The Three Stooges

I understand that the Three Stooges are primarily a guy thing. If you find a Three Stooges girl, marry her. If you can't swing that, sorry man, that's a huge loss and I feel for you. Maybe at least you can help hook her up with one of your friends. I've got a lot of respect for a dedicated wingman. But I digress.

The Stooges have an interesting and varied history, which is well documented by the way and doesn't need to be repeated here, but let me tell you what, these guys are great. I'll tell you right now that although some people think that the Stooges are violent, this is just not the case. This kind of slapstick humor is a great release of pent up frustration for just about anyone. These guys almost singlehandedly fixed all of the social issues of the first half of the twentieth century. I can't think of any specific examples right now, but just imagine how bereft of color and joy the world would be if not for this group of men.

First of all, there weren't three stooges, there were 7 and almost 8. You know Moe, Larry and Curly, and a lot of you will remember Shemp, but it takes a real connoisseur to remember Joe Besser, Curly-Joe DeRita, and Joe Palma. Emil Sitka was also brought on, but never made it into a film. Moe is my favorite, hey he had to be someone's favorite. The real wuss of the bunch was Joe Besser because he specifically had it written into his contract that he was not to be hit. This was a Stooge who didn't understand the Stooges. Sad really.

One of the things I really liked about these guys is that they were concerned about children and were generous with them. They did some charity work with children's hospitals and such.

BTW, I'm back home now. It was a good trip, but I'm glad to be back.