A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
I'm at the age where early Late Night was still a bit over my head, but my parents let me watch it anyway, and Larry Bud Melman, Stupid Pet/Human Tricks, and things getting crushed by a steamroller will always be the foundation of things I find hilarious.
My all time favorite was velcro night. Dave gets into a velcro suit, jumps off a trampoline and THWOCK - he's stuck to the wall. Perhaps the dumbest, greatest thing ever done on TV. I was still laughing after the commercial break. I'm laughing right now at the image of Dave trying to turn his head to the camera to go to commercial.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled struggle with the meta puzzle. Film at eleven.
It was genius. I got to see Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) emcee a "Rising Young Comedian" show in St. Louis in the late 1980s and Im pretty sure the comedians included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Poundstone, and Wil Shriner. Larry "Bud" Melman was the reason I went and he stole the show.
HeadinHome wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 9:36 am
Someone on page one said they had seen that only 40 answers had been submitted so far at that point... where are you seeing these stats?
Abide wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 4:49 pm
Just opened but looks like a toughie with only 4 entries in 40 minutes.
Peter's post was the 5th after the Bob's opening, non-entry post, leaving 4 entries before his, which was posted 40+ minutes after the puzzle dropped.
I'm at the age where early Late Night was still a bit over my head, but my parents let me watch it anyway, and Larry Bud Melman, Stupid Pet/Human Tricks, and things getting crushed by a steamroller will always be the foundation of things I find hilarious.
My all time favorite was velcro night. Dave gets into a velcro suit, jumps off a trampoline and THWOCK - he's stuck to the wall. Perhaps the dumbest, greatest thing ever done on TV. I was still laughing after the commercial break. I'm laughing right now at the image of Dave trying to turn his head to the camera to go to commercial.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled struggle with the meta puzzle. Film at eleven.
It was genius. I got to see Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) emcee a "Rising Young Comedian" show in St. Louis in the late 1980s and Im pretty sure the comedians included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Poundstone, and Wil Shriner. Larry "Bud" Melman was the reason I went and he stole the show.
DrTom wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 1:05 am
OK, my weird sense of humor had me chuckling about this for about 70 miles.
We stopped at a rest stop on the way back from the Keys. In the Men's rest room, above and to the left of the hand dryer and sink was this sign:
hands free.jpg
Now surely I cannot be the only one to have ever marveled at the irony of this and the futility of announcing that nothing there needed hands except perhaps to read the sign? I'm not being insensitive mind you, just gobstruck that this was the only information provided. What exactly would you get from reading that sign if you were not sighted?
The only thing that might be less helpful was a similar type sign on the waffle iron at a hotel breakfast that read in English and Braille "DO NOT TOUCH WAFFLE IRON IS VERY HOT" (and I'll bet you somewhere that sign exists!)
What are the dumbest signs people have seen? Given our collective senses of humor there have had to be those that made you go "WHAT"
well, if it was near the urinals, that probably would not have been the cleanest rest stop in the country.
At the top of the Washington Memorial in DC is a relief of what you are seeing outside the windows, major buildings are labled, and are also written in brail.
I have an answer that I really, really don’t love. I’ll keep working away at this but that answer will be my Hail Mary if I don’t come up with something that gives me more confidence.