Rubes by Leigh Rubin for August 01, 2024

Facts, we don’t need no stinking facts!!! we just need a name to blame.

name; Richard Afootlong

Ah, the old five W’s.

Sorry chum “All you need is Love” not the Who.

Why?

“Was it a high crime?”

“No, he was perfectly sober!”

A lot of us need the who, but Moon and Entwistle are long gone.

Speaking of reporters, Gershkovitz and Phelan are coming home in a prisoner swap, along with two others. Great news!

“Right, so I’ve put you down for a 10 year subscription to the paper I work for…”

But I don’t play first base.

That’s a good deal of modern journalism; their spelling and grammar is criminal!

One evening the local 10pm news had a segment asking passersby about some issue or other, and their names popped up on the screen as they were talking. I wasn’t paying much attention until I noticed that they guy talking was “Art Vandelay.” That was worth a chuckle.

Several minutes and a commercial break later, the anchor (looking embarrassed) apologized for not catching the fake name before airing the segment. What made it funnier was that Seinfeld reruns followed the 10pm news on that channel every night…

But did he get the joke?