"Business takes Vi[z]a"

[Mark Mandel]

Don't that take the tassel off'n the corn!

m a m

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> Well don't _that_ take the rag offen the bush!
> al capp via dh
>
> The graphic-novelist, Al Capp, imagined the existence of two
> aristocratic English families, one named Chalmondelay, pronounced
> "chumley," and another named Chumley, pronounced "chalmondelay."
>
> -Wilson

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