It's game time!

Bold Prediction Time! Gentle readers, together we are going to make UOPTA history here today. This is hands-down the most interactive post yet, and we're going to break the comment barrier. In 81 previous posts, I've never received more than 7 comments on one. In fact, the two times that there were 7, only 5 were from people not named Peter Klein. Today though, that all changes. Buckle up, and then get ready to type.

By now, you've most likely come to realize that I do strange things with my group of friends. Often they are born from the unpleasant marriage of overactive imaginations and complete boredom. Sometimes that marriage doesn't produce the best offspring. For example, my fifth period class in 9th grade was a very boring algebra class in which the teacher repeated everything several times. Dusty had a different boring class at the same time, so we would write each other notes and then hand them to each other in the hall on the way to sixth period. I got in the habit of drawing a comic for him every day. Being a young teen boy, I made a superhero named Sphincter Man, the Contracting Muscle of Justice. He battled different venereal diseases and occasionally people we knew. With his body completely covered by sphincters, he could "swallow" bullets and then "spit" them back out at bad guys. What made it all worse (or better) was the fact that I'm horribly inept at drawing. So as you can see, boredom isn't always a good thing for my mind.

A few years back though, Dusty and I were again in that situation frequently, so we invented a game via email. This time, I think we actually did quite well. It's name: Guess the Fakey. It's very simple. One of us picks an actor or actress, then emails the other a list of movies that the person has been in. However, one of the titles is made up. It's the other person's job to guess which one without cheating. We had a great time with this, and I must say we got pretty good at coming up with the fake names after a while. It's been years since either of us has sent a challenge to the other (it's his turn, by the way), so I thought I'd introduce the game to my gentle readers.

For each of the three actors below, there are 10 real movie titles and one fake one. I limited it to ten, but there were plenty more that could've been included as well. Here is your mission: read through the list, then post a comment with your three guesses. As far as breaking records goes, that's not too bad at all, right? Here we go!

Teri Garr

A Taste of Jupiter
Life Without Dick
Save the Rabbits
Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
The Whole Shebang
Honky Tonk Freeway
Doctor Franken
The Heaviest Feather
Kabluey
Half a Dozen Babies
Aliens for Breakfast


Dom DeLuise

Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm
To Eat His Own
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza
The Brainiacs.com
An All Dogs Christmas Carol
Shari’s Passover Surprise
Wholly Moses!
The Silence of the Hams
Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Only with Married Men
Almost Pregnant


Robert Loggia

White Mile
Cop Hater
Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law
The Ninth Configuration
Flatfoot in Egypt
S.O.B.
The Ferret
Gaby: A True Story
Lifepod
Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way
Gun! Shoot! Run! Die!

Now comment away, gentle readers. Let's see if we can get this bad boy up to double digits. It gets tough to find people who have been in a lot of obscure movies, but it's a fun challenge to have. Who knows, if you like this feature, maybe it can become a regular thing. (I almost wrote "thang" there for some reason, and I couldn't tell you why.) I'll never know unless you post a comment though, and I hate being uninformed.

Have a good day, and as always, please send any thoughts, suggestions, questions, irritations, or observations to ptklein@gmail.com. Oh, and I must warn you ahead of time: My lovely wife left on Saturday to go out of town for work and a mini vacation. She's a wonderful filter for my ideas and has a good sense of what is and isn't appropriate for me to share. I don't know what I'm writing about for the next week plus, but if I cross the line at all, it's totally her fault. I'm glad you see it that way too.

**I will post a comment with the correct answers tomorrow morning, so be sure to check back**

EDIT: On second thought, I'm going to wait until the end of the week to post the answers. I want to allow enough time to get the guesses up before the grand reveal.