Ya mean this guy?
This is based on a riff my girlfriend and I started. You know how newspapers run a column on Sundays, usually in the TV listings section, where somebody answers reader questions regarding whatever happened to a certain TV actor, or locating a half-remembered show from their youth? Well, my local newspaper runs one of these columns, and I figure that the only people who still ask these questions must be 50+ers who have no idea how to use Google, because most of this info is on the Internet now. So I started thinking, what if you came up with the stupidest, easiest questions, or ones that would make you look like a total moron for even asking, and sprung these on your local newspaper? These are what I created. Feel free to send these to your local paper, as any stress you can inflict on your local outmoded source of so-called journalism is always welcome around here. "I used to watch a show called Rawhide back in the '60s, and there used to be a character on there named Rowdy Yates. Who was the actor who played him and what ever happened to him? Did he ever go on to do anything else?" Ya mean this guy? "I was wondering if you could help me remember a show I used to watch when I was a kid. All I know is that there was this tall yellow bird who used to go around talking to people, and there was this blue fuzzy guy with funny eyes who used to eat everything. What was that show?" "Could you help me? I'm trying to remember the name of a group I saw on TV when I was younger. I was watching The Ed Sullivan Show with my older sister and there was this group on - they were pretty popular at the time, as I recall - and they had matching black outfits and haircuts and sang this song where they went 'yeah, yeah, yeah' a lot. What's that group?" "If you could answer this question, it would mean a lot to me. I used to watch a show with my father when I was young in the '70s and '80s, and we both enjoyed it very much, but I can't remember the name of it. It used to come on Monday nights, and it was some sort of athletic show. As I recall, one of the commentators was a Texan, and the other one was a funny kinda guy with an East Coast accent who wore a hairpiece. You know, if I think about it, they used to show a lot of football games on there. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
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