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His current incarnation, as Grampy Hodie, is a bespectacled voice of wisdom who looks far cuddlier than his flop-eared, toothy 1960s self.

Last November, Shaun Reed, 32, drove up a winding road in Ione, Calif. In the back of the vehicle, unperturbed by the journey to the old gold-rush town, rode a flop-eared, cocoa-colored goat.

When I met him, flop-eared goats and quarrelsome geese were rooting around on the floor, and the yard was strewn with pieces of dried rawhide that would be turned into chew toys for dogs.

I arrived in Saint Louis one evening—just in time to let an old flop-eared Jew take me in to the extent of a hundred dollars for a lot of snide jewelry and a Jim-Crow suit of clothes.

With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader�who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured�was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated.