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Most of the rich people that they know (most of the rich people in the world) got their money the old-fashioned, all-American, Horatio Alger way.

They inherited it or married in.

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It was a bar bet. Geisel's editor, Bennett Cerf, bet him $50 he couldn't write a book with a vocabulary of exactly 50 words.

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Television, it is soooo overated. I am holding out for The Bern and Hillz to do a porn video.with a hot Latino pool boy. No, not Marco Rubio nor Ted Cruz, I have standards, and am of high moral character, whatever that means.

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The forehead wipe at the end was brilliant.

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It's either "Let's dispel" (no "with") or "Let's dispense with." It gets it wrong exactly the same every time. I need a drink. Rum.

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Trusssttt innn meeee...Now we know where Raphael got the idea for his sign...

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FWIW, I watched entire episodes of the early seasons when they first aired, and you are right about there being a lot of misses.

But it seems to me that the hits were bigger in the early years -- maybe because of cast, maybe because of novelty. E.g., you can only invent Rosanne Rosanadonna once.

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Rick Perlstein's Nixonland is absolutely mandatory reading. Making my way through the audio version of his new one about how Nixon led to Reagan, The Invisible Bridge, and it's outstanding, too.

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Video not available to foreign viewers. Taxation without representation! NO FAIR! I WANT MY BERNIE!

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"While Little Jim fell in the water..."

Ahem. That's for the Goon Show aficionados out there.

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"Don't know what we'd do without him."

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Marco Polio: Man, machine or disease vector?https://media4.giphy.com/me...

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Rube forgot the flapjacks...https://media3.giphy.com/me...

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A similar meme for Republicans would be a 7th Century oxcart

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Sometimes you need this....https://youtu.be/cBkWhkAZ9ds

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