Oddities and Humor

"El Libro que No Puede Esperar" (The Book That Can't Wait)
A book written in disappearing ink [video]
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/06/books-written-in-disappearing-ink.html

I would not buy such a book. A good book ought to be cherished and passed along at the appropriate time. I would feel I had tossed my cash, if the pages faded like that.

how about this one?



Joe(In ball point pen)Nation

Oh, sure. Every collector needs one of those.

I wonder if they call this Big Foot.

Good one!

Now I know what Ed Sullivan was always talking about.

I read your post about Ed Sullivan. I looked back and saw the picture of the very odd motorcycle, but, because I am about as dense as any other brick in the wall, didn't catch your meaning.

Huh?
I said and went on to other threads to see what they were offering.

Then, I got up and poured myself a cup of coffee and as I poured my inner brain said "Really big Shoe, dumbass."


Joe(I am not making up the part about the dumbass remark)Nation

Better late than never, Joe.

[Which makes me wonder how many others would never had gotten it if it weren't for your post? Thank you for helping them out.]

It was too obvious, I figured.

A very useful way to keep coworkers from taking your lunch from the breakroom fridge:
Fred FFLBUG Lunch Bugs Sandwich Bags, 24 Bags in 2 Designs
http://www.amazon.com/Fred-FFLBUG-Lunch-Sandwich-Designs/dp/B004PZESHC

Not if you're under age 45.

People under 45 have heard of the Ed Sullivan Theatre (David Letterman's Hangout) but ask a thousand of them who he was and you will get 992 dumb looks and six wrong answers.

Joe(um...pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves?)Nation

Oh. All the comedians used to say "really big shoe" when speaking of Ed. I guess us old fossils tend to forget that not everybody has the same American cultural experiences.

I still dont get it!

Ed Sullivan would tell us he had a really big show lined up. Pronunciation-wise his "show" sounded more like "shoe."

Bunny, Back in the early days of television, there was a variety show hosted by a person named Ed Sullivan. The show was called the Ed Sullivan Show. (Quel surprise.) His claim to fame? He as a gossip columnist. It was his show where Elvis Presley made his first network appearance and was shown only from the waist up.

At the beginning of every show, Sullivan would come out and tell the audience that he had a really big show tonight. The thing was that he didn't pronounce show like show. He pronounced it shoe. We have a really big shoe. People made jokes about this strange pronunciation for years.

That's the joke's origins. Hope this helped.

We get to hear it in Ed's own voice right here.

Yup, me, too. Always watched Ed Sullivan as a kid.

See ya later alligator?



Authorities in Everglades City, Fla., said an area airboat captain, whose right hand was bitten off by an alligator in June, was arrested and charged Friday with feeding that hungry gator, which they said may have provoked the attack.

The Fort Myers News-Press reported that 63-year-old Wallace Weatherholt faces a second-degree misdemeanor charge of unlawful feeding of a gator.

According to the newspaper, on June 12, Weatherholt was giving an airboat tour of the Everglades to a family visiting from Indiana when he was bitten.

Biting the hand that feeds ya so you can eat it too, letty. Why people don't know to be wary of wild animals I can't figure.