Yesterday I started the day feeling pretty grumpy and reminded me of the movie I saw many years ago with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. The premise of the movie that these 2 old friends were divided by both of them being attracted to Ann Margaret. As funny as it was it was Burgess Meredith as an old uncle who to me stole the show. He was a crusty old man who didn't have a filter on what he said. I looked it up on YouTube to play them for Matt when he came over. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes and kept laughing about Burgess Meredith all day. I started out trying to find what he said to Jack Lemmon's character when Walter Matthau's character was invited in to Ann Margaret's house. Burgess Meredith and Jack Lemmon were hiding behind a tree watching and Burgess Meredith in his raspy voice says "looks like Tom is getting lucky tonight". At the end of the movie they play al bunch of not safe for work or my blog ad Libs by Burgess Meredith.
Then there were a couple of Burgess Meredith parts of the movie I'd forgotten that I cat post on. Early one morning Jack Lemmon and Burgess Meredith are on the porch talking. Jack Lemmon says something about Burgess Meredith smoking. In his raspy voice Burgess says "for a long as I can remember I started out every morning witb a cigarette and then I went in and ate 6 pieces of bacon. At night I drank my dinner. Dr. told me that I should be in the dirt years ago." There was a long pause and Jack says sarcastically is there a moral to your story? And Burgess Meredith the says "no, I just like telling that story". Every time I think of this scene I started laughing. The next one is a little cruder but I think it's okay for my blog.
In this scene there is a young mother with the little girl about 3. She swallows a quarter and the mother is all upset. Burgess says "she swallowed a quarter, that's no big deal, kids swallowed quarters all the time". The mother says really? And Burgess says "yeah kids swallowed quarters all the time. If she craps out a dime and a nickel then you got problems!". I kept laughing about that one the rest of the day. I suppose some of my laughter was PBA disease but Burgess Meredith made me laugh and my mood changed all day.
I wish I could say my mood was improved by reading the Bible or prayer but I would be lying. I'm probably not the best Christian but when it comes right down to it I do lead on the Lord. And
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