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You Gotta Laugh - "Carpet-cleaning blues"

You Gotta Laugh - "Carpet-cleaning blues"

(Tribune)

I used to always have my wall-to-wall carpets cleaned by a dude in a bright yellow van. Back during the dinosaur days, the company ran a TV commercial with a clever jingle I never forgot. A big, burly dude with a mop of unruly hair and a bushy mustache was the voice for the ad. It went something like, “If the van ain’t yella, ya got the wrong fella.” Geez, was that little ditty prophetic.

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