Whaddya want for nothin......

Introducing a new Roadkill segment,
I'd like to call......
"Whaddya want for nothin....'"
..............in which I will share with you
amazing FREE finds from the sticky pages of Craigslist.com.

Our first installment....."FREE WOOD!"
Always read the fine print.
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Marty
Goreville, IL

We Have a Wiener!!!

Yesssssssssssssss.....
Molly Flynn's consecutive win streak is over.....
and TT Rookie.....Mr. Jim Swale was all over this week's winning pic....
Thomas Charles Lasorda!!

I'm told that Mr. Swale is such a baseball connoisseur......
that he knew the answer before the pic fully downloaded on
those slow EDS Tandy computers.....and didn't even use the hints to assist.

Unfortunately......
it is in the TT bylaws that no Cub Fan can EVER win a TT contest.....
even if they are the first one in with the correct answer.

.....but since you are my brother's co-worker.....
I took it back to the TT judges and they have granted you this week's GRAND PRIZE....and TT bragging rights for the next 7 days.
Your Grand Prize will be on it's way to you shortly.
But don't expect to win another one.......for at least another 102 years!!

Mr Lasorda.....
Member of both the MLB and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fames.
Rest of the facts/figures are correct.

Not known for his warm and fuzzy management style.....
(Below clips are rated PG-21)




"He couldn't hit water if he fell out of a f*****g boat"


Marty
Chenoa, IL

When Mike was King........

A 27-year old Neil and Mike twofer....
Kind of looks like an older Jonas Brother.

Marty
Chenoa, IL

My Kinda Town......

Before Stouffers went frozen.....
they had restaurants at Randolph/Wabash (above) and at the top of the Prudential Building on the 40th floor called the Top of the Rock.
Started as a small family restaurant just south of Cleveland in the '20s......
and hit the big time in the '60's with the advent of frozen TV dinners.

Gotta love the ladies on the salt box.....
which reminds me.....
what ever happened to the salt boxes?

Marty
Frankenmuth, MI

Trivia Tuesday.....

ALL*STAR Break is over.....
and hopefully......so is Mz. Molly Flynn's streak.
I'm going back to America's Pasttime for this week's TT!

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the gentleman above will be this week's GRAND PRIZE winner and have TT bragging rights for the next 7-days!

Hints....

• Has a Hall Membership Card....even a Canuck version.
• Signed as a free agent.....went into the Army the following 2 years....came back and pitched in a 15 inning marathon in which he struck out 25 players...and hit the game-winning single.
• (obviously no middle-relievers back in the day.)
• Spent a lot of years in the minors....
• MLB record was 0-4
• One wife.....they celebrate 60 years this year.
• not known for his "political correctiveness" ( is that a word?)

Marty
Detroit, MI

Back to reality......

Sue & Peter peddle off into the sunset leaving the kids behind.....

Cool tip for a hot day......burn timber for 6 hours.......ahhhhhhhhhh.

I think the neighbors think.......

that I'm running a logging operation.....

.

Marty

North Olmsted, OH

More fam damily......

96.6*.....in the shade.
My new digital outdoor thermometer that sticks to the outside of my kitchen window.
Another recent purchase of things I really don't need from Wal*Mart!

.....got a lake
.....got a boat house
.....but no boat.
(but I'm OK with that.....shhhhhh don't tell Mar)

The Ruddy's taking is some suds....sun and stories.

Where do all Southern Illinois Hillbillies go on a HOT Saturday afternoon??

WAL*MART......

if you can't beat 'em.....join 'em.

The BEST Corn-Shuckers this side of the Ohio River.....Clare & Katie.

OK....so you kind of had to be there.....

but imagine Peter's surprise when he went to

take a drink of his Sprite at dinner....

and all of the Sprite landed on his lap.

Reason....

He took one of my old light fixture glass shades

that I had taken down last week

(which looks like a glass tumbler)

and filled up his drink.....

but there was no bottom on this shade

and gravity did it's thing when he picked it up.

.....and we were sober!

Marty

The whole fam damily......

Ruddy's and Grandma Nancy got out of the city and headed back down south on Friday to beautiful blue skies and 96* temps.

.

The lake was like bathwater as they swam all day and night.....

the "almost" full moon kept them swimming until 10:30......

.

...........now 11pm and the house is very...very quiet.

.

All are out for the count.

.

.....goodbye city life.

.

Marty

Marion, IL

We Have a Wiener!!!!

Had a lotta "Bobs" this week......
but Mz. Molly Ann Flynn (with a little help from her friends)
was the only one who had George Robert "BOB" Newhart!!
Congrats....and your extra effort pays off this week with your GRAND PRIZE on it's way along with an extended stay of TT bragging rights!!

• His 1960 Comedy Album "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" went straight to #1 leaving Elvis and "The Sound of Music" soundtrack in the dust.
• Currently 80 and living in California.
• Starred with Will Ferrell in "ELF"
• Starred with Steve McQueen in "Hell is for Heroes"
• Born in Oak Park and raised on the West side of Chicago.
• Was introduced to his wife by Buddy Hackett.

Marty
Forest, OH

My Kinda Town.....

Looking northwest from the Planetarium.......1941.

(Wrigley Building on far right)

Marty
Cloverdale, IN

Milk Shake........

Marty
Osgood, IN

Trivia Tuesday.....

Another Tuesday and another mystery man....

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name
the actor reading his fan mail above.....
will be this week's GRAND PRIZE WINNER and
have TT bragging rights for the next 7 days.

Hints....

• Has starred in movies with the likes of Steve McQueen to Will Ferrell.
• Local boy who attended Ignatius and Loyola...
• Was originally an accountant out of college....
• Had a #1 album...
• Outsold Elvis...
• Owns a Grammy...an Emmy and a Peabody.
• married once.

Marty
North Olmsted, OH

M*A*S*H*U*P*

Something here for everybody....
but I need 8 minutes!

The Kleptones...

Marty
Oxford, IN

Silver Fish Hand Catch.......

I bought some Old Spice Deodorant this week.....

FANTASTIC!!

Marty

You know you're in Tennessee when......

........you hear a gem like this on the radio.


Click and play here.....http://new.music.yahoo.com/tim-wilson/tracks/heaven-on-a-technicality--25661766

Can I get an amen?

Marty
Nashville, TN

We Have a Wiener!!!!

So after much debate among the TT contest review board...
Mz. Molly Flynn is this week's GRAND PRIZE WINNER with the correct answer...
Mr. Sanford Koufax....
(sorry all you "Sandy" guessers....but rules are rules!)

He was actually born Sanford Braun...
but changed his last name (after his parent's divorced) to his step-father's last name.....
sorry....but the judges gave Molly the green light!

This is one of those historic baseball names that I just never put a face to until this week.
Even though Mantle, DiMaggio, Mays, and others were before my time.....
I could always pick them out of a crowd.....but not Koufax.

• Retired (when I was 4 years old) at age 30 due to chronic arthritis in his pitching arm.
• Attended the University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship.
• Has thrown 4 no-hitters (4 consecutive years) including one PERFECT GAME....only 20 pitchers have.
• Appeared (with fellow player Don Drysdale) in the 1966 film "Warning Shot"
• Had shirts tailored to have one sleeve long and one short to wear under his suits....this took the pressure off of his arthritic arm.
• 1965....
  made it to the World Series.....
  was scheduled to pitch GAME 1.....
  and took the day off due to that day falling on Yom Kippur....
  did I mention Sanford is Jewish?

Give me a few minutes and listen to the last 3 outs of Koufax's perfect game....
called by Vince Scully......classic!!


Did I mention that he did this against the Cubbies!?!?!
...although to the Cubs' credit..they too had a no-hitter through the 7th.

Marty
Nashville, TN

You know you're in Indiana when.......

.....the new Dollar General in town has an Amish Horse Hitching post.

Newly constructed Clock Tower (sans a tree on top)
on the main drag in Berne, IN....quite impressive.


Huge Swiss/Amish population....several buildings in town (including the McDonalds) are constructed as if you were in the Alps.

Yodelayheehoo!!

Marty
Nashville, TN

When I was a kid......

.....we had Garfield Goose.

Marty
Berne, IN

Trivia Tuesday......

OK....no astrological signs or social security numbers needed this week.
All I need is for you to be the FIRST email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly identify this gentleman above. Full name please.

Hints...

• Retired at an early age....
• Majored in architecture on a college basketball scholarship
• Has a no-no....and more.
• Has been known to be perfect.......... once.
• Played a detective in a movie.
• Wore shirts with one long sleeve and one short sleeve
• Doesn't work on holidays...
  
  Marty
  Holgate, OH

Song(s) of the week.........

Camper Van Beethoven
"When I Win the Lottery"
1989


Camper Van Beethoven
"Take the Skinheads Bowling"
1985


Camper Van Beethoven
"The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon"
1985

Marty
Ionia, MI

Buy me some peanuts and NOdoz......

Drink Responsibly people.....
(but on the other hand....
he might have just been at a Cubs game)

Marty

Sell your WAG stock....

Danny has "retired" from retail.
After 2 years at the local Walgreens....
Dan is going to take some time off before starting at WIU in late August.

They were sorry to see him go and threw him a going-away bash
and featured him on the outdoor sign for the day.

I told him that there are Walgreens in Macomb...
but he pretended like he didn't hear me.

Marty

When Mike was King.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfHnLHUhdA&feature=related

Slowly I turned.....
step by step (part duex)

Mike...Roger...Julie and Moe.

Marty
East Chicago, IN

You know you're in Indiana when.....

.....you've got a tree growing out of your courthouse clocktower!
(and I thought I had tree problems)

http://www.cityofgreensburg.com/history.html

This is the "ultimate gutter garden."

Marty
Greensburg, IN

Slowly I turned....step by step

Go HD and Full Screen on this one....

Marty
Osgood, IN

Trivia Tuesday.......

OK......
So after a looooooooonnnnnnnnnggggggggg
holiday weekend.....here is this week's TT.

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly give me
the first, middle and last names
birthdates, Social Security numbers and astrological signs...
of all of the 6 ladies above.....
(Don't they look FANTASTIC!)

Will be this weeks GRAND PRIZE winner....
and have TT bragging rights for the next 7 days!!
(in other words.....I am taking this week off)

Hints.....

Julia (Big J)...

Sophia...

Katie...

Molly.

Marty
Hopinsville, KY

Game Day......

Reach more than 50 seconds - flashgamesbase.com


Not a big game guy.....
but I like this one.

Marty

Happy Fourth!!

Marilyn says....
careful with those fireworks!

Hubba...hubba....

Marty

Hello Ladies...How are you....FANTASTIC!

.....he's back!

Marty

We DON'T have a Wiener!!!

Yes....

the 4 Presidents pictured were.....
John Adams...
Calvin Coolidge..
James Monroe...
and
Thomas Jefferson.

What they had "in common" no one knew
(except some "2nd guessers")
July 4th.

Adams and Jefferson BOTH died on July 4th 1826
Both men wanted to live to see the Country's 50th Birthday (Cha..Cha..Cha)

Adams last words were...."Thomas Jefferson survives...."
but he was wrong because Jefferson passed a few hours earlier.

James Monroe....passed away 5 years later in 1831.

Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4th....1872.

Have a great 4th weekend.....
and a couple of black-charred hotdogs on the grill.
(or 68 like Joey Chestnut above at Nathan's)

Marty
Marion, IL

When Mike was King......

Introducing a new feature today...
"When Mike was King...."

This will feature Chicago's Very Own......
Mike Douglas.

Mikefacts..

• Real name was Michael Delaney Dowd
• Used to be a staff singer for WMAQ-TV
• Worked as a singer aboard Lake Michigan dinner cruise ships.
• Was Prince Charming's singing voice in Disney's Cinderella.
• 21 years as a successful daytime talk-show host.....with an eclectic range of guests.
• Musical groups from the Rolling Stones to John Lennon appeared.
• When Elvis shot his TV in his Las Vegas suite.....he was watching Mike Douglas. (Nothing personal against Mike....he was aiming for his co-host that week.....Robert Goulet)
• Died on his birthday.
  
  Today's feature...
  Mike....Gene....and Totie.
  
  
  
  
  Marty
  Marion, IL