<p>However, it must be said that the act has lost some of its former savoir faire: Che-Larry up and got offed; Hugo-Curly now stinking drunk and giddy on the smell of sulfur and; worst of all, the greatest of all equals, Stooge-Fidel-Moe gave up the stogies…which, as you know, is the second thing to go in a stooge. </p>
<p>There’s always room on the couch for the Voice of God.</p>
<p>A brief anecdote. Once, as my daughter clicked around the channels and I lamented the decline of the medium from the golden days of my youth, she alighted upon the three stooges, looked at me and asked “such as this”? It seemed I had lost yet another argument.</p>
<p>well, after decades of cigar-chomping the tastebuds decline so that a pizza supplies no more pizzazz than a cubano,…but sometimes, as you well know, a pizza is just a pizza</p>
<p>but I really wouldn’t know about the first thing to go,…</p>
<p>(and in higher ed there seems to be a trend toward eliminating ed)</p>
<p>…perhaps you would have had greater luck and she satisfaction had you attuned her budding irony to the ubiquitous and bumbling “Three Cuban Stooges”.</p>
<p>They are the ‘real-deal’ in slap-stick…liberal to the core, to boot–if it matters.</p>
<p>and fwiw, unlike a stogie or a pizza, a stooge is never just a stooge.</p>
<p>well, in fact we’re all ‘iced in’ and when i went down to peek in the fridge just now she asked if i wanted to watch (our netflixed) Fellini’s ‘8.5’(sorry, can’t do fractions on this laptop). I will be on high alert for anacronistic stooge referencilia,…</p>