Sandra Bullock was named
“People” magazine’s “World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” Better luck next year,
Bruce Jenner.
Leaked Sony E-mails revealed
Ben Affleck asked to have his slave-owner ancestors omitted from the PBS show
“Finding Your Roots.” And Affleck’s ancestors asked to have Affleck omitted for
starring in “Gigli.”
- Written by O'Snake, Mark O'Connor (see what I did there, Conan writers? When I used someone else's joke, I gave them credit)
- Written by O'Snake, Mark O'Connor (see what I did there, Conan writers? When I used someone else's joke, I gave them credit)
At the “Time” magazine 100
Gala in New York, comedian, Amy Schumer, pranked Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
by falling in front of them on the red carpet. While Kanye thought it was funny,
he said Beyonce would have bounced better.
The first pictures of Bruce
Jenner in a dress have been leaked. Now, I could have gone a long time without
hearing the words Bruce Jenner, dress and leaked used together.
Sandra Bullock was named
“People” magazine’s “World’s Most Beautiful Woman.”
Think of the pressure the
title “”World’s Most Beautiful Woman,” brings with it. Walk out of a bathroom
with toilet paper on your heel and it’s;
“You’re the World’s Most
Beautiful Woman?”
Get spinach in your teeth and
it’s;
“You’re the World’s Most
Beautiful Woman?”
Down an entire pint of Ben
And Jerry’s in your “I’m with stupid” t-shirt and sweats-with-holes and your hair in a messy up-do with hair removal cream on your upper lip and it’s;
“You’re the World’s Most
Beautiful Woman?”
Since you asked:
Amy Schumer shows David
Letterman her fake vagina upper leg surfing scar. Amy Schumer’s show “Inside
Amy Schumer” debuts it’s third season on “Comedy Central” with absolutely
brilliant skits. Amy Schumer prank pratfalls upstaging Kim and Kanye on the
“Time” red carpet.
It’s always Amy. Amy, Amy,
Amy.
Among the brilliant skits on
“IAS” is a parity of booty videos using the children’s naughty rhyme “Milk,
Milk, Lemonade.” (Around the corner fudge is made)
That brought back such a
vivid memory.
When I was about six or seven,
right about when we moved from Cherry Street in bucolic Winnetka to Elm Street,
which was two years after we moved from Louisville, I was quite the little
player with the laaaaaaaaadies.
If you know what I mean . . .
There was little Debbie down
the street with whom I liked to play “Daniel Boone.”
Which meant capturing her, like I was a Cherokee, and tying her to a
pole in her basement with her jump rope.
In her underwear.
In her underwear.
(One of the writers for
Daniel Boone had to be into S&M. Almost every episode featured women captured
and tied up)
After word of our "Daniel Boone" game got out - thanks to my rat-fink brother, John - I wasn’t allowed
to play at little Debbie’s.
My serious girlfriend at this
time was Roberta ( my mom said I pronounced her name Whoabwuhtah) Roberta
was so pretty and nice, with gorgeous brown hair, and I was smitten. In deep
smit. Smittified. Smit-like.
Roberta had an amazing
calming effect on me my mother loved. Normally I was a tad rambunctious. (think Calvin in “Calvin and
Hobbes”)
We, Roberta and me, could sit and quietly play under the shade of the big elm tree on my front lawn for hours. We simply enjoyed each other's company.
We, Roberta and me, could sit and quietly play under the shade of the big elm tree on my front lawn for hours. We simply enjoyed each other's company.
Yes, we had a big elm tree on
Elm Street. Take that, Norman Rockwell . . .
Then one day Roberta came to my house with her mom. Roberta was crying and she told me she had to say goodbye
because they were moving a long way away.
I spent the rest of that
afternoon in my room face down on my bed on my red, green and black plaid
bed cover, clutching my beloved stuffed dog, Morgy, and crying. Hard. My mom probably cried to.
Soon after that, my great
Aunt Kathy - great in every sense of the word, we affectionately called her Aunt Kaffy - suddenly died. When my mom told me Aunt Kaffy was going away and we would miss
her, I asked if Aunt Kaffy was going where Roberta was. That made my mom cry and she
hugged me.
But the bad girl on the block - and every block has one - was a pretty little blonde-pig-tailed trouble-maker also named Debbie. She liked to play doctor
so much I wouldn’t be surprised to hear she had her own private practice by the
age of 12. I’ll call her Dr. Debbie.
Dr. Debbie loved that
limerick, “Milk, Milk, Lemonade,” and repeated it and acted it out endlessly.
And I absolutely hated it. Still
do. Almost 50 years later and I still can't figure out why I hate it so much.
All of my conservative
mid-western/southern and Methodist, German and Scottish genes combined to make
me despise the “MML” limerick as a lewd, crude and nastyto
the point of making me furious.
Sure, I liked to play a mean
game of Doctor, but that limerick was too much.
When I heard Amy Schumer
perform that limerick again, my brain shot back almost 50 years to the muddy long grass and wild shrubs behind Dr. Debbie’s paint-peeling garage where
we had our, um, medical practice.
Behind the garage was away from the strict eye of Dr. Debbie’s
mean aunt, Lucy, whom Dr. Debbie was mysteriously living with. (Even at seven,
I was aware of the rumors swirling around Dr. Debbie’s absent mom and, as a
result, Dr. Debbie’s questionable legitimacy. Adults have no idea how much
little kids pick up from their whispering)
It is odd. Somehow I knew
that Dr. Debbie knew she thought she was unwanted and acted out as a result.
Besides playing Doctor with me, she lit fires, threw rocks at their cat, threw fits and
intentionally broke stuff. Dr. Debbie was constantly in trouble at school and
at home.
Dr. Debbie was my
introduction to what would become quite a sordid history of a fascination with
bad girls. Plus I just think a part of Dr. Debbie was just born a dirty little girl.
Whenever Dr. Debbie wanted to
instantly infuriate me – which she wanted to do a lot because, even at seven,
she was still a female – she would launch into her “Milk, Milk, Lemonade”
dance.
It worked every time. I would
storm home incensed. One time, when I told my mom why I was furious and recited the "MML" limerick, suddenly I couldn’t
play at Dr. Debbie’s house anymore either.
At the ripe age of seven, I
had plum run out of Debbie's.
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