Spitball Army

Now-classic shoe-eating and dinner roll scenes sparkle, but the best moments come from Chaplin’s innocent romance.

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Card is titled: “Aw-w-w- Quit ‘chur quackin’, You voted for him!”

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No one is totally human, they’ve all got animal instincts in them.

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Tom Lehrer performing his “Vatican Rag” live in Oslo on 10 September 1967.

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Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

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Now ex-Governor Sarah Palin gave her farewell speech to her beloved media yesterday before skipping out on her commitment to the state of Alaska. Conan O’Brien’s special guest William Shatner finds a unique poetic merit to her words.

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A mainstay of Comedy Central since 1997, South Park began as an exercise in vulgarity, with an emphasis on the scatological. “The round-headed protagonists may look like cruder versions of the ‘Peanuts’ gang, but ‘crude’ is the operative word,” sniffed Gail Pennington in an August 13, 1997 review for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Here’s a great and hilarious scene from WC Field’s 1941 film, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.  There are at least ten great quotable moments here, plus the appearance of Margaret Dumont, foil for many a Marx Brothers antic.

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Jon Hamm reprising his TV role in “Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women” on the 1 November 2008 Saturday Night Live. Familiarity with AMC’s Mad Men may be necessary for the fullest appreciation.

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