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Tag: Abbott & Costello

Abbott & Costello – 7×13 =28

April 7, 2015 6:01 pm Robert Zimmerman

An evening pause: Lou Costello probably works for the federal government these days.

Hat tip Tom Biggar.

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Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B

September 11, 2011 8:01 pm Robert Zimmerman

An evening pause: From the Abbott and Costello film Buck Privates (1941).

To me, the word that best describes this is exuberance. Faced with war and threatened with destruction, the American nation responded with defiant humor.

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