A Dingo's got my Barbie!!!

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As you know I don't blog on Sundays (my Sunday, I don't care what day you've got), some folks think it's because I'm lazy, while others believe I'm part of some weird religious cult (like catholicism), but neither of those are correct. The reason I don't post on Sundays is that as my posts are so rich in content, so utterly thought provoking, so side splittingly funny, that I'm afraid I could cause permanent brain damage to my loyal readers if I subjected them to it everyday. I have therefore taken it upon myself to ensure that you all have at least one day's rest in order for your brains to recuperrate.

However...Seeing as how Lost is coming back (okay, I know it's already back on in the States, but it's not on here yet), I thought I might make you aware of this little gem. This is essential viewing if you have never seen a single episode but would like to start watching in the third season, or if you are like me, and have watched from the beginning but still have no fucking clue what's going on...

Now, as for the little pseudo competition; I did say, and I quote "If anyone can tell me exactly why they are called Percy and Marge there may be a prize in (sic) for you. But I stress, you have to tell me exactly...you really have to earn it!"

No-one got the answer I was after, so here is the why:

I live in near a very small town (I don't actually live in it), where everyone knows everyone (except me, they don't want to know me, and I don't want to know them), and Bobby's owners are both 4th generation locals so they are obviously quite well known (that, and they are the local quirky identities). I knew I would be writing some less than charitable things about them so I decided to use false names, akas, handles, nicknames, fake IDs, noms de plume, aliases (I have left anything out?).

Molly correctly figured out the 'where' their names came from, it was a reference to Ma and Pa Kettle (played by Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main) which, if you had been paying attention, is what I initially called them in the same post that I actually used their real names (part iii in case you are wondering). So that's why I made it a bit more difficult, after all there was an all expense paid, trip to Australia up for grabs!

But just to prove I'm a good sport Molly, if you give me your details, I'll send you some really tacky, chinese made Australian souvenir.

Moon over Parma.

Whenever I see this picture, the original theme song for the Drew Carey Show pops into my head (it's called "Moon Over Parma" but was replaced it the second season by "Five O'Clock World, which in turn was replaced by "Cleveland Rocks"). Incidentally, I've actually been to Parma.

I've also visited Madame Marie's on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park NJ, as in the Bruce Springsteen song  Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), (that it has nothing to do with this post but it is interesting).

This is ET and DD, DD being the millionaire I told you about some time ago. The real problem was that it was fall and there was a huge tree overhead that continually dropped leaves on the table....

This was from the last time I was in the States. I'll have to write about that one day...