PSA Of The Day: Sponsor An Executive

"You aren't just saving a life. You're saving a lifestyle."

From Susan Isaacs.


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Craigslist Ad Of The Day: Bathroom For Rent

From Emmi.

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Originally Posted: Thu, 6 Nov 04:01 EST

I have a huge bathroom.

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Date: 2008-11-06, 4:01AM EST

I am a female in my mid 60's and I am looking for a room mate. Times are tight and I need some extra money. I am willing to rent out my bathroom in my 1 bedroom east village home.

My bathroom is large. You can easily put a twin air mattress in there. I only ask that when I need to use the bathroom, you or your air mattress are not in it.

I do ask that when you are in the apartment, you confine yourself to the bathroom. I do not feel comfortable with a stranger walking around my living room. This might change as I get to know you better.

You may have guest over as long as they are confined to the bathroom as well. This might seem a bit odd but please remember the rent is $400 and the bathroom is large.

• cats are OK - purrr

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SNL Clip Of The Day: Big Brawn

Like havin' a lumberjack between your knees.


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Motivational Posters Of The Day, Vol. 9

Another batch o' funny, this time from Jason, Frank and Liz.

Totally Rad Training Video Of The Day: Wendy's

I'm ready to work at Wendy's now. I just learned everything I need to know about grillin' from this highly informative and thoroughly def video. Word!

From Cleve and Seth C.


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"I said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie to the hip hip hop you dont stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat..."

I've heard that this video was choreographed by Paula Abdul.

Batman TV Series Villains Of The Day

One of my favorite TV series as a kid was the live-action "Batman" starring Adam West. The show debuted in 1966 as a two-night-a-week mini-serial, and immediately became a hit with both kids and adults. Top celebrities of the day fell over themselves trying to get a guest spot as one of the show's many villains, who were the real stars of the show.

But the glow wore off after just three seasons, and Batman was cancelled due to poor ratings in 1968. The show lives on in syndication, which is where I saw it, but it's hard to find on the air anymore, and it's not on DVD yet because of legal battles between Fox and DC Comics.

A list of major villains from the show:

Catwoman

(Eartha Kitt/Julie Newmar)
A whip-carrying burglar with the hots for Batman. Newmar did more episodes but was replaced by Kitt in Season Three because she was too busy fighting with Jim Belushi.

The Joker
(Cesar Romero)
Romero was surprised when the producers approached him for the role, since he'd mostly played Latin lovers. He took the part, but refused to shave off his trademark mustache, so it had to be covered with heavy makeup. You can often see it under the makeup if you look closely.

The Penguin

(Burgess Meredith)
A waddling, quacking super criminal with an affection for umbrellas and birds. Appeared in 21 episodes, more than any other villain.

The Riddler
(Frank Gorshin/John Astin)
The villain in the first episode. Wears a green jumpsuit (or suit and bowler hat) and loves riddles and word games. Gorshin originated the role, but was replaced by Astin ("The Addams Family") briefly in Season Two before returning in Season Three after failing to find better work elsewhere.

King Tut

(Victor Buono)
A professor of Egyptology who gets knocked on the head during a student riot and wakes with the delusion that he is the ancient monarch. Tut was the first villain created specifically for the series, not taken from the comics. He was also buried in his jammies... or so they say.

Egghead

(Vincent Price)

An evil genius with an oversized head to hold his oversized brain. Used a lot of egg puns. Price was Yvonne Craig's (Batgirl) favorite guest star. "He was bright and witty and erudite," she said.

Mr. Freeze
(George Sanders/Otto Preminger/Eli Wallach)
Ice-loving mad scientist from the Batman comics, created when Batman spills a jar of Instant Freeze on him. Now he must wear a special refrigerated ice suit to survive. Played by three different actors: Sanders (All About Eve, the voice of Shere Khan in The Jungle Book), director Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach (Tuco in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly), but the temperamental Preminger was by far the crew's least favorite.

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
(Carolyn Jones)
Uses her beauty and magic potions to turn men into her love slaves to carry out her misdeeds. Jones is best known as Morticia from "The Addams Family" TV series.

The Archer
(Art Carney)
A Robin Hood wannabe who, along with his gang of merry criminals, stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Carney was Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners."

The Siren
(Joan Collins)
A world-famous singer who could put men under her spell by singing a note three octaves above high C. "When they told me they had Joan Collins," said writer Stanley Ralph Ross, "they said create a character for her. I thought Siren was perfect."

The Bookworm
(Roddy McDowall)
Read lots of crime books and stole ideas from them. The character appeared only in Season One.

False Face

(Malachi Throne)
A master of disguise who posed as others, including Chief O'Hara, to carry out his crimes. Portrayed by veteran actor Throne but listed as "?" in the show credits. My parents made my sister and me stop watching this show after my sister starting having nightmares about False Face (but we sneaked and watched it anyway).

The Minstrel
(Van Johnson)
A lute-playing electronics genius who threatens to sabotage the computerized Gotham City Stock Exchange. I think they should've given him a bike to ride in the show. They could've called it the Minstrel Cycle. Zing! Johnson played a war hero in many WW2-era films, and died just last month.

Ma Parker
(Shelley Winters)
Based on real-life criminal Ma Barker, Parker and her sons were a family of criminals. The Batman cast and crew didn't like Winters, whose incessant complaining drove everyone nuts. She appeared in only one (two-part) episode.

Zelda The Great
(Anne Baxter)
A world-famous magician, escape artist and bank robber. Baxter (All About Eve) also appeared in several episodes as Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, an accomplice to Egghead (Vincent Price). Both Zsa Zsa Gabor and Bette Davis were reportedly considered for the role, until show producers remembered that both of them were insane.

Louie The Lilac
(Milton Berle)
A flower freak who tries to brainwash Gotham's flower children and kill the Dynamic Duo with man-eating plants. Berle was so funny off camera that members of the crew had to be thrown off the set because they couldn't stop laughing when the camera rolled. They also smoked a lot of weed on breaks, which probably contributed.

Lola Lasagne
(Ethel Merman)
Dumped by her rich husband and left with only a racehorse. Teams up with Penguin to fix a race and become rich again.

Lord Pfogg & Lady Peasoup
(Rudy Vallee and Glynis Johns)
British siblings and thieves who train young women in the ways of crime under the guise of running a girls' finishing school...until Batman, Robin and Batgirl travel to Londinium and thwart them. Yvonne (Batgirl) Craig called showbiz veteran Vallee "one of the worst people I've ever worked with. An absolute churl...just awful."

Shame
(Cliff Robertson)
Batman producers let Robertson (Uncle Ben Parker in the Spider-Man movies) create his own character: the dumbest cowboy outlaw in the West, and a spoof of classic Western Shane.

The Puzzler

(Maurice Evans)
Toy-lover and Shakespeare-quoting thief Puzzler was created to appear in an episode originally written for The Riddler. Evans is best known as Samantha's father in "Bewitched."

Chandell
(Liberace)
A famed pianist trying to steal the Wayne family fortune by wooing Aunt Harriet. The Batman cast recalls that on lunch breaks from shooting, Liberace would sit at the piano and take requests, and could play any song flawlessly.

The Sandman
(Michael Rennie)
A Eurotrash sleep expert who teams up with Catwoman to steal a rich widow's fortune. Turned people into zombies to carry out his crimes.

The Clock King
(Walter Slezak)
Lover of timepieces and time-based crimes, Clock King originally appeared in Green Arrow comics, not Batman. Slezak comitted suicide in 1983, probably after watching "Supertrain."

The Black Widow
(Tallulah Bankhead)
A bank robber who could short-circuit men's brains and make them do anything she wanted. Tried to kill Batman and Robin with giant man-eating Black Window spiders. Batman was the final performance of Hollywood veteran Bankhead; she died a year later from chronic obscurity.

The Mad Hatter
(David Wayne)
Another criminal taken from the Batman comics, the Hatter steals valuable headwear and wants Batman's cowl. He also uses hats to commit crimes.

Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft and Cabala

(Ida Lupino and Howard Duff)
Thieves who could make themselves invisible, they tried to steal the Mope Diamond at Spiffany's Jewelry Salon. Lupino and Duff were real-life husband and wife.

Minerva

(Zsa Zsa Gabor)
The last villain to appear in the series. Owned a mineral spa that catered to millionaires, including Bruce Wayne, and had a device that could pick their brains to find out where they hid their riches. Unlike Anna Nicole Smith, who just used her tits.

Nora Clavicle

(Barbara Rush)
A women's rights advocate who replaces all Gotham city officials, including Commissioner Gordon, with women who will help her rob the Gotham National Bank.

Many thanks to Joel Eisner's The Official Batman Batbook and The 1966 Batman Fan Site for info.