theObvious: It’s a joke, son.* Chalk it up to old age. Long, long, ago, in a land light years away, there was a foreign object called “TV” infiltrating some of our homes and our minds. One show, called “Get Smart!” (not a call to educate the masses, rather an injunction to capture an agent of the singularly inapt name ‘Smart’) used the line “If only he [the evil enemy genius] had used his brains for good, instead of evil.” And it stuck in my mind.
*The line, “It’s a joke, son,” is also from that foreign source, from so long ago even I have forgotten it. Maybe that cartoon with the rooster Foghorn Leghorn.
Anyway, thanks for the reminder to keep my posts pure of foreign influence. Peace!