The hostess/guide that we had at Blair Athol - her name was Sophia - she said that her husband golfed frequently with Sean Connery. One day, according to Sophia, Sean came to her home and presented her with a broken golf tee. Now, he is known for being very tight (frugal) with money. He says to her: "Sophia, would you happen to have any crazy glue?" She said "Why do you need crazy glue, Sean?" He replied: "I've broken a tee and I want to fix it."
My Nana grew up on Islay - one of the islands off the west coast of Scotland. I believe when she lived there before moving to America - 1888-1917 - that there were 12 whisky distilleries on the island. I have no idea how many are there now but it was the number one source of income on the island at the time. If you ever go to Scotland I would suggest going down the Whisky Trail on the Eastern mainland. Blair Athol (Otter River) is a distillery I visited and it was remarkable.
I found Carson offensive many times. For 2 or 3 years he continually told Polish jokes. He also despised Wayne Newton and bashed him mercilessly until Newton stormed into his office, leaped over Carson's desk, grabbed him by his lapels and yelled :"What the h... did I do to make you constantly pick on and ridicule me?" Carson never picked on Newton again.
My son was on an airplane going to China and the man sitting next to him took his shoes and socks off and proceeded to pull a bunch of dead skin off his feet and flick the skin away. ew...
I had a dress get caught in an escalator one time. I was lucky because I wasn't thrown down onto the steps. It tore up my dress pretty good. The store tried to compensate me for the dress but I really didn't want to have much of anything to do with that store by then.
The company wanted to introduce an animal(?) to be the fall guy/funny accomplice to make light of heavy material. It didn't work. All it did was annoy the viewers. Adding some bumbling persona to make viewers even more anxious really isn't the way to make viewers want to come back for more viewings. JarJar Binks sucked big time. Glad he's gone. Hopefully forever...
Clowns? Not on your life! Keep them far away from me. Never liked them, never found them remotely funny and I find them to be creepy, scary and I will beat them with a baseball bat if they come into my personal space or home. *This also can be applied to mimes.
My son lives in Cheng Du, China. When my husband went to visit him he saw many instances of people - especially children - dropping their pants and pooping in the streets, in the potted plants and gardens around what you might call 'malls' and even in stores. My son saw a child drop it's pants and poop in the middle of an aisle and his parents didn't think it was a big deal. Recently there was a tragic report of a 3 yr old that went into a busy road to poop ad got run over. Maybe it's just 1st world issues but, IMO, WTF?