Did they do that gag on Married with Children?
Not sure but it does sound like something Kelly might have said.
I have heard people on the radio go all ‘bananas’ when someone (me??) would call up with that suggestion and they fall over themselves about how it wouldn’t work etc etc etc.
It also sounds like a good old ‘Yogism’ inre how they tore him up when he said he lived 20 miles from the stadium but 25 during rush hour......
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It is a fact that EVERYONE that had the flu during the Civil War died.