Made a quick run to the farm market next, despite the ongoing light showers. I work too early to make it there next week! Though it's cooler, in the lower 80's, it's still thickly humid. The showers were off and on as I made my way through the surprisingly heavy crowds. I guess they weren't heavy enough to keep people away from buying their produce for barbecues and family get-togethers. The summer harvest is out in full-force now. Cherries and peas are gone, but zucchini. yellow squash, tomatoes, corn, eggplant, blackberries, peaches, plums, blueberries and onions are all out in full force. I settled for peaches, sugar plums, and rather surprisingly for so late in the season, strawberries. Also grabbed two cheesesteak empanadas for lunch.
Ate quickly while watching Paw Patrol. "Pups Save a MerPup" when Skye and Zuma stay awake on the MerPup Moon to see one of the mythical creatures. Turns out, it needs their help in rescuing its baby from a sunken ship. Skye and Zuma are turned into MerPups themselves to help out. Rocky, who hates water, is less happy about it when he needs to get the side off the ship and save Zuma.
Since it was still showering at that point, I took Uber to work. No trouble here whatsoever. The one going to work came in 9 minutes. The one going home arrived in 7. No traffic either way, and I got to work just in time.
Work was really, really dead for a weekend. Most people were probably either avoiding the weather, or down at the Shore. Though I did fall behind with the carts when I had to clean up a broken Stewart's Orange Soda bottle, other than that, I was mainly either sweeping or outside with the carts. The rain finally stopped around 2:30, though it would remain cloudy, cool, and humid for the rest of the afternoon. I grabbed a sandwich and soda for dinner before heading home.
Took a shower, then had that sandwich while watching tonight's Match Game marathon. Dumb Dora and her male counterpart Dumb Donald were two of the most popular "characters" in questions on the show. Dumb Dora was so popular, questions featuring her turned up as late as the Veteran's Day week episodes of Match Game '90. (And one of them prompted answers that were so sexually-charged, two were censored.) Darryl Anderson of Lou Grant and his long nose got to answer one. So did John Forsythe, two years before Charlie's Angels debuted. A sweet British contestant proved she was no dummy by doing well with these questions in 1974. One of Richard's last weeks on the show (and one of the first weeks for the Star Wheel) in 1978 had a Dumb Dora question, too.
You won't be dumb if you check out the best from the wackiest character to appear on the Match Game roster!
Finished the night with a quickie review for the 1995 animated version of The Prince and the Pauper. I go further into this low-budget Golden Films tuner at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
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