think he gave Charley Greene a red card once after a headbutt on Gino Schraldi, so that was kind of cool.

I think Bill Maxwell also once gave Andy Chapman a two-minute penalty for headbutting the glass after a bad call, knocking himself out cold and giving himself a concussion.

 

Kia is much more than just a recent startup car company. Didn't the Comets used to break out a giant inflatable orange and black soccer ball for pre-game intros.. or was that a weird dream I had?

 

The Comets' pregame show was at times more entertaining than the game.

And yes, Kia (he was Iranian) was a little goal scoring machine.

 

I don't need to you sing "Boat of Car," I just wish you'd explain it to me.

 

Yeah. Steve is the shit. Joe is a fucking sellout. He is to Blue's Clues as Richard Hatch is to Streets Of San Francisco. And I don't think Steve is "at college", I think Joe went all John Wayne Gacy on him and he's buried underneath Sparkles' dog house. I would never want to skidoo into the depths of Joe's soul, it's probably worse than The Cell.

Ahh, if only my kids could see Blue's Clues as I do.

As far as useless information, I can usually surmise where most railroad lines go, what their current ownership is, and what their antecedent is too. Same for abandoned lines, especially in the Midwest.

Milwaukee Road, motherfucker!

 

You are quite evil, you know that, don't you?

My son is 4 and we're all about Blue's Clues right now, but I did feel it was a little suspicious, especially since not long after Joe "moved in," they introduced "Blue's Room." What is that? A special "escape place?"

 

Pretty sure it's a naked attempt to make cash.

I'm sure the Steve-era surveys were coming in that Blue wasn't "sexy" enough to move merchandise because she didn't speak. And Steve was a little dry in the delivery.

Too much book learnin', not enough money earnin'. So they shitcanned all-substance Steve and brought in flashy no-substance Joe, corporate bitch that he is, to help move the show towards merchandising heaven.

And to get around that pesky "educational show" thing, they introduced Blue's Room so Blue would be able to talk "in her own world". The kiddies are brainwashed away from those annoying educational concepts and voila! Blue's Clues gets its own wing at Toys-R-Us.

Incidentally, Blue should just keep her mouth shut. It irks me to no end that she breaks the third wall and refers to us in TV land as "you".

"Hey you, me and Sprinkles are going to make some Kool-Aid! Hey you, would you like to have some too?"

Drop the god damn Hey You's, Blue, you sellout corporate whore! How does Toys-R-Us Geoffrey's cock taste like anyway?

 

I haven't watched it since Joe and his goddamn block shirt showed up. Blue talks now? Pshaw. I'm done with it.

And Henry, the best part is ... you can't explain TMBG. Ever.

 

I'm a little late to this thread. But since I'm bored, sitting on my couch watching the National Lacrosse League at 1:55 a.m., there's no time like the present.

The only kicker in NFL history to attempt eight or more field goals in his career and miss them all was Boris Schlapak (for the '72 Colts)

Aerosmith's 'Dream On' was first performed in Willimantic, Conn. If you've ever been to this town (10 minutes south of UConn on Route 195) you'd know how out-of-place this is.

The most successful recording duo of all time is Hall and Oates.

When Monday Night Football first broadcast a game in Denver, in 1973, Don Meredith never said 'We're at Mile High Stadium, and so am I" during the broadcast, as so many reports claim.

I am also very interested in the care of mental health, so...

The vast majority of operating rooms at hospitals and insane asylums are painted pale green. Beginning in the 1930s, because green is the complementary color of red, when medical staff had to spend a lot of time in surgery there would be some visual relief. If they looked at white walls, they would have green "after-images" from continuously looking at blood. Green walls also produce less glare than white walls.

Those old, gigantically beautiful asylums like Danvers State Hospital (http://www.opacity.us/site22_danvers_state_hospital.htm), Buffalo State (http://www.opacity.us/site35_buffalo_state_hospital.htm) and Worcester State (http://www.opacity.us/site56_worcester_state_hospital.htm) were built using the Kirkbride Plan, where wards stretch out like a bat's wings. A psychiatrist named Dr. Thomas Kirkbride said patients should be divided by their diseases, with men on one side and women on the other. While successful at first, overcrowding ultimately doomed this plan.

 

That info was fascinatingly useless.

As is this ... the only Project Blue Book UFO case deemed unsolved was in Socorro, New Mexico.

 

Don't Let's Start is one of my all-time favorite songs. I first heard it, and that unbelievable album, in the summer of 1990.

 

I just recently won $50 dollars off a friend of mine by doing the following:

Doing five shots of tequila (after a long night of drinking) and then naming every U.S. president in order.

I'm less proud of myself than I am slightly unsettled.