TV Dad Salaries

When I saw this list of top 60 TV dad salaries and I about fainted...

Most of these numbers are so unrealistic LOL. I mean come on, in 2005 dollars, Andy Griffin was making $84k a year!! DAMN!!! And Homer Simpson is pulling in a cool $65k a year - I soooo need his job LOL!!
MMmmmmmm dooooonuuuuttttssss

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Pay Rank	TV DAD	SHOW	JOB	BASE SALARY (in 2005 $)
1	Blake Carrington	Dynasty (1981-89)	CEO Denver-Carrington	$856,515
2	J.R. "Jock" Ewing, Sr.	Dallas (1978-91)	CEO Ewing Oil	$838,569
3	Philip Drummond	Diff'rent Strokes (1978-86)	President	$720,600
4	Chase Gioberti	Falcon Crest (1981-90)	Vineyard Owner	$677,487
5	George Jefferson	The Jeffersons (1975-85)	CEO Jefferson Cleaners	$555,702
6	Michael Bluth	Arrested Development (2003-present)	CEO Real Estate Company	$527,205
7	Jed Bartlet	West Wing (1999-present)	US President	$400,000
8	Andy Brown	Everwood (2002-present)	Neurosurgeon	$328,949
9	Sean McNamara	Nip/Tuck (2003-present)	Plastic Surgeon	$274,456
10	Vernon Albright	My Little Margie (1952-55)	Investment Executive	$270,035
11	Walter Findley	Maude (1972-78)	Appliance Store Owner	$245,668
12	Heathcliff Huxtable	The Cosby Show (1984-92)	Obstetrician	$237,932
13	Tim Taylor	Home Improvement (1991-99)	Host of "Tool Time"	$191,526
14	George Baxter	Hazel (1961-66)	Corporate Lawyer	$178,880
15	Frasier Crane	Frasier (1993-2004)	Radio Psychiatrist	$164,644
16	Jason Seaver	Growing Pains (1985-92)	Psychiatrist	$160,466
17	Philip Banks	Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-96)	Judge	$146,000
18	Howard Borden	The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78)	Airline Pilot	$135,818
19	Danny Tanner	Full House (1987-95)	Morning Show Host	$130,000
20	Sandy Cohen	The OC (2003-present)	Lawyer	$113,780
21	Uncle Bill Davis	Family Affair (1966-71)	Consulting Engineer	$111,353
22	Sam Aldrich	The Aldrich Family (1949-53)	District Attorney	$102,504
23	Rob Petrie	The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66)	Head Comedy Writer (TV)	$95,941
24	Tom Corbett	The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969-72)	Magazine Publisher	$95,021
25	Alan Harper	Two and a Half Men (2003-present)	Chiropractor	$87,672
26	Andy Taylor	The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68)	Sheriff	$84,019
27	Tom Scavo	Desperate Housewives (2004-present)	Regional Sales Manager	$83,688
28	Ross Gellar	Friends (1994-2004)	Professor of Paleontology	$81,904
29	Darrin Stephens	Bewitched (1964-72)	Advertising Executive	$70,785
30	Homer Simpson	The Simpsons (1989-present)	Nuclear Safety Inspector	$65,000
31	Henry Mitchell	Dennis the Menace (1986-88)	Engineer	$60,537
32	Frank Costanza	Seinfeld (1990-98)	Salesman	$59,070
33	Steve Douglas	My Three Sons (1960-72)	Aviation Engineer	$53,962
34	Nate Fisher	Six Feet Under (2001-05)	Funeral Director	$53,366
35	Ricky Ricardo	I Love Lucy (1951-57)	Bandleader	$51,931
36	Frank De Fazio	Laverne & Shirley (1976-83)	Pizza Bowl Manager	$51,896
37	Howard Cunningham	Happy Days (1974-84)	Hardware Store Manager	$49,796
38	Tom Bradford	Eight is Enough (1977-81)	Columnist	$49,065
39	Lars "Papa" Hansen	Mama (1949-56)	Carpenter	$48,170
40	Carl Winslow	Family Matters (1989-98)	Police Officer	$48,000
41	Herman Munster	The Munsters (1964-66)	Undertaker	$47,268
42	Chester A Riley	The Life of Riley (1953-58)	Airplane Riveter	$47,049
43	Ray Barone	Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)	Sportswriter	$46,852
44	Ward Cleaver	Leave it to beaver (1957-63)	Accountant	$46,617
45	Archie Bunker	All in the Family (1971-79)	Dock Foreman	$45,431
46	George Burns	Burns and Allen (1950-58)	Entertainer	$44,386
47	Danny Williams	Make Room for Daddy (1953-65)	Nightclub Entertainer	$44,386
48	Mike Brady	Brady Bunch (1969-74)	Architect	$44,064
49	Elliot Stabler	Law & Order: SVU (1999-present)	Detective	$42,889
50	Andy Sipowicz	NYPD Blue (1993-2005)	Detective	$42,889
51	Steven Keaton	Family Ties (1982-89)	Public TV Station Manager	$40,713
52	Jim Anderson	Father Knows Best (1954-60)	Insurance Agent	$38,790
53	Dan Conner	Roseanne (1988-97)	Construction Worker	$38,202
54	Fred Flintstone	The Flintstones (1960-66)	Quarry Crane Operator	$37,357
55	Gary Ewing	Knots Landing (1979-93)	Mechanic (first job)	$33,529
56	Fred G. Sanford	Sanford and Son (1972-77)	Junk Dealer	$27,950
57	Al Bundy	Married with children (1987-97)	Shoe Salesman	$25,943
58	John Walton, Sr.	The Waltons (1972-81)	Lumberman	$24,128
59	Tony Micelli	Who's the Boss? (1984-92)	Housekeeper	$21,281
60	James Evans, Sr.	Good Times (1974-79)	Unemployed	$0

Beer saves lives!!

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And why didn't I hear about this earlier?!! Beer-flavored ice cream?! Hmmmm back in 2003... I wonder if this ever got off the ground?

Thanksgiving idea

Well, I think I just went crazy today... maybe it was the Dr Pepper I drank today (I stopped drinking soda about 5 months ago, so I'm still on my sugar/caffeine rush as I type this - YAY). But I thought up a new way to celebrate Thanksgiving for us single people.

Turkey pizza! Yep with all the fixings... cranberry dipping sauce and for dessert - pumpkin pie pizza! YAY. I even went so far as to suggest this idea to Papa John's pizza LOL I hope I don't get any hate mail from them now LOL.

Here is what I wrote:

Hi I'm a long time fan of Papa John's pizza. I just wanted to share my idea that I got today. With Thanksgiving coming up, why not make a turkey pizza? I'm single and I have no idea how to cook a whole turkey, so why not help me celebrate?

I also remember trying a dessert pizza a long time ago - apple pie or something like that. So why not try making a pumpkin pie pizza to go with the turkey! half and half!! LOL. Ok I know that's getting carried away, but hey. I love turkey!

Keep up the great work!

Oops damn.. I forgot to mention the cranberry dipping sauce - oh well, maybe if they write me back for more ideas I'll mention it. Or maybe I'll just turn a bright shade of red when I realize what I've done after I get off this sugar high!!

WEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Who's line is it anyway?

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen!!

*WARNING* Please for the sake of your computer, don't drink any soda or beer while watching this video - IT WILL END UP ON THE SCREEN and between all the keys on your keyboard, and we all know how nasty sticky keys can be!! LOL

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Dish, Texas

I usually don't post politic issues on my blog, but this one is just disturbing and well in my opinion, wrong! It never fails to shock me how people/politicians will give into money over traditions...

Oh hey, lets rename our town so we can get free stuff!!! YAY for free stuff!! Oh, but once its not free anymore... oops we're stuck with the name or bad reputation. Hey why not get some big Japanese company to coax us into renaming a state, why not? Actually, now that I think about it, I want to live in the state of Mitsubishi!! Mmmm gotta love those Toyota potatoes!! Oh wait, Bill Gates should just buy the rights to Washington and call it Seattle, Microsoft - or better yet Start, Microsoft - SWEET!!! I'm salivating already.

Ok ok in all honesty, I think I'll start up my own multi-billion dollar corportation and buy the politicians so I can rename the United States... I'm gonna call it... hmmmm, I know... we can all live in the United States of Confusion!! YAY!!!

Texas town renamed DISH as part of corporate marketing plan
MATT SLAGLE, Associated Press

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DALLAS - Back in the 1950s, Hot Springs, N.M., was renamed Truth or Consequences, N.M., after a popular quiz show. During the dot-com boom of 2000, Halfway, Ore. agreed to become Half.com for one year.

This week, Clark, Texas, morphed into DISH, Texas. Residents in Santa, Idaho, meanwhile, are weighing the pros and cons of changing to Secretsanta.com, Idaho.

Across the nation, small communities are being courted by large corporations who say renaming a town provides a marketing buzz that can't be bought in television ads. Though some worry about corporate America's increasing influence in local government, most towns seem eager to accept.

In a deal unanimously approved by the two-member town council Tuesday evening, Clark agreed to be renamed DISH, effective immediately. It's part of an advertising campaign for Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corp., which operates the Dish Network satellite TV system.

In exchange, the 55 homes in the bedroom community a half hour's drive north of Dallas-Fort Worth get free Dish satellite equipment and basic service for the next decade. Company executives pegged the deal at about $4,500 per home. Signs bearing the town's name are being changed to DISH as well.

Beyond the lure of free TV service for the 125 residents, the renaming is a way for the tiny town to attract businesses and residents, said Mayor Bill Merritt, who actively courted EchoStar to pick the town.

"We really look at this as kind of a rebirth for our community," Merritt said. "We want everybody to come here."

In 2000, Halfway, Ore. agreed to become Half.com for a year in an agreement that put $100,000 in the town coffer and a new computer lab for the school.

The rural town of 345 used the money to buy a snow plow, something former Mayor Marvin Burgraff said was badly needed and has already been used several times this year. And it gave the area known know for its outdoor splendor a tourist boon that continues to this day.

Though the name is back to Halfway, the town still has signs that read "Welcome to Half.com, the World's First Dot-com City."

"It was a good experience," said Burgraff, who served as mayor after the decision had already been approved. "It was kind of fun. You look back on it and it's good thoughts."

In an age of pervasive advertising most people ignore, such stunts are a good way to grab the public's attention, said Mark Hughes, chief executive of Buzzmarketing and the former Half.com executive who devised the Oregon deal.

"Word of mouth is most powerful form of communication and marketing out there," Hughes said via telephone from Santa, where he's now leading the effort to get Santa, Idaho, renamed. "No one's going to talk about the three-thousandth Web site that launched this week. What this does is give people a reason to talk."

But some things shouldn't be for sale, argued Gary Ruskin of the nonprofit Commercial Alert.

Towns should provide basic services such as trash collection and education, "not to hawk television at its residents," he said.

"The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations," Ruskin said. "It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue."

Offers of corporate interest have backfired in some communities.

In 2003, residents of Biggs, Calif., overwhelmingly rejected a California Milk Processor Board proposal to rename the city of 1,800 to Got Milk? in exchange for a milk museum and money for the local school.

"People's take on it was, 'This is just an advertising ploy by the milk board.' There was a certain segment of population that wanted to tar and feather the mayor for even suggesting it," city clerk Marlee Mattos recalled. "Now people bring it up jokingly, everybody groans and moves on."

Clark, a rural patch of ranch land was founded in June 2000 by L.E. Clark, who lost to Merritt in May's mayoral election. He blasted the plan and said he would use neighboring Justin, Texas, which shares the same ZIP code, on future correspondence instead of DISH.

"I don't especially like it," he said. "I worked my butt off a little over a year getting it incorporated."

Merritt, meanwhile, said work had already begun to change the town's dozen street signs.

He doesn't see DISH ever going out of favor.

"I can't see right now that people would want to change it," he said. "Clark will always be a part of our history, but this is our new identity."

The Indians were right

The Indians were right. They believed photos captured the soul. How else to explain the soulful picture below: President Bush, making a speech from a beribboned balcony, appears to be wearing a big ole patriotic skirt.

(LOL thank you Sasha for the laugh)

New Blog

Ok folks...

Now that I'm back in the blogger world after my brief three day stent away... I figured out why I wasn't happy - I needed an outlet from my outlet LOL. Well actually I needed someplace to share my crappy poetry. The mood of which it seems depends on my how much chocolate I had consumed that day...

Please check it out here: Written in Ashes

Be kind, be gentle and please no farting while you browse!!

Midgets!

Ok one more picture for us to all ponder on...

...I wonder what exactly it is that is sold in this store?
...and would Karen or Peter be afriad to visit?

Oh and I just adopted a new pet, I named her Kali after someone I know who LOVES spiders LOL

EKKKK, a Monster!!

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This is what I get for making fun of midgets!! *cry*

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Ya ya, I only quit for 3 days... Its almost kind of embarrassing, I just couldn't stay away. Its almost like Pete's addiction to cigs, but only brain cells have been damaged from blogging too much!! *twitch* Anyway, I know there is still too much funny stuff to post!

Now I gotta see if Pete's weakness is Midgets LOL (take the quiz Pete!! It only involves typing in your name!! LOL)

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