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The last painting is often of Elvis in a beige jumpsuit performing a particularly boring activity (e.g. taking a nap after doing a crossword puzzle, sitting on a park bench feeding birds). After Jimmy comments on just how boring the activity is, a Boring Elvis impersonator comes out and sings a song about the activity.
Kermit Schafer (March 24, 1914 – March 8, 1979) was an American writer and producer for radio and television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his collections of "bloopers"—the word Schafer popularized for mistakes and gaffes of radio and TV announcers and personalities.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
In 1999, together with Universal Press Syndicate’s Uclick division, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, and is the founder and senior editor of the Universal Uclick line of crossword puzzles and games. [citation needed] On May 19, 2003, Parker became the second crossword editor of USA Today following Charles Preston.
Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit. As physicist Robert Adair has written, "When a baseball is hit straight at an outfielder he cannot quickly judge the angle of ascent and the distance the ball will travel. If he waits until the trajectory is well defined, he has waited too long and ...
Schaefer produced a long-running series of Pardon My Blooper! record albums in the 1950s and 1960s which featured a mixture of actual recordings of errors from television and radio broadcasts and re-creations. Schaefer also transcribed many reported bloopers into a series of books that he published up until his death in 1979. [citation needed]
The TV's Censored Bloopers specials were hosted by longtime TV producer Dick Clark starting on May 15, 1981 (and were dedicated to 1950s TV producer Kermit Schaefer, who had pioneered the concept of preserving bloopers), and the Television's Greatest Commercials specials, which started on May 25, 1982, were hosted by Ed McMahon (which he ...
Blooper (mascot), the mascot for the Atlanta Braves; Blooper, a type of baseball hit, see Glossary of baseball (B) Blooper (sail), type of headsail which, according to competitive sailing rules, counts as a jib and not a spinnaker