THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON — Pictured: (l-r) Host Johnny Carson as Tarzan and actress Betty White as Jane during the ‘Tarzan and the Apes” skit on August 14, 1981 — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
Since last Friday, I started to include the date in the daily Bag of Randomness post title. I thought someone would have commented on it by now.
I was curious as to why Jimmy Carter wasn’t part of the presidential bit on Letterman’s finale, and then I remembered about ten days ago it was reported the 90-year-old flew back early from Guyana in an election-monitoring trip. I’m not sure how early they started working on the taped bit, but he must be pretty ill not to do a ten-second video.
One of my Canadian readers told me all of Canada missed the first five minutes of the Letterman finale – The rules up here for TV networks is that if a show is on a US network and a Canadian network at the same time then we must watch the Canadian feed and only get Canadian commercials….the famous example is the Super Bowl every year…we don’t get to see your commercials. Well tonight OMNI, the Canadian network that shows Letterman cut from the show at 12:37 for five minutes so we were watching another show….even on the CBS channel….
Seth Rogan shared a thank-you letter from David Letterman for appearing on his show. Granted, it’s not hand-written, but I’m surprised that someone that’s been in the game for so long would do such a thing.
With lake levels looking really good in the area, I fear a lot of news reports of lake accidents and deaths this Memorial Day weekend.
I didn’t catch a lot of that Red Nose Day telethon, but I did catch U2 and then Coldplay working with the ‘Game of Thrones’ cast. The best part of that skit was Jon Snow singing “Wildling” to the tune of “Wild Thing” to his red-headed beauty, Ygritte.
Today’s does of ‘MURCIA – A Civilian’s Guide To The U.S. Military – I knew a lot of this stuff already, but I wasn’t aware the Coast Guard moved from under the Department of Defense to Homeland Security.
imgur – When my brother was born in 1985, my mother purchased two identical teddy bears. The one on the left has been my brother’s for 30 years, the one on the right has been kept in storage for my brother’s first child who was born today.
“Pick your enemies carefully because they’ll define you.”
I guess the window to refurbish the Ed Sullivan Theater was too small to allow for careful extraction of the seats and set, but man that would have raised a lot of money and smiles.
The Coast Guard has never been under the DoD.It was under the Dept. of Treasury until 1967 when it moved to Dept. of Transportation, It was transferred to Homeland Security in '03, but was never under the DoD. The exception is during time of war (WW2 the last instance) the USCG is under the Navy's control which was under the War Department (DoD).
Further Coastie trivia, all the Hamilton class High Endurance Cutters are named after Treasury Secretaries. Semper paratus.
I guess the window to refurbish the Ed Sullivan Theater was too small to allow for careful extraction of the seats and set, but man that would have raised a lot of money and smiles.
The Coast Guard has never been under the DoD.It was under the Dept. of Treasury until 1967 when it moved to Dept. of Transportation, It was transferred to Homeland Security in '03, but was never under the DoD. The exception is during time of war (WW2 the last instance) the USCG is under the Navy's control which was under the War Department (DoD).
Further Coastie trivia, all the Hamilton class High Endurance Cutters are named after Treasury Secretaries. Semper paratus.