The Lonely Hearts Club
My Friend Irma · January 27, 1952 · 29 min · 3,911 words
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by transcription. Stick around, folks. Stick around. Why? Because today's the day for the great news in the My Friend Irma March of Dimes contest. May I start with a riddle? Thank you.
What's the difference between Irma and a donut? The village philosopher said, where one has a hole in the middle and the other has a hole in the head. See, I'm glad you brought up poetry because I have a poem about ends.
Let's hear it. Tommy and Billy were two little boys, and they were very good friends. When they behock their mother's teeth, so their father whacked both of their ends. Well friends, if you ask me, Irma's rhymes are literary crimes.
And speaking of crimes, that's what triple O is, because it's so easy to stop with N's chlorophyll tablets. Yes, N's, E-N-N-D-S, stop triple O. Stop orders of body, orders of breath, order of pens. Stop all three all at the same time.
Keep you fresh as a daisy all day all over. It's amazing, but one or two tiny ends, Tapless Dilly, are all you need to stop, Triple O. And now in, America's most popular chlorophyll tablets, a proud to present your favorite comedy show, created by Si Howard in starring Marie Wilson as Erma and Cathy Lewis as Jane, in?
My friend, Irma. This paper Jane, reading? Yes, yes, I. What are you reading? What are you reading? Oh, it's just an article on psychology has applied to marriage, a series of questions designed to see if a girl and the man of her choice are suited for each other.
Isn't that unusual? Well, no, why should it be? Well, when Alan I sit on the sofa, he never asks me any questions and we get along fine. Well, you know, there's more to it than that.
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