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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:25:44 -0700
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- From: JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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- Lord, ain't we all over the map this week! 8-)
- 4) "Wooly-Bully" (John Wm.) [corrected spelling]
- Initial hit recording (out of two) by the group Sam the Sham & the
- Pharoahs in 1965. (The other was "Little Red Riding Hood", as if anybody
- cares...) Their gimmick was dressing as bedouins. Lead singer Doug Sahm
- is presently recording with the Texas Tornadoes.
- 11) Liberty Valence Effect (John Wm.)
- Uh-oh. I just may have made this one up. (And about damn time, too.
- I didn't get any takers on "wordling"!) I was thinking of the film "The Man
- Who Shot Liberty Valence", where Jimmy Stewart is falsely credited with
- shooting bad guy Lee Marvin, said act propelling him into a successful career
- in politics. (I'm truncating like hell here, you understand...) Upon his
- retirement he once again reiterates to reporters that he did NOT shoot
- Liberty Valence, but one of scribblers present remarks something along the
- lines of, "When the legend is more interesting than the truth, print the
- legend!"
- 14) Foo Bird. (John Wm.)
- Oh boy. I meant this in the sense of the mythical Foo Bird that
- had one wing shorter than another and flew in ever-decreasing circles until
- it disappeared by flying up its' own ass! There was a character in the comic
- "Smokey Stover" that would pop up in a panel and say "Foo!" at random, and
- there were also the WWII-era UFO's that were called "Foo-fighters" by USAAF
- personnel. Partridge gives it as more-or-less a synonym for "gremlin" and
- credits it to Australian (!) sources. I don't think so. (BTW, does anyone
- remember what the catch-phrase in "Smokey Stover" was? I've either forgotten
- it completely, or I'm having a worse than usual case of brain-lock today...)
- 21) Dodge Geezer (Graham)
- Make and model of Ruth's car.
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- JMW
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