MINUTIAE MONDAY - SHAKING WITH STAN & OLLIE

'GOOD MORNING, WORLD'

"STAN AND OLLIE MEET LARRY AND DAVE"

From the IMDb:

Dave (Joby Baker) and Larry (Ronnie Schell) become enamored by a pair of Laurel and Hardy salt and pepper shakers at an auction that they are serving as auctioneers. The girls, Linda (Julie Parrish) and Sandy (Goldie Hawn), come up with an idea for them to both have them. The guys aren't pleased with the outcome and try to find a way to solve the problem.

Linda and Sandy's solution was to give each of them one of the shakers.  So both of them had one but not the compete set.....

David: 

What good is one? It has to be Laurel and Hardy. 

Some things don’t mean anything unless they’re together. 

Did you ever hear of anybody buying a pong table? 

What good is lickety without split? Or hanky without panky?

Out of curiosity, I went looking around the Net but couldn't find that exact pair of Laurel & Hardy salt and pepper shakers in the real world.  But they have been the subject of other shakers in the past:

I prefer the Toobworld one over the real ones.  And that pair was the best looking version I saw online.  There was another design that - even if it had been in pristine shape - was really ugly.

Just an O'Bservation having recently visited the PEZ factory in Connecticut - If they weren't in the past (I didn't see them among the displays), then I think the Boys would make excellent PEZ dispensers.

BCnU!