It's Better To Be Gone and Not Forgotten....

JackFarr'sFinalRevenge
WinnipegRising

.....Than Forgotten and Not Gone

Finkleman the Elder is done.

And the livingroom lazyboy is in for a good long ride, especially during the sure to be extended 'de-itemization' period.

Best story from the last show....

When he was about 12 Danny convinced his parents that he and his younger brother (who I have never heard him call by name on the radio show) needed a chess set.

So his Mom got them one. It came with a board and pieces that were kept in one of those little wooden boxes with the sliding lids.

Then his Mom went out, probably to the drycleaners or something.

When she came back the boys were playing.

Not chess though.

Instead, they were trying to see who could toss the greatest number of pawns into the open box from eight feet away.

Which, as Danny pointed out, is why he spent a good chunk of his 30 odd years at the CBC on Saturday nights spinning wax rather than on Ideas.

Which, of course, is a crock.

Because I'm pretty sure that Lister Sinclair and Finkleman would have made a helluva team if some mucky-muck at the Mother Corp had had the guts to force them together in, oh say, 1977.

This I do know for absolute sure however.

I'll miss him.

Especially in the summertime around the picnic table during that anticipatory twilight time between cleaning up the dishes and lighting the campfire.

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Here's the shocker though. There is a Finkleman fanclub. And, believe it or not he likes it. It's run by a lady named Alice Hinther whose email if you want details is: ahinther@hotmail.com
And who knew. His pal Al has a last name - Mendelson.

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