"Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents."

Gawd, what a classic......That one was originally just meant as a throw-off line and no one including him thought anything about it til the money started rolling in. As I recall, he donated all that was sent to a charity cause.

Yeah Joe.......he started in Cincy then Cleveland and then went on to Detroit where he really took off. So those of us in the midwest were laughing long before the rest of the country.


Spaw