Algonquin Round Table (Great Minds Always Think Alike)

The year was 1920
I was working as an editor at Vanity Fair Magazine with Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood
We pulled many hi-jinks such as wearing signs around our necks displaying our weekly salaries
Our boss didn't like that much
GREAT MINDS ALWAYS THINK ALIKE
Though we may tend to disagree
And if there's ever any question, they look to me
Benchley, Sherwood and I took lunch each day at the Algonquin hotel
We'd laugh and gossip and argue
What took you so long, Dorothy?
I was detained in the bathroom
Well, I was actually making a telephone call only I'm too embarrassed to tell you

You're always late, Dottie Darling
That's not entirely true. I was two months pre-mature
When I arrived into this world
That was the last time you were early for anything
In time, anybody who was anybody vied for a chair at the Round Table.
And of course the new people we invited felt as if they had died and gone to hell
You're at the table, waiting for your chance to speak
You hear a lull. You jump right in there!

The words you say may go down in history
Don't blow it, we won't ask you back again
Brain, please don't fail me
Dessert is here!
I'm filled with fear!
I'm only one quote down!

Let's play that word game
Alright, choose a word!
Horticulture
Hmm, horticulture?
"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think!
Wonderful!
You're not wearing your glasses today, Dottie
"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
You deserve a drink for that one, Dottie dear
One more drink and I'll be under the host!
Marvelous!
Personally, I believe in monogamy
That's a fine wood, 'mahogany'
Monogamy, you know, having relations with only my wife
Oh, you mean 'monotony'!
Eventually I was fired from Vanity Fair for writing too many cutting reviews.
Benchley and Sherwood quit in protest.
It was the greatest act of friendship I had known
They were a rare breed, those Algonquinites!
There was: Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, Oscar Levant, Jascha Heifetz, Herman Mankiewitz, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, FPA, Heywood Broun, Ring Lardner, Alexander Woollcott
The list goes on
Here we have a meeting of Great Minds!
Long live the ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE!