Re: Beer Barrel Polecats

As I've mentioned before, my brother and I have been having the
world's slowest Three Stooges marathon.  For the past 12 years We've
been watching each of their Columbia shorts on its 80th anniversary.

Tomorrow (Saturday) it will be time to watch Beer Barrel Polecats.
It's unusual in that in that episode they get locked up for 40 years.
So for exactly half the time since the episode.

So they would have been released from prison in January 1986, just in
time to watch the Challenger disaster.  (In real life, all three of
the Stooges were already long dead by then.)

It's hard to believe that the Challenger disaster was 40 years ago,
almost halfway back to WWII.  And even harder to believe that the end
of WWII is closer to the end of the Civil War than to the present.
Time marches on.

Another bit of weird chronology is that later this month it will be
longer since the JFK assassination than the JFK assassination was after
the McKinley assassination.  So it will be a new record time since a US
president was assassinated.

I have Beer Barrel Polecats on DVD, but it can also be found on YouTube.
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