Saturday 9: So Emotional

Sam’s Saturday 9: So Emotional (1987)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

I’ve been grounded for two weeks or more not because of the plague but my car is in the car hospital and I have a rental. I don’t like driving rental cars so  I’m not going up to the Cape.

Yesterday the appraiser came out to look at my car and he had a long list of items needing repair, almost $10,000 of damage to my car. He also said that my car was unsafe to drive, he said that the impact tore the fender from the frame and was only being held on by the duct tape and the torn metal. After he left I drove it to the auto repair shop and left with a rental.


Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Whitney sings that she keeps her lover's photo beside her bed. What's on your bedside table?
A lot of junk, an eye glass cloth, my diabetes test kit, a dusty alarm clock, and my alarm system control.

2) She's getting frustrated, waiting for the phone to ring. If your phone were to ring right now, who would you expect to be on the other end?
A spammer.
I have programmed my phone to ring a special ring for a phone number from my contact list.

3) The video was filmed at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA. It seats 6,200. As the nation reopens from Covid19, would you feel comfortable sitting knee-to-knee with a stranger in an arena like this?

No way. I been out to restaurant but the tables were over 6 feet apart.

4) This week's featured artist, Whitney Houston, appeared on the daytime drama As The World Turns. She played herself, performing with Jermaine Jackson at the Miss Cinderella contest in the fictional town of Oakdale. Have you ever been hooked on a soap opera?
Nope.
But I know people who have been in the soaps. Where I worked in the early eighties one of the guys there used to disappear maybe once ever couple of months and it turned out he was in a soap opera. When his character was in a scene he took a couple of vacation days and went down to New York. I also know three people who were on “All My Children.” Betty (Rachel) and Jennifer are friends and I only met David briefly at conference many years ago. (BTW, the support group scene is pretty accurate.)
Jenny was also on Caitlyn Jenner’s reality show and her wife that I met is a social worker. While Rachel’s wife is a professor at a university and Rachel starred in “And Then There Was Eve” 

5) Whitney had a sweet tooth, and her favorite breakfast cereal was Fruity Pebbles. Do you often eat cereal for lunch or dinner?
Yes.

6) At Whitney's wedding to Bobby Brown, her bridesmaids all wore lavender dresses and the groomsmen had custom made alligator shoes. Have you ever "stood up" for a friend or relative? If so, do you remember what you wore?
Yes for four weddings.
In one everyone wore yellow and for a gag we made beaks and had a couple of pictures taken with our hands under our armpits and we walked around like chickens.

7) In 1987, the year this song was popular, Cher won the Oscar for Moonstruck. Her most famous line was, "Snap out of it!" When you think of Cher, do you first think of her movies, her TV show, or her music?
Sonny and Cher.

Sonny haircut reminds me of a medieval court jester.

8) Michael Douglas won the Oscar that year for Wall Street. His most famous line was, "Greed is good." His character goes on to say that, "Greed in all its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of all mankind." Do you agree?
No greed causes a downward surge of all mankind.


9) Random question: When you woke up this morning, were you ready to get out of bed? Or do you wish you could have snoozed for a bit longer?
Well when I woke up at 4 AM I sure wished that I could press the snooze button.

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