I realize the admission could cost me membership in the Philadelphia Chapter of the Aging Baby Boomers Society, but I never thought the Three Stooges were funny.
For me, the appeal of the slapstick was overshadowed by the unpleasantness of the slapped faces, not to mention all the eye-gouging, ear-twisting, and hair-pulling that convulsed so many others who watched the Stooges nightly on Sally Starr's Popeye Theater.
So it was as disappointing as it was surprising when a Facebook friend recently posted a black-and-white photo I'd never seen, a publicity shot in which those same Stooges were playing stickball with, of all people, Connie Mack.