Published: Monday, September 5, 2011
In our view / The lighter side of the news
Take a cruise back in time
Indulge only in labors of love today. And thank those who do work on holidays. Let's take a lazy look at the headlines:
•"'Leave It to Beaver' and 'Love Boat' stars join world cruise": It's art imitating life imitating art when actor Gavin MacLeod, best known as Captain Merrill Stubing from the show "The Love Boat," presents a selection of episodes during his "lecture."
Meanwhile, Jerry Mathers, best known as "Beaver" Cleaver in the TV series "Leave It to Beaver" will discuss his television work and experiences with entertainment legends like Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope and Shirley MacLaine, USA Today reported.
Trivia for cruise-goers to ask Mr. Mathers: 1. Did your TV mom, Barbara Billingsley, ever guest star on "The Love Boat"? (Indeed, she did.)
2. Are there inviolable moral rules, and if so, what are they and how do we know? (Well, Mathers did earn a philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974.)
•"Lindsay Lohan gets tattoo of Billy Joel lyrics": How many times does someone have to hit rock bottom before they seek help?
"'Monsters of Rock' promise hard-hitting cruise": Organizers call it "the greatest floating '80s heritage rock festival to ever sail the seven seas," USA Today reported.
The cruise will feature the heavy metal bands Cinderella, Tesla, Stryper, Lynch Mob, Firehouse, Black 'N Blue, Bang Tango and Faster Pussycat, among others. Eddie Trunk from VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show," will moderate a Q & A session during a "Rock 'N Roll War Stories" event.
Is the irony of supposedly hard-edged heavy metal bands and their hard-edged metalhead fans taking a luxury cruise something for Jerry Mathers to address?
•"Dick Cheney isn't sold on Sarah Palin, GOP candidates": Most certainly, the feeling is mutual.
"Domino's plans pizza on the moon": In 2001, Pizza Hut sent a pizza to astronauts in the International Space Station, igniting a pizza-in-space war, The Telegraph reported.
The notion comes from Domino's Japanese division. And it's not as crazy as it sounds -- it's not like the company wants to deliver pizzas in space -- they could never guarantee that 30-minute delivery. The company instead wants to build a Dominos on the moon. A construction company estimated the cost at $21.4 billion, not including extra toppings.
The Dominos website does say: "We just need to know where you are so we can deliver to you" and lists "other" among the possiblities. The "other" icon looks like a teepee, but hey, it could be the moon.
One stumbling block, however: Who wants to break it to them that the moon really isn't made of cheese?
•"'Leave It to Beaver' and 'Love Boat' stars join world cruise": It's art imitating life imitating art when actor Gavin MacLeod, best known as Captain Merrill Stubing from the show "The Love Boat," presents a selection of episodes during his "lecture."
Meanwhile, Jerry Mathers, best known as "Beaver" Cleaver in the TV series "Leave It to Beaver" will discuss his television work and experiences with entertainment legends like Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope and Shirley MacLaine, USA Today reported.
Trivia for cruise-goers to ask Mr. Mathers: 1. Did your TV mom, Barbara Billingsley, ever guest star on "The Love Boat"? (Indeed, she did.)
2. Are there inviolable moral rules, and if so, what are they and how do we know? (Well, Mathers did earn a philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974.)
•"Lindsay Lohan gets tattoo of Billy Joel lyrics": How many times does someone have to hit rock bottom before they seek help?
"'Monsters of Rock' promise hard-hitting cruise": Organizers call it "the greatest floating '80s heritage rock festival to ever sail the seven seas," USA Today reported.
The cruise will feature the heavy metal bands Cinderella, Tesla, Stryper, Lynch Mob, Firehouse, Black 'N Blue, Bang Tango and Faster Pussycat, among others. Eddie Trunk from VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show," will moderate a Q & A session during a "Rock 'N Roll War Stories" event.
Is the irony of supposedly hard-edged heavy metal bands and their hard-edged metalhead fans taking a luxury cruise something for Jerry Mathers to address?
•"Dick Cheney isn't sold on Sarah Palin, GOP candidates": Most certainly, the feeling is mutual.
"Domino's plans pizza on the moon": In 2001, Pizza Hut sent a pizza to astronauts in the International Space Station, igniting a pizza-in-space war, The Telegraph reported.
The notion comes from Domino's Japanese division. And it's not as crazy as it sounds -- it's not like the company wants to deliver pizzas in space -- they could never guarantee that 30-minute delivery. The company instead wants to build a Dominos on the moon. A construction company estimated the cost at $21.4 billion, not including extra toppings.
The Dominos website does say: "We just need to know where you are so we can deliver to you" and lists "other" among the possiblities. The "other" icon looks like a teepee, but hey, it could be the moon.
One stumbling block, however: Who wants to break it to them that the moon really isn't made of cheese?
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