From the Law Offices of Dewey, Cheatum & Howe....

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[Treefrog]

1. I remember the NPR show Click and Clack plugging that law firm lol!

Good to know they’re still around!

[Ohio Joe]

3. Sadly, Tom is gone

The Tappet brothers Car Talk is my favorite radio show of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Ray_Magliozzi

[CTyankee]

4. I LOVED that show. It was on the same station as Al Franken and Stephanie Miller.

Those were dark republican days (before Trump and we thought Bush, Jr. was awful).

[gordianot]

7. I remember the great shame I felt in those days being a distant relative of the Bush family.

My Grandfather dropped that one back in the 1970’s. I was never a fan of Prescott’s boy George H.W. As Grandpa called him and George W made me nauseous. My daughter started genealogy a few years ago and I told her to leave those skeletons alone. As terrible as this was to contemplate I despise Trump loving relatives far more than any Bush connections. W’s disdain of Donald is the only commonality I agree with but will Bush’s and never make up for the Bush flaws.

[plimsoll]

19. Look, if your family was in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Or Plymouth Colony, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations prior to King Phillips war, avoiding being related to the Bush family is really hard.

[gordianot]

30. My Grandfather actually knew Prescott was teased about it by no less than Clarence Cannon.

For the most part we all are descended from people if we knew the story would not acknowledge. Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon are distantly related which surprised them when they found out.

[plimsoll]

37. Not a huge Bush fan,

But trust me, at least 1 living relative I'd gladly trade you for. Not saying who.

Forgot to say that I somehow also got GHW, W and Jeb.

[cinematicdiversions]

31. Think about poor Obama.

Being related to Dick Cheney and Jefferson Davis on his mom's side.

[gordianot]

32. Obama is also a descendent of African slaves on his Mother's side.

[cinematicdiversions]

33. Are you sure about that? They are a pretty

famous southern family. As far as I know, Obama has no African American heritage himself. (He married and African American and his children of course have that heritage.)

[gordianot]

35. According to an article in the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/obama-descended-from-slave-ancestor-researchers-say/2012/07/30/gJQAUw4BLX_blog.html

[cinematicdiversions]

36. Well I will be darned. Descended from the first slave. (Before they technically had slavery)

Whose children went on to found a plantation in Virginia, (When they defiantly had slavery.)

I find it fascinating. I am sure a lot of families were mixed race back then before slavery was codified by race instead of contract.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Me too. I felt like my IQ dropped about 10 points...

... after learning that I was related to Bush Sr. and Dumbya.

I printed and copied thick "books" of my family's genealogy for my relatives as extra Christmas gifts in the early 2000's, and I briefly mentioned some of the most interesting ancestors described within.

No interest from them, at least most of them.

Then I mentioned, in an embarrassed manner, that we're also 9th or 10th cousins of the President (depending on the generation of my relatives). That's a very REMOTE relationship, obviously, but THAT is what got the most attention! With the Republican relatives saying that they couldn't wait to tell their coworkers and friends!

I later learned, after President Obama's ancestry was likewise researched by a team of professional genealogists, that my family is even more closely related to him. (But still very distant, and also meaningless.)

[3catwoman3]

12. Even if you didn't know or care anything about...

…cars, their show was a total delight. Both brothers has superb vocabularies.

[Danascot]

27. They both attended MIT

[3catwoman3]

28. I know- very impressive.

A most enjoyable show. We were faithful listeners.

[a kennedy]

26. Ours as well, so funny, yet offered excellent advice for the repair of car problems....

Miss them terribly……

[getagrip_already]

8. Npr just announced the show is ending.....

An Era gone. Sad.

[soldierant]

14. I still get the Weekly Puzzler email,

but it has been reruns for quite some time now. Sigh.

[LanternWaste]

16. Hope your slithy toves are well!

'you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark'

[Brother Buzz]

18. Click and Clack's genuine office on Harvard Square is gone...

but the new tenants discovered the window art is protected in the fine print of their new lease

[Walleye]

25. I was listening to them one Thanksgiving when Arlo Guthrie showed up and sang Alice's restaurant

He starts off by saying, “I’ve got this VW microbus it doesn’t have any power, what can I do?” And they say something like well it never did have any power. Great show

[abqtommy]

2. Addendum: You will be billed the going rate for this service!

[Permanut]

5. Second addendum..

Please wear a mask when you come in.

[mountain grammy]

6. Ha. Perfect

[Brother Mythos]

9. Good one!

Thanks for posting it.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Ha ha heh!!!! This is GREAT!! Thanks for sharing the laugh w/ us on DU!!

[SheltieLover]

11. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Pepsidog]

13. As an attorney I would be happy to give them a free consultation.

[reACTIONary]

15. Is the whack upside the head....

... included, or would you charge for that?

[Pepsidog]

21. That's what they get when they step inside the office. Then we can talk.

[reACTIONary]

24. +10, excellent customer service...

... Anticipating the client's needs!

[lambchopp59]

17. Must admit to admiring their one redeeming act of reconciliation, however:

Committing suicide due to the clownish devotion to idiotic beliefs in droves.

[TlalocW]

20. I prefer the law offices of

Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, and McCormick.

TlalocW

[Blue Owl]

22. K&R

[titanicdave]

23. .......Ah, Yes......

....Dewey, Cheetum & Howe........aka, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, & Curly Howard......aka...The Three Stooges......great clean slapstick fun.......

[Ron Green]

29. It used to be called "Boyd, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe"

But I reckon some lawyer named Boyd didn’t like it and made them cease and desist. Anybody remember that?