The Skipper is the title and nickname of Jonas Grumby, a fictional character from the 1960s situation comedy Gilligan's Island. Played by Alan Hale, Jr., the Skipper (the character's actual name was rarely used after the show's pilot episode) was the owner and captain of the S. S. Minnow on its "three-hour tour" in Hawaii when he, first mate Gilligan (portrayed by Bob Denver), and their tourist passengers were caught in a violent storm and stranded on a deserted island.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
S.S. Minnow
Charlie wrote:
S.S. Minnow
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
That would be the skipper of the SS Minnow....from Gilligan's Island.
Adam answered:
Oh, right, The Skipper from 'Gilligan's Island'.
Sergio in Akron responded:
Jonas Grumby (a.k.a. The Skipper) was the captain of The Minnow!
Marian replied:
The Skipper on Gilligan's Island
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
Sally said:
And here's yer answer, Miss Marty!
PS: @MAM, I too had a Scarlett O'Hara doll, dressed in her green velvet coat and hat - sitting on a shelf, not to be 'played' with, just to look pretty!
Once in a while, I got to take her down, under mother's supervision, and she would say: "I hope you never see that movie, it's so vulgar..."
Of course I couldn't wait to see it, but much preferred the Carol Burnett production. As for the movie of the same name, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn..."
(Sorry if this shocked you, Marty...) LOL!!
Randall replied:
the S.S. Minnow
MAM wrote:
S S Minnow from 'Gilligan's Island'
BttbBob responded:
I've always thought the 'S.S.' appellation to be an odd affectation for that pathetic excuse for a cabin cruiser as it means 'steam ship' and that barely-better-than-a-barge was hardly that...
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I have a life ring, too...
It's from the CG Motor Lifeboat 44359 - now retired. One of these...
I ran it out of Muskegon on Lake Michigan in the late '80's. The '44ft' type was designed and built by the CG in its own yard at Curtis Bay, MD and has been replaced by a new '47ft' type. The '44' was adopted 'round the world. The British Royal National Lifeboat Institute used them (painted orange) and gave them names. The RNLI '44' stationed near Dublin, Ireland was called the 'John F. Kennedy'...
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I gotta a 'Bruce jones' goin' on...
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Larry Hagman 'tripped' with David Crosby? Coolness...
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'666 Park Avenue'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has an old 'The Office', followed by an old 'The Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'The Cleveland Show'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'George A. Romero's Land Of The Dead', followed by 'The Walking Dead' (Hounded), then a FRESH'The Walking Dead' (When The Dead Come Knocking), followed by 'The Walking Dead' (When The Dead Come Knocking), then a FRESH'Talking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Comic Book Men' (Tough Shit).
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Jungles
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Shallow Seas
[8:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Vegas or Bust!
[9:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 2 - Bison Battle
[10:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 3 - Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
[11:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 4 - Foreign Exchange
[12:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 5 - Rolling Food Fight
[1:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 6 - Hot Sauce Hustle
[2:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 7 - Pizza To Go
[3:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 8 - Hook, Line and Sinker
[4:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S.-Season 1 - Ep 9 - Trade Up or Die Tryin'
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 3 - Mike & Nellie's
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Burger Kitchen, Part 2
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Michon's
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 3 - Mike & Nellie's
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 7
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Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mean Girls', followed by the movie 'The House Bunny', then the movie 'The House Bunny', again.
FX has the movie 'Grown Ups', followed by the movie 'How To Train Your Dragon'.
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[6:00AM] Valhalla Rising
[8:00AM] Breakdown
[10:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Blue Jacket & Red Socks
[10:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants
[11:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[11:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!
[12:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
[12:30PM] Valhalla Rising
[2:30PM] Apocalypto
[5:30PM] Sin City
[8:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Deluxe Edition
[10:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Part Three
[11:00PM] Whisker Wars-A New Growth
[11:30PM] Portlandia-One Moore Episode
[12:00AM] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
[2:45AM] Apocalypto
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1)
[7:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Weekend (Episode 18, Season 1)
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Episode 19, Season 1)
[9:00A] Visioneers
[10:45A] Of Time And The City
[12:00P] Little Children
[2:15P] Next Floor
[2:30P] ICONOCLASTS - James Franco + Marina Abramovi? (Episode 1, Season 6)
[3:00P] Looking for Richard
[5:00P] Visioneers
[6:45P] Big Fan
[8:15P] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[10:00P] The Untouchables
[12:00A] Tazza: The High Rollers
[2:30A] Big Fan
[4:00A] Tokyo! (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'National Treasure: Book Of Secrets', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom'.
Muno performs onstage at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live!: Get The Sillies Out! 50+ city tour kick-off performance on Thanksgiving weekend at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Friday Nov. 23, 2012 in Los Angeles.
Herta Mueller, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says the choice to give this year's award to Mo Yan is a "catastrophe" that never should have happened, and accuses the Chinese writer of praising the Asian country's tough censorship laws.
In an interview published in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday, the Romanian-born author - whose struggle under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship has influenced most of her works - says she wanted to cry when she learned of the 2012 laureate choice. She says she feels "it's a catastrophe," and an "incredibly upsetting" choice.
Mo, the first Chinese writer to win the literature award, has been criticized for compromising his artistic and intellectual independence by being a Communist Party member and vice president of the official writers association.
Performers do a pole dancing routine to promote the Miss Pole Dance South America 2012 competition in Buenos Aires November 23, 2012. The competition will be held on November 24-26.
Photo by Enrique Marcarian
South Korean rap star Psy's music video "Gangnam Style" on Saturday became the most watched item on YouTube with over 800 million views, edging past Canadian teen star Justin Bieber's two-year-old video for his song "Baby."
The milestone was the latest pop culture victory for Psy, 34, a portly rap singer known for his slicked-back hair and comic dance style who has become one of the most unlikely global stars of 2012.
YouTube, in a post on its Trends blog, said "Gangnam Style" on Saturday surpassed the site's previous record holder, Bieber's 2010 music video "Baby," and by mid-day "Gangnam Style" had reached 805 million views compared to 803 million for "Baby."
"Gangnam Style" was first posted to YouTube in July, and by the following month it began to show huge popularity on YouTube with audiences outside of South Korea.
The blog also said the "velocity" of the video's popularity has been unprecedented for YouTube, and that users from all over the world search the site for the words "Psy" and "Gangnam Style".
Dirty Dozen Brass Band trumpeter Efrem Towns is recovering at home in New Orleans from a vicious attack by a dog in an Atlanta motel.
He missed performances in Colorado and New Orleans after the attack on Nov. 18, and tells The Times-Picayune that he doesn't know if he'll make the band's next scheduled gig on Dec. 28.
He and baritone sax player Roger Lewis say the dog surged from an open door after Towns knocked at Lewis' room.
Towns was transported to Grady Hospital, where he received 30 stitches in his groin.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band formed in 1977, and is credited with creating the contemporary, funk-infused brass band sound. It's been featured on albums with David Bowie, Elvis Costello and the Black Crowes.
Ethnic Miao women wearing their traditional gowns perform before their new year's day in Leishan county, southeast Guizhou province, November 23, 2012. More than 1,000 ethnic Miao families live in Xijiang village of Leishan, now the biggest settlement.
Photo by Sheng Li
Icelandic singer Bjork says she has had successful surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.
The eccentric 47-year-old singer says on her official website that she had been trying to tackle the problem with exercises and diets since doctors first discovered the polyp, a benign growth on either one or both of the vocal cords, several years ago.
Bjork said that she decided to undergo laser surgery and it has worked, though she had to stay quiet for three weeks.
She wrote: "Surgery rocks! ... It's been very satisfying to sing all them clear notes again."
The Kate Middleton topless photo scandal has led to the resignation of the editor of the Irish Daily Star.
In September, the tabloid published the photographs, which show the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless at a private home in France.
Michael O'Kane, editor of the Irish Daily Star, made no apologies at the time, but after tensions with shareholders and a threat from the owner of the tabloid to shut it down he has resigned.
"As a result of the publication … issues arose with the shareholders of Independent Star Limited," the Irish Daily Star wrote in a statement obtained by the BBC. "Having considered those issues in tandem with Mr O'Kane, it is Mr O'Kane's decision to resign as editor of the Irish Daily Star."
Tourists visit the traditional Christkindelsmaerik (Christ Child market) in Strasbourg November 24, 2012. Held annually since 1570, Strasbourg's Christ Child Market , known as the oldest French Christmas market.
Photo by Vincent Kessler
Pope Benedict made six non-European prelates Roman Catholic cardinals on Saturday, chipping away at the old continent's domination of the elite group that will one day elect his successor.
The new cardinals, ranging in age from 53 to 72, are from the United States, India, Nigeria, the Philippines, Lebanon and Colombia, and the decision to choose no Italians or Europeans looked like an attempt to counter criticism that he has in the past neglected the needs of the developing world.
Elevating the new "princes" in a solemn ceremony known as a consistory in St Peter's Basilica, Benedict said his appointments reflected "that the Church is the Church of all peoples".
The new cardinals are American Archbishop James Michael Harvey, Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, a major archbishop of the Syro-Malankara rite in India, Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Beatitude Bechara Boutros Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church in Lebanon, and Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja.
The pope is a conservative on matters of faith and sexual morals such as birth control, homosexuality and the ban on women priests. Each time he names cardinals he chooses men who share his views and can shape the Church's future.
The remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed Tuesday as part of a renewed investigation into his death, a Palestinian investigator said Saturday.
Arafat died in November 2004 in a French military hospital, a month after suddenly falling ill. Palestinian officials claim he was poisoned by Israel, but have not presented evidence. Israel has denied such allegations.
Earlier this year, the detection of a lethal radioactive substance in biological traces on Arafat's clothing sparked a new investigation. Tests were inconclusive, and experts said they need to check his remains to learn more.
On Tuesday, Swiss, French and Russian experts will take samples from Arafat's bones, said Tawfik Tirawi, who heads the Palestinian team investigating the death. They will examine the samples in their home countries.
Arafat will be reburied the same day with military honors, but the ceremony will be closed to the public, Tirawi told a news conference.
Kindergarden children walk past an installation shaped like Auguste Rodin's "The thinker" sat on a toilet at the Toilet Culture Park in Suwon, about 46 km (29 miles) south of Seoul, November 22, 2012.
Photo by Kim Hong-Ji
Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama's re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box.
For the first time in research dating to 1952, a presidential candidate whom men chose decisively - Republican Mitt Romney - lost. More women voted for the other guy.
It's surprising it didn't happen sooner because women have been voting in larger numbers than men for almost three decades, exit polls show.
When it comes to elections, males as a group are more influential because they show less party loyalty than women, who skew Democratic.
Despite all the focus on candidates courting Hispanics or the working class, men are the nation's ultimate swing voters; they're why Republican George W. Bush became president and Republican John McCain didn't.
Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father's hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned.
As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and two sisters in Guangdong province, Mexico erupted into xenophobia fueled by the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and aimed at its small, relatively prosperous Chinese minority. Authorities backed by mobs rounded up Chinese citizens, pressured them to sell their businesses and forced many to cross into the United States.
Unable to return to their home, hotel and restaurant in the southern border city of Tapachula, the Chius stayed in China and began a new life.
Chiu's father took a job at a relative's bakery and his children began learning Chinese. But their life was soon turned upside down as China was invaded by the Japanese, endured World War II and then suffered a civil war that led to a victory by communist forces that persecuted religious people. In 1941, the family fled to Macau, then a Portuguese colony.
They never stopped dreaming of Mexico, and Juan Chiu Trujillo returned in November 1960. He came back with his pregnant wife and four children and with 300 other Chinese-Mexicans after President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, trying to improve Mexico's global image, paid for their travel expenses and decreed that they would be legally allowed to live in Mexico. They were eventually granted Mexican citizenship.
Influential Spanish filmmaker Jose Luis Borau died Friday in Madrid, the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences said. He was 83.
Though Borau, who was born in Zaragoza in 1929, only made a handful of films since his 1960 directorial debut "En el Rio," his talents were widely respected, and he received a Goya award for Best Director in 2000 for his final film, "Leo."
Borau was also a screenwriter and producer, and acted in some of his films. According to the Academy, his other pursuits included editing the first published biography of director-producer Samuel Bronston and short-story writing. He also "dabbled in advertising," the Academy said.
Borau was probably best known for his 1975 drama "Furtivos" ("Poachers"), a film whose success, he later said, made him "a little sad."
"Nobody is bitter sweet, but I'm a little sad," the filmmaker once said. "My scale is a bit like what happened to Orson Welles, who made great films after 'Citizen Kane,' but just remember that title. "
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