By the Pricking of My Thumbs By the Pricking of My Thumbs By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Tommy and Tuppence were unusual in that they aged from novel to novel unlike Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, whose age remained more or less the same from Christie's
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–1989 Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–1989 The following is a list of recurring "Saturday Night Live" characters and sketches introduced between October 8, 1988, and May 20, 1989, the fourteenth season of "SNL". A series of three (to date) sketches - "The Blind Date", "The Hospital Visit", and "The Game Show" - featuring Tom Hanks as San Bernardino advertising exec Jeff Morrow...whose life (to say nothing of everybody else around him) hasn't been the same since a pear fell from a tree and hit him on the head. Now burdened by untreatable chronic amnesia, Jeff sows chaos