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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Presidents, no matter how they got into office, don’t usually make prejudicial comments like that about people who are, after all, innocent until proven guilty."

("They're bringing crime, they're bringing drugs, they're rapists--and some I suppose are good people")

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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor….” LOL.

I can’t believe we started the week with Mr. Potato Head, moved on to Dr. Seuss, and have landed on Biden’s “Neanderthal” comment to end the week. Truly, there is nothing the Right will not use to gin up outrage, and then they have the gall to follow it up by complaining that the fencing protecting the Capitol is still up.

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Sausage is an apt metaphor for Eli Whitey's Outrage Gin. Filled with parts you wouldn't care to list, stuffed into a pig's colon, and hung up like a sacramental object.

But since this is the pay portion of the commentariat, I have to drop a mostly useless literary reference as is My Wont:

In Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, someone runs down an anecdote about a distant relative who falls in love with a sausage-maker on the continent, and when he confesses his love to her, she menaces him with a sausage. He hastily scoops & brandishes a larger sausage and their love is forged for ever.

Satirical literature loves sausages for all the right reasons: Rabelais is obsessed with them as weapons of war, you see them in the "Land of Cockaygne" tradition, I remember some fun moments in "Nicolette & Aucassin". And they taste good with mustard. So hooray.

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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Well, now that Trump is president again - although his inauguration was marred by Ron Johnson’s celebration of the illegal COVID-19 bill - the Seuss organization is rescinding its ban and reissuing “The Jap Takes a Crap” and “Horton Hunts a Hun.” We must remember that everyone who fought for freedom in WW2, from Supreme Commander and then President Eisenhower to the lowliest GI Joe, was a Republican while Democrats led the KKK.

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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"PRESENTER: Looks like cancel culture is coming for anyone who questions Biden’s social justice mob.

"FEMALE ON-AIR SIDEKICK: Looks like!"

Well, that would be a fine start.

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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Those kids these days! They have no respect for what we did to the Japs. They asked for it, and boy, did they get it!

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"Can you blow me where the Pampers is?" Although PCU is mostly pretty dumb, it does have some funny lines.

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Mar 5, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Read the Fantasticks article, and it included this interesting quote:

"The women will like the love story, and guys will enjoy the battle scenes," Owens said.

Are there no women who enjoy battle scenes? Are there no men who enjoy love stories?

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"has removed a book celebrating the allied victory at Guadalcanal, a turning point in the war against Hitler"

I about fell out of my chair I laughed so hard!

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A thing of beauty, Roy

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These nuts are outnumbered, time to stand up and be counted!..., wait..! Which side am I referring to...?!!

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It’s always someone from Gunk. Must be something in the water.

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