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HOW RAMESH PONNURU RUINED MY LIFE

Trolling through Slate's Today's Papers, I come across this nugget:

A piece stuffed inside the Post says former Liberian president and suspected war criminal Charles Taylor, currently exiled in Nigeria, is keeping busy. "Charles?" said one Liberian minister. "Oh, he's still in charge. I'm going to see him next week. What's wrong with that?"

Something about that paragraph got me thinking. Not about the implications of an exiled war criminal secretly running Liberia from afar--no, nothing that substantial. The phrasing bugged me.

Then it hit--Charles...still in charge. Charles in charge. Charles in Charge. And my mind raced back to an obscure Corner post from a year ago:

A WONK?: [Ramesh Ponnuru] Is that all I am to you, Rod? I was about to post my own theory about the theme of sexual dominance in the theme song to "Charles in Charge." But now I'll wait until I have something snappy to say about medical savings accounts.

I don't think I'll ever be able to hear the words "Charles" and "charge" in the same sentence again without thinking about the sexual dominance meme in an 80s vintage sitcom. And it's not even a good 80s sitcom.

Thanks, Ramesh.

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Posted by B. Preston on September 17, 2003 11:52 AM
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The chick that played Jamie was hot though.

Okay, I won’t play dumb. Her name was Niccole Eggert. She went on to a role on Baywatch in its later seasons. Her measurements were…

Posted by Spoons on September 17, 2003 1:51 PM

Coincientally, uber-babe Erika Elaniak, who played Shawnie in early seasons of baywatch, played Charles girlfriend, Stephanie, in the early seasons of CinC.

Posted by Spoons on September 17, 2003 1:54 PM

You remember that show waaaay too well, Chris. Though I did remember Nicole Eggert being one good reason to remember it.

Between her CinC years and Baywatch she turned up in some AFRTS commercials. I know that because I used to see them ad nauseum when I was in the Air Force as a broadcast journalist type.

The useless things that fill our heads.

Anyway, it’s all Ramesh’s fault.

Posted by Bryan on September 17, 2003 2:05 PM