Re: Hmmm, ng very quiet

Hello, OpEd!
You wrote  on Thu, 8 May 2008 17:10:16 -0400:
>Indeed, Doobie, Reid does have a lot to say. I don't know him from Adam,
but
>I do occasionally scan this group for his postings which, along with
Blash, are 
>the most entertaining (and intelligent) in this ng.

Then you must have liked Prof. Irwin Corey.

from the Wikipedia:

"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York) is an 
American comic, film actor, and left-wing political activist who is billed
as 
"The World's Foremost Authority." He is credited with inventing his
unscripted, 
improvisational style of stand-up comedy at Enrico Banducci's San
Francisco club 
the hungry i.
He grew up in local orphanages until he was 13, then rode the rails out to

California. While working his way back East, he became a featherweight
Golden 
Gloves boxing champion.
In 1938 he was back in New York, where he got a job writing and performing
in 
Pins and Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the
garment 
trade in New York. He was fired from this job (he has said) for his union 
organizing activities -- the irony of which was not lost on him. Five
years 
later, he was working on another review, New Faces of 1943 and appearing
at the 
Village Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during
World 
War II, but was discharged after six months, after (according to Corey) 
convincing an Army psychiatrist that he was a homo***ual.


Lubow.