Cal.E.'s Korner

 “This is the lesson: Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force…”  Sir Winston Churchill (America’s National Churchill Museum. n.d.) 

C.: Hey, d.c. are you busy?

d.: Yes, very.  

C.: Doing what?

d.: Two things: trying to keep my superlative body in shape and forget about the eulogy I read this morning in the newspaper.  A great lady has left us, and I’m sad, but I’m not giving up. Sir Winston Churchill was right. I’ll look like this someday

if I keep working out.

C.: Who was it, the first lady?

d.: No, even worse. Ruth Buzzi had died, and she was only 88 years old.

C.: Well, I’m a cat, so I have nine lives, but that sounds like a good, long life to me.

d.: It wasn’t enough, though, for someone who was the champion of the underdog.

C.: ???

d.: Yes,  in the lated 1960s and early 1970s, Ruth Buzzi played an elderly lady on a variety television show called Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. She would hit people over the head with her heavy purse when they either disrespected her or were mean to her in any other way. She saw herself as “the Champion of the Underdog.” And, we had a lot in common.

C.: ????

d.: Well, she was the head cheerleader when she was in high school, and I played sports.

C.: That’s true of a lot of people, so I don’t see the connection….Oh, I see. Cheerleaders must be athletic, so you consider you both to be athletes, correct?

d.: Well, sort of. Technically, thoroughbred horses are great athletes, too, but I don’t consider myself to be like a thoroughbred. These horses can run up to 40 m.p.h. and…That reminds me, the Kentucky Derby is about to start and I want to watch it live, for once.

.:C.: , l, just don't bet on one of these to win

d.: I don't bet on thins I cannot control, Cal.E., but I do want to watch the Kentucky Derby in...four hours, twenty-three minutes and fifty -two seconds, give or take an hour.

C.: So, that’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.

d.: Rest in peace, Ruth Buzzi.