Let’s handle our BID-ness.
Rushmore of Saturday morning cartoons: Saw a lot of suggestions that are going to be hard to keep off, but for those around my age, the list starts with Super Friends. Period.
Rushmore of actor/directors: With a visor tip to Shungate for giving us the drama/comedy opt-out (or cop out if you see it that way), Mel Brooks, Rob Reiner, Harold Ramos, Charlie Chaplin in comedy Clint, Tarantino, Opie and Redford.
Rushmore of famous people known for their hats: Another split category with real people like Honest Abe, Davy Crockett, Bear Bryant and Napoleon. And fictional people like Indiana Jones, Gilligan, Minnie Pearl and Sherlock Holmes, with apologies to Duvall’s great Cavalry hat in Apocalypse Now, Jake and Elwood’s lids and the most dangerous hat of all-time, Oddjob’s bowler in Goldfinger.
Rushmore of MTV: Madonna has to be there because she does not become the one-name icon without it, because, simply put, her music is not that good. Vader had a great point about the boy bands and pop princesses too, and I don’t want to get too 1980s, but it’s hard not to have Michael Jackson there too. I would put Beavis and Butthead into one spot – and in some ways their popularity became the fatal flaw of MTV, as it tried more and more programming and got further and further away from the music – and the final one is Madonna 2.0, Britney Spears.
You know the rules. Here’s Paschall on the UT secondary coach Willie Martinez, who may be the only person around who has been associated with as many SEC programs as Paschall.
And, gang, if you care about high school football, even a wee bit, you need to pick up a hard copy of today’s TFP. Wow, high school football previews galore as the season starts up in earnest tonight.
To the bag.
From Big Ern (the Tuesday True or False champ)
Jay,