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ImageSMART TALK
by Dr. Parley Speake

BURGER KING BAGELS:  The late Al Capp, creator of the eponymous comic strip character Li'l Abner, was a staunch conservative.  Not many of the staff here at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired remember him, but I do.

He hated war protesters,and one of his strips lampooned the then-megastar Joan Baez and made her look like an idiot.  He had her strumming a folk song about brotherhood, inviting everybody to sing along on "Bagels 'n' Bacon."  Get it?

Mr. Capp was at least right about the combination of an iconic Jewish food with a pork product sounding ludicrous.  But some years later, Burger King started serving bagels, with guess what: your choice of ham, bacon, or sausage.  The times, they were a-changin'.

I felt like asking whether the ham were kosher, but I've never done so.  Anyone actually serving bagels 'n' bacon probably wouldn't get it.

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