The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 17, 2012

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    margueritem  about 12 years ago

    The crowd is smarter than Walter thought…

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    Linux0s  about 12 years ago

    It’s the backstage passes you really have to worry about.

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    bluskies  about 12 years ago

    Walter and friends need to add a few pounds; they look much more like pickles than Gallagher targets. Still, better safe than splattered.

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  about 12 years ago

    Floor seating would attract a kid

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    pcolli  about 12 years ago

    I had to look Gallagher up. I’m not surprised no one wants to see him. I wouldn’t, and I’m not a melon.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    No kids allowed —you have to be over 21 to get smashed.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    He can’t scalp in that crowd anyway — they’re all bald.

    And maybe his efforts wouldn’t be so fruitless if he went to a seedier part of town.

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    finale  about 12 years ago

    Rind over matter.

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    Fourcrows  about 12 years ago

    I managed to catch his show recently (it was free for me) and watched a video of one of his old shows from about 1985. They were mostly the same jokes, only updated. The craziest difference was the reviews: all the political and social jokes that made him seem like an anti-Reagan liberal in 85 made the reviewer label him as an anti-Obama Tea-Partier today.

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    tuna1  about 12 years ago

    Walter decides to keep the tickets himself, go the show, and get smashed.

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    J Short  about 12 years ago

    That show had him seeing red.

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    Digital Frog  about 12 years ago

    Good thing his puppy isn’t here with him or he’d truly be melon collie baby

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    heyward u. buzzov  about 12 years ago

    Gallager. Man that goes back

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    roshan_4_99  about 12 years ago

    The seedy side of life.

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    katy Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Cute, but would be really funny if Gallagher had been passing out the tickets!

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    Perkycat  about 12 years ago

    I love Argyle Sweater because it brings out the punster in all of you. Thanks for the laughs this morning!

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    burleigh2  about 12 years ago

    Wow… so many gags (or is that puns?) in one joke…

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    Casey Southards  about 12 years ago

    It is like selling tickets to a firing squad target practice.

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    eddie6192  about 12 years ago

    Walter’s a real melon-head for buying those tickets in the first place.

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    cobra-kai  about 12 years ago

    I wander how many girls like Walter Melon

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    Cartertoons  about 12 years ago

    I thought that was gonna be an Eddie Money joke in front of the Paradise theater.

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    coffeeturtle  about 12 years ago

    Homicidal!

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    Popeyesforearm  about 12 years ago

    Melons with glasses.That must be where I saw Blind Melon Chitlin’ playing at that club.

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    iced tea  about 12 years ago

    They know Gallagher would sledgehammer them all over the crowd.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    I wasn’t going to get into it here… cos I really don’t want a political discussion, and cos I’m not sure Scott knows about Gallagher today….

    But I have to point out, in response to a few comments…I’ve read some quotes from Gallagher’s “comeback” tours…To each his own, and if you find his stuff funny…. oh well….

    But he’s racist, homophobic, nasty and mean-spirited …to the point of shocking me with the unfunny venom he seems to regard as humor.I don’t care what your political opinions are…the things he says are senseless and cruel.He unleashes his paranoid ranting on unsuspecting audience members…for instance, telling a young man in a backwards baseball cap he must be a “homo” cos he can’t tell his front from his back…

    He also tells jokes so racist I can’t repeat them about the president, and about people of color in general.I have no use for that stuff.I have good friends on all sides of the political arena…and of various races and sexual persuasions…and one thing we all have in common is mutual respect.

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    bdwords  about 12 years ago

    A tad too arcane for me. Didn’t get it. Plus, it’s rather MELOnDRAMATIC…

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