"pig" as policeman

[Jonathan Lighter]

The _Dick Van Dyke Show_, 1961.  (I just looked it up in HDAS.)

  JL

Brenda Lester <alphatwin2002 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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FBI:
Fat, Bald, and Ignorant
(same period)

sagehen wrote:
>I remember the PIG acronym as well. It may have been in 1969 or ' 70.
>
> I do not look back to the '60s fondly. Does anyone - born before, say,
>1956?
>
> JL
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Odd question! With all their faults, the various movements of the '60s
were a grand relief from the ferocious, repressive conformity of the '50s
and the viciousness of McCarthyism. People were so intimidated by the red
scare that they wouldn't sign copies of the Bill of Rights.
AM


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