The Leopard's Limb

This post is titled after a comment by our good poster O. T. Rush, who likened himself to a leopard reposing on a tree limb, waiting for his favorite prey, good poster Roblo, to pass underneath. Roblo, fearing no leopards, did indeed pass underneath, but O. T. was catnapping at the time, though he later pounced, and their debate renewed. I'm using this post to follow up on leftovers from yesterday.

JohnG: he was indeed an interesting poster in the Forum. I generally disagreed with the gent, but he welcome here if anyone runs across him.

Ancestry: O. T., well you might be proud of your ancestors. Like many of us, my ancestry is somewhat interesting. My paternal grandmother was descended from Germans who settled in Iowa. Since my mother and father were distant cousins (southerners, y'know), both are descended from a gent of English/Scots-Irish ancestry who emigrated to Delaware from what is now Northern Ireland. He sired what became a long line of (usually impecunious) preachers. My paternal great-granddad was such a reverend but ultimately went to work for the Durham tobacco Dukes, moved to Cuba and set up a business that my grandfather grew into tobacco and sugar plantations in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and elsewhere. He was a multi-millionaire, but (sigh), two hurricanes, the Depression, and Smoot-Hawley ended that, so I post this history from a work computer rather than from my study in my retirement home overlooking the Pacific.

Mrs. Stab: Thank you, O. T. She will no doubt blush when informed of your compliment.

Comedians: The ones you listed were indeed great. You of course remember George "Kingfish" Stevens, from "Amos 'n' Andy," of radio and television. Foxx said everything he learned about comedy, he learned from watching Tim Moore, who played Kingfish in the television series. Interestingly, unlike his protege, Moore never did any off-color humor. Speaking of family friendly comedians, I saw Jay Leno on stage years before he hosted the "Tonight Show." While not particular off-color, he was definitely non-PC beyond what NBC would have tolerated--I recall references to Arab cab drivers in big cities and Indian (as in India) clerks in convenience stores.

Little Moron: the screen/strained joke is the best. The few jokes I ever heard were LM jokes: Why did the Little Moron throw a clock out the window? And the same query, but substituting butter for the clock.

". . . science always prevails.": Yes, but in my readings and watchings over the past few year or so, I observe were science is viewing larger vistas, and some aspects of religious belief are no longer quite so divorced from science as once appeared.