First off, let's get to the Monday's Guess the Fakey answers. We succeeded in getting to double-digit comments, but it was actually a little bittersweet. Sacky Christi accused me of making up most of the names, including "Doctor Franken" for Teri Garr. Well, Christi, I'm ashamed of you for jumping to such a heinous conclusion. Ms. Garr was in fact in "Young Frankenstein" in 1974 as well as "Doctor Franken" in 1980. I didn't change any of the names, with one minor exception. Dom DeLuise's "The Silence of the Hams" was an alternate title for a film primarily called "Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti." Without further ado, here are the fakeys:
Teri Garr: The Heaviest Feather
Dom DeLuise: To Eat His Own
Robert Loggia: Gun! Shoot! Run! Die!
So "Charlie Horse Music Pizza," "The Ninth Configuration," and "Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood" are all real titles. No one guessed more than one correctly, so I consider that a victory for me. I'll get you back for your attempted libel, Sacky Christi, just you wait.
Car Watch!
Before I get to stickers, plates, and frames, I have a little story. I was driving to work yesterday, and some dude totally cut me off out of nowhere. I started to get angry at him, then saw the Lakers license plate frame and let it go. It all happened without any thought, so I must be a true fan to let egregious driving errors slide like that.
Saw a license plate frame the other day that made me laugh: Don't Hate Me...Because I'm LUSCIOUS! Yep, with the all-caps and everything. When I passed her, I was obligated to look at the driver, but that just confused me. I had thought "LUSCIOUS" and "even mildly attractive" would go together, but not in this case. I don't hate her, but I don't not hate her because of her lusciousness. (Go ahead and diagram that sentence, Mrs. Dunlop.)
I saw a nice twist on a bumper sticker that is worthy of mentioning. A pickup truck with "Will Fish for Food" on it. I believe he will. It's not often I smile from a play on a homeless person's sign, but this did it.
Rockabye wrote in after seeing a plate that said "1FRKY(heart symbol)R." More power to you man, but is that really the only thing you want other drivers to know about you? The answer has to be "Yes!" right?
Next, I saw this sign at the Coffee Bean near my work and had to take a picture of it:
I take back my earlier challenge and re-issue it: Diagram that sentence, Mrs. Dunlop!
I thought of something while I was writing about working at the pizza place, but couldn't find where to slip it in, so it goes in my FUF piece: I said for a few years that I wanted to some day open a pizza place just so I could call it, "Pete's-a-Pizza" with the slogan, "We Toss 'Em, They're Awesome." I never really intended on doing it, but it was sitting there, ready to be used should a road take me there. Then one day years ago, in the middle of nowhere on some road trip, I see a pizza place using that slogan in big letters on their neon sign. I really thought that one would be mine until I did something with it, but I should've listened to Darwin and used it or suffer the consequences. That's not quite as catchy, is it?
Two last things: One, my co-worker's parents' dog is at a kennel while they're on vacation, and it's called "Barkingham Palace." I love it. Totally warrants a mention in my book. Or my blog. Yeah, probably my blog. I don't have a book. Maybe I can turn these posts into a book though, and then I'll be a liar. A retroactive liar, but a liar nonetheless.
Sacky Christi sent my lonely inbox an email with some anagrams of her name. She listed some with her full name and some with just her nickname and no middle name. With the middle name, I think the best one was "Unethical heresy in hatred." Without her middle name, I think "Chesty Hitler Hair" was the best, although I'd probably change it to "Hitler-y Chest Hair."
Then she said something very interesting: "Never gonna give up the middle name." She hadn't written it in the email, but I take that as a challenge. Excuse me for a moment as I systematically cross off the letters from her first and last name...Well, I'm not sure if "Christi" is short for "Christine" or "Christina." I chose the former, leaving me with just a few lettes. To me, the answer is clear, but I won't post it here because no one wants to incur the wrath of Sacky Christi.
Still, let that be a lesson to all of you - if you call me a liar, I may try to find out your middle name. I know that's harsh, but hopefully it acts as a deterrent.
Have a fantabulous weekend, gentle readers. If you enjoyed the Guess the Fakey game, please either email ptklein@gmail.com or comment somewhere so I know if I should do more of those. Thanks as always for reading.
3 comments:
Okay - didn't call you a liar per se, just wondering who could guess that without the internet and still be clinically sane.
And thank you so much for publishing my middle name. I've kept that under wraps for many many years.
You mean I guessed correctly? Cool. That's not that bad of a middle name. And don't worry about me putting that on the internet - you and your husband make up 20% of my readership anyway.
I knew the moment that I saw "The Heaviest Feather" that it was a creation from our Blog Master. That was the only one I got right. I wish that I could guess your trivia like my wife picks March Madness winners! (98th Percential)
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