A recent Prize Patrol presentation provides us with an answer to a question you blog readers frequently ask: “What if the winner isn’t home?” The simple answer is “We wait.” In this case we knew we wouldn’t have to wait for days – because we heard a dog barking. Who was it? A lass named […]
There’s a line in the legendary Broadway show “Fiddler on the Roof” spoken by Tevye the Milkman that always makes me smile. In a prayer he looks toward Heaven and says, “I realize it’s no shame to be poor … but it’s no great honor either.” You may nod your head in agreement and […]
Phew, if you’re like me, you’re thinking you’d like this “race to the White House” to hurry up. Sure it’s important, but it’s been demanding everyone’s attention since last summer and has many more months to go: with more debates, countless interviews, two conventions and potential twists and turns in the political drama. Amid all […]
Being a dog-lover, I enjoy watching the annual Westminster Dog Show. Like other TV viewers I look at each pedigreed pooch and think “If I was that judge, which dog would I select as ‘best in show’?” And then I realize: “If I was that judge – what a terribly heavy responsibility! Imagine being the […]
Years ago I had a suitcase that was indestructible. The manufacturer’s TV commercials showed how their product could even hold up to a gorilla jumping on it. Alas, it’s harder to make suitcases that last like that nowadays – maybe because the covering is often fabric, not leather or hard surface. And now there are […]
The Prize Patrol’s highly anticipated “Forever” prize delivery on February 26th “got off to a shaky start – with weather delays and assorted disruptions knocking us off our usual minute-by-minute timetable. But that was just as well. If we had arrived an hour earlier we would have had to rouse our new Sweepstakes winner – […]
