# Apropos of nothing

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**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apropos-of-nothing/336823 "2005-12-22T17:42:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apropos-of-nothing/336823/1 "2005-12-22T17:42:32Z")

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It was probably Jimmy Dean (sausage guy) on maybe Johnny Carson who came out with this story:

"I was headed to the theater to get ready for a show and I spotted this old drunk staggering up the street toward me. He was all ratty looking and I could smell him before I heard him muttering to himself:

“I don’t understand it, I just don’t understand it. Every time I get out of jail, it rains.”"

Did you ever hear this story by somebody on some talk show? Was it Jimmy Dean on Carson or somebody else somewhere else?