We are gonna miss everybody…including Uncle Charles After 3 years plus of forced jokes, questionable spelling practices, professional wrestling references, and an exhaustion of the full jokes-about-Houston-Nutt catalog, I have decided that it’s time to shut down Friends of Program in it’s current state and form.  There are a couple of factors that led up [...]

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Francis from PeeWee’s Big Adventure knows Enrico Pallazzo when he sees him I know I mentioned his passing in the links, but Leslie Nielson really deservers his own post with a video of one of his better roles, as Lt. Frank Drebin in the Police Squad/Naked Guns vehicles.  Its kind of a nice feeling to [...]

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The Oxford venue that housed many an Fraternity/Sorority Redneck Swap and performance by the Tyrone Smith Review has gone on to its great reward.  The Gin, an Ole Miss drinking institution in the 80′s and 90′s, burned to the ground late Saturday night.  No one was hurt in the blaze and no Phi Delts from 1996 were available to comment [...]

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In a demise wrought with cliché and irony,“Dr. Death” Steve Williams has left us all too soon.  The former All-Big 8 lineman and All-American Wrestler at the University of Oklahoma and multi-continent professional wrestling star died after a long battle with lung cancer.   Ill always remember him for his days in WCW as he took on [...]

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Manager, music video pioneer, collector of rubber bands, Captain Lou Albano, has gone to that great squared circle in the sky.  He’ll be remembered by the mainstream as Cyndi Lauper’s father, but he’ll always be the manager of Headshrinker to those who knew him best.  RIP, O’ Captain, my Captain.

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Dirty Pirate Hookers dont die…they just fade away. The matronly Estelle Getty, who played Golden Girl Sophia, leaves us after 85 good years.  Thankfully we still have the masculine shoulders of Bea Arthur to cry on.  Someone check on Sly Stallone today, got to be a tough out for him.  Its a tough one for us [...]

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