It's a good thing you didn't live in the 1700's when doctors regularly used leeches on
patients to cure them of all sorts of things. Today they are used on burn victims.
Thanks to Cliff Clavin for this info which he cited from The Big Book of Leeches.

Leeches are better than Velcro.

Can't go wrong with a good Bogie movie. You might also want to check out Sahara sometime.

I'm already onboard with you about Sahara, a curiously overlooked gem. Ask a person
who has an interest in WW 2 films if they have seen it and the usual response is no.
My father was a tanker in WW2 and got a kick out of seeing the old Lee Grant tank
in the movie, which was used before the mass produced Sherman replaced it.
Though it lacked a turret the Germans were wary of it's main gun and it was
mechanically sound, so the British 8th Army -the "Desert Rats" - appreciated
it.

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Boris,
I have to check that out along with The Barefoot Contessa, the only 2 major Bogie flicks
I have missed. I got a kick out of your taping, my buddy Arty and me did the same thing
with Abbott & Costello routines like Who's On First, we had that down pat, using the
angle that Bud said kept it fresh by never doing it the same way twice.
Which is, you try to slip the other guy up by changing the question/response,
especially on Lou's part, if you watch/listen to them doing it on various mediums
Lou will even throw in remarks that didn't make sense, but it doesn't matter.
The all time best rendition was in "The Naughty Nineties", bar none, because the director
made them do take after take, the boys throwing in everything but the kitchen sink,
then he edited the best bits together, A & C were astounded how good it was.
The director had ordered the film crew not to react to the routine while filming but
gave up, even after repeatedly watching the bit they were laughing out loud, you can
hear them if you watch the film.
Anyway, glad to hear we weren't the only ones taping great orations or comedy bits
off TV.

Wow! You really had nerves of steel to be a tanker back in WW2. Was your father in a Sherman or a Grant? Either way it had to be hell going up against a Panther or Tiger tank. My uncle was a tail gunner on B17's, never knew it until I started reading some of the old letters he sent my mom.

Those guys in the B-17s in the ETO were, statistically speaking, doomed to be shot down,
captured, wounded or killed before finishing out the required number of missions to go
home. The reason service vets don't talk about it is, well, think about it this way.
What if you were in a car crash and your son was killed, your spouse's head winds up
in your lap, you lose your fave body part, and years later someone asks you to tell
all about your car crash. It's just too painful, and private, and you would not
feel good about reducing the story/pain of your wife being decapitated into a
anecdote for other people, or rather outsiders. I don't mean to be in bad taste here,
and my explanation isn't the best but you get the idea.

I guess like Vets in any war it's hard to explain to someone who has never been in combat what it was like.