It’s all over the news.  Okay, mostly in the odd and bizarre section but when even NPR reports on it, it’s at least legitimate. It’s the story of the Massachusetts high school that has banned the apparently disruptive word ‘meep’ on school grounds. It doesn’t take much imagination to calculate the annoyance factor of a [...]

Turkey Day is almost upon us. Now that the excitement of frying turkeys has mostly worn off – except for those that manage to burn their house down with this method – there doesn’t seem to be a new bizarre Thanksgiving custom on the horizon.  People seem to stick pretty close to tradition for this [...]

Statistically speaking it’s easier to get a Congressional Medal of Honor than to have a muppet named after you, and I bet the muppet party is a lot more fun too.  I figure I got lucky by having a minor muppet with my first name in a few episodes – pale blue fur and a [...]

It’s surprisingly close to the AMC version – although they stuck to advertising and left out the sexual escapades. I particularly liked the use of the word ‘sycophants’ at the end, toddlers could stand to use that word more often…

I guess ‘people that look like their pets’ is now passe.  It’s now all about styling to look like your favorite Muppet.  And the comments to that post prove that Sam the Eagle really does have an odd sort of sex appeal. Also in the news: Beaker’s rendition of Ode to Joy (below) has been [...]

On this day when we are all Irish (in the same way that we were once all Berliner jelly doughnuts) the Muppets always know how to get out of knowing the words.

I’ve lived enough and read enough self-help books to see the inspired wisdom in the song “You’ve Got to Put Down the Duckie (if you want to play the saxophone)”  That’s so much easier to grasp than being told to let go of the past, stop stopping yourself etc.  Which would you rather hear? My [...]