Things that make you go hmmm ...

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Arsenio Hall, the most recent "Celebrity Apprentice" winner as per Donald Trump, used to have a wildly successful late-night talk show -- one that may have hastened Johnny Carson's 1992 retirement from the genre. Hall, the Ohio-born son of a Baptist minister (which helps explain Hall's dead-on impersonation of a pastor in the 1988 film "Coming to America"), used to employ a phrase on his eponymous program that often springs to my mind. Pondering a deep thought, the television entertainer would muse aloud, "It's a thing that makes you go hmmm."

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