Pirate1974

The Breakfast Club?

Guess only North Carolina celebrates "Easter Monday".

When I was growing up here in North Carolina, we never had Good Friday off from school. I can remember people referring to it as a "Catholic holiday." I have no idea why.

We always got Easter Monday, and there's an interesting story behind that. Back in the early 1900's the Monday after Easter was the day of the big baseball game between N.C. State and Wake Forest. This was one of the big social events of the season at the time and all the ladies would wear their Easter bonnets and dresses to the game. At that time, Wake Forest was still in the little town of Wake Forest, just up the road from Raleigh, before R.J. Reynolds gave them a snootful of money to move the whole college to Winston-Salem. Everybody went to the game and the all of Raleigh basically shut down.

Raleigh is also the home of the state legislature and the legislators wanted to go to the game too. Now they would just go, but 100 years ago that just wasn't done. They solved the problem by passing a bill declaring the day after Easter to be an official state holiday - Easter Monday. That tradition continued long after the baseball game stopped being played on that day.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Coming in August is Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" with Nicholas Cage in the true story of a policeman trapped in the rubble after the towers collapse.

It'll be interesting to see how that one plays in NYC.

Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper

Hoosiers

Like this:

Jumanji

Kirsten Dunst

Mona Lisa Smile

It's alive!!

A Mighty Wind

Eugene Levy

American Pie

He was one of those people we see ever day, but don't really give a second thought about. He worked as a clerk at the Circle K convenience store and his full name was Rajendra Premani, but to the kids from St. Gabriel Catholic School, he was just Mr. Raj.

The store was just down the street from the school and mothers stopped there with their kids every day on the way home for a soda or candy, and Mr. Raj always greeted them, asked them how they were doing, how was school that day and seemed genuinely interested. My younger son, who went to St. Gabe's in elementary school was one of those kids.

One mother said the Circle K was a "Sesame Street" version of "Cheers," and Mr. Raj was the one who knew everybody's name.

On the night of March 27th, a low-life scumbag held up the store, shot Mr. Raj and killed him. He wasn't even supposed to be there. He had already clocked out but had stayed late to help out another employee. There was less than $200 in the cash register. Mr. Raj, who was 59, left a wife and four children. The SOB who killed him was out on parole from an armed robbery committed in Illinois.

That's a hard lesson for kids to have to learn at a young age. That life is not fair. That sometimes life really sucks.

Rest in peace, Mr. Raj. The kids will really miss you.

It's a few days late for April Fool but this just has to be a joke. It can't be for real, or can it?

A British website called Life Style Extra is reporting that Indian director T. Rajeevnath is planning to make a movie about the life of Mother Theresa and he wants to cast an American actress in the lead role.

T. is planning a trip to the U.S. to convince this actress to take on this rather challenging role. And who might this person be who is Rajeevnath's choice to play a Catholic nun who worked among the poorest of the poor of Calcutta for almost 50 years?

Paris Hilton.

Of course. A perfect choice. I can't imagine anybody who could play this part any better.

T. is bringing along several photos of Paris that have been altered to make her appear more like Mother Theresa. Now I would just love to see those. That must be one heck of an alteration job.

T.'s people have apparently been in contact with Paris' people to set up a meeting. The website quotes T. as saying, "The pictures will be my strength when I speak to Paris. She has expressed delight that I have short-listed her to play the role. This will make our meeting easier." I'll just bet it will.

Now anybody who's seen the cinema classic "The Cat in the Hat" knows that Paris is a top-flight actress. I haven't seen her most famous film but I hear it's available for download on quite a few websites for a modest fee. I understand it doesn't have much dialogue but it's heavy on the action.

Now you might think that the fact that Mother Theresa was less than 5 feet tall could be a problem, but if movie magic can make Elijah Wood and Sean Astin into hobbits, this would be a snap. Giving Paris any acting talent may prove a little harder to do.

Yeah, I can see it. I think this could definitely work.

Next up: "The Life of Pope John Paul II" starring Larry the Cable Guy

There is an art to capturing polar bears. Each Inuit village has a different technique and there is considerable competition between villages in how effective their techniques really are. The most famous village of all had a technique that worked nearly all of the time. The technique stayed a secret until one old gentleman finally told the leaders of the other villages.

"The technique," he said, "is to make a large hole in the ice. Then, you must surround the hole with fresh peas. They must be fresh. Canned ones will not work. After this, you wait.

When the bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole."

Saw the A&E version back in January (?) and thought it was pretty good. Even though you know how it's going turn it out, you still want to see how it all happened. Can't say how accurate it was but it was pretty strong stuff.

All the scenes of the people on the plane talking to their families on the ground were pretty hard to watch.

I can't see paying to see this one in the theater.

What's the matter, Tom? Don't you like those beautiful shots of the parking lots and the roof of the RCA Dome?

I'd like to see the Gators win. UCLA has enough banners.

The guards at the Ross County Jail in Chillicothe, Ohio were quite surprised recently when a shot was fired in one of their holding cells.

In the cell was one Victoria Lundy, 41, a fine citizen who had been arrested for participating in a shooting incident in a local bar. Apparently Ms. Lundy was able to smuggle in a firearm when she was invited to be a guest of Chillicothe's finest. How was this possible? Did somebody slack off on their search when Ms. Lundy was checking into her room? Poor law enforcement procedure for sure.

Well, maybe not. Perhaps the boys in blue can't be blamed for overlooking this piece of hardware. It seems that Victoria had her piece concealed in...well, let's just say she was able to hide it in a way that no guy would ever be able to do. Obviously it was a small calibre handgun. Either that or...no, let's don't go there.

Apparently, according to the testimony of one of her cellmates, when Miss Lundy sat down on a bench in the cell, she went off. I mean, she REALLY went off. Fortunately, I guess, the barrel was pointing in the right direction so that nobody was injured. That must have come as quite a shock to anyone who witnessed it.

Gives a whole new meaning to getting banged.

I had Duke, UConn, Boston College and UCLA so I got one out four.

That would be Samoas, and there's no cookie you can buy in any store that's better than those.

If they were available all the time, I'd probably weigh 300 pounds.

Anybody pick George Mason to go to the Final Four? :blink:

So it is.

Barkeep! Another beer for that fine young man over there in the ECU sweater!!!

Thank you, sir!! May I have another?

Sorry, I've been out of touch for a few days.

The body's a temple, that's what we're told

I've treated this one like an old honky-tonk

I can't believe that people get so into this that they wouldn't miss a single night of the thing. Just the commercials are like fingernails on a blackboard.

I do like Paula Abdul but that's not enough to get me to watch.

Is it Harry Chapin's "Dance Band on the Titanic?"

North Carolina's out too. George Mason?

I'd love to know where they found the refs for that game. Tyler Hansborough gets beat up all game and Carolina shoots a total of 4 free throws. Unbelievable.

The Tar Heels did a lot better than anybody expected since they lost their top seven players off last year's championship team. They'll be hard to handle next year.

I'd like to say Jake Gyllenhaal for the younger me and Harrison Ford for the older version.

The reality is probably closer to Eugene Levy.

Hey, no fair.

Tom Strange stole my song!!!

You mean there really was music at the beginning of "Baywatch?"

I can't imagine why I never noticed that.

Harvard?

What, he couldn't get into ECU? :)

I love the Pirates of the Caribbean. It's my favorite Disney attraction...of course.