Moe, Larry - the cheese!
Whenever the subject of time travel comes up, I always say that I’d like to go back to America in the early part of the 20th Century. I’d like to watch guys like Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb play baseball, partly for the historical significance, but mostly to see how good they were – really . In a lot of ways, it was a screwy time in our history, and I’d have to be careful not to come back too close to Prohibition or the Great Depression. I figure anyplace between 1905 and 1925 or the mid 1930s, unless I went back with a lot of money, in which case it wouldn’t matter. I’m not sure where my fascination for that period of time comes from. Maybe it’s my childhood memories of watching The Three Stooges after school? Some of the early shorts with Curly are little snapshots of life in America in those days, and not all of it is good. What I always found fascinating was that, no matter how poor “the boys” were, they always wore suits. Sometimes they were making soup out of their own shoes or ea...