Monday, September 26th, 2005
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Posted on Monday, 26 September 2005 15:22 by pfitz
Don Adams, best known as the star of “Get Smart,” died yesterday at the age of 82. Mr. Adams broke his hip last year and has been in poor health ever since, finally succumbing to a lung infection Sunday.
While best known for his role in Get Smart, Don was also the voice of Inspector Gadget in the original cartoon series. Going further back, he was the voice of Comet, the reindeer coach in the famous “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Christmas special, and also of Tennessee Tuxedo, which began back in 1963.
As a bit of trivia, he also had a special part in the movie version of Inspector Gadget: Brain the dog.
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Posted on Monday, 26 September 2005 12:13 by pfitz
Now THIS is a true emergency! No sooner was Hurricane Rita over with than other serious emergenices arose!
But seriously, this hearkens back to something my high school Economics teacher taught us. In a real capitalistic society, value is relative. He told a story of how he’d been hiking in the Grand Canyon once and somebody there had a bottle of Jack Daniels, but no ice. Now in a “normal” situation, a shot of JD would be worth quite a bit more than an ice cube. But given the scarcity in the Grand Canyon of the commodity known as “ice,” its value had skyrocketed to be roughly equal to that of one shot of Jack Daniels. Scarcity dictates value, as both this story and the picture above illustrate.
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