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- From: jperry@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (John Perry)
- Subject: The dog-puppet man
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.033240.15405@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Originator: jperry@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
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- Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 03:32:40 GMT
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- Last week I went to a blues festival at the Hollywood bowl, and there
- was this guy singing hymns and begging on the walkway up to the entrance.
- But this was no ordinary beggin' dude. First of all, he had a dog hand-
- puppet, which he articulated as if to indicate to us that the dog was
- actually doing the singing. Second, he was singing out of hymn books,
- but he held them so close to his face that it would be virtually
- impossible to focus on them, and then he would switch books mid-hymn,
- and just keep on singing. I sat for a while and listened to him, since I
- was waiting for some friends to meet me there.
-
- After about fifteen minutes, two men came up and started arguing
- with the man. Apparently, one was from the SPCA, and was asking him if
- he had a liscence for his dog to perform in public. The other was an
- agent, and was trying to hire the dog, but the dog-puppet man wouldn't
- agree to it because he wanted the dog as a solo act. Eventually, the
- SPCA guy and the agent started bickering and the dog-puppet man slunk
- away with his dog-puppet and all his hymnals in tow.
-
- I'm not sure if he was part of the concert, but I didn't see his name
- on the playbill.
-
-
- John
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