Trivia Tuesday!!

Oh Boy!....

Now for something completely different....

The first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the CITY
in which this set of specs is located will win this week's
GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!

Think it over before you email me.....it's so easy!

Hints....
--I have been there....but not easy to find.
--It is located in a neighboring state.
--If you go there in February... it'll make you shiver,

--especially if you have newspapers to deliver.

Marty
Springfield, IL

This will change your mind......

.....about cats.

Alcoholic cats anyway.

Marty

Muskegon, MI

Take 15 mins....

....and watch this.

Disney would be proud!

Marty

Super Bowl.....

commercials only a week away!!

Marty

We Have a Wiener!!!

Well Mz. Maggie Pollard obviously knows her chubby Little Leaguers......

she was the first in this week with

Mr. Thomas Edward Patrick "Tom" Brady, Jr.

--drafted as a catcher at 18 by the Montreal Expos.

--opted to attend the University of Michigan to play football.

--drafted into the NFL as the 199th pick in the 6th round.

--grew up in California and went to the same H.S as Barry Bonds.

--was Laura Bush's guest at the 2004 State of the Union speech.

--model/spokesman for Black Stetson cologne.

His H.S recruitment video below....

long way from the Super Bowl.




Marty
Effingham, IL

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

when Rainbow the Birthday Clown......
"lives in a van down by the river!"

Marty
Springfield, IL

Can I help you??

....."your printer is on fire?!"

Marty

Chicago, IL

Trivia Tuesday!!

Happy Tuesday.....here we are with another puzzler.
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name "Mr. Slugger" above
will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and
TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....
--Was an MLB draft choice at age 18.
--Opted instead to attend and graduate from College.
--People Magazine thinks he's "beautiful"
--Has 2 kids....from 2 ladies.
--Irish Catholic.
--Big Yankees fan....but went to the same H.S. of a famous Giant.
--Model for a line of cologne.
--MVP.
--Is NOT Jim Farrell.

Marty
Norton Shores, MI

D'oh!

......all 20 years of them!

Marty

Chicago, IL

My kinda town....

Chicago Cop on a trike in front of St. Bede School.....

late 50's.

Marty

Goreville, IL

End of a long week.....

My mother,

my wife,

and my Uncle John.....

were the only guarantees that my daily erratic blog ramblings would be read

on days other than Tuesday.

This week I lost 33% of my audience....

(....unless Heaven has Wi-Fi??)

Great guy with a great family....

and although we don't visit enough....

it feels like we haven't missed a beat when we do get together.

So impressed to see my cousin's "little ones"

now morphing into fine young men and ladies!

This "Bud" man will be drinking a Miller product this weekend....

not because I like Miller....

......but because now I know that John will be watching!

Cheers John!!

Marty

Goreville, IL

We Have a Wiener!!!

Damn if Mz. Molly Flynn didn't come in and steal my thunder this week.

Only minutes in front of a late field....

she is the Grand Prize winner this week with the one and only....
Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer.

--Born in the small town of Paris, Illinois near the Indiana border and was discovered by Hal Roach in the cafeteria of the Hal Roach studios while on a sightseeing trip with his brother and family.

--Later in life he was a professional dog breeder and trainer....training dogs from Hollywood Stars such as Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart.

--Being a Child Star is a bitch.....

He died at 31 after trying to collect on a $50 loan.....while intoxicated.

53 years ago tomorrow.

--His brother Harold....after spending 5 years as a background player in "Our Gang", operated a successful Speed Queen franchise servicing washers and dryers. At age 42.....he shot and killed a customer over a dispute.....then drove to the desert and killed himself!

Other useless facts, that were too "Googleable"....

--He died on the same day as Cecil B. DeMille.....who overshadowed the news that day.

--Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were Alafalfa's son's Godparents!

--Had small roles in BIG movies like,

"It's a Wonderful Life"/"White Christmas"

"The Ten Commandments" and "The Defiant Ones"

Marty

Goreville, IL

There's no CRYING IN FOOTBALL!!

....it's going to be a long winter in Cheeseland.

Marty

Monticello, IN

Tough times.....

.......calls for tough measures.

Marty

Cedarburg, WI

Trivia Tuesday!!

OK......I'm smelling a back to back TT win for me this week!!

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name Mr. Grumpy above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.

Hints...

--Born in a small farming town in Illinois.

--Not a farmer though.

--Professional Dog Breeder.

--Singer and multi-instrumentalist.

--Followed in his brother's footsteps in his early career.

--Once arrested for cutting down trees in a National Forest.

--Met an untimely death, like his brother, later (but not that late) in life.

Marty

Remington, IN

2 stories a day......

30 story hotel built in 15 days.

Obviously not in the great City of Chicago.

Marty

New Albany, IN

Gangsta Greg.....

Marty

Song of the Week.....

....heard while driving through a

snow storm in Kentucky earlier this week.

Whitehorse.....

Schuba's in March....

who's with me?

Marty

We Have a Wiener!!!

....and the winner is ME!!

HOT one minute and cold the next.....

is my TT winning record and

Rick Santorum's Presidential bid.

--Graduated from Carmel Catholic H.S. in Mundelein, IL in 1976.

(Carmel HS is one of 3 local Carmelite run High Schools with the others being Mt. Carmel and Joliet Catholic....you can use that at your cocktail parties this weekend.)

--Dad was a psychologist for the VA and was on temp assignment here in the '70's.

--Taller than me.

Marty

Flint, MI

Tom....Tom....Tom.....

Tom Skilling is having just a little too
much fun back in the Weather Office!!

Marty
Remington, IN

I think I could do this......

Marty

Louisville, KY

Trivia Tuesday!!

Here were are gang with another Tuesday and another puzzler!

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name Mr. Groovy above....

will with this week's GRAND PRIZE and

TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....

--NOT Napoleon Dynamite

--graduated from H.S. in Illinois.

--his Dad is from Italy.

--he's 6'4".

--pretty boring guy...because that's all I got.

Marty

New Albany, IN

End of the World???

Doubt it.

Marty

This is not your Father's......

................National Geographic.

Marty

Who's on first?

....and to think he could have been President.

Marty

We Have a Wiener!!!

We have our first Wiener of the New Year!!

Mary Pollard in front of her daughter Maggie

this week by a mere minute with the correct answer...
Emmitt Perry, Jr...aka Tyler "Madea" Perry.

I must have been living under a rock.....

but I had no clue to who he/she was until New Years Eve when we watched

"Madea's Big Happy Family" and although it is not Oscar quality....

I can guarantee you a couple of laughing fits

where you won't be able to suck in enough air to live another day.

-"Hellur!?" Tyler earned 130 million dollars last year topping

Forbes' list of highest paid men entertainers!

-Dad was constantly beating him as a kid....

which led him to change his name from Emmitt to Tyler

when he was 16 years old....to further distance himself from his Dad.

-Molested by a family member as a child...

and found out that his Dad had molested one of his friends.

-Never graduated from High School....but did obtain his GED.

-After watching an Oprah episode about the therapeutic benefits that creative writing had....he started writing and decided that this would be his future.

-Had a small role in a Star Trek film after being invited by director J.J. Abrams.

Think I will delve deeper into the Madea catalog this weekend.

Marty

Marion, IL

Snoop D-O to the double G...come on down!

Bob Barker is spinning in his grave......

oh wait....

he's not dead yet.

Marty

Nashville, TN

100 years in 10 minutes.....

Marty

Nashville, TN

Trivia Tuesday!!

Well hellur to 2012 and to the first TT of the New Year.

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the gentleman above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....

-Producer/author/songwriter are some of the things on his resume.

-Makes more than most.

-Not a big fan of his Dad.

-Oprah changed his life.

-Once appeared in a Star Trek film.

-Funny guy.

Marty

Nashville, TN

I resolve to....

....start diet today.

Marty

Happy New Years & a CHA....CHA....CHA!

Not such a great pic to ring in 2012....
but hey.....the truth hurts!

Happy 46 bro!

Marty