We Had a Little Band I Thought Was Good

Random Thoughts while driving from Whitehouse to Abilene

• Whatever happened to the middle sister, Judy, on Family Matters? She was there one year, gone the next, and they never devoted as much as an episode to say goodbye. I mean, I don't think she was an integral part of the show, but her absence was noticeable. If anything, it bothered me as a young child in the 1990's, that kids could go missing and no one would even give it a second thought.
  

Just look, she's not even in this picture. In my opinion, this is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, along with the Lindbergh baby and Amelia Earhart.

• Why did the advertisers at Geico have the gecko speaking in a British accent?
  

Is it not enough that an animal is speaking a human language? Do we really have to make him seem that much more sophisticated by letting him speak as though he is from Devonshire and not the lower Amazon?

As you have probably noticed, the haughty air with which he speaks does nothing to connect with other members of the amphibian world. Personally, I think the representatives at Geico would have acted with much more foresight if they had selected someone like Dave Chappelle or John Stewart to provide the voice for the Gecko. A much more down to earth, grass-roots campaign if you get my drift.