Dick Martin Octogenarihexated

[Joe Allonby]

Reagan's only program was "Death Valley Days".

All of the others were Dick Cheney's.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah, he was a funny guy! Loved that show...
>
> from the obit:
> "Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk Douglas were delighted to make
> brief appearances, and even Richard Nixon, running for president in
> 1968, dropped in to shout a befuddled sounding, "Sock it to me!" His
> opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was offered equal time but
> declined because his handlers thought it would appear undignified."
>
> a) if only Nixon's line there had been "What?"
>
> b) that would never happen nowadays; Reagan did away with "equal time"
> and it is sorely missed,
> like well-regulated airlines and utilities
> like COLAs - there used to be this idea that people would get raises
>       when the cost of living went up, see...
> like defined-benefit retirement plans
> like honest funding for Social Security
> like progressive income tax for God's sake...
>
> like nuclear disarmament
> like the Geneva convention
> and like 4000+ others I could name and literally countless Iraqis today
>
> fuck, Reagan's programs suck...
>
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