Jesus — buddy, I keep serving them up to you, like Jimmy Connors in the ྗ Open and you just keep volleying them right back. Of course, Edberg beat Courier in the final, after Courier ended Jimmy's majestic run in the Semi's. Connors had one hell of a run that year at the Open and to this day has to be one of the most memorable moments in pro-Sports. Akin to Tiger's Masters win in 2019 in my view. No idea why Andre Agassi was so intimated by those Hosers, but hey, he did end up with Steffi Graf so I guess he's the one laughing now, kid.
Speaking of kids, not sure how familiar you are with this rumor, but I have it on pretty good authority after Season 2 of the Muppet Show, Jim Henson was this close to demoting, and even cutting loose Kermit the Frog. He was set to go in another direction completely and cast Fozzie the Bear as the male lead in the production. You know same old story — clash of egos, too much, too fast and Jim was growing tired of the Frog's bullshit. So yeah, apparently Frank Oz talked Jim out of the idea, citing the time when Kermie talked down Lou Ferrigno who was within a hair line of a full-on roid rage back stage. Apparently Lou got into it with the Swedish Chef on the merits of taming inflation by reducing deficits and government spending and things escalated to the verge of fist-a-cuffs. You know how those Scandinavians feel about socialism and of course Lou being a true believer in capitalism's invisible hand. Thankfully the little green guy interjected and cooled things down.
Anyways Terrance, yeah Serendipity — you know an unsought, unintended, unexpected fortunate discovery, you know like a positive learning experience that happens by accident. Kind of like how Steve Jobs and a couple of lackey's at Apple stumbled across the Xerox PARC Alto around the time when Xerox decided to withdraw from the PC market all together. The Alto had a rudimentary mouse and kind of a pre-cursor to click through to programs on its device. It was a bit clunky but Jobs saw the potential and indeed made an unexpectedly fortunate discovery.
Even more serendipitous was Fozzie the Bear's marketing contract with Alamo Rental Cars, post Muppet Show which he found out about though an ex-girlfriend of the Great Gonzo. Apparently she still had an axe to grind with Gonzo and was worried Alamo would be offering big bucks to the Great One. Long story short, Fozzie signed on and made more money from Alamo that year, than from the 5 previous years working for the Muppet Show. Also, what a lot of people didn't know about was Fozzie's 10-month long steamy love affair with Ms. Piggy around the same time. Apparently she was on the rebound from Kermit and always had a kind of under the surface attraction to the Fozz. Well this is where things got a little serendipitous, as naturally the Bear was not as skilled as the Frog in cunnilingus, but was very well endowed — in fact, hung like a Grizzly, and according to Ms. Piggy's unauthorized biography wielded a gentle jack-hammer below his belt and proved to be an incredibly rigorous and adventurous lover. In fact, Fozzie was at the very forefront of Kink culture in the 80's and through a mutual friend of that free-enterprise capitalist loving Lou Ferrigno, became very well acquainted with a young Christian Grey, apparently becoming the young Grey's mentor for a good number of years thereafter.
And that my friend Terrance is serendipity…
Jeff Langley 2020
Thank you for reading and I hope this one made you laugh. I know I did when I wrote it…