The Saturday Picture Show, September 1, 2018

As you leave the free car wash at Jones Toyota, there's a sign with a
picture of a freshly washed car, and the sign says, "There! Now don't you
feel better?" So don't you feel all fall-ish just seeing this? Hot a-mighty,
so do I!

For our younger readers, we got Green Stamps like this after buying food at the A&P or other lesser grocery stores. It was the job of the youngest child in the family (me!) to glue the stamps into special books, which, when filled with stamps, could be turned in for merchandise at ANOTHER store. For roughly 238,000 books, you got a lawnmower. So you worked to paste the doggone things in the books and then your parents came home with something else to use while working. I always asked for a hammock, and got hedge shears instead.

Every now and then, you might make a "Godfather" reference in your conversation, like when I tell people about the restaurant in New Jersey that's just like where Mike took the corrupt police captain for his last linguine. And then, people say, "Oh. I never saw it."  You NEVER SAW The Godfather? So you don't wake up looking for a horse's head?

I remember reading this wonderful story about the Emperor's new clothes, and how people were afraid to tell their ruler that he was making a royal patootie of himself. That could never happen today.

Apple-picking time! Time for apple pie, apple fritters, apple sauce, apple cider, apple dumplings, baked apples, caramel apples, apple crisp, apple cobbler, apple cake, apple turnovers...

"Be happy" makes a whole lot more sense as a slogan than its dull cousin "Be best," which doesn't even make sense to begin with.

Marty Stuart, country music showman and historian, has a museum in Mississippi with a full collection of famous Nudie stage suits worn by greats of the past.

Tonight is the night that the University of Alabama begins the defense of their national football championship. These cheerleaders, backed by hundreds of other cheerleaders, yell teams, dance teams, and the Million Dollar Band, will be there at 8 PM on ABC and you can be sure I will be too! #rolltideroll #outworkyesterday