Comments on: RE: The Super Bowl: How I tried to win a million dollars last year

By: SusanM

SusanM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:42:37 +0000

I wasn’t impressed with last night’s commercials, and I only saw a fraction. My favorites are usually the babies talking about the stock market, and sometimes puking.
Doesn’t the fact that I never remember WHO the sponsor is, seem odd?
If I don’t remember that, it wouldn’t make me buy the product.

—–and if no one makes you watch the Super Bowl, you are truly blessed.

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:58:13 +0000

Wow. Its really great. Thanks for the link!

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:53:52 +0000

Thank you so much, Judy. Your comment made my night. Well, your comment and the fact that no one made me watch The Super Bowl.

By: judy

judy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:17 +0000

Merrill,
I laughed until I cried. Then my husband came into the room to see what I was laughing at and he howled (but didn’t cry).
Everything about it was funny. Try again. Maybe next year they’ll have judges with a better sense of humor.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:48:27 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ

God, I’m obsessive! Once I thought of it, I had to find it. For those of you who haven’t seen this, give it a look.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:43:44 +0000

I wonder if it’s on youtube somewhere?
I remember my father talking about that for days!
Uuuh, was he (Paar) quite old then, when you ate at his house? I think I was in middle school when he was on tv, and I’m old. I say it first before anyone makes a comment.
If you need more dryer lint , I could send some. I imagine the postage wouldn’t be much. I hear it’s good kindling for starting camp fires.

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:14:15 +0000

I not only know who Jack Paar is, I had dinner at his house a couple of times in the eighties when I was connected to the always delightful world of talk shows. I vaguely remembering hearing something about that spaghetti harvest as a kid. Maybe it was buried in my unconscious under all the post it notes about unanswered phone messages, the many unused tubes of free Estee Lauder gift lipstick and pounds of dryer lint that I have been saving for decades.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:58:03 +0000

That is, “Many had wondered” where spaghetti had come from.

By: andrea kremer

andrea kremer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:54:43 +0000

I’ve watched this like 17 times now. I may have a problem. The “animals coming from the mountains to graze” part gets me every time. This thing needs to go viral, as the kids say.

Someday I will craft a well-timed kind remark and be rewarded with a hunsky but that day continues to elude me.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:30:32 +0000

Another person is laughing!
They’ll be sorry some day.
Many years ago, before any of you were a twinkle in anyone’s eye, someone on a night show (Jack Parr, ever hear of him?) had a film of natives in Italy harvesting spaghetti trees.
I guess he got of feedback via snail mail expressing excitement and wonder. Many had wondered where it came from. Of course, it was grainy and in b & w, but it looked so authentic.
Yours is a keeper!