Close to Home by John McPherson for December 02, 2024

He only loans silver ma’am!

I want to deal with that guy.

Wasn’t he in Pogo?

When I was a little kid we had a parody comic book called the “Kosher Comics.” Among the characters in one of several separate stories was the Lone Arranger, masked marriage broker.

Probably sent Pronto, his faithful Indian companion, to town.

Hi-ooo Silver…

Hmmm, I seem to have forgotten how the rest of that goes. ツ

is that William the Teller in the background?

I’m trying to identify the masked man, but there’s no silver bullet to help me.

Giddy up!!!

He did not age well.

There was a local car dealer who went by that name in a commercial. It wasn’t funny then either.

Hi-ooo Silver, at $33 an ounce!

That spot might have potential, Bleeb,

We had a loan company here back in the 60’s and in their advertisements they called the manager “The Loan Arranger.”

Actually, he’s a real bandit!

Now that’s an OLD joke !!!

That was a guy in Phoenix! Car dealership mascot, I think? It’s been ages since I’ve seen one of his ads.

Hi ho your silver awwwaaayyyy.

There was a guy in the loan business quite a while back. He called himself the loan arranger.

For a long time the was no sign on the front of the desk (it wasn’t labeled). People always kept asking “Who is that masked man behind the desk?”

“Hi ho, silver!”

“What does that mean?”

“We take silver as collateral.”

Hi, Bleeb!

In 1985, Clayton Moore did a promotion of a bank in my town as ’ your loan arranger’. This cartoon actually depicts reality

Kemo Sloby!

I thought the Lone-a-Ranger was a the hero in a spaghetti western

What is the guy at the counter saying???

That’s Mr Ed with him, and he can’t talk today, he’s a little hoarse.

There was a loan company (Household Finance?) back in the 1960s whose radio commercial used the phrase “The Loan Arranger” and the “Lone Ranger” theme (which is of course the William Tell Overture).

A masked man in a bank?

On YouTube, search “Jay Thomas story about Clayton Moore”. He used to tell it on the Letterman show every year around Christmas/New Year’s.

This one is ancient.

He’s just not himself if he’s not out on the a-Range-r.

Old.

Old joke but a good joke. Classic.

I’d hate to see what he does if you default on your payments…

Looks like Bleeb is a Loan Arranger in training.

In 1980s Phoenix, there was a car dealer that featured the Loan Arranger, in the Lone Ranger garb but with a mule.