Sunday, July 20, 2008

Ramblings about meat loaf and aliens and glamorous jobs


The only thing stranger than a woman up at 3 am and on the internet is two of us up at 3am. That's what happens when you go to sleep too early. Up for the day.
It's too early for the newspaper to be here. Jon turned on the TV to an old movie with Ray Milland and Robert Cummings and Grace Kelly. What is the name of that movie? Tried Googling
and found "Dial M for Murder".



Jon remarked that Bob Cummings was the reason he chose photography for a career. Bob was the star of 50s TV sit-com called "The Bob Cummings Show" and in reruns called "Love That Bob". The storyline: a bachelor photographer of glamorous models. Today we would dub him a womanizer. Good looking guy surrounded by glamorous women. Got Jon interested in the career he chose. Little did he know he would spend his time filming or taping industrial equipment and doing K-tel commercials. Some glamorous chicks but not many.

We had to Google to find out the name of Bob Cummings TV show. I swear you can find anything you want by Googling. That lead to chasing down another unrelated question. Where did the line, "If you don't like my meatloaf, why don't you have Sigourney Weaver make you one?" come from? Familiar to anyone? Amazing the strange information you find when you enter variations of that phrase in Google. Found out a lot about the rocker "Meat Loaf". Found out Sigourney Weaver wants to go into space. (Seems appropriate). Watch out for those aliens, Sigourney.
Eventually I tracked down the source of the meat loaf line. It is from a Jeff Foxworthy routine.

Would hate to be trying to make a living selling encyclopedias door-to-door. That was a college kid summer job when I was young. Doubt many spend money buying Encyclopedia Brittanica anymore. Information is all free online. Kids these days are stuck selling new roofs and siding in storm ravaged neighborhoods.

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