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How’d you like one across the lip?

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In the old days, widower Fred would fake a heart attack and shout, “You hear that, Elizabeth? I’m coming to join you, honey!” In these post-organized-religion times, he would likely backpedal with “Or maybe I’ll just become one with the universe. Or embrace the aura of this Louisville slugger or…anyway, don’t wait up.”

Who wants focus groups insisting, “If Julio’s goat can’t learn to bleat an F-bomb or two, barbecue it”?

Nowadays we couldn’t simply enjoy Fred’s judgmental sister-in-law Aunt Esther calling him a “fish-eyed old fool” and pummeling him with her purse. No, the hosts of “The View” would have to label it a “mostly peaceful” purse pummeling and speculate about collusion between fish-eyed old fools and fish-eyed heathens.

Would we really want to hear Fred complaining to friend Bubba about the biggest disappointment in his life? (“And I found out I was groping the real Lena Horne! After I paid good money to meet a Lena impersonator in drag. The real Lena Horne! There ain’t enough muscatel and ripple in three states to kill THAT image.”)

Mark the date (January 14) and give a little nod to the 50th anniversary of a classic.

As Lamont would say, “That’s the way it used to be, Pop.”

 

And it still is – here in my heart.

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