{"id":1721,"date":"2003-09-11T07:53:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T21:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/11\/whos-on-first\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:54:51","slug":"whos-on-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/11\/whos-on-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#039;s on first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13369,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thedeadballera.crosswinds.net\\\/AudioPageAbbotAndCostello.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030701025358\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thedeadballera.crosswinds.net:80\\\/AudioPageAbbotAndCostello.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 10:17:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:03:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 22:46:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 13:26:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 13:26:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I gave a copy of the &#8220;Who&#8217;s on first&#8221; takeoff that <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/abbott_and_cost.html\" title=\"Abbott and Costello in Computerland\">I posted earlier<\/a> to the guys I work with, and one of them was completely confused. He&#8217;s originally from Britain, and had <em>never heard of<\/em> the original Abbott and Costello routine!<\/p>\n<p>So, I went out and found <a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadballera.crosswinds.net\/AudioPageAbbotAndCostello.html\" title=\"Who's on First?\">this page<\/a>, which had the .mp3 online, and was able to introduce someone to one of the classic comedy sketches of all time for the first time ever. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still chuckling over it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a copy of the &#8216;Who&#8217;s on first&#8217; takeoff that I posted earlier to the guys I work with, and one of them was completely confused. He&#8217;s originally from Britain, and had never heard of the original Abbott and Costello routine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}