My gawd...two whole months of The Sound of Music??? The mind boggles. Your Mother-in-law must have had clam chowder between her ears.

Chris - No, no, no! That's just what they want you to think. The truth is that the original Burl Ives was rubbed out, put on ice, eliminated, deep-sixed...in the late 40's...by Big Daddy Malone, who then posed as Burl Ives right up into the 90's. Big Daddy Malone was a big orangutan who got a shave and a makeover. His resemblance to Ives was already so close that no one noticed, and he "aped" Ives's performance technique so effectively that he got away with it for nearly 50 years!

If you don't believe it, read the thread entitled "Chongo Chimp, Primate Eye" and be enlightened to the shocking truth about this sordid matter.

- LH