Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
uh, hail the size of moth balls?
ReplyDeleteHoly Shit-cow! we gots hail the size of yo' mama's ass!
ReplyDeletebig, medium, and super-sized pebbles? (capitalizing on the "rock" element of hail "stones"--or would that be cheating? In which case, then perhaps we ought to pause before the metaphoricity of "hailstones" itself?)
ReplyDeletelis: Did they have moth balls before golf balls? I should research that.
ReplyDeletemama-sofa: Yo mama deez nutz!
lisa b.: now that you mention it, I wonder if the Germanic folks had images of Thor striking his mighty hammer causing hail to chip off?