A description of my blog. http://www.my-site.com 1698898689445488997 Caption Contest: The Rat Pack 2007/10/#1698898689445488997 2007-10-19 If you're like me, you remember exactly where you were when Joey Bishop died. Otherwise you have a really bad memory, because, dude, it happened like five minutes ago. Maybe you should have that looked at.

Actually, I'm writing this at 7:55pm Thursday night, but I'm reading a story on The New York Times website about his death that is inexplicably dated 10/19. So I says to my wife, I says, "Hey, did you hear that Joey Bishop is going to die tomorrow?"

And she's like, "No way! Who's Joey Bishop?"

"You know, the last surviving member of the Rat Pack. Should we try to warn him?"

"Let me check the handbook."

So she hauls out the Handbook for Celebrity-Related Space-Time Continuum Manipulation.

"How old is he?"

"89."

"Hmmmm. Doesn't look good. Was he ever in a movie with Judy Garland?"

"I doubt it."

"Nope. Can't warn him."

"Screw the Handbook!" I said, grabbing the phone book. "Why would the Lords of Time and Space have given us this chance if they didn't want us to save him?" I looked up Joey Bishop and dialed the number.

After several rings, a weak, raspy voice came on the line. "Hello?"

"Mr. Bishop?"

"Y-yes."

"Mr. Bishop, you're in grave danger. The New York Times says you're going to die tomorrow!"

There was some wheezing and then a sound like a phone hitting laminate flooring. It sounded like the kind with the built-in foam backing, but I can't be sure.

"Oh, wait. It's tomorrow's paper, but it actually says you died yesterday."

There was no reply.

"Does Joey Bishop live in Modesto?" my wife asked.

"Why?"

"Because that's the Modesto phone book."

"Oh. Crap. I think I just killed Joey Bishop."

"What?!"

"No, it's ok. I killed the Modesto Joey Bishop. There's probably one in every city."

"Not any more."

"No, not any more. But we can probably borrow Stockton's if we ever need one. Anyway, the Joey Bishop who was going to die tomorrow died yesterday, so there's nothing we can do, unless we can get The New York Times to write a story about it the day before yesterday. Curse you, Lords of Time and Space!"

In any case, by the time you read this, Joey Bishop, last surviving member of the Rat Pack, will have died. And what better way to remember him than by... um, photoshopping my face over his. Wow, this is turning into a morbid post.



Anyway, you know the rules. Submit your caption in the comments. Mrs. Diesel and I will fight each other to within an inch of our lives to select our respective favorites, and then I'll post a poll on Tuesday.

Oh, and in case you're interested in the real Joey Bishop, this is what he looked like back in the day:



Read more about Joey Bishop here.

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