Subj : Today is... National Gro To : Rob Mccart From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 17:06:16 Rob, -=> Rob Mccart wrote to DARYL STOUT <=- DS> One of Groucho's lines is the tagline below, but I believe that >he also noted. "I never forget a face. But, in your case, I'll make >an exception". RM> He did have a few good lines.. A couple of my faves.. RM> Maybe his most quoted: I'd never belong to any club that would RM> have someone like me as a member. RM> And.. Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.. RM> and inside a dog it's too dark to read.. Years ago, Frank Ferrante, did a show "An Evening With Groucho" at The Rep (formerly the Arkansas Repretory Theatre (ART)), in Little Rock. He was the only individual licensed by the late actors estate to perform it. You thought that Groucho had come back from the dead!! On one of the numbers, he was singing about "Lydia, The Tattooed Lady"; "On her back, is the Battle Of Waterloo". This obese woman near the front was laughing wildly. When he got done singing, he asked her what her name was. When she replied "Lydia", it brought the house down in raucous laughter, and he nearly fell off the stage!! My late father and I went to see it, and he wanted to get near the front. I told him "If we do that, he's going to razz us all night". Sure enough, there was a bald man in the front row, and the guy said "I'm Groucho Marx"...then walking up to the bald man, he said "This is Karl Marx. Sorry about The Revolution, Old Man!!"...while rubbing the bald guys head. That was an indication of how funny the show would be!! :) Several years ago, Tom Mullica, did a show in Branson on "A Tribute To Red Skelton". Just like with "An Evening With Groucho", you thought Red had come back from the dead!! All the classic characters...Freddie The Freeloader, Dead Eye, Gertrude and Heathcliff (the 2 seagulls), Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Mean Little Kid, etc. were there...as was the routine of Guzzler's Gin. In one routine, he said "I dreamed I died last night, and went to Heaven, and met God. He sneezed, and I didn't know what to say to Him". :) This one lady in the front row had "the deer in the headlights look" (How Do You Say 'God Bless You' to God??)...then, it clicked!! She was beside herself in laughter. "Red" asked "Which joke you working on, honey??!!". The whole hall was already in laughter, when he added "Don't get me laughing, dear heart...you'll never get out of here"!! Too bad they don't make comedy like that anymore. Groucho Marx, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and so many more...all proved that you do NOT have to be dirty to be funny. If I were to get the chance to see either or both of these shows again, I'd make an effort to do so. At a church choir retreat several years ago, they used "Church Bulletin Bloopers" to break the ice. They were all clean, but absolutely hilarious. My favorites are noted below...with my snide comments. 1) The meeting of the Women's Temperance Union will be held Wednesday morning at 11am in the Fellowship Hall. Drinks will be served. (I'll bet they will!!). 2) We've had so many babies born in the church in the past year, that we'll have baptism at the front and back of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends. (And, I'll bet some will provide their own water, as they're p!$$ed off at this). 3) All the single ladies wishing to become pregnant, please see the Pastor in his study. (I wonder if that's on the sperm of the moment??). 4) For those of you who have children, and don't know it...we have a nursery downstairs. (Did they get pregnant by osmosis??). 5) This being Easter Sunday, we'll ask Mrs. B. to come forward, and lay an egg on the altar. (Spread 'em wide, honey!!). I hope everyone enjoyed the humor of this message, as there is so little to laugh at in the world nowadays. As the late Jerry Clower noted "If you've got a hump in your back, and your lip is pooched out, and you don't believe in laughing...go home, and look in the mirror...and see what everyone else has been laughing at all these years!!". Daryl .... Overweight just sort of snacks up on you. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.30-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:200/56) .