And Loving It

We look back with fondness on our youthful years spent watching "Get Smart," and marvel at how, whereas we envied Don Adams' Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, for the phone he had in his shoe, we now have an even smaller phone, with a camera, that gets the Internet, in our pocket! That was the least cool of Smart's gadgets, though, as we can recall a telescoping pole-vault pole that hilariously telescoped when he was trying to vault over a wall; a gun that had a phone in it; the Cone of Silence, and Smart's other shoe, which had a hollow heel that contained a suicide pill, The Chief explained, that, in case Smart was captured, would "cause painless death in less than 30 seconds." "Just one question, Chief," 86 asked. "How do I get them to take it?" Adams died this weekend and he's our burstiest person today, the subject of many bloggers' encomuims. "I’ve never laughed so much at a joke I did not even get," says this Whig. This blogger's lament is sadder: "Earth just got a little duller, but Heaven is sure gonna be a funnier place."

Posted by Philip Ewing at September 27, 2005 11:47 AM

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