My wife and I started going out 20 years ago, and this morning I remembered advice she gave me when we were meeting each others’ folks, or maybe after the first awkward encounter. "You want to channel three people. Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Mead and Eddy Haskell." She explained, "Thomas Jefferson because he was diplomatic and made others feel good about themselves. Margaret Mead because she was deeply interested in other cultures. And Eddy Haskell because he was a primo suckup. ‘Mrs Cleaver, that dress is so flattering on you.’"
I didn’t do so well at it. I feel like I botched all three parts. Still it worked; I got married, still am, and I pass it along as a bit of wisdom for all who go a courting in these modern times.
Um, Phil, people going courting in these modern times don’t know who Eddy Haskell is. ;)
Margaret Mead because she was the shabbos goy front-woman for Franz Boas’s ethnically-motivated pseudo-science?
Ha! Great advice… let us keep the flame of Eddie Haskell burning…
America First, are you some false-flag neocon provacateur? Yo, we got enough problems in America without you making things worse, First.
A bit about Boas’s contribution: link to microkhan.com
Eddie Haskell’s character profile:
Eddie’s two trademarks are his unctuous politeness to adults and his weasly, sharp-tongued meanness to everybody else. He is a model white-collar delinquent, a creep who goads people into trouble rather than perpetrating the crime himself. He was a born shirker, not worker, and a strain on any parent, especially his own long-suffering mother and father, Agnes and George. Mary Ellen Roger’s father refers to him as an “over-stimulated adolescent”; but really, when it comes to Eddie, when you’ve said “creep,” you’ve said it all.
RE: “Eddie’s two trademarks are his unctuous politenesss to adults and his weasly, sharp-tongued meanness to everybody else.” – Citizen
Eddie Haskell: “Wally, if your dumb brother tags along, I’m gonna – oh, good afternoon, Mrs. Cleaver. I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany us to the movies.”
Eddie Haskell: “Gee, your kitchen always looks so clean. ”
June Cleaver: “Why, thank you, Eddie.”
Eddie Haskell: “My mother says it looks as though you never do any work in here.”
IMDB SOURCE – link to imdb.com
A bit about Mead’s contribution:
link to faculty.essex.edu
I wonder what Phil’s wife extracted from Jefferson back then, and does she still? Still the total everyday diplomat?
I remember my mother telling my sister that one of her ex-boyfriends reminded her of Eddie Haskell, and she didn’t mean it in a nice way. She never mentioned that anyone would have reminded her of Thomas Jefferson or Margaret Mead.
hehe…I just saw this. I am taking notes