{"id":2696,"date":"2009-07-07T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2009-07-09T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:59:06","slug":"hello-charley-harperi-mean-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Charley Harper&#8230;I mean SMITH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come on&#8230;the hair with a messy center part, the oily smile, the smarmy dialog (not even mine!), the boldly-striped, casual shirts&#8230;evidently Santa Royale is just up the road a piece from Malibu, where Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) holds forth in the hit CBS comedy &#8220;Two and a Half Men&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess imitation<em> is<\/em> the sincerest form of flattery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2697\" title=\"not-mw-137\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/not-mw-137.jpg\" alt=\"not-mw-137\" width=\"725\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/not-mw-137.jpg 725w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/not-mw-137-250x63.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the title?\u00a0 CC&#8217;s irrepressible Dingo notes from the badly-concealed loathing between Mary and Charley in Panel Two:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m sorry but the only way for two people to have that much contempt for each other is if they\u2019ve slept together at some point in the past. Maybe he yanked her pearls at the moment of orgasm sending her breasts flying into porcelain swans. Maybe she commented on his \u201csize.\u201d Either way, these two bumped ugly in the night and Delilah had better watch out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME~1\/LINDAM~1\/LOCALS~1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data-->Well, maybe so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2703\" title=\"not-mw-138\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/not-mw-138.jpg\" alt=\"not-mw-138\" width=\"595\" height=\"180\" 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id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data-->Of course, the week plods along, with the highlight being the exchange of telephone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this would be <strong><em>IT<\/em><\/strong> in a typical<em> Mary Worth<\/em> storyline, but the appearance of Charley Smith and Mary&#8217;s knee-jerk reaction to him is pure, unadulterated Joy.\u00a0 Well, probably adulterated, in Charley&#8217;s case.\u00a0 Anyway&#8230;go, Charley, go!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2707\" title=\"new-mw-2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mw-2.jpg\" alt=\"new-mw-2\" width=\"865\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mw-2.jpg 865w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mw-2-250x53.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input 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