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2004-07-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Zenster 2004-07-24 4:10:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I used to freak out the Salvation Army every Christmas with decent date duplicate walking liberty halves. Always warned the office after the fact.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-24 8:09:15 AM|| 2004-07-24 8:09:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This was an episode of Perry Mason. There were murders and shenanigans afoot, and someone paid a dippy but beautiful starlet to claim she'd put the coin in the meter. Watch for a poorly-edited tape to turn up, falsely suggesting a love affair between the murdered girl and the innocent suspect.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-07-24 12:29:25 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-07-24 12:29:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Cheeze. You can remember what happened in an episode of Perry Mason?

Posted by Fred 2004-07-24 2:23:00 PM|| 2004-07-24 2:23:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I love Perry Mason. It's on the Hallmark Channel in the afternoons. At one time it was on something like six or eight hours a day. It's down to two hours a day now. I've seen all the episodes several times each now, so haven't watched it much recently.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-07-24 3:08:42 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-07-24 3:08:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Angie, don't listen to these cretins. Let me tell you about the mint condition hard bound edition of Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Velvet Claws (his first Perry Mason case) at the head of my extensive Perry Mason book collection. Gardner remains the world's best selling mystery author. Sadly, many of the television episodes were cranked out by a boiler room squad, but it in no way alters the fact that Raymond Burr brought Perry Mason to life in an excruciatingly accurate and iconic fashion. Few other stage roles, save that of "Spock," have ever been so thoroughly grafted onto a single human actor.

Posted by Zenster 2004-07-24 4:13:16 PM|| 2004-07-24 4:13:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 You'll know why if every parking meter in town is stolen.

Posted by ed 2004-07-24 4:41:57 PM|| 2004-07-24 4:41:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Gotta be careful with parking metres, that's what put Blue Eyed Kook into the slammer.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-24 5:32:19 PM|| 2004-07-24 5:32:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Blue Eyed Kook

Shipman = Inveterate MAD Magazine* reader.

Footnote: MAD is one of the only long standing publications to have never run any paid advertising within its pages. Quite a track record in some respects. Then again, maybe none was ever submitted. How will we ever know?

Posted by Zenster 2004-07-24 8:12:23 PM|| 2004-07-24 8:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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