Called Uber after I ate. I was running late, and I didn't like the sound of the weather later. The driver going to the Acme came in 8 minutes. I arrived just in time. The one going home came in 10, not bad for 4:30 on a Saturday. No traffic either way.
Work wasn't terribly busy when I arrived. In fact, it didn't get really bad until the rain finally arrived at 2 PM. It had been cold, blustery, and cloudy all day. By the time it finally started to shower, we had picked up a little. I had to clean up a small soda spill and fell behind on the carts. Thankfully, it slowed down slightly by the time I finished work. I grabbed callus remover - I have one on my left pinky toe that really hurts - vitamins, and water.
(And I'm glad I got home when I did. The rain picked up while I was shopping, becoming a much heavier shower. It's continued to shower off and on for the rest of the evening.)
Watched Angels In Disguise on Tubi when I got in. This unusually dark Bowery Boys movie starts off with Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall), copy boys at the New York Chronicle, hearing their cop friend Gabe Moreno (Gabriel Dell) has been shot. Gabe survived, but another long-time policeman, Officer Murphy, wasn't so lucky. Horrified, Sach and Slip take it on themselves to find the group responsible for the raid - the Loop Gang from Chicago. They get friendly with a pool-playing tough guy (Joseph Turkel) and convince him to take them to his boss. Turns out the head of the Loop Gang is young, brilliant, well-read Carver (Edward Ryan), who has been using an outside man to get information on where their next job should be. Slip and Sach realize they're in over their heads when they bring the rest of the Boys, including soda shop owner Louie Dumbrowski (Bernard Gorcey) in to infiltrate the gang and send Gabe information about the next robbery.
Finished the night with dinner, a shower, and tonight's Match Game marathon. For every joke on the show about chests and curvy figures, there were two about stick-straight ones. Slender British model and actress Twiggy was just coming off the height of her popularity when the show began in 1973. Most of the jokes tended to compare her boyish figure to more voluptuous ones belonging to Raquel Welch, and later in the run, Dolly Pardon. If it wasn't Twiggy who was the butt of skinny jokes, it was Skinny Minnie, who was compared to everything from a string bean to a blade of grass.
There was a skinny joke in the hilarious episode in 1978 that introduced the Star Wheel and saw most of the panel but Scoey Mitchelll walk out when it landed on Richard Dawson. Brett Somers wasn't too happy when her own boyish figure came in for jokes on at least two separate occasions, one of which compared her to her chesty friend Fannie Flagg. A handsome, slender young gentleman from Maine turned Brett and Barbara Rhodes' heads in another episode from 1979. There were two skinny jokes on the week featuring game show host and comedian Robert Q. Lewis in late 1973 that also introduced Joyce Bulifant. Morey Amsterdam made a funny but slightly macabre skinny joke in an episode from early 1974.
Folks of any weight can enjoy these hilarious episodes with Gene and his wacky weirdos, no matter how big the peaks and valleys on your shirt may be.
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