Los Angeles, California
May 12, 2016
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Leave it to the cold hard double entendre of a 1940s Los Angeles psychopath to take the Zip out of Zipa-Dee-Doo Dah.
Tar-Baby- n. A situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself. [After “Bre’r Rabbit and the Tar Baby,” an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris.
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Clips of “Tar-Baby” from 1946 Disney “Song of the South”
One Minute Tarbaby video clip from 1946 Disney “Song of the South”
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