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Cluny's
Corner: A Dog Gone Look At The World
My
master always hates time-change weekend, and the last
time-change weekend was no exception. He claims that the
time change throws off his internal clock, and he drags
around for two weeks before his body makes adjustments.
He really hates spring when the country goes on what he
calls "Federal Government Daylight Wasting Time."
But this time "Spring Forward" actually cut
one hour off the Get Smart Marathon on channel
55 (TV Land). Even to me, the Federal Government has gone
too far.
My master and I both love Get Smart. It's a great
sitcom spoofing spy verses spy. I like the shoe phone, the
President's (LBJ's) horn phone, the cone of silence, and
all the other spy gadgets on that show. Even the enemy's
torturing procedures were creative. In my favorite episode,
Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) was about to be tortured by KAOS,
who had their headquarters in a Chinese Laundry. They were
going to put Agent "86's" head in a hot press
and asked if he had any last request. The cool spy replied,
"No starch please."
In another episode Agent "86" and his beautiful
protégé, Agent "99", are invading
a KAOS controlled island. Prior to the mission, the Chief
and Agent "86" were observing the military staff
that were to provide backup support. As if betting in a
poker game, a submarine admiral and a destroyer admiral
begin to raise the ante in each other's numbers of navy
vessels on the board until they had none left. According
to my master this reminded him of the recent expulsion of
Russian diplomats (agents) from the U.S. and Russia's retaliation
by expelling U.S. diplomats (agents) from Russia.
We watched the Get Smart Marathon as "86,"
"99," the Chief, Hymie, "13," and all
the other CONTROL agents fought KAOS to a standstill. CONTROL
even fought aliens from outer space (Code "16")
and saved the world. My master remarked about how the spy
game has not changed much in 30 plus years. Recent reports
have unearthed that the Russian's had a tunnel under our
embassy in Moscow, and we had a tunnel under their embassy
in Washington. I remember a James 'Bomb' (007-license-to-kill)
movie where there was a tunnel and periscope under the Russian
embassy in Turkey. As for me, I see no reason to tunnel
'in.' I prefer to tunnel 'out'. I have so many tunnels out
of my doggie pen, that my master takes a look at my pen
and imitates "Sergeant Schultz in the sitcom, Hogan's
Heroes, and says, "I see noting…noting!"
However, when the "Federal Government Daylight Wasting
Time" cut one hour off the Get Smart Marathon,
they actually cut two entire episodes! Not only did the
Federal Government short the American People of an hour
of Get Smart-they cut TV Land out of an hour of commercials
for this terrific program. No wonder we're in a recession!
To quote my master, "That is pure and simple communism!"
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