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136. "The Life of Riley" was a 1950s TV show.

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:02 AM

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And a 1940s radio show. I used to watch it on TV in the late 1950s when I was a kid. I never knew it was a radio show in the 1940s, before I was born, until I got a Sirius satellite radio in my car a few years ago and discovered that they play episodes from that 1940s radio show often on their old-time radio classics station.

About 15 years ago I had a cat who came from one of my neighbors' houses and took up with me. I walked by him snoozing on a corner of a bookcase in my living room one day and suddenly had the thought, This cat has people feeding him, opening doors for him, giving him affection, he's living the life of Riley, so he must be ... Riley! And that was the perfect name for that cat. Somehow it just fit him to a T.

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