Thanks to all for great stuff, to barracuda for his inspired track-switching on the thread, and to MacC (chomsky-carlin) and Jeff (fred-shaggy) in particular for prompting me to reevaluate idols of my adulthood and my childhood, respectively.
(I woke up today laughing with a kind of borderline crazy delight, thinking about how the allegory of fred-shaggy must have been intentional on the part of Messrs. Hanna and Barbera, no kidding. And come to think of it, didn't they teach us that it's always an inside job with material gain as the motive?)
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