# Captain Walker didn't come home... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093 "2012-05-16T13:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/1 "2012-05-16T13:51:12Z")
…his unborn child will never know him. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/2 "2012-05-16T13:53:24Z")
That’s OK. Cousin Kevin can babysit. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/3 "2012-05-16T14:04:48Z")
Fly Captain Walker, fly! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/4 "2012-05-16T14:24:29Z")
Well, he eventually did come home, but the friendly greencoat bumped him off. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/5 "2012-05-16T16:27:25Z")
Do you think it’s all right to leave the boy with Uncle Ernie? He’s had a few too many. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/6 "2012-05-16T17:02:31Z")
Did King George send Tommy a scroll signed with his own rubber stamp? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/7 "2012-05-16T17:15:30Z")
And that little girl grew up to become Charlotte Cushman. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/8 "2012-05-16T17:33:54Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > Did King George send Tommy a scroll signed with his own rubber stamp? No. Because Roger Daltry was nowhere near as bitter about WWII as Roger Waters was. Hijack: “When The Tigers Broke Free” is one of the most effectively written and sung songs I’ve ever heard. It makes me ashamed of every war there ever was, and I never even started one. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/9 "2012-05-16T17:46:50Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > No. Because Roger Daltry was nowhere near as bitter about WWII as Roger Waters was. It wouldn’t matter even if he was, as Daltrey wrote like two of The Who’s songs ever and none of the ones on _Tommy_. The band’s primary songwriter was always Pete Townshend. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/10 "2012-05-16T17:52:09Z")
He’s believed to be missing with a number of men, Don’t expect to see him again. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/11 "2012-05-16T18:31:00Z")
Just as well- if Captain Walker HAD come home and seen his wife rolling around in baked beans… it would’ve killed him. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/12 "2012-05-16T18:58:04Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > And that little girl grew up to become Charlotte Cushman. She knew from the start, deep down in her heart, that she and Tommy were worlds apart. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/13 "2012-05-16T19:03:24Z")
You know where to put the cork. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/14 "2012-05-16T19:39:25Z")
There’s no tomorrow-morrow land, and I ain’t Captain Walker. I’m the guy who keeps Mister Dead in his pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/15 "2012-05-16T20:13:23Z")
You talk about your woman, I wish you could see mine. Every time she starts to lovin’ she brings eyesight to the blind! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/16 "2012-05-16T20:33:47Z")
Life is a lot like pinball: you either rack up points or you lose your balls. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/17 "2012-05-16T20:40:43Z")
I thought I was the Bally table king! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/18 "2012-05-16T21:21:53Z")
> [@](#): > > You know where to put the cork. I don’t _have_ to take it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/19 "2012-05-17T04:20:42Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > There’s no tomorrow-morrow land, and I ain’t Captain Walker. I’m the guy who keeps Mister Dead in his pocket. I get it! He be testing us! Well, we remembers it straight. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093/20 "2012-05-17T16:32:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > > [@GargoyleWB](#): > > > > There’s no tomorrow-morrow land, and I ain’t Captain Walker. I’m the guy who keeps Mister Dead in his pocket. > > I get it! He be testing us! Well, we remembers it straight. That’s why, each night, we does the tell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-walker-didnt-come-home/622093.md?page=2)