Volume 94 Issue 14
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November 22, 2006
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Thought maze: volume II

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BEN POGGEMILLER STAFF

ILLUSTRATION TED BARKER

Movies that I have never seen, but have been thoroughly unimpressed with, simply from the title alone:
Absence of Malice
Addicted to Love
It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
The Making of “Absence of Malice”
The Conversation Ernest Does his Taxes

What the world would be like if things I thought as a young child were true:
Ernest Scared Stupid is the scariest movie ever made.
If I flushed a watch down the toilet it would go on a magical, enchanting adventure to a world unbeknownst to me.
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
is 100 per cent plausible and could happen to me at any time.
The words “ask” and “tell” mean exactly the same thing.
Prison is exactly like in Ernest Goes to Jail.

Smartass comments I would make if I were a professor and a student has just walked in excessively late:
“. . . And that’s exactly what you have to do to get 100 per cent on the final exam.”
“I’ve just been filling in up to this point, the real professor is here.”
“. . . And thus ended my 750 consecutive days of following the Grateful Dead. A week later I became a professor.”
“Get out.”

Graphing on the axis of evil:
y = Iraq2
d/dIran (Iran)3 = 3(Iran) 2

Reasons why I can’t make fun of parking patrol in a newspaper:
It could be considered libellous.
I might degrade their public image.
They might sue me after the Two Minutes Hate.

Convoluted phrases I encountered recently:
“She didn’t just not do nothing.”

Reasons why a Chrysler as big as a whale wouldn’t work:
Parallel parking
Getting charged extra at the drive-in
It couldn’t set sail
Love Shack doesn’t validate

Rejected titles for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”:
Horrible Sun Setting
Disheartening Eclipse Occurring (solar)
That little red dot, I think it might be Mars, I’m not sure but whatever it is, it’s not good
Bad Astronomical Event Compared to the War in Vietnam

Conclusions to MasterCard commercials that didn’t quite make it: Finding out your Mafia pals made that “problem” in your trunk go away: priceless.
You and Jughead breaking Mr. Lodge’s priceless antique vase: priceless.
Putting a price on love: priceless.

Mispronunciations of my last name, some intentional, some not: 1. Paga-hoo-miller
2. Pogge-washava (trails off . . .)
3. Ponakarvosky
4. Podge-miller (Unintentional: 1, 2,4)

A recap of Bob Barker’s reign in the game show industry:
1350 — “If you can guess how much you’ll be tithing this year without going over . . . .”
1610 — “Wow, look at this Baroque portrait of me, on the bottom it says, ‘I drove from Texas to play Hole in One.’” 2006 — “What did you bid? Now this is why my hair is white.”
2075 — “Seriously, enough with the Plinko already. I know it’s popular, but this is friggin’ ridiculous.”
3000 — “Now make sure the Nuclear Hyper-Mega Wheel goes all the way around, Gladys. But seriously, don’t spin it too fast!”