From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (57)
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 21:24:53 GMT


In a previous article, gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Graham Toal) says:

>	24) Bubbleform (Rita)
>Multiple choice form - tick the box.
	Actually, it's a sheet of paper made so that a computer can scan
the answers.  It has to be filled in with a #2 pencil, and each "bubble' has
to be filled in completely, otherwise the computer [read scanner] brapps on
the whole sheet.  We use them for SAT tests, class registration, and other
bureaucratic nonsense.
>
>	27) Douglas Adams/Molly Ivins (Graham/Rashmi)
>
>Rashmi asked for the meaning of boffo.  There are two, depending on
>where she first heard the word.  There's the real meaning, and the
>way Douglas Adams uses it.
	Douglas Adams is a British nut case and science fiction writer.:-)
Who Molly Ivins is I haven't the foggiest.
>	30) Holland Tunnel (Anne Hr.)
>
>A large car tunnel in, I think, New York?  Anyway, it's irrelevant -
>abh was just using it as a random Freudian image to tittilate us
>with bogus insights to her psyche.
Actually, it's one of the tunnels that lead *into* New York, specifically
into Manhattan.  I've been through it once or twice.<ick>
>
>	38) Donkey Puck (Ruth H.)
	Hey!  That was Giggles!  I had nothing to do with it.  I use a 
 toilet, not the asphalt.:-)
>
>	39) Hanshaw/Heinlein (Ruth H.)
>
>In some of Heinlein's stories, he has the characters (in the far future)
>explain some idiomatic phrases.  Of course, this far in the future
>the roots of manty phrases are lost, so people invent etymologies
>as they do today.  Hawkes & Hanshaw's were types of cars I believe,
>in his future history.  However Heinlein's own knowlege of etymology
>seems to be singularly lacking in places.
	This is from _The Rolling Stones_ if I remember correctly.   It was
a bad pun made for those who'd read Shakespeare.  Robert Heinlein was a
Science Fiction author who was fond of things like that.

Now as to the other two attributed to me, I plead guilty.:-)

35)Skids Roper - recording partner of Mojo Nixon, known for crazy lyrics
and great song titles.['She's Vibrator Dependant', "Debbie Gibson's Pregnant
With My Two-Headed Love Child", "Elvis is Everywhere"]  Not for those who are
easily confused.:-)

36)Princess Bride/Python  - Akio, I'm surprised at you.  The Princess Bride
is a [more or less] cult film, and very funny if you like that sort of stuff.
"My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father; prepare to die." is one of
the best quotes, and you'll see it parodied in lots of .sig files. "Hello,
my name is Locutus of Borg.  You are irrelevant; prepare to be absorbed".:-)

Python is shorthand for MONTY PYTHON - if you don't know who that is, you
sholdn't be teaching English.  Just kidding, but they were a British comedy
troupe who produced some of the funniest movies of all time.  If you're 
weird and erudite enough to catch all of the sight gags, plays on words,
and truely awful puns.:-)

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