Various and sundry, part 1

I don't know if I'm going to have time to write the more cohesive sorts of posts I have in the past, so I'll have to go with what I've got, whatever it may be. I think sundry is one of my favorite words.

Apart from recently deciding that perhaps I like my right arm as much as I like ol' lefty (previously my lifelong favorite) and still not being able to find a recipe for that smooth and sultry corn pudding I had at a restau in Florida about ten years ago, my mind has also recently been twiddling a few things. I'll start somewhere, since I must.

Is the robot featured in a few season-two episodes of Silver Spoons really a robot, or just a person hiding in a bad robot rigging that includes weird hosey arms?

I satisfied my curiosity quite easily. It turns out that Foobar D. Robot is indeed, regrettably, a "robot." I had to check several pages of "his" website in order to verify this, since it's hard to believe that such a poor version of a robot could exist, even in 1983.

What made it even less believable is that they still hire out these things for parties and events, for a mere $1200 a pop.
I guess that's a bargain for what people most likely think is a child actor laden with robot costuming that seems to be made of random items from around someone's house. You could definitely mimic it if you had some boxes, decorating supplies, ventilation hose piping, and were reasonably talented in the arts and crafts mileu.

But even more startling than the appearance of these poor robots, and the persistence of their existence, is the fact that people actually do pay for them as entertainment!


Coming in later parts of "Various and sundry"!!!

village lip licker hunting

my recent foray into the world of hot pockets/lean pockets

drogheria & alimentari holy grails

big bamboo jamaican irish moss peanut drink and the place it led me

and, though by then the auction may be over, a discussion of this ebay item:
every NES game ever made

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