Boy! That’s an old one. I used it in a radio essay back in 1985 and I bet it wasn’t original even then! http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_misc.php?sid=8 “…That election was marred by, among other things, the opposition’s campaign song “The Old Grey Mayor she ain’t what she used to be”. Oldbold thought that the personal pronoun ‘she’ was just too personal, and, as a slur on his manhood, was quite unwarranted because, in his 92nd year, he had just got married, and was doubly unwarranted because he had just got married because he had had to….”
It is time to retire him; put him out to pasture, rolling in the grass with the young fillies. On second thought keep him in office and away from the fillies.
If you only knew the truth about “they ain’t what they’re gonna be” when you go to the poles the first time..Way too often they start as “gray mares” and turn into a complete horse’s behind…
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Gotta love it! ;)
michaelyukyuk about 10 years ago
Pastis! Is that you????
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 10 years ago
Boy! That’s an old one. I used it in a radio essay back in 1985 and I bet it wasn’t original even then! http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_misc.php?sid=8 “…That election was marred by, among other things, the opposition’s campaign song “The Old Grey Mayor she ain’t what she used to be”. Oldbold thought that the personal pronoun ‘she’ was just too personal, and, as a slur on his manhood, was quite unwarranted because, in his 92nd year, he had just got married, and was doubly unwarranted because he had just got married because he had had to….”
Reppr Premium Member about 10 years ago
He always wanted to be a stud but wound up as a mayor.
Observer fo Irony about 10 years ago
It is time to retire him; put him out to pasture, rolling in the grass with the young fillies. On second thought keep him in office and away from the fillies.
tripwire45 about 10 years ago
Neither is that joke.
Steve Dutch about 10 years ago
Pearls Before Swine is two strips over (on my bar, anyway).
gmu328 about 10 years ago
Thought it was Pastis, too!
KEA about 10 years ago
dang – fell for it. ouch.
Brett Bydairk about 10 years ago
Did Stephan Pastis write this?
neverenoughgold about 10 years ago
If you only knew the truth about “they ain’t what they’re gonna be” when you go to the poles the first time..Way too often they start as “gray mares” and turn into a complete horse’s behind…
mcnrpn about 10 years ago
Wince! Painfully bad… in a funny kind of way!
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
C’mon ed. – you can do better than that!!
dzw3030 about 10 years ago
San Jose, CA had a Mayor, “Janet Gray Hayes” and nobody nicknamed her Smokey. That validated my decision to leave the state…