Tuesday, August 21, 2007

THANK GOODNESS FOR THE INTERNET, VOL. CLVII: So I was watching the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup over the weekend, and beyond being struck again by the surrealism of Harpo's tattoo gag, one line from Groucho (as Rufus T. Firefly) really jarred me: "Well, maybe I am a little headstrong, but I come by it honestly. My father was a little headstrong, my mother was a little armstrong. The Headstrongs married the Armstrongs, and that's why darkies were born."

And that's why what? Well, god bless the blogger who tracked down the line to its place in the 1930s pop culture universe. Short answer: it was a random song reference, but still kinda cringe-worthy.

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