Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison:
Playlists and Archives
The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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April 17, 2024:
His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover.
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May 31, 2022:
He's an evolutionary dead end.
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May 24, 2022:
An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead.
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May 17, 2022:
"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on."
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May 10, 2022:
He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle.
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May 3, 2022:
Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover.
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April 26, 2022:
Suggests you go find your own wormhole.
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April 19, 2022:
Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes.
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April 12, 2022:
If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell.
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April 5, 2022:
Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax.
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March 29, 2022:
Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030.
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March 22, 2022:
"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man." — Eli Vardens
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March 15, 2022:
Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio!
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March 8, 2022:
Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts.
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March 1, 2022:
Everybody deserves a 22nd chance!
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February 22, 2022:
Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart."
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February 15, 2022:
An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent.
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February 8, 2022:
There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger.
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February 1, 2022:
A distended gasbag of terribleness.
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January 25, 2022:
So old his blood type was discontinued.
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January 18, 2022:
Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world.
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January 11, 2022:
He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul.
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January 4, 2022:
A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities.
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December 28, 2021:
Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'."
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December 21, 2021:
Blink and you're passé!
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December 14, 2021:
He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!"
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December 7, 2021:
You keep forgetting he's still alive.
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November 30, 2021:
"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill
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November 23, 2021:
He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down.
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November 16, 2021:
This program may be shut down pending an internal review of repeated violations of established protocols which led to a most unfortunate incident.
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November 9, 2021:
"Latin never seemed to be about anything. They were all kinda bughouse—Caesar, and Cicero, and what's-his-name." — Fred Whitmarsh
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November 2, 2021:
Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good."
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October 26, 2021:
All he asks is a fair trial before they hang him.
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October 19, 2021:
His cynicism is not cheap!
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October 12, 2021:
Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey.
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October 5, 2021:
Empathied out since 1931.
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September 28, 2021:
His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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September 21, 2021:
Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies.
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September 14, 2021:
Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained.
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September 7, 2021:
Hubris is his other middle name.
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August 31, 2021:
Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large
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August 24, 2021:
"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells
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August 17, 2021:
Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in.
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August 10, 2021:
"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher
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August 3, 2021:
His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points.
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July 27, 2021:
Guest Host: Matt Fiveash
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July 20, 2021:
His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse.
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July 13, 2021:
Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity.
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July 6, 2021:
Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they observe the three-day rule. Except for liquids, to which he applies a strict 10-minute rule.
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June 29, 2021:
Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery.
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June 22, 2021:
Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar.
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June 15, 2021:
The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica)
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June 8, 2021:
"This louse is Dickensian in his meanness, filth, and insensitivity to ordinary human beings." – Laurence Bergreen
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June 3, 2021:
"A lot of people think they're nostalgic for radio theater, and they're wrong." – Hearty White
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May 27, 2021:
The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the ransom is paid, you get back more cats.
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May 20, 2021:
Fats All, Folks! Birthday Tribute to the Great Mr. Thomas Waller
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May 13, 2021:
The next person who tells him to "stay safe" won’t be.
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May 6, 2021:
A matchless holder of grudges.
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April 29, 2021:
"Ten minutes in his company leads me to the threshold of madness, almost murder." — "Chips" Channon
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April 22, 2021:
The Good Doctor filled in. Listen Here
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April 15, 2021:
Downs a lot of whiskey, considers it "infrastructure."
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April 8, 2021:
Don't mention cancel culture to Courtney. He's not a stamp collector.
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April 1, 2021:
Someone tried to dictate his pronouns. When he finished with the perp, all they found was a zipper.
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March 25, 2021:
A messenger of Satan to torment you, and keep you from being too elated.
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March 18, 2021:
Has a natural immunity to viruses, poxes, modesty, logic, and reason.
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March 11, 2021:
Using the radio airwaves as a spittoon since 1928.
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March 4, 2021:
He's a blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder he blows.
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February 25, 2021:
He never drinks between 10 and 11 am Mondays just to ensure he's not addicted to the stuff.
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February 18, 2021:
He owns two revolvers and his brother owns at least a dozen, though neither of them has fired one since the close of the Liberty Bond drives.
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February 11, 2021:
Leading the fight to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr.
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February 4, 2021:
Gus Bodenheim services the Old Codger's listenership this week.
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January 28, 2021:
He has that certain je ne sais what?
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January 21, 2021:
For decades scholars of karmic justice have been debating how he's managed to evade the gallows.
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January 14, 2021:
Keep your beard out of his soup.
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January 7, 2021:
In a new poll, his approval rating has edged up to 5% (with a margin of error of 6%).
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December 31, 2020:
His New Year's resolution—same as last year's—is to change the sheets. Only this time, HE'LL DO IT!
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December 24, 2020:
Do you like worms? He's about to open a large can of them.
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December 17, 2020:
The Codger is like a hole in the ground. He's a vacant space, but he can break your leg.
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December 10, 2020:
His testimony before the Mills Commission in 1905 clinched Abner Doubleday's acclaim as the inventor of baseball.
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December 3, 2020:
Went out to buy arugula and quinoa, came back with bourbon, chewing tobacco and ammo. He really needs to get new glasses.
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November 26, 2020:
Scratch his breech and he'll claw your elbow.
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November 19, 2020:
Old enough to remember the Dead Sea when it was just sick.
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November 12, 2020:
His home is a quack's sanitarium for nervous diseases, treated with medicines of high alcoholic content and "doctor"-prescribed, whiskey-based potions.
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November 5, 2020:
Kicking off Lumbago Awareness Month
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October 29, 2020:
He has a lamp fashioned in the shape of Sophie Tucker's thigh.
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October 22, 2020:
A talkative footnote.
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October 15, 2020:
The wreckage of days departed, every completed show a funeral gone by.
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October 8, 2020:
"The Codger demonstrates a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere." — Lee De Forest
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October 1, 2020:
Everyone he meets acquires the awesome power to peer into his soul and correctly assume the worst.
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September 24, 2020:
"All that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here." — Charles Dickens III
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September 17, 2020:
In the reverie lane, the speed limit is determined by the slowest car.
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September 10, 2020:
You may think he's living in the past, but he's living your future.
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September 3, 2020:
He's always "me"-deep in conversation.
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August 27, 2020:
His sense of decency hasn't taken a holiday — it's on sabbatical.
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August 20, 2020:
When he's finally recycled as cat food, he'll be "indoor senior."
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August 13, 2020:
He's a black & white supremacist.
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August 6, 2020:
Always asks for plastic bags at the grocer, because despite what environmentalists claim, he doesn't believe there's a plastic shortage.
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July 30, 2020:
Still has that new cadaver smell!
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July 23, 2020:
Exercise? The only part of him that's ever jogged is his memory.
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July 16, 2020:
He doesn't want your respect. He wants nothing less than graven images.
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July 9, 2020:
Everything he touches turns to mold.
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July 2, 2020:
Patient Zero for the Miasma Theory of Broadcasting.
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June 25, 2020:
Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul.
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June 18, 2020:
Welcome to the Codger's Happy Autonomous Zone!
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June 11, 2020:
The zeitgeist is SO out of touch with him.
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November 5, 2019:
He looks forward to giving back to the community. There's so much he's stolen.
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July 25, 2017:
He's a crusty parasite and WFMU is the host organism.
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July 18, 2017:
His karma deficit is beyond recoupment.
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June 14, 2016:
He doesn't choose the lesser of two evils; he chooses the one he hasn't tried yet.
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April 5, 2016:
Codger (1926): "Valentino must have a successor somewhere, and it might as well be me."
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December 25, 2015:
Shut Up, Hippies! (Fill-in for Shut Up, Weirdo, 6-7pm Eastern)
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September 15, 2015:
"The Codger is endowed with awful powers of evil, to the exercise of which he might at any time set his malignant will." – Ambrose Bierce
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July 14, 2015:
First he tells you that he's gonna tell you what he thinks, then he tells you what he thinks, then he tells you what he just told you.
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December 24, 2014:
Likes his lovin' as he likes his cars: hand-cranked.
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July 15, 2014:
He's the spokesman for his generation—because he's the only one left.
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July 8, 2014:
An hour of purloined platters rudely interrupted by grating harangues and emphatic salivary discharge.
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March 18, 2014:
A non-renewable fossil fool.
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January 6, 2014:
Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges.
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December 31, 2013:
The Codger was diagnosed with a tumor, but it went away. Even cancer doesn't want to be around him.
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November 12, 2013:
Tonight's forecast: partly cranky with a 60% chance of rage.
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August 13, 2013:
All the vices you admire, none of the virtues you detest.
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April 16, 2013:
He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves.
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December 25, 2012:
He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he recalls as a youth reading the obit.
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December 4, 2012:
An hour of brutish entertainment
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October 23, 2012:
A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar stubs plucked from the gutter, and petty grievances.
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July 3, 2012:
Nothing from the Codger's efforts grows stronger, better, or more beautiful; all is despoiled by mocking flecks of dung.
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May 8, 2012:
He's gone from crazy to foolish. Progress!
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November 8, 2011:
Show prep consists of three yawns and a pack of Luckies
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August 30, 2011:
Columnist Ty Muckton on the Codger (1944): "a surly curmudgeon whose behavioral spectrum consists of finely calibrated degrees of spitefulness."
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July 19, 2011:
He neither strives for achievement nor risks failure, focusing instead on solid, sustained mediocrity.
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January 18, 2011:
"Get out of my yard, damn birds!"
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December 7, 2010:
He's been "file-sharing" music since the 1930s. Only then it was called "shoplifting."
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July 27, 2010:
His third set of dentures are older than you!
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June 15, 2010:
If he ever forges his crankiness into a bullet, duck!
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January 12, 2010:
"His irascibility amounts almost to disease. He is a sad mortal to carry a wonder to." — Flossie Thrale
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August 4, 2009:
Spearheading the derrière-garde since 1948
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February 3, 2009:
Once described by his own lawyer as "a man of nugatory intelligence and much unpleasantness"
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December 22, 2008:
Loves the planet. Just hates all the people on it.
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June 10, 2008:
A fifty-dollar hat on a five-cent head
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May 27, 2008:
AARP considers him beyond his "sell-by" date
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May 20, 2008:
Buckets of unrelenting weariness
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April 29, 2008:
Still has full bladder control — and boasts about it often!
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April 15, 2008:
His autobiography grows an ever-thicker crust of hyperbole with each rehash
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April 1, 2008:
Pet peeve: YOU!
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March 18, 2008:
When the Codger's in your boudoir, no groove is safe from his stylus.
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March 4, 2008:
His glass is always half-bull (Marathon 2008, with co-host Blossom Moskowitz)
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February 19, 2008:
At his age, it's hard to get parts
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February 5, 2008:
A nasty piece of work made up of many smaller pieces of nastiness
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January 22, 2008:
Old enough to know the guy who invented Monday
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January 8, 2008:
Tucked in his nostalgia blankie, blathering with self-absorbed gusto
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December 31, 2007:
Larger than life? He's larger than DEATH!
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December 25, 2007:
The Codger and his lady friend Blossom present the I'm In The Mood For Love (But NOT for Christmas) Extravaganza
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December 11, 2007:
He's been skinning local roadkill all day for stew
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November 27, 2007:
He just got the results of his blood test. It's RED. And HOT.
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November 13, 2007:
Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny"
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October 30, 2007:
So old, his social security number's only three digits
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October 16, 2007:
Mean and stingy are his GOOD qualities
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June 24, 2007:
Refusing to budge from his perch atop Mt. Cranky
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January 2, 2007:
He's outlived five generations of obituary writers
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December 26, 2006:
Codger's not the Father of Old-Time Radio -- just a sperm donor
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August 29, 2006:
A Mamie Smith 78 is the only male enhancement drug he needs
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March 28, 2006:
He'd make surface noise the national anthem
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December 24, 2005:
For three days in 1930 he was known as "Mr. Nice"
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December 6, 2005:
At the Codger's age, they mark birthdays by the decade
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July 23, 2005:
Is that an Amberol cylinder in his pocket or is he just feeling frisky?
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December 25, 2004:
The reason there's a Social Security crisis is because the Codger started collecting 66 years ago and he's STILL ALIVE!
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August 21, 2004:
A walking wardrobe malfunction since 1906
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December 27, 2000:
All your Nora Bayes are belong to us!
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November 27, 1999:
Small town market share, big city ego
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December 28, 1996:
The Old Codger welcomes you to The Philco Cheap Cigar Boudoir
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August 14, 1996:
The best defense against accusations of intellectual vacuity is faked senility!
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December 30, 1995:
The Codger: Older than the first knock-knock joke
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April 29, 1995:
Courtney Testifies with Br. Paul
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December 24, 1994:
Sorry -- fighting for social justice, ending oppression and saving the planet are not on Codger's "To Do" list this week
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October 26, 1994:
Go West, Old Man! The Codger guests on KCRW, Santa Monica (host: Warren Kolodny)
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August 20, 1994:
Watch out or he'll dislocate your future!
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March 19, 1994:
Old enough to remember Casper the Friendly Ghost when he was alive
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March 5, 1994:
The Codger helps Laura during the Radio Thrift Shop '94 marathon
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January 8, 1994:
The cows came home long ago -- but he's still playing 78's
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January 1, 1994:
Codger's New Year's resolution: change the sheets
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December 22, 1993:
Where Memory Lane is riddled with pot-holes
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November 6, 1993:
The Old Codger: An ornery, crusty, useless, misanthropic, cigar-chomping anachronism
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October 9, 1993:
He loves YOUNGER women, age 45 or 50 — but he ain't messin' with no 40-year-old jailbait!
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March 24, 1993:
Codger and The Hound Marathon '93 Fiasco
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January 16, 1993:
He doesn’t just make history -- he makes it up!
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September 19, 1992:
The Old Codger: Age unknown -- carbon-dating tests ongoing
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June 13, 1992:
Plushed to the scuppers!
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December 28, 1991:
He's sowed enough wild oats to harvest 400 acres
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December 11, 1991:
Another evening of misplaced memories, questionable nostalgia, deranged opinions, and music nobody else cares about
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October 30, 1991:
The Old Codger: A carton with no expiration date
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August 17, 1991:
If you can't take it with you, he's NOT GOING!
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July 6, 1991:
His favorite singing group is Sophie Tucker
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May 8, 1991:
Putting the "stale" in "nostalgia"
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April 22, 1991:
The Codger and His Cronies Disrupt the 1991.1 Marathon
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March 27, 1991:
He'll snap your head off, then beg mercy from the court for being elderly and feeble
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February 20, 1991:
More incoherent recollection, meandering monologues, hyperbolic assertions, and cranky blather
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January 16, 1991:
He's got shoes older than you!
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December 19, 1990:
The Old Codger spins his usual toothless hillbillies, rancid novelties, and 250-lb. sumo sopranos
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October 24, 1990:
Playing 78s like they're goin' outta style!
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September 12, 1990:
The Old Codger: At large after being evicted from the Van Halen Nursing Home
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