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- From: Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Bored Of The Rings (Re: Looking for deluxe...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.005855.1986@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 00:58:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.164759.7387@cc.tut.fi>
- m116180@cc.tut.fi (M{{tt{ Arto) writes:
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- > >BTW, somebody in this group mentioned "Bored Of The Rings", a parody of what you know.
- > >Is it a joke or does this parody exist ? If yes, where ?
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- Ah, yes, the folks from the Harvard Lampoon...what I remember best were
- some of the names substituted for the original LoR characters:
- Gandalf : Goodgulf (at the time the book was out, Gulf Oil had a
- gasoline called Goodgulf)
- Gollum : Goddam
- Frodo : Frito
- Sam : Spam
- Legolas : Legolamb
- Saruman : Serutan (remember, Serutan spelled backwards is "natures")
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