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By George Takei TOP 1000 REVIEWER on June 15, 2013
Brad and I will be Grand Marshals at this year's San Diego Pride Parade, and we were looking for just the right touch to add a bit of pizazz to our appearance. So when we stumbled across the PASSION NATURAL WATER BASED LUBRICANT - 55 GALLON drum, we felt we'd struck gold: "Just enough volume to soak an entire parade of spectators, and yet fits easily in our float." Double win.
Now, how to spray the lube on the excited on-lookers? Why, by water pump gun, of course. To test out our delivery mechanism, we purchased a drum for our back yard and set up a slip and slide. I had Brad charge toward me down the slide, and I fired at will. It helped to imagine he was a Klingon Bird of Prey: Target that explosion and FIRE.
What I didn't expect was that Brad's forward momentum would cause him to crash into me, upending the entire drum along with us. Utter chaos. Our unfortunate cats, who had come out to judge our activities as cats will, were caught in the deluge. Looking like drowned rats, they howled and sped around the yard in hysterical circles, then tried for ten minutes to climb a tree.
Once again, the neighbors thought we'd set something on fire, so the LAFD arrived shortly afterwards. Try explaining any of this to a stranger, especially a hunky one in uniform. "Hose me down?" I offered. He kindly did, then retrieved our cats out of the tree with only minor scratches to the face. (They still aren't speaking to us, by the way.)
Bottom line, we decided against soaking the Pride Parade revelers lest it create an "incident" that could upstage us entirely. But we do have a great new weekend fun activity.
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Maybe I'm not a good Cosbyologist, but I don't understand what's happening. What's the blooper that's making them crack up?
Dosctah Hussibull isn't his character's name.
Also, the term 'going up on your lines' comes to mind.
Poor guy had to rollerskate back to the bus stop after that. I'll take Jennifer Westfeldt and the undying admiration, love and envy of the entire LA alt-comic scene as a consolation prize.
Oh, and I hear he has some show on AMC.
Trivia, he taught Ellie Kemper [Arena/The Office] in her acting class in HS in StL.
On the Ellie front, am I an old fogey to still think it's weird that a Princeton educated actress broke into showbiz, and so prominently, with a 'toothy BJ' internet video?
