hating der bingle

in fairness to der bingle (an appellation i picked up from reading sgt. fury comics, from which i got the impression that stan lee and jack kirby were ww2 vets like my dad but, unlike him, trying really hard to be cool), i'd already hated him for yrs by the time i saw the "little drummer boy" duet with bowie. before we had tv (which we got when i was four), i usedta listen to him on the radio with rosemary clooney every day. and watch white christmas once a year, of course. before our folks replaced it (seemingly when i was eight or so), we had a couch with a spring sticking out of it that my big sis and i usedta poke ourselves on with regularity -- which occurrence we referred to as "getting poked by the bingcrosby." (apropos of nothing, after we started watching tv, i usedta think that sammy davis, jr.'s surname was davisjunior. and that tennesee ernie ford's was ernieford. you're probably too young to know who any of these ppl were.)