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Sunday morning finished copying down the lyrics to “Me chérie Jane” by Serge
Gainsbourg. I also wrote down the poster’s translation just in case it’s useful
as a guideline for my rhyming translation.
I worked on writing my Food Bank
Adventure.
I finished washing the area under
the middle dresser on the eastern side of my bedroom. All that’s left to clean
of the bedroom floor is the section under the big antique dresser at the
northeast corner of the room.
For lunch I had a ham and cheese
sandwich on a toasted English muffin.
In the afternoon I did my exercises
while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story someone falls through a faulty
step in front of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge hall and now he is suing
the lodge. Weeks before the lodge brothers had all pitched in and given
Kingfish $200 to pay for liability insurance but he had used it to but a new
stove. I learned here after having listened to years of Amos and Andy episodes
that “Kingfish” is not George Stevens’s nickname but rather his title as the
leader of the lodge. I don’t recall that ever having been mentioned before. He
decides in order to save himself, to resign as Kingfish and pass on the title
to Andy, without letting Andy know that he’s inheriting the lawsuit. But a
meeting is held and George is declared responsible. Kingfish settles with the
injured man by cashing in the lodge’s fire insurance policy. But then the lodge
catches fire.
I finished writing my Food Bank
Adventure and posted it.
For dinner I had two strips of
bacon, an egg and a toasted English muffin with a beer while watching the last
episode of Racket Squad that I’d been able to download. In this story a woman
named Linda trips on the edge of a hotel carpet, apparently injuring her ankle.
The injury is not as bad as her and her husband Joe claim but before the hotel
doctor arrives to examine her Joe exposes Linda’s ankle to a jar of wasps so
that the stings will cause swelling. This is a scam that they have used before
but it is taking its toll on Linda. A Mr Webber, who had been in charge of
keeping the hotel carpets safe, is fired because of this accident. He goes to
the Racket Squad because he knows he did nothing wrong. At first Captain
Braddock says there is nothing they can do but then Webber follows Joe and sees
him collecting wasps in a jar. Braddock orders the doctor to check on Linda’s
ankle again. Joe uses the wasps again but this time Linda goes into convulsions
and she and Joe are found out and arrested.
Linda was played by Catherine
McLeod, who in 1946 starred in the movie "Concerto" in which she
plays several stages of her character from the age of 18 to 45. In the 50s
films were not giving her much to work with and so she turned to theatre and
television. In the 60s she acted in several soap operas before retiring. She
played the woman in the 1963 Anacin commercial who exclaims, “Mother, please!
I'd rather do it myself!"
The commercial also inspired a song by Joanne
Campbell.
I had a little strawberry rhubarb
pie for dessert with coffee while watching the final episode of the latest
season of South Park.
Spoiler alert!
The town has gathered for the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony
and everyone is drinking and having a good time. But Santa comes out to give a
speech against drinking and driving and everyone boos him off the stage. The
next day an ordinance is passed that no alcohol can be sold in South Park until
January 2. This causes everyone to lose their Christmas spirit. No one wants to
drive to shop for presents because if they can’t drink and drive what’s the
point? Desperate to save the town for Christmas, the mayor goes to see Randy
Marsh to see if he can come up with some weed for the town. Randy combines some
leftover pot from his season finale with homegrown cocaine and sells it as
“Christmas Snow”. Everybody is back to driving and having accidents again but
when the mayor realizes Randy is selling cocaine she goes to tell him it’s
illegal. He says, “It is?” Then he tells the mayor, “Wait right here!” Randy
goes out and demonstrates and makes an appeal to the Supreme Court and comes
back a few minutes later to tell the mayor that cocaine is now legal in
Colorado. She’s satisfied but Santa is not. He passes another ordinance banning
marijuana sales until January 2. Then Randy comes up with “Marijuana Free
Christmas Snow” and just sells cocaine. Santa goes down everyone’s chimneys and
takes all their cocaine. Randy pursues him in a snowmobile. The weight of all
the cocaine causes Santa’s sleigh to crash. Randy confronts Santa and asks him
to try his cocaine. Santa insists that he’s done plenty of coke and it couldn’t
be any different, but once he tries it he changes his mind. It’s smooth and
pure and has tegridy. But Jesus arrives and chastises Santa for giving in on
the cocaine. However they convince Jesus to try it and after snorting some he is
also convinced. Jesus causes a Christmas miracle by making all the cocaine that
Santa stole levitate over South Park and come down like snow. Everyone gets
high and Christmas is saved.
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