G. Gordon Liddy, Robert Conrad, & My Dad

   
   "G. Gordon Liddy, Robert Conrad, & My Dad"
    
   G. Gordon Liddy's tough guy autobiography, WILL, was morphed into a 1982 television movie staring the barrel-chested Robert Conrad. most famous for BAA BAA BLACKSHEEP, a fighter pilot story during the Second World War on a Pacific Island.  Plus, both guys were bad asses.  Just wanted to mention my hard-hitting father, a college football player, him having once threatened to punch me out when I was in my early 30's due to an insult aimed at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
   Anyhow, this is not a piece of pulsating prose or in any way poetic.  "Just the facts ma'am" as wends the words from DRAGNET.
   But Robert Conrad was on the LATE LATE SHOW in the early 90's hosted by comb-over cool guy Tom Snyder, when you could let the colors of ancient television fly into your home, offering simplistic entertainment before Internet Porn became all the rage with local politicians and troublesome teenagers.
   Robert, or Bob as Mr. Tom Snyder called him, fiercely boasted that when he came to New York, he liked to walk Central Park at night in hopes of getting mugged, all to see if his skills in the Martial Arts were still uncanny, making him the ultimate human fighting machine.  Tom Snyder was laughing his ass off, as was the whole behind-the-scenes crew.
   Next, Snyder asked Bob:  "What's it like to punch out a guy?"
   Bob replied roughly:  "It's like knocking one out of the park."
   The Show erupted in wild giggling.