Sylvester,
You mean that old book had +cartoons+ in it?! I used the pages to make
origami spittoons.
"That's all, folks!"
Bugs B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: haiku
> jWalker corrects:
>
>>I beg your pardon - T&J were originally MGM, on NO account dismal Disney!
>
> I stand chastened and repentant -- teach me to try to be clever.
>
> [ :-p ]
>
>>I do not believe that T&J in Egan say "She tot she taw a puddy tat", which
>>is Warner Bros Tweety Pie.
>
> Curiously enough, as far as I know the only person on this list to
> have in their possession a copy of Egan's +Life in London+ (or the
> adventures of Tom, Jerry and their friend Syntax) is Mz. Prince herself,
> to whom this question should perhaps be addressed for resolution.
>
>> So there! So she may have deed but judidn't.
>
> I shall take this up on her behalf with the Grievance Committee.
>
> Sylvester
>
>> Robin wrote:
> ...
>>> She deed! She deed! She tot she taw a puddy tat.
>>>
>>> As I am sure everyone recognises, the reference above is not to the
>>> anthopomorphised figures in a Disney cartoon, but to the *earlier*
>>> adventures of Tom and Jerry, as chronicled by Pierce Egan [the Elder]
>>> early in the 19thC in +Life in London+.
>
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