what he's trying to say is that back in those days,

Posted on: July 22, 2016 at 09:36:58 CT

rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day he'd seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So he ran off to the house with a big washtub which he'd just used that morning to wash his turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. They'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then They'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball...