Dick Martin Octogenarihexated

[Joe Allonby]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reagan's only program was "Death Valley Days".
>
> All of the others were Dick Cheney's.
>


...and they're now in reruns.

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>   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?"
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>> 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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