A person for whom I have enormous respect dropped a really obscure joke on us today on the Fediverse. So I'm going to use that as permission to tell this story:
(If you don't know who the actor Walter Brennan was -- Hint: That mule, old rivers, and me -- or what the show "The Real McCoys," was about, you may want to take a detour to Wikipedia and come back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brennan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_McCoys )
I used to enjoy doing impressions of Brennan, who had a distinctive accent and delivery, especially in episodes of The Real McCoys. One of his tropes was to call out for the family's hired man, Pepino Garcia, played by actor Tony Martinez, to get him out of some jam he'd gotten himself into.
With Brennan's accent, the name "Pepino," sounded to me like the word "subpoena."
I'd get laffs from my family for the impersonation, which always included the name Pepino, and Brennan asking him to do something inappropriate.
I know this story doesn't appear to be going anywhere, so to wrap it up I'll let you know that doing that bit left me with a tic, so that every time I hear the word "subpoena" when watching a movie or TV show, I shout it back to the screen in Brennan's voice as if he's calling Pepino, but saying subpoena.
I'll close with this observation: You don't want to sit next to me during a "Law and Order," marathon.
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