August 16, 2010
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Links here are good only for the week of August 16. After that... is
anybody's guess.
No, we're not going anywhere. We'll be here straight through the
hurricane season. But we are looking forward to September. We're going to
tweak the content of our newsletter beginning next month.
We'll let you ask Madam Red Dot about grammar, spelling, word usage,
sentence structure.... all those boring things that make the difference
between sounding like a dummy and making your point clearly and
effectively.
We're also thinking of linking to a different video each week --
something from our childhood, a great music video, something that caught
our attention for one reason or another. We're still working on this
idea.
Got any ideas for what you would like to see in our newsletter? (Naked
pictures of Lady Gaga are not in contention.) Click reply to let us know.
We'll begin the tinkering after Labor Day.
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Eye Remember: "Beach Blanket Bingo".
Is there a more iconic boomer summer movie than "Beach Blanket Bingo"?
Of course not.
The movie is harmless, kinda' dumb. But the costumes!!
That's worth the ticket price alone.
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Here are 3 questions from our endless collection of boomer trivia:
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There
are no prizes here... it's all just for fun.
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Members can play all of our trivia games in
The BBHQ Trivia Library.
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Our "Lyrics You Can Share" for this week comes from a classic, early
boomer summer song, "Itsy Bitsy, Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini,"
by Brian Hyland.
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see...
Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore
It was an itsy bitsy, teenie weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the locker she wanted to stay....
Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell ya more
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You can listen to a clip from the song near the bottom of this week's essay. Click
here,
scroll down the page, and listen to our "Lyrics You Can Share."
BBHQ members can also play 200 oldies, 24/7 in our JukeBox. Think of
it as your own boomer karaoke machine.
And of course, you can buy this music and all kinds of stuff -
please! - using our link to
Amazon.com.
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The BBHQ Joke of the Week
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We have a 2-fer this week:
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While in the men's room at a beach park in Florida, I noticed they had a
plastic baby-changing table installed on the wall. Apparently, some
sportsmen had co-opted this politically correct amenity for their own
use. Above the table was a sign saying: "It is unlawful to clean fish on
this table."
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Now, the chaser:
The night before Chelsea's wedding, Hillary asked her, "Have you had sex
with Marc yet?"
The blushing bride's answer.....
Eh..... this one may tick off a few people. We have exceeded our quota in
that category for the month. Better let this one go for now.
Maybe next week. "Stay tuned."
Or, if you just cannot stand it, click reply; ask us. We're easy.
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Brush Up Your Webster - with Madam Red Dot
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RaceTrac has outdone themselves. Last week we showed you a billboard of
theirs that hit home:
Nailed it, huh?
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But on Thursday we saw another RaceTrac billboard that hits even closer to
home:
If one were curious, one might ask, "How come a dinky convenience store
chain 'gets it' -- bull's eye -- but the jamocas in Washington haven't
got a clue?"
So... brush up your Webster! Madam Red Dot returns
next month.
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Uncle Jay is one of our favorite boomer... artists.
At press time, Uncle Jay had not yet posted his video for this week. But
last week, Uncle Jay's word of the day was "duh." How did that relate to
the news? Well, as usual, Uncle jay nailed it.
Click the pic to view a short clip of Uncle Jay's take on the news or
visit his web site to watch the complete video.
We'll update our link to Uncle Jay on Monday, after he has posted his
video for this week.
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This Week with the Chicowitz
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Hershel's essay on the "Summer of Love" deserves a double-take. We're
holding it over for another week:
Instead of taking money from those people earning it, and giving it to
people who were not earning it, we should suspend payroll taxes for every
working American for a year. That would have directly "cost" the federal
government about the same amount as it spent on the stimulus. But instead
of going to local and state coffers, and worthless, political pet
projects, people would have spent money as they saw fit -- under the
premise that the people can spend their money far better than the
government can. How much of a stimulus would that have
been?
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You can read the entire essay here.
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(It's summer; some of our regular newsletter features are "on
vacation." They'll return after Labor Day.)
Have a great week. We'll share the fun again next Monday.
- the Boomer Crew at BBHQ
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