Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 10, 2012

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    DuHhozr  over 12 years ago

    A gamblin’ man.

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    dmdip  over 12 years ago

    And just when he had penned “Bargain”.

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    chris_weaver  over 12 years ago

    Such a deaf, dumb and blind kid!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Ok…. Who’s Next?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Man… back then I couldn’t picture My Generation getting so old!

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    He listened and he heard the music in a word, that he heard when he played his guitar….

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Ah, 6…. but you mean YOUR generation….I was a young’un like you when I thought that too!

    Firesign Theater had a bit back in the 70’s (?) with some old hippie stoners in a park at an advanced age…. really funny but I haven’t heard it in years. Might be dated now.

    Don’t remember whether it was on Brevity (if so, sorry) where I posted about my friend who a few years ago wanted to get a rose tattooed on her….

    um… in her cleavage… on one side.

    and I asked her if she’d still like it at 80 or 90 when it had become a faded, long-stemmed tea rose.

    She changed her mind … not really just cos of my snarky remark, but cos picturing a 90-year-old lady with a “sexy” tattoo on her breast was too creepy.

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    Not Me  over 12 years ago

    This same theme is starting in Dude and Dude today. Only with Zeplin,

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    Larry Miller Premium Member over 12 years ago

    3 card fool monty.Welcome back #6!

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    V-Beast  over 12 years ago

    Roger that.

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    “I’m thinking about my g-g-generation. I was 12 when I Won’t Get Fooled Again came out. I came of age then.

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    HeatherLazz  over 12 years ago

    Ok, the comments have had me laughing harder than the cartoon. Thanks guys!

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    TIMH  over 12 years ago

    @Susan SunshineClose but no pickle! The old guys sketch is from The Congress of Wonders album Revolting. The sketch is titled “Pidgeon Park”. It was from 1970. Love your commentaries!

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    HeatherLouWho  over 12 years ago

    Indeed!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Oh wow — you guys are right!Congress of Wonders……How could I forget?

    I really AM getting old!

    Thank you Radish and Tim!

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    susan, after the other post, I find it especially hard to inform you that Peter Bergman has died. I know. Clowns the world over are crying tonight.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    If I believed in heaven, I would wish for him an affair with Gilda, and long afternoons talking and laughing and exchanging ironies with Mark Twain as a reward for a life well lived…Seriously, Firesign Theater twisted my view of the world, and I mean that in the best way…The job of a humorist/satirist, is the most important job that has ever existed. Most humor is rooted in truth. It’s only the court jesters that can get away with saying it….

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Varnes…. I meant to come back in here before and say I was sorry to hear.

    I never listened to Firesign Theater as much as it seems you did — but they were an influence.

    It seems like the older we get the more of our guiding stars flicker out…. we’re supposed to know the way by now but sometimes …..

    Meanwhile…. where’s today’s (Sunday’s) Brevity? I don’t know what to do with myself without that either….

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    blumen  over 12 years ago

    funny :-)

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    J Short  over 12 years ago

    Not as mole, a duck. I’m commenting on Sunday’s comic protocol be damned.

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    CoBass  over 12 years ago

    The Sunday, March 11, 2012 “Brevity”, courtesty of The Washington Post

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