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Friday, January 13, 2006
A good joke ruined
One of my favorite MST3K recurring jokes is not quite as funny any more. When Richard Donner's name appeared in the opening credits, Crow would say "I was at that party."
Coming from a bowling-pin beaked robot, it was hilarious.
Sadly, scientists with their "empirical evidence" suggest that the Donners themselves did not engage in cannibalism to survive the winter of 1846-7 in the Rocky Mountains. They did eat the family dog, Uno, which is just sad. The Donners were stuck some 6 miles away from the good eatin':
There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday.
Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them.
3 Comments:
Hey, a chance for another completely off-topic comment about the Brantseg family! Steve's kid brother, Patrick, was Art Director on MST3K, and also Gypsy for a while.
By 
Joey de Vivre, at
11:46 AM
Fine, if we're going way off topic I'll have you know that until a few years ago I owned Jim Mallon's (MST3K producer) old car. It was a black 1995 Saab 900 Turbo that he traded in to a local BMW dealer. Man I miss that car.
Didja get dental imprints on a pencil to verify that?
Dellas Cole, 1989 SD High School Coaches Association Sportscaster of the Year, once drove Jambo's old Mercury Capri. That car was also black, I think, though my main memory of it was some inadvertent arc-welding we did with it trying to jump-start somebody else's car with incorrectly-connected cables in the wee, dark hours of a bitterly cold morning.
By Joseph Thvedt, at
2:47 PM
