The other day I had a conversation about an old movie with another movie buff. I was asking him about a song in this movie, the problem was I couldn’t remember the name of the song and couldn’t remember the name of the movie.
So I was saying remember that song in the movie we both liked? You know that movie about that crazy family. “Yours,“ he asks? No, this was about a famous family, and the movie was about 20 years old and it had a great cast. He asks “Who was in it?” You know that great actor from the 70’s and 80’s, and it was narrated by the actor from the submarine movie. Ok, he says, “What was it about?” Well, it was about a lot of things, but mainly about a crazy family. “You sure it wasn’t yours?” he asks again. No, anyway I am trying to find this song so I can look it up, but I can’t remember the name of the movie or the names of the cast members. Wait a minute, one of the characters was in another movie about a guy stuck in an airport. If I can remember that movie I can look it up on that database. Ok, do you remember the name of that movie or the database? “ Internet Movie Data Base” he says. Great, now what was the name of the second movie because if we can look that up we can find the actor and then find the other movie and then look up the song. “I have no idea what any of these movies are” he says. You don’t remember the great submarine movie with the great Scottish actor playing a Russian submarine captain. “Wait a minute” he says. “If he was Scottish, why was he in a Russian submarine”? Never mind, I frustratingly respond.
Oh, by the way, my wife found the last pineapple can, empty in my son’s room.
Apr 19 - 25
Ok, so if you saw the interview this week with Mark S. Allen, please know that we do not sell 40 million banana caramel waffles in a year. I was on live TV and thought I should embellish just a little, but hey, now I
might as well go into politics. By the way Mr. Allen is the nicest personality you will ever meet, after Stan Atkinson. I have met some celebrities who let you know they are celebrities, but not with him. Now I feel bad though that I embellished a little too much with such a nice guy. Oh well, politics should fit me well. Watch a part of Mr. Allen's visit here.
Oh, and I found an empty can of pineapple behind the outside AC unit.
The mystery continues…
Apr 12 - 18
Ok, so we had some friends over for Easter and I thought it would be nice to serve baked potatoes with dinner. I went out and bought one of those big tubs of sour cream to bury the potato in. Dinner is ready and my wife goes to get the tub and she comments it is very light. She opens it to find it completely empty. Ok so then those friends left us a coconut cake when they left. Next morning I go in the pantry to find coconut everywhere on the floor. I look over at the cake to see a big hole in the shape of a hand. Meanwhile the mystery of the missing pineapple cans continues. Last night, a week after the pineapple cans went missing an empty one showed up in the corner of the pantry. I am beginning to think maybe I should watch old episodes of NICS to break this case.
Apr 5 - 11
Ok, so I bought 3 more cans of pineapple chunks because I am determined to find out how good they are. This time I place them right out in front so it is obvious if anybody takes them. So, I go to get a can and I can’t find any, nor can I even find any empty cans this time. Just as I am about to call the “nuns for hire”, I tell my wife. She says, “silly, I hid them this time where no one could find them”. She goes to get them out of the very back of a low cabinet and they aren’t there. The only thing I can figure is they are convincing the Amazon delivery driver to take the empty cans.