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    From Keith F. Lynch@kfl@KeithLynch.net to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Thu Jan 8 15:41:18 2026
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    As I've mentioned before, my brother and I have been having the
    world's slowest Three Stooges marathon. For the past 12 years We've
    been watching each of their Columbia shorts on its 80th anniversary.

    This Saturday it will be time to watch Beer Barrel Polecats. It's
    unusual in that in that episode they get locked up for 40 years.
    So for exactly half the time since the episode.

    So they would have been released from prison in January 1986, just in
    time to watch the Challenger disaster. (In real life, all three of
    the Stooges were already long dead by then.)

    It's hard to believe that the Challenger disaster was 40 years ago,
    almost halfway back to WWII. And even harder to believe that the end
    of WWII is closer to the end of the Civil War than to the present.
    Time marches on.

    Another bit of weird chronology is that later this month it will be
    longer since the JFK assassination than the JFK assassination was after
    the McKinley assassination. So it will be a new record time since a US president was assassinated.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
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  • From Gary McGath@garym@mcgath.com to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Thu Jan 8 12:21:04 2026
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    On 1/8/26 10:41 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    As I've mentioned before, my brother and I have been having the
    world's slowest Three Stooges marathon. For the past 12 years We've
    been watching each of their Columbia shorts on its 80th anniversary.

    This Saturday it will be time to watch Beer Barrel Polecats. It's
    unusual in that in that episode they get locked up for 40 years.
    So for exactly half the time since the episode.


    What did they do to get a 40-year sentence?
    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
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  • From Keith F. Lynch@kfl@KeithLynch.net to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Thu Jan 8 17:27:47 2026
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    Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
    What did they do to get a 40-year sentence?

    That wasn't explained, except that it involved making beer.

    Much of the footage was recycled from an earlier short, in which they
    were in a different jail for a different reason.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
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  • From Keith F. Lynch@kfl@KeithLynch.net to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Thu Jan 8 20:29:05 2026
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    Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
    That wasn't explained, except that it involved making beer.

    I should have mentioned that it can be viewed online for free
    on YouTube.

    Unfortunately, we live in a world where people are often locked up for
    decades for no good reason. I recently heard about someone right here
    in Virginia named Keith -- Keith Harward -- who was released from
    prison after 33 years, after he was finally proven innocent. He was
    convicted by bogus bite-mark and hypnotic evidence, and exonerated
    by DNA evidence. The DNA evidence proved that the actual culprit
    committed more crimes while Harward was in prison.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
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  • From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Thu Jan 8 19:48:11 2026
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    Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
    On 1/8/26 10:41 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    As I've mentioned before, my brother and I have been having the
    world's slowest Three Stooges marathon. For the past 12 years We've
    been watching each of their Columbia shorts on its 80th anniversary.

    This Saturday it will be time to watch Beer Barrel Polecats. It's
    unusual in that in that episode they get locked up for 40 years.
    So for exactly half the time since the episode.

    What did they do to get a 40-year sentence?

    Mr Cribblecoblis only got thirty days or thirty dollars for making liquor without a license in Man on the Flying Trapeze.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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