Tom Danehy: Tom Really Needs to Get Himself Together (Tucson Weekly)
I've lost 100 pounds once and 80 pounds a different time and it just goes right back on. I hate being a cliché. I'm going to do it one more time just to show myself that I can. No surgery, no medication, and, alas, no Popeye's Chicken. At my age and weight (and dormant metabolism), it's going to take a year, starting today.
Helaine Olen: Medicare-for-all would resolve at least one of the bargaining points. (Washington Post)
The typical employer is paying more than $14,000 to help insure an employee needing a family health insurance plan. The money isn't simply an add-on. Part of that money would likely go to employees in the form of salary if it wasn't getting sucked up by the United States' overpriced and bloated health-care industrial complex.
Alexandra Petri: There's nothing wrong with good, harmless fun! (Washington Post Satire)
Harmless fun is when nothing real is hurt: when two friends knock the head off a doll, say, or hit a baseball as hard as they can into the window of a house where no one lives, or when two friends have a really good time, throwing something around - a toy or a Frisbee or maybe a frightened girl. Fun is when there is laughter, enough to etch itself into someone's hippocampus.
Greg Sargent: Are Democrats ready for the coming disinformation tsunami? (Washington Post)
On Wednesday, President Trump used his Twitter feed to share a video that falsely depicted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) partying on the anniversary of 9/11. Yes, the president of the United States cheerfully trafficked in disinformation. This fact didn't concern Trump in the slightest, since it afforded him the opportunity to thrill his followers with a disgusting display of anti-Muslim bigotry - or so he seemed to believe, anyway, which doesn't speak too highly of Trump's view of his supporters.
This young lad was featured in a TV commercial holding a fishing rod and a sandwich while singing that his bologna had a first name. What is the bologna's name?
Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by the American food company Kraft Heinz based in Chicago, Illinois. It is known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham, and Lunchables products.
A 1974 TV commercial featured 4-year-old Andy Lambros holding a fishing rod and sandwich while singing, "My bologna has a first name, it's 'O-S-C-A-R'...". It became one of the longest-running TV commercials in the country.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"My Bologna has a first name,
It's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name,
It's M-A-Y-E-R."
Randall wrote:
O-S-C-A-R
Mac Mac said:
Oscar Mayer
Alan J answered:
Oscar Mayer.
Stephen F responded:
Oscar Mayer
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
His bologna had a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R
His bologna had a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R
Dave wrote:
Oscar Meyer. Kind of funny because I never knew a kid who liked baloney lunchmeat enough to sing a song about it. Its kind of gross. In 1974, Four year old Andy Lambros started his successful (if short lived) advertising career with that commercial. Andy moved on after his advertising days, as of 2018 Andy lived in California working as a web designer.
Photos: Andy Lambros in 1973 and in 2018 | Nutritional label for 1 slice of baloney, which reveals it contains almost 20% of an adult male's ideal daily sodium intake.
Cal in Vermont said:
Oscar. Oscar Mayer. Good hot dogs. Cool car, too.
zorch responded:
Oscar was the bologna's first name. Mayer was it's second.
MarilynofTC replied:
He was singing about Oscar Mayer Bologna. Always enjoyed it.
Kenn B said:
Oscar Mayer
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
My bologna's first name is O-S-C-A-R....my bologna's last name is M-A-Y-E-R
mj answered:
His bologna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R. His baloney has a second name it's M-A-Y-E-R. He loves
to eat it every day, and if you as him why he'll say, "'Cause Oscar
Mayer has a way with B-O-L-A-G-N-A."
Daniel in The City replied:
Oscar Mayer
Deborah responded:
"My bologna has a first name/It's O-S-C-A-R…" Yep, another ear-worm of a melody, as bad as the "I'd love to be an Oscar Meyer wiener" jingle. And hot dogs are my least-favorite highly processed meat product.
Nice weather again. I could get used to this.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is Oscar Mayer.
BttbBob responded:
Oscar Mayer... but, we eat Koegel b-o-l-o-g-n-a here in The Mitten... which you probably haven't had... and that makes feel sorry for you.
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Hope ya had a Happy Birthday, Boss... you're still... The Best!
Joe S wrote:
My bologna has a first name it's O-S-C-A-R, my bologna has a second name it's M-A-Y-E-R. Seems like only yesterday but I suppose it was a long time ago.
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• Manuel de Falla, a Spanish composer of romantic music, took his time answering letters, which piled up. When he learned that the Basque Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga had died, he said, "What a pity! He died before I answered his letter which he sent me five years ago."
• Before Emmylou Harris became a famous country singer, she wrote Pete Seeger and said that she wanted to be a folk singer but she was afraid that she had not suffered enough. Ms. Harris said, "He wrote back to say life would come back and hit me hard soon enough."
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• Mishaps occur on stages, including opera stages. At the opening-night performance of Julius Caesar at the Metropolitan Opera, Spiro Malas, who played the role of Ptolemeo, forgot the first two words of his next aria. He went offstage to look up the words, and his small band of soldiers also went offstage. These "soldiers' were extras whose orders were to simply follow Mr. Malas wherever he went. Beverly Sills and the singers in the opera were amused because these are the two words that Mr. Malas had forgotten: "Julius Caesar." Of course, on-stage mishaps also occurred to Ms. Sills. While playing Queen Elizabeth in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, Ms. Sills at first wore a putty nose to make her nose bigger, but she sweated so much during each performance that the putty nose fell off by the end of Act II, so eventually she performed the role with her own nose. Due to an automobile accident when she was a teenager, Ms. Sills had two capped teeth. During a performance of Anna Bolena, the caps fell out. She recovered them and continued to sing, and during a break her makeup artist, Gigi Capobianco, used Duco cement to make sure that the caps stayed in place. Ms. Sills said, "The only problem was that the next day the dentist had to use a hammer and chisel to remove them so that he could replace them properly."
• Alice Cooper frequently gets "killed" by zombies as part of his act. He also uses a lot of stage props - something that sometimes results in accidents. For example, he used to "hang" himself on stage - a wire kept him from actually breaking his neck in the noose. Alice remembers, "We'd made the thing ourselves, and used piano wire as the support cable. But what we didn't figure is that if we used it 300 times, the wire would eventually lose its strength. Then one night in London it snapped. Fortunately, I instinctively put my neck up and slipped right through the noose. I fell 6 feet, hit my jaw. Man, was I lucky!" A live prop was a boa constrictor that once suffered from onstage diarrhea - something that made his stage crew, who were onstage dressed as clowns, vomit. (After the concert, Johnny Rotten said, "Alice, that was the most magnificent thing I've ever seen in my entire life.") Alice also stabbed himself in the leg with a sword - accidentally. He remembers, "I looked down and thought, 'Well, it's already in there, so I might as well carry on.'" Alice realized the importance of stage props from his days as a high-school student: "One of my teachers had a guillotine, and if you were late, he'd put your head in it. I was late all the time."
• Almost everyone is familiar with This is Spinal Tap, a 1984 mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner, but not everyone knows that sometimes a version of something that occurs in the movie happened in real life to real bands. For example, the fictional band Spinal Tap had an on-stage disaster with a prop that was designed to look like Stonehenge. The prop was supposed to be 18 feet high, but due to a mishap was actually only 18 inches high. In real life, the real band Black Sabbath had trouble with a Stonehenge prop. Black Sabbath ordered a 15-foot-high model of Stonehenge, but the company that built it made it 15 meters high. Band member Michael "Geezer" Butler said, "It was 45 feet high and it wouldn't fit on any stage anywhere, so we just had to leave it in the storage area. It cost a fortune to make, but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into." By the way, in American slang "Geezer" means old man, but Mr. Butler is British, and when he was growing up, in British slang "geezer" meant a good man or a cool dude.
The kittens have been remarkably well-behaved - they haven't started exploring most of the house - yet.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a sorta FRESHStephen Colbert it's The Best of Season 4: The Greatest Season 4 of All Time!.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/8/19) are Josh Gad, Michaela Watkins, and Will Ferrell.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Paul Giamatti, Chrissy Metz, and Sheryl Crow featuring Chris Stapleton.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/9/19) are Kelly Clarkson, Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, CJ Hauser, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/18/19) is Tracee Ellis Ross.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by a RERUN'Fresh Off The Boat', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/9/19) are Chelsea Handler, JD Pardo, and Trisha Yearwood.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a FRESH'The Big Stage', then a FRESH'Peaking', followed by another FRESH'Peaking'.
Faux fills the night with a RERUN'MasterChef'.
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 'Escape Plan', followed by the movie 'First Blood', then the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Space Rabbit
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Fans of Wet Circles
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 3-Triangle
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 4-Dreamland
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 5-Dreamland II
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 6-How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 7-Terms of Endearment
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 8-The Rain King
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 9-S.R. 819
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 10-Tithonius
[4:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 11-Two Fathers
[5:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 12-One Son
[6:00PM] DIE HARD II (1990)
[8:30PM] DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
[11:30PM] DIE HARD II (1990)
[2:00AM] DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 6-How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Hunger Games', followed by the movie 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Alec Baldwin'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Hidden Figures'.
IFC -
[6:45A] Butter
[8:45A] The Pink Panther 2
[10:45A] The Pink Panther
[12:45P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Red's New Job
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Burning Down the House
[4:00P] That '70s Show - The First Time
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Afterglow
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Kitty and Eric's Night Out
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Parents Find Out
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Spit-Covered Cobbler
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Golly Moses, She's a Muffin
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - And the Plot Moistens
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Just Once With Aunt Sophie
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Arguments for the Quickie
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - That Pistol-Packin' Hermaphrodite
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Working for Caligula
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Who's Vod Kanockers?
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Sea Is a Harsh Mistress
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - A Pot-Smoking Monkey
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Live Woman of Proven Fertility
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Why We Gave Up Women
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - The Straw in My Donut Hole
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Red's New Job
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Burning Down the House
[2:00A] That '70s Show - The First Time
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Afterglow
[3:00A] Sherman's Showcase - Behind the Charade
[3:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Enemies
[4:00A] Sherman's Showcase - The Ladies of the Showcase
[4:30A] Sherman's Showcase - July 8, 1995
[5:00A] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[5:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Ray J's Showcase (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:21am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] The Net
[1:30pm] Real Genius
[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
[12:00am] This Close - It's About Time
[12:42am] This Close - Begin Again
[1:23am] Real Genius
[3:53am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:29am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Last Witch Hunter', followed by the movie 'Jeepers Creepers II', then a FRESH'Killjoys'.
Pete Marra remembers birdwatching in the woods behind his childhood home in Norwalk, Connecticut, in the 1970s, gazing up at common nighthawks as they extended their long, pointed wings and soared through the air. "They were these aerial acrobats," he said. "They did ballet."
By the time he got to high school, the woods had been cut down to make room for houses, and the nighthawks had begun to disappear. Today the bird has all but vanished from his old neighborhood.
"They're rare in Connecticut now. They're rare in many places," said Marra, now an ecologist who is the director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative. "It's an empty feeling in your stomach that these same birds that you grew up with just aren't there anymore."
Scientists like Marra have long known that birds were in trouble, having watched their favorite species fade from view. But he said they didn't understand the scale of the crisis - until now.
For a study published Sep. 19 in the journal Science, Marra joined with other scientists and conservationists to analyze nearly five decades of population data on 529 species of North American birds. The results were staggering: Since 1970, the continental U.S. and Canada have lost more than 1 in 4 birds. The total bird population in the two countries has fallen by almost 3 billion, with grassland birds such as western meadowlarks and American sparrows and shorebirds such as green herons taking the biggest hits.
Russian police on Thursday said they had detained a Siberian shaman trekking towards Moscow on a mission to expel "demon" President Vladimir Putin, picking up a crowd of supporters on the way.
Police in the eastern Siberian region of Buryatia told Interfax they had detained Alexander Gabyshev, the shaman, on a highway near Lake Baikal and would put him on a flight back to his home region where he is "wanted for committing a crime".
Gabyshev's eccentric bid to walk from his home city of Yakutsk to Moscow, a distance of over 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles), has seen a group of followers join him on the way.
His simply expressed statements about Putin captured public attention, prompting opposition protests as well as a sharp response from the authorities and muck-raking reports on pro-Kremlin television.
"God said that he's a demon," Gabyshev told the TV Rain channel in July. "Nature doesn't like him. Where he is, there are cataclysms and acts of terror."
Scientists say they've deciphered features of the skull and some other details of a mysterious, extinct cousin of Neanderthals by analyzing its DNA.
The genetic material came from the finger bone of a female member of the Denisovans, a population known mostly from small bone fragments and teeth recovered in Siberia's Denisova Cave.
Denisovans may have occupied that cave from more than 200,000 years ago to around 50,000 years ago. Recently, a Denisovan jaw fragment at least 16,000 years old was reported from in China. But that still gave scientists very little sign of what Denisovans looked like.
Modern-day people did not evolve from Denisovans or Neanderthals, although our species interbred with both and picked up genetic markers that are still detectable in some populations.
The new work used DNA data from two Neanderthals, five ancient and 55 present-day members of our own species, and five chimps, in addition to the Denisovan finger bone. Results were reported Thursday in the journal Cell by Liran Carmel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and others.
The biggest volcano on the Jupiter moon Io should erupt any day now, a new study suggests.
Loki Patera, a 125-mile-wide (200 kilometers) lava lake on the most volcanically active body in the solar system, has had fairly regular activity over the past few decades. And it's due for an outburst very soon.
"If this behavior remains the same, Loki should erupt in September 2019, around the same time as the EPSC-DPS meeting in Geneva," Julie Rathbun, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said in a statement yesterday (Sept. 17). "We correctly predicted that the last eruption would occur in May of 2018."
EPSC-DPS is a joint conference held by the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, and it's going on now. Rathbun presented the new results at the meeting yesterday.
Scientists aren't sure what drives Loki Patera's outbursts, but the leading explanation posits a process very different than what's behind typical volcanic eruptions here on Earth: The top layer of Loki Patera solidifies, then falls into the still-liquid portion below.
Water resources are running dry in the world's highest-elevation capital due to the combined effect of the Andean glaciers melting, drought and mismanagement.
But instead of surrendering, the locals in Bolivia's capital La Paz are finding new ways to tackle the changing climate.
The sky-high metropolitan area's 2.7 million people have already been jolted by climate change: a severe drought that lasted for several months from 2016 into 2017 was Bolivia's worst in 25 years, leading to water rationing and widespread protests in several cities.
In a sign of possibly worse to come, the Andean snowcaps -- which have been relied on to fill the city's reservoirs -- are disappearing at a rate that has alarmed scientists.
Public wash-houses -- where the water is free -- are becoming more popular, as residents change their habits around water use, getting their laundry done and escaping rising water charges.
To predict the future, it can help to look at the past.
That's especially true when it comes to climate change: Studying what the planet looked like millions of years ago can give insight into what we can expect as warming continues.
In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, scientists simulated the climate of the Eocene, an era 50 million years ago, for the first time. Back then, the world was 25 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it is today.
The model's results, which align with geological evidence, suggest that when carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, additional increases in CO2 then have an even bigger impact on the climate than they would have otherwise. That doesn't bode well for our own climate future.
Simulating the conditions of a world long gone can make climate models - which scientists use to predict of the future of climate change - more accurate.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of September 18, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $12,700,483; $226.61.
2. Ed Sheeran; $7,773,763; $88.48.
3. Pink; $6,641,718; $110.34.
4. Metallica; $5,168,038; $99.18.
5. Paul McCartney; $5,064,951; $155.00.
6. Muse; $3,708,628; $80.99.
7. Dead & Company; $2,839,832; $87.78.
8. Eagles; $2,244,928; $138.68.
9. Jennifer Lopez; $2,226,025; $137.05.
10. Phish; $2,053,497; $65.24.
11. Jonas Brothers; $1,984,263; $122.45.
12. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,946,470; $123.74.
13. Ariana Grande; $1,918,882; $116.09.
14. Def Leppard; $1,663,142; $127.53.
15. John Mayer; $1,525,787; $106.22.
16. Michael Bublé; $1,490,552; $116.82.
17. Hugh Jackman; $1,473,290; $101.85.
18. Dave Matthews Band; $1,382,870; $73.80.
19. Florida Georgia Line; $1,335,082; $70.92.
20. Zac Brown Band; $1,288,453; $57.90.
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