Headed out to work after the CD ended. Work was surprisingly quiet for a Sunday. It got a little busy around 1:30-2, then died again. I spent the entire afternoon pushing carts and gathering outside trash. It was cloudy and humid, but not at all hot, barely in the 80's. Plenty of help from the morning and evening baggers, too. I was in and out quickly.
It had started to rain a bit as I left work. I was hoping Mother Nature would hold off until I got home. Not this time. It poured even before I made it into Oaklyn. I tried stopping under trees, then under an awning at the electrical company next to Common Grounds Coffee House. It didn't do much good. I just got more wet as the rain came down in buckets. I even heard some thunder at one point. The second the rain slowed down a little, I dashed out...but the train bridge was flooded. I attempted to head for Newton, but that was flooded, too. I just ended up on the sidewalks until I could get to the White Horse Pike, which was also flooded around Dunkin' Donuts. I finally just crossed the street when I could and hurried home.
(And incidentally, to my knowledge, it hasn't rained since.)
Put my soaked work clothes in the dryer, then, since I was already wet, hit the shower. Spent the rest of the night after that with dinner and the Sunday Match Game marathon. Bill Daily also started on the show late in 1973. Like Gary Burgoff, he continued straight through the syndicated era to the first year of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. In fact, he probably appeared even more than Gary. His nervous Nellie persona made him the perfect foil for some of the saltier characters on the show, even though his answers matched Joyce Buillfant in how strange they were.
Bill probably did his best work during the syndicated run. In one episode, his chair broke, leaving him too low for the desk. When they brought him a director's chair, he was too high. Another time, he sat on the chair's base, leaving him a soprano for a few minutes. He once yelled "I'm gonna be kissed by a man!" after he got a really big double on the Head-to-Head. (Patty Duke actually did the kissing.) He had the habit of taking off, or almost taking off, shoes or his sweater or jacket when he was really excited. He and the panel spent a week dealing with a UCLA college crowd in the audience that was so rowdy, Gene was right that they sounded like the cast of Animal House. He was also around when the young woman who later became talk show hostess Jenny Jones won quite a bit of cash on the syndicated show.
Come fly the hilarious skies with Bob Newhart's wacky neighbor in this hilarious marathon!
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