Klarinet Archive - Posting 000100.txt from 2006/02

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:21:51 -0500

Or my favorite, where Roxanne finds herself nude behind the bush and
to the fire chief's query why she is nude, she offers him some
sarcastic remark which he takes straight, as I recall and to which
she responds. "I was speaking IRONICALLY!" The fire chief retorts,
"Oh, yeah, irony. We tried irony once in this town; it didn't work."

Oliver

At 06:55 AM 2/7/2006, you wrote:
>Lelia, you are an utter jewel. We are more than fortunate to have you
>on the list, and if I could write half as well as you, I would consider
>myself blessed. This latest contribution reminds me of the delightful
>scene in "Roxanne", Steve Martin's comedic reworking of "Cyrano de
>Bergerac", in which the protagonist lays verbal waste to the lout who
>can come up with no better insult than "big-nose".
>
>Cheers,
>--Joe
>
>On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:06, Lelia Loban wrote:
> > But, let's have none of these calls to renounce name-calling. Only seven
> > arts? Nonsense! Name-calling is the eighth! Gentlemen: "Moron"? I ask
> > you, what manner of shabby little insult is that? What sort of
> > Cackler's-Ken calks such cag-mag? Where are the cries of, "Pollrumptious
> > poltroon!" and, "Slubberdegullion!"? We profess to be musicians, after
> > all. Anyone who aspires to name-calling must make of it a higher art than
> > "moron."
>
>
>
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