Time Wounds All Heels

Pretty sure it's a joke. I loved the line right before then, "I didn't recognize you standing up."

What's the Spanish for drunken bum?

I wouldnt think it was.
Groucho was a cunning linguist.
The play on words is something Groucho put into all his films/shows and books.


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

He wasn't looking taken aback because of the line; he had just noticed the drunk at the table, was surprised, and immediately went over to talk to him, saying, "You know there's a drunk at the first table looks exactly like you?"

No, he's simply making a play on the phrase "time heals all wounds." A "heel" is something they called a bad person in those days.