If you’re my age or older you may remember Homer and Jethro.

They were a comedy team who specialized in country music parodies and satire. They were sometimes referred to as “the thinking man’s hillbillies.”

One of their routines went like this:

HOMER: Jethro, if you was to win the Irish sweepstakes for two million dollars, would you give me half?

JETHRO: Why, Homer, you’re my best and closest friend. You know I would.

HOMER: I do know you would. That’s what friendship is all about.

HOMER: Jethro, if you had two big luxurious houses like those ones in the Beverly Hills and I was livin’ yonder under the bridge without no home, would you give me one of your big luxurious houses?

JETHRO: Homer, you’re my best and closest friend. You know I would.

HOMER: Yessir, we’re best friends. Did…