[lit-ideas] Re: Orphan Often: Observations & Queries
- From: Stephen Straker <straker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:08:51 -0700
> GENERAL: I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an
> orphan?
> KING: Often!
> GENERAL: Yes, orphan. Have you ever known what it is to be one?
> KING: I say, often.
SOME OBSERVATIONS & QUERIES:
#1 - "Who's on first?"
I'm sure the precedents for Abbott & Costello go back before
G&S, but still, is there a *canonical* precedent for such
persistent comedic word-play?
#2 - of-ten
Some people somewhere say "off ten" and would be immune to
this particular loop. Is "off ten" the proper pronunciation
for any identifiable minority?
#3 - my favourite ... "Lulu, Arf, 'n' ..."
Pogo has an occassional sub-strip, starring Pogo in a blonde
ringletted wig with his eyeballs blunked out, called "LULU,
ARF 'N' ?????" I could try and look it up, but if I go to my
Pogo archive I won't resurface until Wednesday. Thus I must
call on my Lit-Ideas lifeline. What's the proper title? If
pressed, I would say "Lulu, Arf 'n' Nanny" (but that doesn't
seem right). Can anyone help?
#4 - precedents
Is there a canonical precedent for Walt Kelly's less
restrained word-play, e.g.,
"Deck us all with Boston Charlie ..."
OR
"Oh pick a pock of peach pits
Pockets full of pie.
Foreign twenny blackboards
Baked until they cry.
Winnipeg was open
The burst agin to sing
Oh worse'n that a danish ditch
Was two by four the king."
#5 - on-line resources
Does anyone know of a a seriously rich on-line Pogo/Walt
Kelly archive? The sites I have turned up with Google are
very thin & not satisfactory.
#6 - "Lit-Ideas"
I can't think of a name for this group that comes even close
to the previously acceptable "Filleters" ... Perhaps there
should be a contest mit prizes. Is this not Comrade
Commandant Savory's job?? How about it?
Even though I chose *not* to send 6 separate e-mails, please
fell free to deal with these separately or partially rather
than not at all.
thanks & best wishes
Stephen
enjoying his 9th straight cold rainy day in
Wank Hoover,
Bee Sea
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