don't be mean, that was a term they used during his youth,

Posted on: July 22, 2016 at 08:53:26 CT

and it was used quite frequently back in nineteen-dickety-two. They had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". He had to chase that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.

So he tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was he had an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...