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Thread #53297   Message #1023668
Posted By: Mark Ross
23-Sep-03 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: Burlesque/vaudeville joke routines
Subject: RE: Burlesque/ vaudville joke routines
"I'm going down to the pigpen."
"OK, wear your hat so's I'll know you."

"Get away from that wheelbarrow. You know you don't know nothing about machinery!"

When I got a chance to work with Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill
they did a lot of old routines that probably came from the old minstrel shows.

Pappy would say something denigrating about Snuffy(I forget exactly what), and Snuffy would reply, "That's nothing but propaganda!"
Pappy; "You don't even know the meaning of that word."
Snuffy: "Oh yes I do. How long have you and your wife been married?"
Pappy: "35 years."
Snuffy: "Do you have any children?"
Pappy: "No."
Snuffy: "Well I'd say that your wife might be a proper goose, but you ain't no propaganda!"
And then on to the next tune.

Mark Ross