On Jan 7, 11:01 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
>
> > Until you posted this and I went a googling, for some reason I kept
> > getting Al Franken and Weird Al mixed up.
>
> You are not the first person to write that.  Al Franken and his partner
> (forgotten first name) Davis were the same graduation year as me but
> went to another high school in our sports conference.  We got to see
> them perform about three years before they made it to Saturday Night
> Live.  Franken became a political commentator a few years back and moved
> back to Minnesota as his base.  There was a "third party" candidate who
> ran simply to siphon votes away from Franken and he took away about
> 15,000 votes, which would have made the results a bit more obvious.

Until I read the results of google, I didn't even know Franken had
been on SNL - in fact I had barely heard of SNL until the last
sepponian election or two.

Are all US Senate (and other?) races based on the British "first past
the post" system? What a shame if that is the case.

> "Weird Al" is Al Yankovic who is, I think, from Michigan ... or he
> copied the "Weird Al" moniker from a polka legend who was from Michigan
> ... I get those mixed up.  Polka was mostly for Catholics, not
> Protestants ... or us Methodists, who weren't supposed to dance at all.

Is that where the "other than missionary position", all sexual
positions are "banned because it may lead to dancing" jokes come from?