A Day Like All Days

 Way back when I was at The Ohio State University, I had occasion to have lunch on the Oval, the huge lawn crisscrossed by sidewalks in the middle of campus, and listened to one of the many street-corner preachers trying to win souls on campus. 

In the middle of his sermon, he told the tale of the day he went "to a VAN! HALEN! CONCERT! And David Lee Roth got up to the front of the stage, and he said 'Not even God can save your soul... at a VAN! HALEN! CONCERT!' And then he started to masturbate himself, and you know what I did?"

Before he could shout another word, a dude sitting nearby on the grass leaped to his feet and shouted right back at him, "Yeah! You got up and licked him clean!" The preacher turned several lovely shades of purple before collecting his wits and resuming his sermon. I left right after that, having finished eating and needing to get to my next class.

A while back I posted this story on the passing of another Wham-O toymaker.

This week we discovered that the actual inventor of the Frisbee, Walter Frederick Morrison, has died at 90.

And I suspect on a roof somewhere there will be much rejoicing as Mr. Morrison comes home. RIP.

(Thanks gmjambear for the news and link: Dogs are in mourning.)

At the ballgame last night the announcer mentioned someone was from Blaine, WA (the little town at the Canadian border crossing of I-5).

Of course, the first thing that came to mind was "BLAINE? ... That's a major appliance, that's not a name!" (from Pretty In Pink, and yes, I know the spelling is not the same.)

RIP, John.

Charlton Heston has died at age 83. As trawnapanda points out over on soc.motss, we can now pry the gun from his cold, dead hands. ;-)

bitchuary [bich'-yoo-a-ree] n. an announcement of the death of a public figure, containing a remark that can be construed as humorously insensitive or uncomplimentary. [Cf. bitchy and obituary.]

Example:

Evel Knievel died today at the age of 69. Fans across the globe are launching motorcycles from ramps and crash-landing in his memory.

(Thanks gmjambear for the above example.)

See also this post.