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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:48:52 EST
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- From: blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76
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- Pondered by Akio:
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- >13) Guido Sarducci (Blomberg)
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- The performance name of Don Novello, a comedian whose shtick consists entirely
- of assuming the persona of an Italian emigrant priest. He is not, to say the
- least, reverent towards the RC hierarchy, or the RC anything, for that matter.
- He first entered my consciousness on the old--i.e., original--SNL, where he
- would do commentary on the news, though I forget whether he predated, postdated
- or was a contemporary of Roseanne Rosannadanna or Emily Latella (speaking,
- giggles, of presidential erections).
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- >15) Three-inch John Henry (?)
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- Graham has already explained this, although I remember it first being used in
- the funniest (to me) bit in Monty Python's History of the World II.
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- Incidentally, Graham, wwcem114@sivm belongs to a very nice woman named Peggy
- Noonan, who was lending me her account until I got one of my own. (Kudos to
- Rashmi and Evelyn!)
-