I think it was over Memorial Day weekend Sirius /XM Radio decided to have a station dedicated to the comedy of Richard Pryor. For my international or youthful readers, Richard Pryor was a black comedian popular primarily during the 1970's and early '80's. Pryor was a man with demons. He almost killed himself when he caught himself on fire from smoking crack. He later went on to do a very funny act about that episode. He grew up in a house of prostitution where his grandmother was the madame and his mother a prostitute. So he was the comedian that told it like it was...raw and vulgarity laden. But people loved him and the natural way in which he portrayed race, drug use, love, marriage etc. I did get to see him live in Austin, TX back in the late '70's. I laughed until I almost peed in my pants. He did an hysterical routine on the different ways in which men and women pee. If you're interested in the monologue, go to You Tube. It is very, very funny. So on that Sirius weekend, I ended up hearing this monologue again. Men like to write their name in the snow when they urinate, he said, (of course he didn't use that word) but women just seem to have a difficult time doing their business in the great out doors. The lady in the monologue (Richard's voice, of course) says she'll just wait until they get back to the car. "What?! You're going to wait and then pee in MY CAR?!"
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