Fletch
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'Twas the night before Christmas Two Thousand and Seven
And Fletch was up wrapping till way past eleven.
He had a few cookies, a jigger of Jack,
Then tied the last ribbon and made for the sack.
Where some folks read books as a night soporific,
Our Fletch finds the laptop works just as terrific.
But what to his web-surfing eye should appear
But a man who robbed sleep - but instead gave much cheer.
Photo from Rick Squires, stoopnagle.tripod.com
Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle, that was the name,
A surrealist comic of radio fame.
With Wilbur Budd Hulick, announcer and sidekick,
He had Nineteen Thirties folk laughing their sides sick.
The Colonel wrote books and much magazine fare
You can find on the website (but not on the air).
His forte: Inventions both useless and crazed,
And Stoopnocracy, cure for Depression malaise.
Photo from same guy. Try and keep up, won't you?
Colonel Stoop, known to neighbors as Frederick Chase Taylor,
Passed on all too soon, leaving radio paler.
But two young comedians from him took schooling -
An Elliott (Bob) and a Ray (name of Goulding).
So now, as my gift to Fedorans this Yule,
I commend to you Stoopnagle, glorious fool.
May he tickle the bumps of your humorous lobes.
Merry Christmas to all! (But de-tassel your robes.)
Photo from...take a guess.
http://stoopnagle.tripod.com/index.html
And Fletch was up wrapping till way past eleven.
He had a few cookies, a jigger of Jack,
Then tied the last ribbon and made for the sack.
Where some folks read books as a night soporific,
Our Fletch finds the laptop works just as terrific.
But what to his web-surfing eye should appear
But a man who robbed sleep - but instead gave much cheer.
Photo from Rick Squires, stoopnagle.tripod.com
Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle, that was the name,
A surrealist comic of radio fame.
With Wilbur Budd Hulick, announcer and sidekick,
He had Nineteen Thirties folk laughing their sides sick.
The Colonel wrote books and much magazine fare
You can find on the website (but not on the air).
His forte: Inventions both useless and crazed,
And Stoopnocracy, cure for Depression malaise.
Photo from same guy. Try and keep up, won't you?
Colonel Stoop, known to neighbors as Frederick Chase Taylor,
Passed on all too soon, leaving radio paler.
But two young comedians from him took schooling -
An Elliott (Bob) and a Ray (name of Goulding).
So now, as my gift to Fedorans this Yule,
I commend to you Stoopnagle, glorious fool.
May he tickle the bumps of your humorous lobes.
Merry Christmas to all! (But de-tassel your robes.)
Photo from...take a guess.
http://stoopnagle.tripod.com/index.html
