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It appears that not only has our beloved 38th President been taken from us, but also the gentleman's fare-thee-well from us knucklehead TOO! Gee...what's the chances o' THAT happenin', HUH?! Just don't mention the name "Chevy Chase" to me, OKAY! Look! It's NOT that I think that this Chase guy was/is pretty talent-LESS(Gimme a break here!!! The guy stumbled and fell and everybody thought he was a "comic genius" doin' a take on poor ol' President Ford. THAT was the WORSE impression of a sitting President I EVER SAW!)....but it was HOW he screwed up MY LIFE! Okay! Fair enough! You REALLY wanna know what I have against CHEVY CHASE? Well it's a looooong story, and it goes "something" like this...... Many years ago at my place of employment there was a lady co-worker by the name of Matilda. Matilda was BEAUTIFUL! She had long stringy red hair that covered her freckles. (not to mention the three warts on the side of her head) Well after many months of stalking....er...I mean WATCHING her from afar, I screwed up the courage to ask her for a date. I WENT ALL OUT!!! A VERY nice dinner at McDonald's, followed by the movie "Fletch II".(I had heard that it was a "sensitive case-study" about the Lepers of Molikai...that was the last time I ever listened to Roger Ebert) Well AFTERWARD as we walked out of the theater, she hailed a passing taxi, jumped into it, and said that THIS was the WORSE DATE she had ever been on!(My dreams of living happily ever after with Matilda dashed to SMITHEREENS) Now thinking that it couldn't POSSIBLY have anything to do with me "sauvely" saying to her as the final credits rolled on the screen, "Now that I bought you dinner and taken you to the movies, I now wanna jump your bones!"...I naturally HAD to assume that it was that LOUSY CHEVY CHASE MOVIE that ended my night so abruptly.(and BTW, that lousy flick had NOTHING wahtsoever to do with lepers OR ANY of the islands of Hawaii!!!...and, ANOTHER 12 bucks down the drain!!!) So...JUST LIKE that dude in those old Abbott and Costello movies who beats up on poor Lou whenever the name "Martha" is mentioned, I sort'a react the same way. But in MY CASE, it's the name..."CHEVY CHASE"!!! Cheers, Dwight (But don't worry...You guys can mention ANY OTHER town in Maryland, like Baltimore or Bethesda or EVEN Owings Mill, and I won't react ONE LITTLE BIT!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I think your mistake was Mcdonalds.You should have taken her to Burgerking.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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Nah, he just didn't buy her the Happy Meal like he should have. 
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Geeeeeeze, Dwight - This may be the only time I ever felt sorry for you. What a hopeless romantic. What a girl. What great taste in food and cinema. What a memory to have to live with. Your dead on about C.C. though - He does suck a bit. 
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Ok Dwight, if your date with this Matilda ended so abruptly, can you explain to class how you knew she had 3 warts on the side of her head, especially if they were concealed by her hair?
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For every crappy thing Chevy has done, he still has this.... One of the best on screen rants of all time.
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"It's outside your field of expertise."
"Poppycock normally is."
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Ok Dwight, if your date with this Matilda ended so abruptly, can you explain to class how you knew she had 3 warts on the side of her head, especially if they were concealed by her hair?
Well Thanassis,
When Matilda walked by the airconditioning vent, her hair would fly gently away off her hunched back and glint in the soft fluorescent lighting of the office in such a way that those magnificent warts of her's would be exposed for the whole wide world to admire.
(this memory will be etched in my soul until the end of my days) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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For every crappy thing Chevy has done, he still has this....
One of the best on screen rants of all time.
Now thats funny....
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For every crappy thing Chevy has done, he still has this....
One of the best on screen rants of all time.
I don't know 'bout THAT, Stew Baby!!!
The wife says I "go off" like THAT whenever I see a certain Texan on our 42inch Hi-Def TV! And I KNOW that I'M not "that talented", per se!!!
So..I STILL don't "get" the "big deal" about...CHEVY CHASE!!!
Cheers,
Dwight
(I'll bet he had an uncle in "The Business")
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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We watched that movie on Xmas. His genious wasn't in WHAT he said but HOW he said it. A lot of those lines weren't that funny, but the delivery was priceless. "Merry Christmas, Kiss my ******, kiss his ******, kiss your ******, happy hannukka." SOO funny. My apologies for bad spelling
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I think Benny nailed it, its could all be in the delivery. We all can identify with the way he feels- in the National Lampoon movies he's just Mr Joe average. Thats what makes it so great and I don't know if anybody else that could have pulled it off.
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Okay, okay! I have to admit I thought he WAS pretty funny in that "National Lampoon Vacation" series.
My favorite scene is in the first of that series, when once again in a similar irked moment, he get's this insane look in his eyes and tells his family(BTW, isn't Beverly DeAngelo's overbite HOT, or is it just me?) who all say that maybe they should just turn back and go home..."This is no longer JUST a vacation! This has NOW become a QUEST!"
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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My favorite Jerry Ford quote...."I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln"...
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My favorite Jerry Ford quote...."I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln"...
Hummm....Sounds to me like you're more a Ford than a Chevy(Chase) Man then, HUH Mark?!
I hear ya Bro!
But what about all the guys out there like Greybeard who for some reason think ONLY of Mopar products?
Don't cha think they should have a voice in Congress TOO???
(let's not be exclusionary now!!!) 
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Don't forget Randy Quaid, plaid the PERFECT dimwhit in those!
"Can I refill your eggnogg Eddie? Take you out into the middle of nowhere? Leave you for dead?"
"No Clark, I'm doin just fine."
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I think it's time to add "chevvie" as a verb to the language meaning "to be once funny but then sadly lose it yet, remarkably, manage to stay famous." We can then talk about how both Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy have been "chevvied" or how Mike Myers is in danger of "chevvying" if he doesn't do something more than "Shrek 3." A list of others who have been "chevvied" is welcome Siggy
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A list of others who have been "chevvied" is welcome
add dwight to the list
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Badum tschhhh!
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A list of others who have been "chevvied" is welcome
add dwight to the list
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A list of others who have been "chevvied" is welcome
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Okay Fred,
Need I REMIND you that one has to be a "Once Was", in order for them to become a "Has Been"...er, I MEAN..."chevvied". 
(good coin, there Siggy!...I like it)
Cheers,
Dwight
(SHEESH! WHY is it ALWAYS up to ME to enlighten these "Newbies" around here about things...ESPECIALLY about things such as MY "misspent youth") 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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SHEESH! WHY is it ALWAYS up to ME to enlighten these "Newbies" around here about things...
That's coz you da man!
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