DETERIORATA ~ NATIONAL LAMPOON ~ RADIO DINNER ~ 1972
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 Published On May 10, 2021

In 1972, National Lampoon's Deteriorata (a spoof of Desiderata, then enjoying a measure of popular attention thanks to a spoken word recording) singled out Gaines-Burgers "with cheese" to poke fun at modern product advertising using the line "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese". Gaines-Burgers as a product have been discontinued. . From wikipedia.org
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what was later known as the "Pueblo incident"[1] or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis". From wikipedia.org
fold, spindle, or mutilate
to harm or disfigure. Referring to a once-standard line printed on machine-readable documents, such as computer punch cards. (Such a document, if folded, placed on a bill spike, or otherwise punctured, would no longer be machine-readable.) At the bottom of the bill, it said "do not fold, spindle, or mutilate,"
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.d, spindled or mutilated, you had better do what you are told!

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