That cryptic "Sears Catalog" reference

If you didn't see it, it'e here. For those of you who still don't get the joke (probably because you're too young) allow me to explain.

But first, a different joke from a cartoon I read many many years ago. A picture of a hillbilly at an outhouse complaining, "What idjit wrapped paper around the corncob?"

Well, contrary to popular belief, I'm not actually old enough to remember the corcobs. Just barely old enough to get the joke. And only barely old enough to get the "Sears Catalog" joke (but still young enough to spell it "catalog" instead of catalogue", though I do that sometimes still).

Where was I? Oh yeah.

Anyway, THS's post reminded me of a recurring joke in the movie "Born to Buck", a sorta-documentary-but-probably-not-really about rodeo great Casey Tibbs rounding up wild mustangs to fulfill their lives kicking ass on cowboys in the rodeo. The recurring joke was the roundup cook every once in a while tearing a page out of the Sears Catalog, then sidling off behind some bushes.

I got a kick out of that joke, probably because I was all of about 7 or 8 when I saw that movie.

My Dad also got a kick out of that joke, probably because he lived it having been born in a sheep camp in 1931