ANDY'S GANG
>I got a gang, you got a gang. Everybody's got to have a gang. But the
only gang for you and me is good old Andy's gang. My how those words have
a different meaning today.> -- Brian Lafferty
Sans the scatology, Andy's Gang or, as it was
also called, The Buster Brown Shoe Show, had the
spirit of The Frogs. I refer to the very beginning of
the program when Andy was going berserk with a peanut
gallery of screaming children. It was remarkable.
There is also quite a bit of suffering on the part of
froggie's victims.
Yours, Larry Parr
Brian Lafferty wrote:
> parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > FROGS
> >
> >
> > First, John Hillery takes some necessarily
> > limited solace in what he would have my subordinates
> > say about me at, presumably, Chess Life, though
> > possibly at Glasnost News & Review which I also edited.
> > .
> > Secondly, I respond that John's tragedy is he
> > never had any subordinates.
> >
> > Thirdly, Neil Brennen says we are acting out
> > Aristophanes' Frogs.
> >
> > Finally, perhaps, I say, "Plunk your magic
> > twanger, Froggie."
> >
> > How can we ever forget the Buster Brown Shoe Show
> > with Andy Devine and Billy Gilbert?
> >
> > Yours, Larry Parr
> >
> >
> > The Historian wrote:
> >> On Apr 17, 9:13 am, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> DEAR JOHN
> >>>
> >>> <Gee, Larry, when some of your former subordinates told me you
> >>> reminded
> >>> them of a cartoon caricature of an extra from "The Front Page," I
> >>> though it was a joke.> -- JKH (John Hillery)
> >>>
> >>> You have never had any former subordinates.
> >>> Genuinely wish that you had had.
> >>>
> >>> Yours, Larry Parr
> >> This is turning into a chessic version of The Frogs. Cue the croaking
> >> chorus!
> >>
> >>> jkh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>>> parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>>>> AMBULANCE CHASER
> >>>>> < Stick to chasing ambulances in New York, Brian.> -- John Hillery
to
> >>>>> Brian Lafferty
> >>>>> The ultimate ambulance chasers are journalists
> >>>>> followed by lawyers, puffing mightily behind.
> >>>>> If John Hillery had called Brian Lafferty a
> >>>>> shyster, I might have disagreed with the
> >>>>> characterization but I would not be writing this.
> >>>>> Point of posting?
> >>>>> Just this: "ambulance chaser" is a strange
> >>>>> insult for a journalist or, in the case of John
> >>>>> Hillery, would-be journalist to voice. John's
> >>>>> problem, as viewed by those at the USCF who would
> >>>>> never hire him as editor of Chess Life, was that he
> >>>>> lacked the essential energy to head up an enterprise
> >>>>> such as a magazine. Too languid.
> >>>>> For the sake of argument, one could come up with
> >>>>> all kinds of malign aspersions against Mr. Lafferty.
> >>>>> But as I say, journalists usually stress the crooked
> >>>>> side of the pettifogging, hospital-haunting, banana
> >>>>> peel-dropping, tort-touting profession rather than the
> >>>>> active, athletic component.
> >>>>> Yours, Larry Parr
> >>>> Gee, Larry, when some of your former subordinates told me you
reminded
> >>>> them of a cartoon caricature of an extra from "The Front Page," I
> >>>> though it was a joke. But it sounds like your view of journalism
> >>>> really does put scoops and sensationalism ahead of responsibility
and
> >>>> integrity. (We won't mention good writing; that one's a lost
cause.)
> >>>> I'm sure there are places where your attitude would be appreciated
> >>>> (the National Enquirer comes to mind), but you were a poor fit for
> >>>> Chess Life, and you have now been reduced to the answer to a trivia
> >>>> question.
> I got a gang, you got a gang. Everybody's got to have a gang. But the
> only gang for you and me is good old Andy's gang.
>
> My how those words have a different meaning today.
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