Blue Truck, Red State: What's My Line, 6/1/58

Thursday, May 2, 2019

What's My Line, 6/1/58

This would just fry everybody's tomatoes if it were shown today, but your unrepentant Head Trucker thinks it's still hilarious:

4 comments:

Davis said...: This is a complete riot. I couldn't stop laughing - a great find.

On a tangent I've been fascinated by Bennet Cerf's NYC accent since I was a kid.; May 4, 2019 at 9:30 AM
Russ Manley said...: It is a laff riot, glad you enjoyed. And Cerf was a great humorist, though for some reason in the back of my mind I thought his accent was New England-ish. But what do I know about all them furrin accents up Nawth?; May 4, 2019 at 2:12 PM
Davis said...: It wasn't a common man's accent, but a fancy pants educated New Yorker's. Hardly anyone speaks that way any more.; May 6, 2019 at 12:48 PM
Russ Manley said...: Hmm. Pity.; May 9, 2019 at 6:16 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu