Stuff Mentioned On Whad'Ya Know? - 1997

• Big Top Chautauqua, with local links
• Phoebe Legere
• John Hartford
• Gefilte fish
• Steve Eckels's homepage
• Eckels Pottery (Yahoo! Get Local)

December 20, 1997 (rerun of July 22, 1994)

• Joey Skaggs's Web site is informative, but hard to navigate. Here are navigation links for non-frames users:
  • "Retro"
  • "Retro" timeline
  • "Dogma"
  • "Comme"
  • "Rap"
  • "Map"
  • "Call" is an e-mail link to info@joeyskaggs.com

December 13, 1997

• PRI member stations in Denver and Boulder, if anyone is curious (it's true, they don't carry WYK?)
• Thin Ice
• Profile of Porcupine Plain, and a couple businesses there

December 6, 1997

• Pasadena
• Pasadena City College
• Here's a page related to E!'s Gossip Show with gossip from Anita Talbert, and if you don't want to wait for the 15 pictures ahead of it to load first, here's a link to Talbert's picture.
• This looks like an official Blaster Web site (warning: loads slowly)
• The Surreal Gourmet
• Nathan Lewis

November 29, 1997

• Saintsbury
• Road rage advice from a specially qualified psychologist (for some reason, I can read this only in Lynx-- anyone else having problems?)
• Mercury
• Current weather in Lima, Peru
• Map to Vilas Hall (it's #133) and a picture (from a UW School of Journalism page)
• Incidentally, Vilas Hall has a plaque commemorating it as the site of the first radio station in the US. (This is still argued about.)

November 22, 1997

• How to Talk American
• The Mad Monk's own Web page
• The Oregonian asked some people around Portland and none of them knew what the "Ban Roll-On building" was. I don't think any of us know what a "Burnside bum" is either.
• Petoskey, MI

November 15, 1997 (rerun)

• Mr. HandyPerson has turned up in several places on the Web, but the biggest fully navigable collection of his articles is this one at Net Sales, Inc.'s site
• Also good is a plea to keep Home Depot out of San Francisco at Cole Hardware's site
• Miller Features's official Mr. HandyPerson page with the contact address for his syndicated column

• A mess o' Portland links
• Bud Clark
• Leroy Vinnegar and where to hear him
• Three Square Grill (citysearch.com)

November 1, 1997

• Kinky Friedman
• A detailed history of Webster City, with links to other information
• How to make a violin
• Why double basses are that way
• You can read about To the Best of Our Knowledge and Zorba Paster on Your Health on the WPR Web site. Oddly, note the nonexistent WYK? link...

October 25, 1997 (rerun)

• The Extra Miler Club (warning: lots of big images, but can be navigated with text)
• The Great Outdoor Underwear Festival
• Kinston Chamber of Commerce

• The Big Five-Oh! (amazon.com)
• Bill Geist bio at CBS's Web site
• A Bill Geist column
• Niagara Falls

October 11, 1997 (rerun from June 1994)

• The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said (amazon.com)
• Wells, NV:
  • Home of the Wells Band, Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shosone
  • Location of Nevada Historical Marker 54

October 4, 1997 (rerun)

• All that fun stuff and the only thing I can find a link for is: Poughkeepsie

September 27, 1997

• City of Wichita
• Wichita Convention and Visitors' Bureau (that "wichita-cvb" site)
• Kelley Hunt's pseudonymous Web site

  For text browsers, here are the links on its navigation bar:

  • "Quotes"
  • "Audio"
  • "Biography"
  • "Dates"
  • "Whats [sic] New"
• The Grahams' trip

September 20, 1997

• Fredericksburg, VA's official site (watch out for JavaScript)
• Some info about cooking testicles (see the second story)

September 13, 1997

• Jargon Watch (amazon.com)
• As a member of the REAL elite of the Internet (harrumph, harrumph), I feel obligated to include a link to the Jargon file. (I don't mean to suggest that Jargon Watch is bogus; it deals with a different subculture. I just want to make sure you know who's really in charge around here. :-)
• Some medieval clothing info, including, yes, undergarments!
• I missed the end of the show, so I don't know what the Town of the Week was. Help?

September 6, 1997

• Childproof (amazon.com)
• See some of Roz Chast's cartoons at The New Yorker's "Cartoon Bank"
• Not that you asked, but tomatoes are very closely related to jimson weed, which is extremely poisonous.
• The Olney One-Arm Dove Hunt
• The city of Weston doesn't have anything on the Web, but here's how to contact the Weston Democrat if you want a copy of that article.

August 30, 1997 (rerun from 1993)

• City of Roanoke
  • Its mayor
  • Its purported sex symbol
• Floyd
• Since I couldn't find a Web page about the cooking show, here's the recipe they demonstrated:

  1 box pistachio Jell-O
  1 pkg. Cool Whip (or house substitute)
  16 oz. crushed pineapple, undrained
  1 cup mini marshmallows
  1/2 cup chopped pecans

  Toss all ingredients in a large bowl and stir. Serve to someone else.

August 23, 1997 (rerun)

• May Berenbaum's bug books are published by University of Illinois Press
• What Irlene Mandrell is up to
• Glenwood, IA has no direct presence on the Web, but here's some information about its county.

August 16, 1997 (rerun from 1994)

• Lou-uh-ville
• All about the Kentucky Derby
• What the Kentucky Colonels are
• Bourbon - history and recipes

August 9, 1997

• ABS Global's site (no witty billboards, though)
• An article on mizmars at Lark In The Morning's site
• And since there was a drummer present this week, here's their Bad Drummer Jokes page
• All about tamagotchi
• Somewhere in the British Isles is the only Box Elder page in all of the World-Wide Web.

August 2, 1997

• Sandhill cranes
• Committing Monogamy (amazon.com)
• Monthly cancer self-examination instructions for women and men
• The official Web site of Marion, VA

July 26, 1997

• Further explanation on the United Church of Christ
• Jim Packard's e-mail address is packard@vilas.uwex.edu.
• Marion, KS has no presence on the Web, but I found a Marion County Aviation Association.

July 19, 1997

• Here's a whole directory of Frank Lloyd Wright pages
• The official homepage of the Monona Convention Center (with even more Frank Lloyd Wright info). You must see the chronology page...
• The other seven wonders of the world
• Couldn't find anything about Radio On specifically, but here's the homepage for St. Martin's Press.
• Couldn't find anything about Mathemagic either, but I just want to say it's a neat book.

• Daniel's Web page (thanks to Andrew Steinberg)
• Missoula, Montana:
  • Montana Territories' Missoula page
  • Missoulian Online's town page
  • Yahoo! Get Local's Missoula links

June 28, 1997

• Someone's picture of Paula Poundstone

June 14, 1997

• Random House's Crooked Little Heart page
• As a resident of Portland, Oregon, I feel shortchanged by the confusion over which Portland was the Town of the Week. Here is a good place to learn more about Portland.
• There didn't seem to be time to mention that the Rose Festival (the big event of the year 'round here) is going on right now.

June 7, 1997 (rerun)

• Guntersville Advertiser-Gleam
• Couldn't find any links about Atwood!

• Oklahoma House of Representatives media page
• The Boondogs (new URL 1/17/98)
• "Yahoo! Get Local"'s Vinita page