Wooden Legs and Getting Laid--Recalling Frank Zappa

I got a sample copy of Funny Times in the mail this week, and a story recounted in it may prompt me to subscribe. It happened in 1968, a year infamous for the demise of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King

Apparently, Rocker Frank Zappa agreed to appear on Joe Pyne’s talk radio show. A curious decision from the get-go, because Joe was the Rush Limbaugh of his era, and Frank one of the edgier rockers leading a band, The Mothers of Invention aka "The Mothers."

            Frank, had long, “hippie” hair of the era, and when he walked the studio, Joe took one gawk at him and said, “With that long hair, you look like a girl. Are you a girl?”

            Nonplussed Frank replied, “You have a wooden leg. (He did.) Are you a table?!

More of Zappa’s irreverent wit at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22302.Frank_Zappa

i.e.: “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”