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- From: unglenie@ford.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J Unglenieks)
- Subject: Re: Who was that irrascible old Italian man?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.055757.24065@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:57:57 GMT
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- Louise Penberthy writes:
- >In the episode where Ed finds the ring in the fish, towards the
- >end he meets an old man eating an apple. The old man asks him
- >"When are you gonna get smartened up, eh?" and so forth, and
- >eventually Ed gets a look of horror on his face and says, "You're
- >not ..... you're not ....." Who did Ed hope the old man was not?
-
- Could it be, I don't know, ....... SATAN!?
-
- >I posted this to rec.arts.tv, and one person replied saying it
- >was Fellini himself. But he didn't look at all like the man Ed
- >saw in the Brick. So who was the old man? I thought he was the
- >Devil until he crossed himself. I don't know anything about
- >Fellini films.
-
- I think Ed's first impulse was what you and I thought. Ed was just a little
- too busy to figure out the flaws with the old man.... nothing like that
- menagerie chasing after you to screw up your reasoning.
-
- Rob U
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- - "It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no -
- - native criminal class except Congress." [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] -
- - (Don't look at me, I DIDN'T vote for Clinton. Will Engineer For Food) -
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