RIP Leslie

Leslie Nielsen, star of the Airplane! films and the Naked Gun franchise, passed away in his sleep yesterday. Nielsen, 86, had been admitted to a hospital for pneumonia. In memory, here are some of his moments.

"Don't call me Shirley."

"We're all counting on you."

The Umpire Scene.

RIP Leslie

PS - for those of you wanting something melodramatic. Check out Airplane! A Melodrama. They have gutted out all the jokes from the film and created quite the thriller.

Quote of the Day

Jack Smith, tea part member from Georgia on Obama's Muslim religion:

"He may do that. But I don't care. As long as he doesn't act on it."

The no-need-for-a-bucket-list list

Happy Valley fixture since the first Eisenhower administration, Joe Paterno, has indicated he intends to coach the Penn State Nittany Lions for at least another year. Coach Paterno is pushing 90, but still seems to have it in him. This brings me to a list I like to call the n0-need-for-a-bucket-list list. These are individuals who seem like they will never kick the bucket.

Some of these include:

• Brett Favre - sure he's having a bad year this year, and may actually retire, but who's to say he wont be back in two years with a recuperated body and a grayer beard.
• Sarah Palin - so she hasn't really been around that long, and she is still you, but it sure feels like she has been around too long. Time for you to take a bow.
• Keith Richards - he's looked like skin draped over a skeleton since the mid-80s, in the mean time he has provided the creative impulse for Johnny Depp's captain Jack Sparrow, fallen out of a tree, admitted to snorting a dead man, put out several albums rehashing his bad work from the 70s, and toured the world several times.
• Harry Reid - Hardini staved off political death, pulling his fractured political career out of a locked vault in the bottom of a lake in the Sierra Nevadas with a convincing win against Madame Maxine, er... Sharron Angle.
• Paul Hyer - The man's an institution (and allegedly the third Nephite).
  
• Lady Gaga - see Sarah Palin.
  

Those are just a few of those names. Who do you got?