The Dozens

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson wrote

    >>>>>

Mad magazine's (to the best of my memory) "By the way, Ed,
how's your mother?" used to shock me, because it had the form of the
ultimate insult, "By the way, Name, how's your mother /how yo' mammy?"

 <<<<<

"How's your mom, Ed?", in the parodies of Dragnet.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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