"I'm Bob Humpty, and I think it's time to stop name-calling and start talking about where we stand on the issues. The ads are so successful in scaring people away from voting for each other that, come election day, voter turnout is zero.
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Attack of the Political Ad: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway has an entire chapter parodying campaign ads in which two candidates for Congress run ads against each other using the same TV announcer and the same dog and illustrated with "actual newspaper headlines" and grainy black-and-white photos of the opponent embracing Darth Vader and Adolf Hitler and abusing animals.He once described 19 as "A Long String of Bummers", starting with Kennedy's assassination, followed by the election of goofy-looking Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War and its associated controversies, more assassinations and riots, and Gilligan's Island being canceled. Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A recurring trope.The results are even more dramatic with "Got My Mojo Working." When this happens, my son's body will instantaneously disappear into another dimension and rematerialize as far as two football fields away. (I don't mean that I try to sing like Billy Joel I try to sing more like Aretha Franklin.) If you want to see a flagrant and spectacular violation of the known laws of physics, watch what my son does if we are in a public place and for some reason I need to burst into the opening notes of "Respect" (" WHAT you want! Baby I got it!"). To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.and I, grasping the Torch of Dorkhood, became a hideous embarrassment to my son - especially when, like Billy Joel, I try to sing. To his adolescent offspring, Billy Joel apparently represents the same thing that all parents represent to their adolescent offspring: Bozo-Rama. But of course these people are not Billy Joel's adolescent offspring. "The irony, of course, is that a lot of people would pay BIG money to hear Billy Joel sing. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland (2016) Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster) (2015).You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About (2014).Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) (2007)."The Greatest Invention in the History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (2001)."My Teenage Son's Goal in Life is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old" and Other Thoughts On Parenting From Dave Barry (2001).Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions (2001).Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys (1996).Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides (1994).Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991).Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States (1989).Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex (1987).
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Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (1986).
Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead (1985).Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months With Tools You Probably Have Around the Home (1984).