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On 7/22/2024 2:01 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:53:22 +1000, "Gary R. Schmidt"
> <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> How many here remember, "Look it up in your Funk & Wagnall's?", or, "No,
>> not another chicken joke!".  :-)
> 
> Yes I remember Rowan + Martin back in the day - I even watched the
> Richard Nixon guest episode live back then and was a precocious enough
> 12 year old to know who he was. (My grandfather had run unsuccessfully
> for the Canadian parliament in 1965 and 1968 so I started young as a
> political junkie...)

I caught a rerun of Laugh-In the other day. It seemed a little -
pedestrian by today's standards. The Gen-Z lady watching it with
me was boggled by R&M smoking cigarettes on-screen, blackface done
un-ironically, and absolutely enchanted by Tiny Tim.

pt