Matlock!
I am now convinced that everything you need to know about life (and politics) can be found in a Simpsons episode. I have been searching the internets all morning for a clip of this scene from the Simpsons where Mayor Quimby names a new expressway in Springfield after Matlock to appease senior citizens in the community. Well, with some polls showing that the lies of that Queen of Jerry Springerian White Trash, Sarah Palin, about death panels and Medicare cuts, had taken hold in a large segment of our seniors, to whom did President Obama turn?
MATLOCK himself.
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.
The year was 19dickity2. We had to use the word dickity because the kaiser stole our word for twenty
“The year was nineteen ought six. The President was the divine Miss Sarah Bernhardt, and all over America people were doing a dance called the Funky Grandpa! Oh I’m the- zzzzzzz.”
This video contains all of those quotes:
“Three wars back we called Sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” and we called liberty cabbage “super slaw” and back then a suitcase was known as a “Swedish lunchbox.” Of course, nobody knew that but me. Anyway, long story short… is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling.”