Whew.  I finally filled in the missing piece(s) on my __ & Haddad mystery.

Turns out it was “Whitman, Price and Haddad” who were frequently hailed as “last season’s winners” by Richard Dawson’s character in The Running Man.  I guess Haddad stuck with me because it was not as plain as “Whitman” and “Price.”  Who knows?

One thing I do know – now that I have re-established this information I’ve sentenced myself to another 20 years of this taking up brain space that might be better used for remembering whether or not I remembered to close the garage door.

OK, this is driving me nuts.  With any luck I can spread it around.  I just had to process something for a person named “Haddad.”

This got me thinking, naturally, of Running Man, where Richard Dawson kept talking about the two runners who had been successful, supposedly, and were now basking on a beach somewhere.  Of course Ahnuld cracked that case.  Anyway, their names were __ and Haddad.  Fill in the __.

This also solves another mystery … why sometimes I couldn’t find my car keys if I were holding them in my hand.  It’s because I’ve got fragments of useless 20-yr old trivia taking up space in my brain.

If I’ve been able to plant a mental pea under the mattress of anyone’s afternoon calm, this will all have been worth it.

P.S.  I’ll Google it and post the answer later.