Trolling4Dollars's Journal: Keeping the classics alive

The Marx Brothers were geniuses. Even today, their humor is exquisite. Take this exchange between Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont from The Coconuts (1929):

Groucho: Now you've gotten it out of me. I love you.
Mrs Potter: I don't think you'd love me if I were poor.
Groucho: I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut.

Such timeless humor. Do yourself a favor and rent a Marx Brothers video this weekend.

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YES!!!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I love them best when they are not sacrificing ANYTHING to plot or character! They were characters, who needs the long bit?

This means the old stuff - Coconuts, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup and Horsefeathers.

I grew up with this on Late Night Television - before this was screwed by Regan's de-regulation, and the advent of the Infomercial.

"Now go, and never darken my towels again!"

An old favorite T-shirt...

[Ethelred Unraed]

...showed the Marx brothers, with Karl Marx among them, saying "Why, yes, I'm a Marxist!"

The delicious part is that it can be understood both ways -- as a dig at Marxism, but also nudging those rabidly against it.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Just for this

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I'm bringing back a clasic sig of old- this was my sig for YEARS on Usenet.