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Huh. Soon as I saw the 'slap heard 'round the world,' I immediately wondered if he really put anything into it. I mean, yeah, I saw Rock's head swivel, but he didn't even come off his feet. And I wondered, what was the sense if Rock was just gonna stand up straight and keep going? Which, of course, everyone pretty much knew he would.

I'm not a celeb follower. This is one of maybe 2 or 3 newsletters that I subscribe to that isn't explicitly political. I was waiting for someone, ANYONE, to explain why the heck Smith would be THAT incensed over a tasteless joke and then just walk away. Innuendo in his acceptance speech did nothing to dispel the view that it was pointless. Even his supposed 'apology' (a day late & a dollar short) and his resignation from the Academy did nothing to make it any less pointless.

'Bout that pineapple joke tho... I thought it was almost funny at the end of 'Little Nicky,' but trying to imagine hands AND a pineapple in the same position is beyond me. Maybe I'm just too old.

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And here I'm discovering for the first time that it was from 'Little Nicky'...It had been told to ME by a dear friend Jason Lally. And I laughed like hell when he told me as well!

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Wow, seriously? I guess the world does still have things to learn from old folks like me, huh? And, my husband laughed like hell too, so there's that. ;)

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I thought of Kermit Washington and Rudy T, in a book by John Feinstein

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