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Variations: Toward the tail end of August 2004, we began to find this quote among the morning's e-mail as an increasing number of our readers thought to ask us about it. This simple-looking piece could be considered either true or false, depending on which of its versions and components the reader chooses to focus upon. T. Bubba Bechtol claims ownership of this quote, but he is not a Pensacola City Councilman (part-time or otherwise), nor even a real person. Rather, T. Bubba is the on-stage persona of James Terryl Bechtol, a comedian who has appeared more than one hundred times at the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest-running live radio show. According to the 2 July 2004 entry in the Random Thoughts section of his web site, the comedic invention that is T. Bubba Bechtol claims the statement as his own, posting that he voiced it during a then-recent radio interview, after which he was asked to depart the premises even as the audience applauded the sentiment he'd expressed. (We do not know if there was such a radio appearance or if this is no more than another Bubba story.) The character T. Bubba Bechtol did not originate the gist of the quote, however: Bechtol's statement is a repositioning of a mid-1990s comic bit by Nick DiPaolo about the debate over performing medical experiments on animals: Bechtol does repackage earlier comic offerings into new forms as part of his comedic style, as noted in the T. Bubba Bechtol FAQ: Additional information: T. Bubba Bechtol web site
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