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All-American G-Rated Cussin’

     As I continue my hopeless quest to figure out why some writers a hundred years ago or thereabouts referred to a handgun as a “roscoe” (I keep waiting for Fatty Arbuckle to be the answer, but no one goes along with it) and my equally futile journey to find out what happened to the…

CRUSHES OF YORE

     I am not sure we have ever discussed in this space the phenomenon of the pin-up joke, a classic of humor for decades.  Of course, you know what a pin-up is: THAT goes back for centuries (possibly millennia, depending on whether those cave paintings and ancient sculptures were offerings to a fertility goddess or…

QUAINTUPLETS: The Horn of Mr. Horner

     Mr. Horner owned a long, black car, which he loved.  He washed it four times a week, and he polished the hood ornament and the chrome every day.  Twice a month he took it to a mechanic named Harvey, who made sure the engine worked perfectly.      Because there was nothing Mr. Horner liked…

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