A thousand curses

Well, it seems TBS Superstation's daily airings of Futurama and Family Guy were JUST FOR THE SUMMER... and now have been replaced by more Cosby, Fresh Prince... and STEVE HARVEY?!?!?

Rubble rubble

So I notice McDonald's Quarter Pounders come in a box now, instead of a wrapper. Does anyone out there think it changes the taste just a little?

Hurry up and invent Bachelor Chow

I finally tried one of those Homestyle Bakes the other day -- the Chicken and Dumplings. I admit, I was mystified. How do they include the meat in a box that sits unrefrigerated on the shelf? Well, in hindsight, it's pretty obvious -- it's just a couple of cans of chicken stew, and a bag of Bisquick. Well, despite my usual culinary bunglings, it turned out not too bad.

Can't talk. Busy thinking up an ironic punishment.

The number of worm e-mails in my inbox is slowing down to about one an hour. My anti-virus checker catches them, of course, but it makes me click "Finished" for EACH ONE. And I can't figger out how to turn it off.

Dropping like flies

Another Friday morning, another loss from the showbiz world. Mercy mercy me.

Fantastic news

There are plans to reprint the ENTIRE RUN of Peanuts, in a 25-volume set, released 2 per year. A good many of these strips have never been reprinted. It'll be worth the wait.

(From ICv2 by way of J-Walk)

Teevee review

First of all, I'd like to thank TV Guide for ruining the season premiere of the The West Wing for me. The Guide sez the show is going to suck, now that Aaron Sorkin is gone. So the entire episode, I'm basically vetting each line, wondering if that's something Sorkin would have written, etc. And, it was a fantastic episode, ruined.

Springer is on now (BTW, WDIV has FINALLY started showing Conan at its proper time), and they've added a stupid bell when the fights start (get it? boxing? fights?) This is just over the top.

Uh, the soup thing

Can't talk. Busy playing SimCity 4 Rush Hour.

So long, Big Guy

Sigh... we've lost another familiar face. I had kinda noticed he was no longer appearing in the Maytag ads. Funny, though... they'd been grooming his replacement for a couple of years... but the new guy isn't in the ads now either... they just show his stupid hat at the end.

Yikes

That was one of the worst Emmy broadcasts I can remember! And the worst part is, I dozed off and missed Bill Cosby cut down Wandy Sykes live on the air. Oh well. At least the Daily Show cleaned up. Jon Stewart's bit was funny, and so was Dennis Miller's. On the other hand, I think a lot of people are going to decide NOT to watch the George Lopez Show based on his performance last night.

Mmmm... bacon

I have yet to find anyone with a number greater than two at UVA Computer Science: Star Links

Typo on the high seas

Actually, a lot of pirates used the word "epsidoe". It means... uh, "plunder." Yeah, that's it. Uh, ARRRR!

Avast! Be it a concidence...

that this bein' International Talk Like a Pirate Day and all, that TBS be showin' an epsidoe of Futurama involvin'... SPACE PIRATES? ARRRR!

Holy sweet virus, Batman

For the love of God, people, don't open any emails that claim to be from Microsoft!!! My virus checker tore an ACL tonight protecting me from this garbage.

Pepper, I put on my plate

It's the world's first English To Chretien Translator!

On second thought...

Removing Bill Maher's link because he said something incredibly stupid would make me no better than ABC. So he's back in.

Oh, the humanity

Bill Maher can consider himself delinky-dinked for saying unkind things about Wal-Mart.

Plus, there's the free cheese

Electric Venom presents 10 Things I've Learned About Blogging. You know what? Electric has earned a linky-dinkTM

Thanks, as always, to the infallible J-Walk.

Trouble brewing

Well, it seems some questions are being raised about the voting process for Canadian Idol. It seems like a lot of sour grapes to me ("I think an investigation and an explanation across national TV" is called for, said Gil Epneris, Klippert's vocal coach and arranger.)... not just from the losing contestants, but from the media company that missed out on a ratings bonanza. Not that I would insinuate that a CanWest paper would be pressured into doing a story attacking CTV... just like I myself would never stoop to mentioning Canadian Idol just to increase site traffic Canadian Idol Canadian Idol Canadian Idol Canadian Idol Canadian Idol Canadian Idol Ben Mulroney

Quel surprise

Guess who's back on the air (weekends only)? Why are we dumb enough to believe him every time he says he's retired for good?

This made my day

In checking out the referrals to my site on Gostats, I couldn't help but notice someone got my site whilst doing a search on "Watch me finger myself"

Close call

We came this close to losing "Grampa" Al Lewis.
(Thanks to Mark Evanier for the link)

'Cuz everyone knows "red hand" means "Stop"

BuzzMachine is bitching about the money New York City is spending to finally change its "Walk/Don't Walk" signals from words to symbols, like in the rest of the world. Come on, you know this was budgeted years ago. Words on road signs were phased out years ago (in most cases... they're still trying to figure out how to symbolize a few of them.)

Revelation

I've been hopping around using BlogSnob... and you know what? Talking about myself is FAR more engaging than reading about other peope.

Why the heck was it produced in Britain?

Just caught "The Investigation", CTV's move on the Clifford Olson story. Olson was convicted back in the early 80's of killing several kids, and was acknowledged to be Canada's first serial killer. I don't know about this film... I notice the RCMP were uneasy enough about it to not allow their crest to be used. One really chilling touch (MINOR SPOILER WARNING) is that they never showed Olson's face until one scene near the end, after the evidence was laid out for him and he knew he was caught. As usual, some of the acting was rather hamhanded, and it wasn't really that accurate as far as the early 80's go.

The holy grail

Read this article to learn about one author's journey of discovery, as he searched for the perfect fried chicken.

Fixed

Okay, I moved the blogsnob ad, and now the page loads fine. Meanwhile, you'll notice the ads are gone. That's because I have sprung for the premium hosting service. You'd better damn well appreciate it.

Stumped

Could be something about my current webhost, but for some reason, the whole page doesn't want to load. (The archives look fine, however.) Or else, I bollocksed up cutting and pasting html, somewhere, and the result is it will only load as far down as the last entry in the links column. HELP!

More dumb ads

Okay, this is something different. I just stick a BlogSnob ad into my links, and it puts ads for other blogs in there. The ducky part is, they look just like regular links I put in myself. In return, my own ad will appear at random on other people's blogs.

Hey, it beats spamming everyone into oblivion.

...goes the weasel

It's come to my attention that there is one big drawback to my new host... LOTSA LOTSA POPUPS! I never noticed until now, because I have the Google toolbar, which actually does a pretty good job at blocking them. But anyway, if y'all are sufficiently annoyed, I might have to move back. C'est la vie.

Why is it on a shampoo website?

This kept me up wayyyyyyyy past my bedtime tonight.

TV alert

She's on the phone, but Suzanne Somers is on Larry King, talking about John Ritter. (It's a replay from earlier tonight. Should be interesting.)

All right, settle

Take a few deep breaths, and check out the new links.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

%^$#%@ RIDERS!!! And what really gets my goat is how everyone is so happy-wappy that Hamilton got its first win. Guess what? THEY'RE NOT MAKING THE PLAYOFFS. WE ARE!!! This game mattered FAR MORE to US than it did to them!!!!

I swear... it happened to my friend's cousin's dog's vet's aunt's piano tuner!

The good people who run www.snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages, have started a new feature called Daily Snopes. If you like their regular site, you should like this "blog" of sorts.

Life goes on

No one knows just yet what is going to happen to John Ritter's sitcom, "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter." Mark Evanier has some insight on the decision making process, when another program, "Chico and the Man" lost its star.

I'm home!

Things are settling down after the big move-o. Just to show you why I wanted to move, I should now be able to do this: In this post I talked about reliving a childhood memory... Empress peanut butter. Well, here's the image!
(Image removed because of some stupid problem.)

Whattaya mean, U-Haul's outta trailers???

Okay. I'm moving to a brand new host. The blog itself won't change, but I'm hoping to be able to have pictures. Also, I don't seem in any danger of blowing past the bandwidth limit at the new place. Here's the joint:

The NEW Finger Lickin' Good

By the way...

...I really dislike the use of the abbreviation "R.I.P." It just seems SO DISRESPECTFUL to me... even though I know it's usually used with the best of intentions. If you want to show your respects, why not just say, "Rest in peace"?

"Black" Friday

I haven't thought in advance about what I wanted to write... suffice it to say, this is not a happy day.

I'm of the generation that remembers "Three's Company" from its first syndication cycle, when it was still first-run in prime-time. For me, the 5:30 reruns on CBC were appointment viewing in those days. I should say, though, and it was my brother-in-law that pointed this out, the show has not aged well. Watching it today, it seems less funny, and a relic of another time.

I haven't actually sat down and watched "8 Simple Rules... " but from what I understand, it was a relative hit on an otherwise dreary ABC schedule... and for many reasons, there will be a lot of long faces at the Alphabet Network.

I guess there's also a lesson here for people who hold grudges... try to make your peace. You never know when the day will come that you don't have the chance anymore.

AND... of course, I can sing every word of "A Boy Named Sue." As someone who lived every day talking smack about country and western music, I'm pleased there was still a Johnny Cash around to remind the industry what the music was supposed to be, not what they had turned it into.

My teeth hurt

Sweet Lord in heaven above! It's Lucky Elephant Pink Popcorn!!!

Ah, memories

It's Dad's Cookies! They used to make these in White City... then they turned the factory into a roller rink.

Do you eat the red ones last?

I had Smarties the other day, for the first time in years. I had forgotten just how different these they taste from M&M's. Anyway, for expatriate Canadians, Always Canadian will actually ship you chocolate bars, candy, and other uniquely Canadian foods, whether you're living in the U.S. or elsewhere. (I couldn't help but notice the Goodhost Ice Tea is out of stock.)

This article crystallizes the whole candy situation.

Hi (hic) Bob!

Looking at this year's fall TV previews, it's going to be a dreary season. The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page oughta liven things up. (One comlaint... it hasn't been updated for 2 and a half years, and some of the links have gone dead.

Reign of terror over

J-Walk has flip-flopped, and is resuming his rightful place as the king of bloggers. I will resume my rightful place as a troll under the bridge of blogland. (In the Blogland hierarchy, that puts me about level with the Goblins, but one notch above the Hamburglar.)

Too soon

J-Walk is calling a halt to his blog. I have to say, in the weeks since I discovered his joint, it's become one of my daily must-sees, and I'll miss it. Check it out anyway, while it's still up, and browse the archives. Also, look for some of the humorous stuff he's put up as well. Good stuff.

Now that the sucking up is over, may I invite his former readers to come worship at the Finger Lickin' Good shrine. KNEEL BEFORE ME!!!!!

Well, it was a good ride while it lasted.

I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen

I was never what you could call a "fan" of Warren Zevon, who died over the weekend. In fact, the only song of his I know is the radio hit "Werewolves of London." However, I did enjoy his appearances on Letterman, particularly when he would fill in for Paul Shaffer.

BHT added to maintain freshness

What fond memories this site brings! You can relive all those mornings at the breakfast table, reading the back of the cereal box. (That is, if you were weird, like me.) Or, your Happy Meal box, or what have you. (This brings back some politically incorrect recollections.)

Thanks to J-Walk for reminding me of this site.

Send back the U-Haul...

I think I'll stay for a while. I like the look of this site much better, and moving's ALWAYS a hassle. By the way, I'm now listed on BlogWise!

Call Mayflower

Finger Lickin' Good may be moving. BlogDrive has a lotta features that you can't get here. (At least not for free.) On the other hand, I like the way this place looks a lot better. Anyway, here's where I've set up what for now will be an auxiliary blog.

Very interesting... and stupid.

Some people don't get that the internet is SUPPOSED to be both mindless AND a time waster. These people somehow think you can build brain cells and screw around on the Net at the same time.

Call me Goggles Paisano

You know, there's something therapuetic about playing some city racing game, and just driving the SNOT out of the thing. I just tried a demo of Midnight Club 2... apparently it's from the same people who brought us Microsoft's Midtown Madness games... this one takes place in LA at night... it's pretty good, and unlike the MS games, you can actually run over the people. (By the way, you can download the demo there... but I actually got it with PC Gamer.)

Look out for that speeding backlash!

Now that the Segway is starting to become more available, critics are coming to the fore. They make some good points.

Convenience stores are SO with it

These guys must've picked a bad time to be in love.

Oh nooooooooo!

Yes, another nearly-forgotten piece of pop culture lives again thanks to the Internet. "The Mr. Bill Show" was a big part of the early years of "NBC's Saturday Night" (which would later change its name to "Mad TV"). Not only does our little Play-Doh friend have his own site, you can read an interview with his creator at TVParty.

Taste that beats the others cold

A&W now puts this on their cups:

"Why there's no ice in our drinks:
It's quite simple. Ice melts and that
dilutes the taste. And that just won't do.
So we only use soda fountains that pre-chill
our drinks to the perfect temperature.
That way, it tastes right, every time.
A&W. It's all in the details."

I dunno. I find it gets warm pretty quickly.

Wanna feel old?

Beloit College has released its annual mindset list. Basically, it tells you how many things that were part of your life are not part of the current generation's, and vice versa.

By the way, SOMEONE BUILD ME A COUNTER THAT WORKS!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Forgiveness, please.

What the deuce?!?

A tip of the hat to TBS for adding Futurama and Family Guy to their weekday schedule. (Yes, Fox still has their own web sites up for these shows. But since they treated them like crap, then cancelled them, why acknowledge it?)

By the way, being a holiday today, TBS showed "Dumb and Dumber" in that time slot. Of course, it was the completely bowdlerized version. What gets me is that they let FAR racier stuff through on Family Guy than what they cut out of this film.

Where's the bee -- uh, bag?

One complaint (and JUST one) about Wendy's is that their bags are too small. You order a burger and fries, and they just BARELY fit in the bag, you can't roll up the top, and it doesn't stand up on your car seat.

(deep breath) But I'm feeling MUCH better now.