Tom Danehy: Tom experiences a Christmas tortilla crisis and a worrisome political revelation (Tucson Weekly)
The next day, I was about to start cooking when the plans changed. Due to an odd set of circumstances, the only person for whom I would be cooking that evening was my daughter, Darlene, who was leaving for San Francisco the next day and requested enchiladas for dinner. I cursed the fact that I hadn't bought them the day before but I figured I'd be able to find some somewhere. This began my three-hour quixotic descent into furious frustration.
Helaine Olen: Money for war, but not for the poor (Washington Post)
But it was left to someone outside the regular establishment to make a point that's equally valuable yet rarely voiced in Beltway discussions. So let's hear it for Andy Lassner, executive producer of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," who took to Twitter this past weekend to ask, "Why does America always seem to have trillions of dollars for wars, but basic things like raises for teachers, healthcare and social security are always in danger?"
Michael Gregor, MD: Nuts (nutritionfacts.org)
The Global Burden of Disease Study, the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the causes of death ever undertaken, involved nearly 500 researchers from more than 300 institutions in 50 countries and examined nearly 100,000 data sources. The study noted which foods, if added to the diet, might save lives. Eating more vegetablescould potentially save 1.8 million lives. How about more nuts and seeds? 2.5 million lives.
Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (January 20, 1929 - July 3, 2019) was an American comic actor who was best known for his work as a regular on television's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Johnson is best known for his work on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, on which he played many characters, including "Wolfgang," a cigarette-smoking German soldier oblivious to the fact that World War II was long over, as he skulked while hidden behind a potted plant. He would then invariably comment on a preceding gag with the catchphrase "Very interesting ...," which Johnson claimed was inspired by a Nazi character who spoke the line during an interrogation scene in the film Desperate Journey (1942).
His other prominent Laugh-In character was "Tyrone F. Horneigh" (pronounced "horn-eye," a "clean" variant of the vulgar term "horny"), the white-haired, trench coat-wearing "dirty old man" who repeatedly sought to seduce "Gladys Ormphby," (Ruth Buzzi's brown-clad "spinster" character) on a park bench. Tyrone would enter the scene, muttering a song (usually "In the Merry, Merry Month of May"), and, spying Gladys on the bench, would sit next to her. He would ask her a question, and regardless of the answer, turn it into a double entendre. She would then start hitting him with her purse and he would fall off the bench, sometimes with a plea for help.
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Micki was first, and correct, with:
Laugh-in. Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi.
Mark. said:
That would be Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Randall wrote:
Laugh-In
Alan J answered:
Laugh In.
Jon L replied:
Would that be laugh-in?
mj responded:
A cute couple
On Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
Mac Mac said:
Laugh In
Dave wrote:
Rowan & Martin's Laugh In. Arte Johnson played the Tyrone the Dirty Old Man and Ruth Buzzi played Gladys the Little Old Lady, who usually responded to his unwelcome advances by hitting the Dirty Old Man with her heavy purse.
Photos: the characters in question | Laugh In guest star Bob Hope and Arte Johnson | guest star Ringo Starr and Ruth Buzzi | Goldie Hawn, Buzzi, Judy Carne
zorch responded:
Laugh In Arte Johnson pursued Ruth Buzzi.
Roy, the Never Trumper in Tyler, TX replied:
Laugh in. It was Laugh In!!! Back in the day, in those stark times when we only had three channels on the tee-vee, we kids had to suffer through what out parents wanted to watch in the evenings. One evening, while changing the channels, my Dad asked me to go back. He had seen either Rowan or Martin on the screen and he wanted to see what that was all about. Shifting to the bottom line, we never missed another episode of Laugh In, which was the show on which Tyrone F. Horneigh pursued Gladys Ormphby.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Has it been that long? Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi created the characters for Laugh-In whereby Arte Johnson would say salacious things to Ruth Buzzi and get beaten with an umbrella or purse or some such for his trouble. Much haha ensues.
Kenn B answered:
Laugh In
John I from Hawai`i says,
Laugh-In
Deborah responded:
I know this as if I'd seen it yesterday: Rowan & Martin's "Laugh-In." Ruth Buzzy played Gladys, Arte Johnson played Tyrone, and she'd whack him with her oversized handbag when he behaved in what she considered inappropriate ways. I miss that show for so many reasons.
Rain moved in and it's just right, the gently falling kind that lulls you back to sleep so you nearly miss your yoga class.
Dave in Tucson replied:
They were married on Laugh In.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In."
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Laugh-In
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, answered:
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". We watched it every week.
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Song: "Heartful of Soul" from the album THE SALENTINO CUTS
Artist: UFO
Artist Location: London, UK
Info: "Vocalist Phil Mogg, guitarist Mick Bolton, bassist Pete Way, and drummer Andy Parker formed the British space metal outfit UFO in 1969. Originally known as Hocus Pocus, the group, which took the name UFO in honor of a London club, debuted in 1971 with UFO."
UFO is
Phil Mogg
Vinnie Moore
Paul Raymond
Andy Parker
Rob De Luca
"UFO offer up their first-ever covers album paying homage to a dozen of their personal favorites!"
"Includes several unexpected choices such as Mad Seasons' 'River of Deceit,' John Mellencamp's 'Paper in Fire,' and Bill Withers' 'Ain't No Sunshine' alongside more traditional but nonetheless thrilling versions such as The Yardbirds' 'Heartful Of Soul,' ZZ Top's 'Just Got Paid,' and more!"
Price: $1 (USD) for song; $9 (USD) for 12-track album.
• Sophie Arnould was noted for her ability to give witty insults, but occasionally she was the recipient of a witty insult. For example, when the Abbé Galiani was asked what he thought of Ms. Arnould's singing, he replied, "It is the finest asthma I ever heard." By the way, Ms. Arnould once met Voltaire, who told her, "I am 84 years old, and I have committed 84 follies." She replied, "A mere trifle. I am not yet 40, and I have committed more than a thousand."
• S.N. Behrman tells this anecdote about Oscar Levant: He was talking to Mr. Levant about a mutual acquaintance, and Mr. Levant said that he had walked with him recently and found him to be a good companion. This surprised Mr. Behrman, as Mr. Levant had previously said insulting things about this acquaintance. Mr. Levant replied, "Well, you know I hate 'em 'til they say hello to me."
Jokes
• The wonderful comedian Jonathan Winters sometimes jokes about fishing with dynamite. Believe it or not, this happens in real life. Choreographer Léonide Massine bought some islands in Italy, and for a few weeks he was surprised to hear explosions near his islands. Eventually, he closely observed a fishing boat. One of the two men on the boat threw something overboard, there was an explosion, and the fishermen began gathering the dead fish. That was how Mr. Massine learned that they were fishing with dynamite.
• When lieder singer Lotte Lehmann was performing at the Hamburg Municipal Theater early in her career, she worked with two practical jokers: Max Lohfing and Bobby vom Scheidt. In the second act of Heimchen am Herd (The Cricket on the Hearth), they tied her to her seat with knitting yarn, then waited for the moment when she was required to stand up on stage.
• Sir Malcolm Sargent once made a concert tour in Israel during a time of hostility. While visiting the Gaza Strip, his jeep was shot at by the Arabs. Safely back home, he told his friend and fellow conductor Sir Thomas Beecham about the incident. Sir Thomas joked, "I had no idea the Arabs took music so seriously."
Language
• Many musicians use language well: 1) Sir Malcolm Sargent was once asked what a musician needed to know to play the cymbals. He replied, "Nothing - just when." 2) Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked what he would do after the opera season ended. He replied, "I propose to go shooting - shooting anyone who mentions music." Sir Thomas also once scolded the choir at a rehearsal of Handel's Messiah: "When you sing, 'All we like sheep have gone astray,' might we, please, have a little more regret and a little less satisfaction?'" 3) Arturo Toscanini was not shy in criticizing his orchestra when he felt the musicians deserved it. He once shouted at the members of his orchestra, "Assassins!"
• The Nicholas Brothers, an African-American dance act, performed in a show called "Babes in Arms" where they sang a song titled "All Dark People Is Light on Their Feet," but their mother told them on opening night not to sing it that way, but instead to sing "All Dark People Are Light on Their Feet." Afterward, the stage manager told them that they were singing it wrong and they should sing "is" and not "are," but Fayard Nicholas said about the Nicholas Brothers' version, "That's the way I talk."
• Marius Petipa choreographed Swan Lake. A Frenchman, he went to Russia, where he lived for decades but never mastered the language. To dancers who made mistakes in rehearsal, he said something in Russian, which, translated, was this: "Stop, stop, what miserable madam, what you are bad cucumber."
It's getting to be fun to be a Democrat in VA! Love the hardball game; love the shade. Love Stephen saying forget extending olive branch crap; burn the olive trees to the ground!
Wonkette lead off the "tabs" article this AM with some great tweets:
Timothy Burke counted and put together the 58 (FIFTY-EIGHT!) times dotard sniffed during the insane "speech" about Iran
Patton Oswalt re-tweeted Lia's mocking "tolerited"
salamander was stunned by "accomplismishays" and has it on a loop
Newsreaders on local TV keep calling Edd Byrnes "Cookie", not "Kookie", which, thanks to the theme song to the Addams Family, we know Kookie rhymes with spooky and ooky.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Laura Dern and Kesha.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/30/19) are Christian Slater, Kaitlyn Dever, and Gary Clark Jr.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Lincoln Rhymes: Hunt For The Bone Collector', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Martin Lawrence, Matthew Lopez, Kyle Soller, and Karol G.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/26/19) are Oscar Isaac, Casey Wilson, and Jon Pardi.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/12/19) is Tyler Perry.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by a RERUN'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Safe House', followed by the movie 'Taken'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Impossible Planet-Part 1.
[7:05AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Satan Pit-Part 2.
[8:10AM] DOCTOR WHO - Love & Monsters
[9:15AM] DOCTOR WHO - Fear Her
[10:20AM] DOCTOR WHO - Doomsday
[11:25AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
[12:30PM] DOCTOR WHO - Smith and Jones
[1:35PM] DOCTOR WHO - The Shakespeare Code
[2:40PM] DOCTOR WHO - Gridlock
[3:45PM] DOCTOR WHO - Daleks In Manhattan-Part 1.
[4:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - Evolution Of The Daleks-Part 2.
[5:55PM] DOCTOR WHO - The Lazarus Experiment
[6:55PM] DOCTOR WHO - 42
[8:00PM] THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (2015)
[11:00PM] THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (2015)
[2:00AM] MADAGASCAR Island of Marvels
[3:00AM] MADAGASCAR - Lost Worlds
[4:00AM] MADAGASCAR - Land of Heat and Dust
[5:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all old 'Chrisley Knows Best' all night.
FX has the movie 'Daddy's Home', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
History has 'UFO Cover Ups: Secrets Revealed', 'UFOs: The White House Files', followed by the FRESH'UFOs: Top Secret Alien Files: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Java Heat
[8:15A] Gladiator
[11:45A] GoodFellas
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Santa Claus
[3:10A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Beast of Yucca Flats
[5:20A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Crawling Eye (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] An Officer and a Gentleman
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'White House Down', followed by the movie 'Django Unchained', then the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.
Authors Don Winslow and Stephen King pledged to donate a total of $200,000 to St. Jude's charity if White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham holds a one-hour press briefing in the White House briefing room.
The last formal press briefing was on March 11, almost a year ago, all but ending what was once a daily tradition in which the press secretary appeared in the West Wing briefing room to answer reporters' questions. That March 11 briefing was held by Grisham's predecessor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
On Thursday, Winslow wrote on Twitter that he was increasing his offer to $100,000, and would donate that amount in Grisham's name. King followed up and agreed to match it, bringing the total to $200,000. Both have been Trump critics.
Grisham did not immediately return a request for comment. She told CNN's Jake Tapper, "If you have $200,000 to play with, why not just help children because it's a good thing to do? Donations to charity should never come with strings attached."
Winslow responded on Twitter, "First, we both regularly donate to charity. Second, why do all Trump officials refuse to answer the most basic questions they are asked? Stop evading, Stephanie. Let's try again: Why have you not held any White House press briefings for over 300 days? What are you afraid of?"
Director Quentin Tarantino stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, where he shared the weird connection between his 1992 crime film Reservoir Dogs and the classic TV show The Golden Girls.
Before Tarantino became one of the most iconic directors of all time, he had what he called "a very unsuccessful acting career." Tarantino shared, "However, one of the jobs I did get, and not because I did a wonderful audition, but simply because they sent my picture in and they said, 'He's got it,' was for an Elvis impersonator on 'The Golden Girls.'"
Tarantino, who is currently celebrating a lot of success from his most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which took home three Golden Globes Sunday - Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy - explained how, in the '80s, he was so obsessed with Elvis that he walked around dressed like the singer head-to-toe, which proved to be very lucrative for him.
"It became a two-part 'Golden Girls.' So I got paid residuals for both parts," shared Tarantino. "It was so popular they put it on a "Best of 'The Golden Girls,'" and I got residuals every time that showed. So I got paid maybe, I don't know, $650 for the episode, but by the time the residuals were over, three years later, I made like $3,000. And that kept me going during our pre-production time trying to get 'Reservoir Dogs' going."
Two days after the Grammys, the Recording Academy will put on a massive tribute concert to the Purple One, the Crown Prince of Pop, His Royal Badness, the Artist Formerly Known as… Prince.
Announced Thursday, a number of artists have been confirmed to perform during this Grammys musical special at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday, Jan. 28 starting at 7:30 p.m. PT. Those names include John Legend, Alicia Keys, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Juanes, Usher, H.E.R., St. Vincent, Common, Gary Clark Jr., Foo Fighters, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mavis Staples, and Susanna Hoffs.
Titled Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince, the event will also feature what's described as "a historic joint performance by several of Prince's most celebrated musical friends and collaborators," featuring Prince's band The Revolution, Grammy nominee Sheila E., and Morris Day and the Time, the funk band formed by Prince.
Inching across a field littered with Vietnam war-era bombs, Ngoc leads an all-women demining team clearing unexploded ordnance that has killed tens of thousands of people -- including her uncle.
More than 6.1 million hectares of land in Vietnam remain blanketed by unexploded munitions -- mainly dropped by US bombers -- decades after the war ended in 1975.
At least 40,000 Vietnamese have since died in related accidents. Victims are often farmers who accidentally trigger explosions, people salvaging scrap metal, or children who mistake bomblets for toys. Part of the demilitarised zone that once divided the North and South, Quang Tri is among the worst-affected provinces.
For the past 20 years, Ngoc has worked as a deminer with Mines Advisory Group (MAG), funded by the United States, Britain and Japan.
Today the 42-year-old criss-crosses her home province to excavate up to a dozen pieces of unexploded ordnance daily -- and she is not alone.
For more than a century, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit - 37 degrees Celsius - has been used as a landmark of human health. We've suspected for a while now that the number needs adjusting, but a new study shows it's not for the reasons we thought.
In spite of the cumbersome tools the German physician Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich used to establish an average healthy body temperature in 1851, he probably got it right. Remarkably, we may have just gotten colder.
"Our temperature's not what people think it is," says medical researcher Julie Parsonnet from Stanford University in the US. "What everybody grew up learning, which is that our normal temperature is 98.6, is wrong."
It's a standard that has weathered the ages surprisingly well. Wunderlich took literally millions of measurements from tens of thousands of patients.
But the instrument he used to establish ranges of healthy and unhealthy temperatures (not to mention daily fluctuations, effects of age, and so on) was just over 22 centimetres long - cutting edge for its time, but crude by modern means.
Experts in China have declared the extinction of the giant Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest freshwater fish. Once a resident of the Yangtze River, it hasn't been seen since 2003, and it's thought it died out sometime between 2005 and 2010.
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. However, due to various stressors - dams, overfishing, river ports, and pollution - the paddlefish is the third Yangzte-dwelling species to go extinct in recent years, following the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, in 2006, and the Chinese shad in 2015.
The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) was one of two extant members of a lineage that goes back 75 million years. Due to various aspects of the unusual fish, the Chinese have many nicknames for it. Thanks to its size - 3.6 meters (11.8 feet) long and weighing 250 kilograms (551 pounds), though unsubstantiated claims from the 1950s describe one as large as 7 meters (22 feet) - it's called the "king of freshwater fish". Due to its long protruding snout, it is also called the Chinese swordfish.
It was first declared "critically endangered" by the IUCN in 1996, and its increasing rarity helped give it the name the "panda of the Yangtze River".
Giant paddlefish are migratory fish, which means they need to swim upstream to breed and lay eggs, something the Three Gorges Dam, in particular, has scuppered. After the dam was erected in 2003, fishers noticed the fish trying to find new hatching grounds downriver, and a drastic drop in numbers of the once-common "king". Not long after that, fishing ceased in the area.
Mysterious seismic hums detected around the world were likely caused by an unusual geologic event - the rumblings of a magma-filled reservoir deep under the Indian Ocean, a new study finds.
These odd hums were an unconventional geologic birth announcement. A few months after the sounds rippled around the Earth, a new underwater volcano was born off the coast of the island of Mayotte, located between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Indian Ocean.
The new findings provide a detailed, one-year timeline of the newborn volcano's birth, which would make any mother (in this case, Mother Earth) proud. The study details how magma from a reservoir about 20 miles (35 kilometers) under the ocean floor migrated upward, traveling through Earth's crust until it reached the seafloor and created the new volcano.
The saga began in May 2018, when global earthquake-monitoring agencies detected thousands of earthquakes near Mayotte, including a magnitude-5.9 quake, the largest ever detected in the region. Then, in November 2018, seismologists recorded weird seismic hums, some lasting up to 40 minutes, buzzing around the world. To put it mildly, these mysterious hums "trigger[ed] the curiosity of the scientific community," the researchers wrote in the study.
In 2019, a French oceanographic mission showed that a new volcano had been born near Mayotte. It was huge, measuring about 3.1 miles (5 km) long and almost a half mile (0.8 km) high.
It's a veritable bevy of birds: Ten songbirds hailing from a cluster of small Indonesian islands near Sulawesi have officially joined the scientific record.
Typically, only five or six new bird species are described each year across the globe. So the discovery of five new species and five new subspecies, characterized in the Jan. 10 issue of Science, marks a remarkable expansion of bird biodiversity, considering that birds are among the most comprehensively categorized animal groups.
Evolutionary biologist Frank Rheindt at the National University of Singapore had an inkling these remote, forested islands with mountain highlands held an unrecognized wealth of bird life. The islands - Taliabu, Peleng and the Togian group - sit in the middle of Wallacea, a geologically and biologically complex region of Southeast Asia. But deep waters separate the islands from the nearest large landmass of Sulawesi, limiting opportunities for many animals to intermingle across the region. This includes tropical forest birds, which rarely venture out from the shady cover of the forest, let alone fly kilometers over open ocean.
In searching for new species, "it's very important to pick deep-sea islands," Rheindt says. "Those are the ones that are likely to have endemic species that are not shared with other landmasses." Even more encouraging, the islands' interior highlands hadn't received much attention from European explorers or naturalists, who instead had focused on the coasts, he says.
So Rheindt and his colleagues teamed up with Dewi Prawiradilaga's group at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Jakarta for a 2013 expedition to investigate the islands' bird life and collect specimens for study in the lab. Most of the birds in the study were found on Taliabu, the largest and highest of the islands.
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