Yes, Ancient Rodent on High, but isn't lsd Old Hat these days? This is
2005 not 1945...
Roger Ramjet
On 12/22/05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> <<
> That was c3po surely?
> >>
>
> Nah -- decode it, Roger -- old money. (I knew the guy who played R2D2,
> before he dressed in a Santa suit).
>
> [It's dee (pence) -- as in lsd. Now open your Doors of perception, but.]
>
> C below
>
> <<
> Before you lynch me, 3pO was 1928, Mahogany was 1929 (from two
> seperate sources on the web via our google masters).
> >>
>
> At least I got the sequence right, even though I screwed-up over the Amerika
> connection.
>
> D'oh!
>
> Robbie the Universal Rodent
>
> (I have a friend who passed her graduate exams on the 18thC by playing a
> tape of the Threepenny Opera in the car on the way there. The question was
> on Gay's +Beggar's Opera+. Who the hell can tell the difference? Mind you,
> I once conned my way through a seminar on +Oliver Twist+ based on my faint
> memories of the Classics Illustrated version of the same.)
>
> Jonathan Wilde
>
> On 12/22/05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > > The story about Lenya meeting Stratas is true. The latter was making a
> > > specialty of Jenny in Mahagonny, Lenya created the role in
> > > 1920something.
>
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