Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 10, 2012

A gamblin’ man.

And just when he had penned “Bargain”.

Such a deaf, dumb and blind kid!

Ok…. Who’s Next?

Man… back then I couldn’t picture My Generation getting so old!

He listened and he heard the music in a word, that he heard when he played his guitar….

Ah, 6…. but you mean YOUR generation….I was a young’un like you when I thought that too!

Firesign Theater had a bit back in the 70’s (?) with some old hippie stoners in a park at an advanced age…. really funny but I haven’t heard it in years. Might be dated now.

Don’t remember whether it was on Brevity (if so, sorry) where I posted about my friend who a few years ago wanted to get a rose tattooed on her….

um… in her cleavage… on one side.

and I asked her if she’d still like it at 80 or 90 when it had become a faded, long-stemmed tea rose.

She changed her mind … not really just cos of my snarky remark, but cos picturing a 90-year-old lady with a “sexy” tattoo on her breast was too creepy.

This same theme is starting in Dude and Dude today. Only with Zeplin,

3 card fool monty.Welcome back #6!

Roger that.

“I’m thinking about my g-g-generation. I was 12 when I Won’t Get Fooled Again came out. I came of age then.

Ok, the comments have had me laughing harder than the cartoon. Thanks guys!

@Susan SunshineClose but no pickle! The old guys sketch is from The Congress of Wonders album Revolting. The sketch is titled “Pidgeon Park”. It was from 1970. Love your commentaries!

Indeed!

Oh wow — you guys are right!Congress of Wonders……How could I forget?

I really AM getting old!

Thank you Radish and Tim!

susan, after the other post, I find it especially hard to inform you that Peter Bergman has died. I know. Clowns the world over are crying tonight.

If I believed in heaven, I would wish for him an affair with Gilda, and long afternoons talking and laughing and exchanging ironies with Mark Twain as a reward for a life well lived…Seriously, Firesign Theater twisted my view of the world, and I mean that in the best way…The job of a humorist/satirist, is the most important job that has ever existed. Most humor is rooted in truth. It’s only the court jesters that can get away with saying it….

Varnes…. I meant to come back in here before and say I was sorry to hear.

I never listened to Firesign Theater as much as it seems you did — but they were an influence.

It seems like the older we get the more of our guiding stars flicker out…. we’re supposed to know the way by now but sometimes …..

Meanwhile…. where’s today’s (Sunday’s) Brevity? I don’t know what to do with myself without that either….

funny :-)

Not as mole, a duck. I’m commenting on Sunday’s comic protocol be damned.

The Sunday, March 11, 2012 “Brevity”, courtesty of The Washington Post