Exactly. This is a 60s thing, not a 70s thing.

“You chose books, I chose looks.”

– Matilda’s mom

And I can see his eyes.

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.

Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!

And no singing!

That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.

I, for one, had not known that (tho’ I am not Jewish). Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.