I Had More Common Sense When I Was A Kid

[gab13by13]

When I was a kid I had more common sense than grown ass Magats have today. I am 77 and I was watching Groucho Marx on TV, he had some kind of game show.

I don't remember exactly what Groucho was referring to but he said, "Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?"

I was a kid, and I laughed because I knew it was a stupid joke.

To belong to today's Magat political party, one has to give up common sense and reason. A Magat must repeat whatever TSF tells them to repeat, like migrants eating cats and dogs, like TSF won the 2020 election, like "they" control the weather. The sad part is what should be laughed at is then promoted and debated by the MSM to give it some kind of credibility.

Groucho would make a proud member of today's Magat party.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Groucho (and all the Marx Brother's) would be shitting all over Trump and his MAGA'ts

[gab13by13]

2. I have no idea about the Marx's political beliefs.

I was simply referring to that one saying.

I guess that TSF copied that saying from Groucho.

[Talitha]

3. Dump must have copied it - Groucho's the only one I remember that ever said it.

I'm 72 and also remember watching the show - was it 'You Bet Your Life'? The show had a bird that dropped down with the secret word - I was a kid and wanted to get a bird because of that.

[gab13by13]

5. Yeah, I think you are right,

I remember the secret word. My memory is good, it just doesn't last as long.

[Mossfern]

11. It was a duck, I think

n/t

[wnylib]

4. I remember Grouch Marx. I don't think that he would

make a good MAGA today. He was a liberal Dem.

The game show that he had on TV was You Bet Your Life. His "insults" were part of his comedy style, like Don Rickles.

[gab13by13]

6. Yeah, I apologize to the Marx family,

Groucho used the saying as a joke, Magats are blindly loyal to complete nonsense.

[Talitha]

8. IIRC, he once said "I don't want to be in a club that would have me as a member."

It might have been a line from a movie - if it was, I wouldn't doubt that it was his own comment tossed in. He was a comic genius.

[wnylib]

14. Yes, he said that. I don't remember the context.

The thing that I remember most about him is not anything he said or did. It's that I stayed home from school on a Friday, not feeling well, and was watching his show when the network broke in with an announcement that shots had been fired at Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas.

[uponit7771]

7. Minimum you were more knowledgeable, MAGA critical thinking skills are low

[republianmushroom]

9. We were taught then to think, to think for our selves,

and not to just follow the rabbit down its hole.

[Jersey Devil]

10. "You Bet Your Life" was the name of the show

I don't know if the duck that came down and gave you $100 if you said the "Secret Word" had a name.

[orthoclad]

12. All Hail Marx and Lennon!

album cover with Groucho and John.

To get an idea of Marx political feelings, go watch Duck Soup, one of the greatest movies ever made.

[Wednesdays]

13. As for Groucho being a MAGAt...

"I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx

Groucho really wanted his daughter Melinda to become a singer (like Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy), but Melinda's heart was not really into it and her singing career fizzled. She now lives in obscurity in California.
Groucho had Melinda on his show several times when she was a kid, to show off her singing. This clip is from a few years later, 1965: