Peter Tomarken Whammied In Plane Crash (And a New Award)

Friends, Peter Tomarken, host of the beloved 1980's era game show Press Your Luck died today in a plane crash. His wife died, too and maybe a third fella. He may be survived by people.

Mr. Tomarken was not mustachioed, but you cannot deny the appeal of Big Bucks, No Whammies, Free Spins, the disembodied voice of Rod Roddy, and prizes like catamarans and tea sets. He shall be missed.

Also, I will take this moment to say that the Game Show host has long been a profession that has mocked the mustache, except for one (who turned his back on his manliness...if he was a Highlander, he has been quickened in the eyes of B.O.M.M). What's the deal with that? I can't recall a mustachioed game show host. Bob Barker never had a stache. Pat Sajak? Wink Martindale? Chuck Woolery? Now, you may wave Richard Dawson in my face, but I don't think he was mustachioed on the Feud...but was known to bring it with the math-teacher stache on the omniprescient Match Game. Were there any other mustachioed game show hosts?

Also we shall take this opportunity to add another dubious award to the pantheon of B.O.M.M awards (yeah, I should have used a better word for it, but my thesaurus is like, on the other side of the room, so nuts to that). The award is the Alex Trebek Enemy of the Mustache Award. The first winner is...Alex Trebek. Let us give you a before and after.

The first picture is Trebek while he basked in our loving approval.







Look at him. He had it all. Unmeasurable intelligence. Mustachely good looks. That's all a man needs. Everything else falls in line behind the stache & smarts.



Now look at this. It's like finding out Santa isn't real on the same day your parent's divorce & your grandma dies. It's just sick. Sick, sick sick. God. Just...blech! I'd rather watch a handicapped person eat a puppy.






So, world, shame has a name and it's name is Alex Trebek.

Viva El Mustache!!