Niagara Falls! Slowly he turned. Step by step. Inch by inch.
When the manager signs the check for the first baseman, whose name does he sign?
Who.
The manager!
Grin!
There was a comic book yack ever so long ago, where, in a crowded bar, one guy shouts out, “I don’t give a damn!” and everyone else in the bar shouts back, “Shortstop!”
In fact, the joke that talks about the youngster who remembers the Beatles as “that band Paul McCartney was in before Wings” needs to be explained not because nobody remembers the Beatles, but because nobody remembers Wings.
I think that was pretty much the case even when that joke was new.
No, the road signs that they put up are pretty matter-of-fact about it.
“Moe, when the pies flew. Shemp at the ironing board.”
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All the anchovies I have ever had have been much saltier and ‘fishier’ than all the tuna I have ever had. I would say the group of people who will eat tuna but not anchovies might even be bigger than the group that won’t eat fish at all.
When I want to illustrate the low quality of the alcoholic beverages available I describe them as “Lost Weekend Gin” with a picture of Ray Milland on the label. Not one in fifty get it, but I keep on doing it.
Aw, shucks. Just glad to have lightened things up… you folks have gotten me through a stressful pandemic election season.
Well I laughed. But as time goes by it’s gonna have a really limited audience.
Somebody had to explain to me the Ray Milland joke in the old Looney Tunes cartoon where he pays for a drink with a typewriter and gets back a bunch of mini typewriters as change.
‘Don is broke and tries to pawn his typewriter so he can buy more alcohol…’
I’ve been bingewatching Phineas and Ferb lately (don’t judge me). The number of jokes that will go way over kids’ heads is astonishing. One episode recently watched involves a parody of the tattooed hands scene from Night of the Hunter.
Is that the movie where Robert Mitchum has “Love” tattooed on one hand and “Hate” on the other? Because I’ve seen this in so many cartoons that I think that even if you don’t know the origin of the meme you at least understand the reference.
One example for the trope is the Clash’s “Death Or Glory” from 1979:
Now every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
“Love and hate” tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
Hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don’t understand how
Death or glory
Becomes just another story
Great song btw.
Yep, that’s the one. P&F basically parodied the whole scene.
Hell, it was just a few years back that Bill Hader played Vincent Price in a mock 1950s early 60s Colgate Presents: Vincent Price’s Halloween Special with guests like James Mason and Gloria Swason. I can’t help but think a lot of people under 30 are all that familiar with Vincent Price.
Hader has a story where he is about to go onstage to do the Vincent Price character for the first time and Lorne Michaels comes up to him and starts talking to him, giving a little encouragement, and ending with “Do you think anyone will get who you are?”
Oddly, my kids in their mid-30s know who Vincent Price was. Sometime in the late 80s somebody gave us a 3D camera as a present and it came with video instructions presented by Vincent Price. They were just little kids then and fascinated by that video for some reason. When Edward Scissorhands came out shortly after that, it was noted as Price’s final movie appearance and they were quite proud of themselves for knowing who he was. I’d say not a lot of people under 40 would be very familiar with him, not that many people have seen that camera instructional video.
I have not a clue who Vincent Price is.