Another kind of buddy

[Jonathan Lighter]

Persons of a certain age and level of television addiction (my drug of choice at the time) will recall the ubiquitous Right Guard commercials of the late '60s in which kid's show host Chuck McCann played a friendly apartment-dweller who somehow shares a medicine cabinet with his next-door neighbor.  When the neighbor opened it to get his deodorant, McCann greeted him with annoyingly upbeat, "Hi, guy!"

  Then he explained that Right Guard was better than what the chump was already using.

  J

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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FWIW, there's that blues guitarist, Buddy Guy.

-Wilson

On 6/15/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> At 6/15/2007 06:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >My wife's family refers to adult male friends as "boyfriends" "Uncle
> >Fred's boyfriend, Peter..." This has always seemed off key to me. Do
> >adult heterosexuals have boyfriends?
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> They have toyboys, don't they? (I am finding risible associations
> hard to resist.)
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> Joel
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