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Riley's Mother-In-Law Visits

The Life of Riley · May 13, 1945 · 27 min · 3,915 words

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Riley Riley what a pal. He's a man who's understood and drugged and all in money but Riley Riley what a guy. Though he's built like golders and he's tender and a lamb. The American Meat Institute presents William Vendig's in radios most talked about comedy show The Life of Riley.

On this day, set apart to memorialize V.E. Day, the American Meat Institute and its member companies who sponsored this program, rededicate themselves to their part of the job before us, supplying meat to our fighters and are still to be concluded war with the Japanese.

And now, the American Meat Institute brings you the life of Riley. Like every real American, Chester Riley, California aircraft worker, believes that all people should be free and equal. That goes for every man, woman, child, and mother-in-law.

And Riley's not a man to keep his opinions to himself. And so the other day, hearing a glorious laughter in the living room, he went in to investigate. He ain't doing you. Yeah, the killer isn't it? I heard it in school.

Really? What's going on in here? What's all the hilarious hilarity? Oh, go ahead, Junior. Tell it to dad. Yes, Junior. Give up. I ain't had a good last since last week when my foreman sat down at one of my hot rivets.

Boy, was his face red. What? Come on, let's hear it. Oh, okay, Bob. Well, it seems a man went hunting in the woods with his mother-in-law, and suddenly the mother-in-law got lost. So he went home. Well, that night the game warden Fortemann said, Mr. Jones, we found your mother-in-law. She's caught in a bear trap, and there's a bear caught in there, too.

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