tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3166975866661352942..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: National Brotherhood WeekAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-27382732394999198322021-02-23T10:38:46.393-05:002021-02-23T10:38:46.393-05:00So it was already well on its way out by the time ...So it was already well on its way out by the time Lehrer sang this, it got a kick forward under Ford, it looks like, continued by Carter, and then faded a few years after Reagan took office.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-58222146612039289992021-02-23T09:29:35.823-05:002021-02-23T09:29:35.823-05:00Pondering the question further of "When did i...Pondering the question further of <i>"When did it slip beneath the waves?"</i>, I present this google ngram (a measurement of the number of times the phrase appears in their corpus of scanned books, plotted against time:<br /><br />https://imgur.com/a/oksSUSr<br /><br />Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26012849718739622772021-02-22T18:15:20.475-05:002021-02-22T18:15:20.475-05:00https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-21/whatever-be...https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-21/whatever-became-national-brotherhood-week<br /><br />A touring "tolerance trio" of a Roman Catholic priest, a protestant minister, and a rabbi.<br /><br /><i>a Roman Catholic priest, a protestant minister, and a rabbit walked into a bar. When they sat down, the bartender said "I think one of you might be a typo".</i>Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.com