WEDNESDAY'S WORD 5-10-06

Because you, the faithful readers demanded it, Worzala's Wednesday Word has been lifted out of the grave like E.T. to treat you once again. Much the same way E.T. treated himself with tasty Resse's Pieces. Man, those things are good.

Today's word is "Hey-oh!" As in, "Ed McMahon sure says 'Hey-oh!' a lot."

Why? Because I met Ed McMahon today.

He came in to work on part of a media tour for this show he's doing at a casino about two hours north of here. I didn't even know he was coming in, I was standing by the front desk and then I turned and it's an old man in a suir and a green dress shirt and before you can say "old man in a green dress shirt" my brain went "Holy. Nuts. That's Ed McMahon."

How can you not think Ed McMahon is awesome? If for no other reason admire him for being drunk more times on national television than you probably have ever been even just drunk in your entire life. Or Star Search. The man hosted Star Search! Probably while Drunk!

So Ed F. McMahon was at work today and it was pretty awesome and everyone was stopping down to see him. So when it was time for him to leave, of course everyone wants to have a picture with him. And Linda says "Have a picture with Ed." And I'm like "Uhhhh no. Cause it's Ed McMahon, I shouldn't even be looking at him for fear of bursting into flames." But she shoves me into him anyway. (Not literally of course, he's an old man. Can you imagine that? How'd Ed get hurt? Some dude was shoved into him trying to have a picture taken.)

So I'm standing there, trying to figure out where to put my arm. First it goes around him and then my brain says "IDIOT!! You don't throw an arm around Ed McMahon like he's a frat brother at a Kegger!" So I drop my arm real quick and wait for the picture.

Nothing happens.

Try again.

Me refering to the book he's holding: Ummm... you're really going to like that book.

Ed: ....

Nothing happens again. The camera's batteries were dead and so were my chances of having my picture taken with Ed McMahon.

But still, that's almost a better story, because I have on file at work OTHER people with Ed and I can show those to people and say, see that? That's Ed McMahon live and in person and I was next in line to have my picture taken but the camera didn't work.

Hey-oh!