For me the Spam sketch is iconic, amongst so many more. Written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
This is why we call unwanted email ‘Spam’. Just one instance of the cultural impact of the work of Terry Jones.
Man in cafe: Well, what’ve you got?
Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon;
egg sausage and bacon;
egg and spam;
egg bacon and spam;
egg bacon sausage and spam;
spam bacon sausage and spam;
spam egg spam spam bacon and spam;
spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
spam spam spam egg and spam;
spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam…
or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
The spam sketch it iconic … but so many stick with me.
*The blancmanges have swept the board, winning match after match.
*wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean - say no more.
*I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars
I confess complete ignorance of the Lakers and NBA in general, but Kobi Bryant was a name I knew. His fame obviously transcended his sport and that is the mark of a great man.
Kirk Douglas has passed at 103. Born in 1916 and served in the Navy for several years and then went on to have a career spanning more than 6 decades in the theater, movies and TV. And amazing life. RIP Kirk
I first remember Kenny Rogers as part of the First Edition. Their song that I remember best was a psychodelic, LSD-tinged rock song titled Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In). His transition from that into a mainstream country artist was an interesting one. If I remember right, Glenn Campbell was also part of that band for awhile and also made the transition into country music.
The name was familiar, but I needed to look up Larry Tesler. As part of the XEROX PARC project, he invented, of all things, Copy & Paste. While at PARC, he was also the person who first demonstrated the concept of a computer mouse to Steve Jobs and how it could control the movements of a cursor on something else Jobs had never encountered — a graphical user interface. I think we all know where that led.
