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07.17.08
- CraigsList post
- French maid costumes
- Cleaning soap scum
- VisionFW ladies
- VisionFW ladies
- "I'm mingling" (Son in Law)
- Ferre: Special to the Star-Telegram/ Richard W. Rodriguez
- VisionFW logo
- Butt Gut
- Rangers: Star-Telegram/Ross Hailey
- Speedo
- Paul Varghese joke
- Chicken curry
- Muttar Paneer
- Paneer Tikka Masala
07.10.08
- Big Cheese Rodent Factory: Star-Telegram/Ralph Lauer
- Mime
- Mighty Mouse
- Splinter
- Remy
- Stuart Little
- Speedy Gonzales
- Bat Boy
- Disgusted Man
- Freezer
- Toe tag
- Adjustable beds
- Plastic gloves
- Shocked dog
- Urban poverty
- George Bush
- Virginia Slims
- Money
- Slum
- Rodeo Drive
- Kim Brimer photos: AP/Deborah Cannon, Star-Telegram/Jeffery Washington, Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis, Star-Telegram/ Aaron Lambert
- Wendy Davis photos: Star-Telegram/Tom Pennington, Star-Telegram/Ron Jenkins, Star-Telegram/Jill Johnson
- Bush-Gore
- Dialogue bubble
- Anti
- National Lampoons Vacation
- Staycation: Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner
- Hurricane Harbor
- TomCat fakes smiles
- Fake smile
- Geronimo: Special to the Star-Telegram/Richard W. Rodriguez
- Tornado
- Lockers
- DailyCandy
- DailyCandy lexicon
- Male models
- Seat partner (Red Eye)
- Bluetooth
- Why Bluetooth?
- LFT
- Champagne: Star-Telegram/Ross Hailey
- Sprinkles cupcakes
- "I love Sprinkle cupcakes"
- "The Feeding" (Road Trip)
07.03.08
Science.tga w/ "According to a scientific study"
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Gulliver.tga w/ "the particles are so microscopic that you're
http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/STORIES/GULLIVER/gulliver1.jpg
Superman.tga w/ "powerless to stop them from going straight up your nose.
http://tokopa.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/kryptonite.jpg
Study.tga w/ "The study was funded"
Photo illustration by John Metz
KateMoss.tga w/ "by Kate Moss."
http://www.oceleb.com/img/kate-moss/kate-moss-photo-58.jpg
Salarycom.tga w/ "According to Salary.com, Plano is the nation's No. 1 city
http://www.salary.com
Wealthy.tga w/ "for accumulating wealth."
http://cartophilia.com/blog/images/pennybags.jpg
Marbleman.tga w/ "A marble-store owner in Dallas is proudly showing off"
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0709/0000/0195/dscf0933_mid.jpg
Jesus.tga w/ "a slab of granite that has a stained image of Jesus on it. Miraculously, this is happening exactly 2-thousand years after"
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/wfaa/06-08/0627_marblejesus319x189.jpg
Shroud.tga w/ "an image of a marble-store owner appeared on the Shroud of Turin".
http://www.humbead.com/turkey3/8251.jpg (photo illustration by John Metz)
Cyclist.tga w/ "A Keller bicyclist was recently cited for"
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/29/60/23286029.jpg
Toonces.tga w/ "The driver was hurt and insulted, and not the least bit thirsty,"
http://a7.vox.com/6a00c2252148a0549d00e39898ddef0002-500pi
911.tga w/ "so she called 911, but all she heard was..."
http://a7.vox.com/6a00c2252148a0549d00e39898ddef0002-500pi
EmilyRose.tga w/ "What does the DaFoWo Show have in common with an exorcism? You wanna take it outside?"
http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/2916/2054/lo/coc.jpg
Idea.tga w/ "The answer is that, according to the Texas Supreme Court,"
http://www.nomad4ever.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/lightbulb_idea.gif
Amendment.tga w/ "they're both protected by the First Amendment."
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/firstamendment/images/FirstAmendment.gif
Swell.tga w/ "That's swell"
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/big_hands.jpg
Fireworks
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iT4Rgi-C6g0&feature=related
AT&T
AT&T logo: http://modave.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/att-logo-small.jpg
AP logo: associatedpress.com
Frown: Sharon M. Steinman
River Walk: Star-Telegram/Khampha Bouaphanh
Alamo: Seattle Times/Carol Pucci
Sixth Floor Museum: AP photo
Wha?: http://flickr.com/photos/stoneyjackson/2097091988/
Nasher: Star-Telegram/Rodeger Mallison
Arboretum: Special to the Star-Telegram/ Brandon Wade
View from pool at Belmont Hotel: http://tinyurl.com/3ojd6y
Cheese fries:
http://flickr.com/photos/chickrawker/585384349/
DART
DART logo: http://www.dart.org
Flavor Flav: http://tinyurl.com/4749se
Bling bling: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SoKbzx65VC8
DART Board Chairman Randall Chrisman: http://www.dart.org/images/newsroom/board/chrisman2008.jpg
Dead end: http://www.carbon-cutters.com/Clipart_IStockPhoto/Oil_is_Dead2.jpg
Plasma TV: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8760771&type=product&id=1203815033908
iPhone: apple.com
Spinners: http://www.911closeup.com/nico/cartoon_images/spinners.jpg
Three 6 Mafia (Ridin' Spinners): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkOLRuAXDY
Watermelon
Watermelon costume: AP Photo/Deborah Cannon/AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Watermelon: Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Ralph Lauer vodka (w snake!): Photo courtesy TABC
Parking meter
Bud Kennedy photo: Star-Telegram/Ross Hailey
Meters: Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Paul Moseley meter MIA: Star-Telegram/David Kent cop leaving ticket: Star-Telegram/Ralph Lauer meter
Knocked down: Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis two meters: Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
YFZ raid photos: Star-Telegram/Khampha Bouaphanh FLDS clothes: http://www.fldsdress.com/
06.12.08
KILLER TOMATOES
- "You say tomato"
- "I say disaster"
- "What does everybody else say?"
- Video by John Metz
- Killer Tomatoes
GOVERNOR'S MANSION FIRE
- "The hot and heavy action at the governor’s mansion in Austin," AP photo
- "brought about not only unsightly soot," AP photo
- "but also a riveting whodunnit."
- "So long as there’s a lunatic at large, we are in mortal danger!" "And Then There Were None"
- "So the question is, who has it in for the governor?"
- "he was off making tracks in Europe."
- "European Vacation"
- "symbolic, directed at a previous occupant, like"
- "the first Texas governor to live in the mansion"
- "Alicia Keys, or the short-lived Sesame Street character"
- "I’ll Eat Your Peas"/Photo illustration by John Metz
- "The arsonist may have been protesting Pease’s support"
- "of the overly ambitious and understaffed Texas Wagon Corridor"
- "Impossible to build a road through this canyon," "More Precious Than Gold," The history of the Mormons in California
- "the governor’s mandatory dysentery vaccine."
- "I’m for saving lives"
- Rick Perry photo: Harry Cabluck/AP
- Rick Perry audio from the Star-Telegram Politex blog
KNITTERS UNITE
- WWKIP image
- Grannie photo
- Cosby sweater
- Knit and Tonic site
- Naked hands knitting
- The last knit
- "Knit wits," by writer-director Warren Eig
- "Bummer for Dallas"
- Grapevine market photo: Special to the Star-Telegram/Paul Zoeller
- Kimbell photo: Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
HIGH-COST GAS
- "Gas is so expensive, you’ve no doubt"
- "pawned all your belongings."
- "Pawn Shop," by Sublime
- "But don’t fear; you’ve still got loads of potential income"
- "at your fingertips, and elsewhere, if you start harvesting your body for cash"
- "Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams
- "For example, try selling your plasma."
- "Simply call the local Red Cross"/Photo illustration by John Metz
- "get transferred 18 times,"
- "Where my money at?" Wyclef Jean, Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)"
- "So you call ZLB Plasma, which’ll give you $40."
- "Don’t have plasma? Well, you’ve got bigger problems than gas money."
- "Sell off your locks."
- "She did not shave her head ...,"Kelly Clarkson with Jimmy Kimmel
- "Bald?"
- "Sell an egg at the peculiarly named Egg Donation Center of Dallas."
- "Not only can you stumble away with $5,000"
- "you’ll be a sort of magical anonymous stork for a needy family."
- The Cotton-Eyed Joe
- "you drive a double-decker school bus"
- "and commute from Burleson to McKinney,"
- "take a lesson from the late Italian artist Piero Manzoni"
- "and defecate into 90 cans. Call it art, and sell it"
- "for $25,000 a poop, I mean pop."
DIVORCE CAKE
- NBC5i
- Divorce cake
- "Bachelorette party": AP Photo/Indianapolis Star, Mike Fender
- "Wedding gifts"
- "Stuff"
- "Towels"
- "Registering for gifts"
- "Divorce"
- "Blender"
- Divorce registry: illustration by John Metz
DAFOWHOA
- "If a picture paints a thousand words ...," Bread
- "Then this segment is for you. We call it DaFo ..."
06.05.08
SCARECROW BANDITS
ELECTRIC COMPANY BREAKUP
- "Chakras aligned" photo
- God creates Adam by Michelangelo
- Woman holding her head, photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
- Obama, AP Photo/Chris Carlson
- "He's Just Not That Into You" by Greg Behrendt
- "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward
- The Game by Mikko Koponen
- Stock chart rebound
- Financial Armageddon
- Moonstone ring
- The Breakup
- "Gone With the Wind"
- It's Electric, Marcia Griffiths, "Electric Boogie"
- "Where did our love go?," The Supremes
- "Breaking Up is Hard To Do,"Neil Sedaka
- "If It's Over," Mariah Carey
- Body builder
FARMERS BRANCH IMMIGRATION LAWS
- "American Gothic," Grant Wood
- Bird on branch photo by Ron T. Ennis/Star-Telegram
- Will the spaghetti stick?
- Spaghetti on wall
- Spaghetti and meatballs cupcake by Ralph Lauer/Star-Telegram
- Apartments photo by Ian McVea/Star-Telegram
- Saddam photo by Jerome Delay/AP
- "A Day Without a Mexican"
- Miley Cyrus photos VanityFair.com
- "Unconstitutional"
- Si? photo by Joao Padua/AP
- David Sedeno headshot by Ross Hailey/Star-Telegram
AMERICAN AIRLINES FEES
24-HOUR VIDEO RACE
- 24-Hour Video Race
- "Schadenfreude"
- "The Big Lebowski"
- Films fast-forwarded: "Schadenfreude" | "Lost and Found" | "Reversible"
05.29.08
LOST IN ACRONYM HELL
- JPS photo by Ron T. Ennis/Star-Telegram
- Battle clip from "300," Warner Bros. pictures
- "Trouble" clip from "The Music Man," Warner Bros.
- Children leaving El Dorado sect, photos by Khampha Bouaphanh/Star-Telegram; Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune
- Yearning for Zion ranch, photo by Tony Gutierrez, AP
- Jackson Five, "ABC!," Motown Records
- ROLF image
- Gone, clip from "Office Space," 20th Century Fox
FORT WORTH GAYDOMETER
- Boy Shakira
- Images from the Fort Worth Gaydometer: Silhouette; Woman; Ricky Martin; Illustration by John Metz
- Avenue Q
FREE FUNERAL
- Amazing Grace clip
- "If you build it ...": Grand Prairie Air Hogs Field of Dreams
- "We put the fun in funerals": "Six Feet Under," HBO
- Bright light video, YouTube
- Die laughing clip "The Princess Bride," Act III Communications
- Pallbearers photo by Gene Gordon/Star-Telegram archives
GUN MADNESS
- Old newsroom photo, The New York Times
- "Bang"
- Shirley Temple, "Laugh You Son of a Gun"
- Numbskulls photo
- Camera photo
- Toy woman, Photo illustrations by John Metz
- Rich Uncle Pennybags in jail
BABY, IT'S HOT OUTSIDE
- “Oh my God!!!” weatherman
- Swimming pool photo by Amy Peterson/Star-Telegram
- Gary Patterson photo by Sharon M. Steinman/Star-Telegram
- Shaved ice photo by Jill Johnson/Star-Telegram/
- "Until the end of time"
- Swetcher Tushoff, John Metz and Rick Press/Star-Telegram
05.22.08
DALLAS POLICE TRICYCLES
- Giggles: TechTV via EBaumsWorld via YouTube.com
- Police car photo: Special to the Star-Telegram / Sallie Turner
- Tricycle photo: Star-Telegram / Tom Pennington
- T3 photo: Star-Telegram / Joyce Marshall
- Segway photo: Special to the Star-Telegram / Richard Rodriguez
- Better, faster, stronger" ("Stronger," Kanye, Universal Music Group)
- Unicycle video
- Extreme pogo stick video
- Toddler on stilts
- Shriner cars
- Hoverboard, "Back to the Future II," Ambling Entertainment
TROUBLE FOR BRIAN LONCAR
- "If a tree were to fall ..." clip via YouTube
- "Call Me" clip, Debbie Harry and Blondie, via YouTube
- Wheelie-riding fire truck via YouTube
- Brian Loncar clips via YouTube
YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOP DISASTER
- YouTube
- Yearbook photo of John Metz/Kristin Campbell, photo illustration by John Metz
- "Girls who are boys," ("Boys and Girls," by Blur,) via YouTube
- Lifetouch screengrab via Lifetouch.com
- Curved Red on Blue, Ellsworth Kelly, Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
- Ali G on ethics via YouTube
- Photo of former Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller, Star-Telegram Politex blog.
- Don Henley photo via Aurora Limousines
SOUTHLAKE CARROLL PROM TIARA
CROWNE PLAZA INVITATIONAL AT COLONIAL
- Margarita photo
- Colonial caddie race clip, via ColonialGolfGirl.com
- Floral trousers and white heels photos, Star-Telegram / Ralph Lauer
- Special thanks to Jason Crane of the Star-Telegram for the use of his kayak
05.15.08
MARCH OF THE TEXAS MUTANTS
- "I've got the power" ("The Power," by Snap!)
- "Have you heard?" photo, City of Weymouth, Mass.
- "The solution to all our energy problems" photo, Bostonist.com
- "Could be nuclear power" photo, simpsonstrivia.com | The Simpsons on Fox
- "You better bring it" | "Not Another Teen Movie," Columbia Pictures
- "That want to build eight nuclear reactors in Texas" clip from RussiaToday
- "Which would triple the number we have now," photo illustration by John Metz
- "Speculators speculate that these plans" clip from YouTube.com
- "Are a sign of public support for" and "Or at least indifference about nuclear power" photo illustrations by John Metz, photos from EV World, The Future in Motion
- "Like those pesky radioactive byproducts" clip, from Euronews
- "Which can be hazardous ... thousands of them" photo, -- DrunkenData.com blog
- "Just a little bit dangerous," from "Dangerous," by Roxette
- "But on the bright side" photo from the American Association of Amateur Astronomers
- "There could be hilariously ..." photo from www.dailygalaxy.com
- Mutant photo montage: Photo illustrations by Mark Hoffer / Star-Telegram, music by John Metz
SWINGING IN DUNCANVILLE
- "Swingers," Independent Pictures
- "Swingtown," CBS
- Cherry Pit logo
- "Orgy" scene, "Zoolander," MFP Munich Film Partners
- "Star Wars -- Episode III Revenge of the Sith" image
- "Six Feet Under," HBO
- Toolbox photo by Paul Moseley / Star-Telegram
- Jack Fink reporting, CBS11
- Jim Trulock and Julie Norris, Cherry Pit owners, courtesy CBS11
- Ruth Ginsberg mug, Cornell Law School
- Clarence Thomas mug, George Mason University
- "Eyes Wide Shut," Hobby Films
- Jenny Block photo by Scogin Mayo
- "Open," by Jenny Block
UNHAPPY DOUGHNUT SHOP
- "The Muppet Show," Jim Henson
- "A ski mask"
- "A BB gun"
- "A dream was shot dead by a Good Samaritan" (dinosaur photo)
- Music video, "Thank U," by Alanis Morissette
- "Dead body"
- "Broken glass"
- "An assaulted woman"
- "Gunfire"
- "Screams of panic" | "Home Alone," Hughes Entertainment
- Happy Donuts photo, Mike Zukerman, Special to the Star-Telegram
- Unhappy Donuts clip -- "The Cell," Avery Pix
RAZZOO'S LEGAL TROUBLES
- Razzoo's logo
- Florida Gators logo
- "Ratatouille" photo, Disney
- Woody the bartender from "Cheers," NBC
- Scene from "Cocktail," Interscope Communications
- Hairball photo
- "The Bachelor," ABC
- TCU Horned Frog fingers, photo by Kristin Campbell
- Bar scene from "Coyote Ugly," Jerry Bruckheimer Films
AWARD-WINNING BEER
- Video by Rick Press; editing by John Metz
05.08.08
Fort Worth Scavenger Hunt
Tumbleweed storms in West Texas, by Adam Bork, YouTube.com
Grandpa Gonzalez
Werther's Original candies | Watch the ad
Home Sweet Home photo, yourgingerbreadhouse.com
Alejandro Gonzalez mug courtesy Fort Worth Police Department
John Peter Smith hospital photo by Ron T. Ennis, Star-Telegram
Other photo references:
Horse racing photo courtesy The Associated Press
Human wreckage photo, Star-Telegram archives
Carolina Gonzalez mug courtesy Fort Worth Police Department
Pinochle game photo by Jen Friedberg, Star-Telegram
Two girls, one cup, the reaction video
Diorama dismantled
The Count meets the Cookie Monster | Sesame Street, Children's Television Workshop
Photo from the cast of Gossip Girl, the CW television
Diorama photo: Special to the Star-Telegram / Glen Frakes
Laughing woman, Olson Center for Wellness, Carmel, Ind.
Jeff Hunt mug, Special to the Star-Telegram
Child destroys dollhouse | The Sims 2
Warren Buffett
Buffett photos courtesy Justin Brands
Warren Buffett sings, BusinessWire
04.24.08
Panic over Powder
"The Muppets Take Manhattan," TriStar Pictures
Rick Perry
"The Song That Never Ends," PTC Media
Stars win round one
Paul Oakenfold, "Starry Eyed Surprise"
Lewd lawyer
"And Justice For All," Al Pacino, Columbia Pictures
Tony Hawk roller coaster/b>
"Jeopardy," Sony Pictures
"Texas Giant," YouTube
"Mr. Freeze," YouTube
"Bumper Cars," YouTube
"Crazy Legs," YouTube
Liberal drinking
"Nobody drink the beer," "Can't Hardly Wait," Columbia Pictures
04.17.08
Steaks everywhere
John Candy "The Great Outdoors," Hughes Entertainment
Texas wind farms
"Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog, The Muppets, Jim Henson
Tommy Lee photo, The Associated Press
"It Wasn't Me," Shaggy, from the album Hotshot, MCA Records
Tom Craddick photo, The Associated Press / Harry Cabluck
"Amish Paradise," Weird Al Yankovic, from the album Amish Paradise, Scotti Bros. Records
"Hot in Herre" Nelly, from the album Hot in Herre, Universal
Bluebonnets/wildflowers
"Twister," Warner Bros.
04.10.08
Penguins and chimps
Madagascar the movie: DreamWorks
Jackass star Steve-O (photo): BBC News || Jackass site/MTV
Penguins footage at Fort Worth Zoo shot by Adam Rodriguez/Star-Telegram || Full video
Tony the Tiger/Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
R.I.P. Tony tombstone image on GlobalNerdy.com || Photo illustration by John Metz
Professor photo from slurmed.com
Yosemite Sam/Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace
"I'll Make Love to You," Boyz II Men, Motown Records || Boyz II Men site
Facebook romance
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) by Betty Everett//Vee-Jay Records
Arrested officer
Lorenzo Lamas and letdowns
Rick Kupke photo by Darrell Byers//Star-Telegram
Economic stimulus
Red tack sculpture by Jack Kendrick, 1628 Park Place Ave., Fort Worth
Moneyman image//Citizen Tom blog
The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
Cowboys fans video by Gordon Dickson/Star-Telegram
Bob Schieffer and Dallas-Fort Worth
Bob Schieffer at TCU by Khampha Bouaphanh
04.03.08
Nipple jewelry
Bleach: KON looking up Rukia's skirt, http://youtube.com/watch?v=y1AVx3GrlVo || Bleach Anime information, http://bleach7.com/
Citizens of the Shale
"Children of the Corn," Stephen King, New World Pictures, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087050/
"Pinocchio," (photo) Walt Disney Pictures, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/
Killer principal
"The Simpsons," (photo) Fox, http://www.thesimpsons.com/index.html
"Saved by the Bell," (photo) NBC, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096694/
"Pulp Fiction," Miramax, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
"The Breakfast Club," (photo) Universal Pictures, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/
Stripper tax
"No Sex" music video, Chris Rock, Bigger & Blacker album (explicit), DreamWorks Records, Yahoo music
03.27.08
EXPLODING SUVs
"Weapon of Choice," Fatboy Slim, www.spike.com/video/2787322/artist/397301
"Michael Clayton," Warner Bros., michaelclayton.warnerbros.com
Yukon destroyed in Keene, photographs by Ralph Lauer/Star-Telegram
Check out the actual Chevy Yukon commercial, www.exchange4media.com/ads/index_yukon.asp
DRIVER WEDGIE
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith," Twentieth Century Fox, www.mrandmrssmith.com
Blazer stuck in tunnel, Ron T. Ennis/Star-Telegram
"I'm walking here," Midnight Cowboy, United Artists, www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/
"Buckle Up," The Bourne Supremacy, Universal Studios, www.thebournesupremacy.com/
PRICE IS RIGHT PREACHER
"The Price is Right," CBS Broadcasting, www.cbs.com/daytime/price/
"Speed Racer," www.speedracer.com/ | Speed Racer, The Movie (in production)
SEX OFFENDER FOR MAYOR
"Dazed and Confused," Universal Studios, www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/
"Knocked Up," Universal Studios, www.knockedupmovie.com/
"U Can't Touch This," MC Hammer, Capitol Records, music.aol.com/video/u-cant-touch-this/mc-hammer/1717715




