"Barney Google, with the goog-goog-googly eyes, Barney Google had a wife three times his size, She sued Barney for divorce, Now he's living with his horse, Oh, Barney Google with the goog-goog-googly eyes!" Sorry, today's topic set me remininscing on local Cincinnati area TV Host Bob Shreve, from my childhood, who used to sing that song while he presented Popeye cartoons and Three Stooges shorts (how he got the three stooges' underwear I'll never know). He was most famous for hosting Shoenling All-Nite Theatre on Saturday nights, brought to you by Shoenling Beer, which showed grade-Z movies, usually starring someone like Rondo Hatton. He had a great cast of characters...there was Chickie, a rubber chicken. He used to hold Chickie up and say, "Do you want to see Chickie a little longer?" At which point, he'd stretch Chickie out as far as he could. There was a spider on a cord that used to swing into camera range called Spidel. And whenever he got a letter from someone from Northern Ohio or down in Kentucky, he would hold up a ratty fox fur and say, "And, yes, Friends, that is a fur piece from Cincinnati."
Bob, was a card, he was! Perhaps my fellow Ohioans, elmore and Ginny recall him.
I believe Barney Google used to be a fixture in the Snuffy Smith comic in the daily paper. In fact, I believe it used to be called "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith". and, yes, Barney did have goog-goog-googly eyes.
I googled my way to this site. I love all the BBC links I've googled and subsequently bookmarked. Also oldies station WMKV...and we're talking Oldies...big band and the classic American songbook. I love all my googled British theatre sites that keep me abreast of the scene over in the London Theatres. ABE is the most useful site I've ever googled. I sometimes google myself just to see if there's anything new about me floating out there.
Worst thing is having googled stuff that has occasionally corrupted my computer, like taking over my home-page. That costs time and money to fix.