Ages ago, the three stooges hilariously

malaproped “aspersions”

in a movie, “Are you casting

asparagus

on my cooking?” asked Curly of the

maladapted diner from the other side of

the diner’s counter.

Supposedly a smart lawyer from

Texas

fifty years ago or so mangled the

malapropism

saying, “Are you casting

aspersions on my asparagus?”

A really not-so-smart

Texas politician,

apparently with a good memory,

resurrected the wreck by

quoting the supposedly smart

Texas lawyer’s obscure mangled

malaprop

while interrogating the

country’s top law enforcement

officer

at a House of Representatives’

committee meeting.

A couple of years later

the country’s top law enforcement

officer in a

tete-a-tete-redux with the not-so-smart

U.S. representative

from Texas concluded their tit-for-tat

with,

“Watch out for your asparagus.”

That begged the question about the less than

brilliant representative’s

asparagus, “Was that the canned variety or fresh?”

And no fair casting personal

aspirations or inspirations,

for that matter on the matter.