Life. But that’s just because I haven’t gotten to the punchline yet. But somethin’ tells me that when I do, it’s gonna be a real whopper.
It’s not that big a deal…he is using a Heil Talk Box, a device that takes the sound that would come from your speaker and plays it through a tube you can stick in your mouth - you play notes and move your mouth as if you are talking, and you get that sound. Motley Crue used it in a few songs too if I recall correctly, and I think part of the beginning of ‘Bad Medicine’ by Bon Jovi uses it too (I am so ashamed of mentioning both Motley Crue and Bon Jovi in one sentence).
There still seemed to be a few who had not gotten the gist of the limerick. So rather than see someone chew their own foot off.
The trick is to figure out the first abbreviation and then substitute the other first letters throughout the poem. So given that M.A. usually stands for Master of Arts we get:
An amorous Master of Arts
Said of Cupid, the Caster of Darts
From their prodigal use,
He was, I deduce
The John Jacob Astor of Harts.
For info about the gentleman mentioned int the final stanza go to http://www.virtualology.com/virtualpubliclibrary/halloffounders/businessfounders/JOHNJACOBASTOR.NET/
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t get Dave99’s rave story. Why didn’t he need to know the address? Please, someone explain it to me. Many thanks.
Explai-oh wait. I get it. Ha.
FireUnderpantsBoobs:
If the address was listed then the police would know ahead of time too.
welcome to the SDMB. Interesting handle, I must say.
Ohh. So then, do you call the phone number to find out where it’s listed, or do you just know? (never been to a rave yet just. ;))
Incidentally, Happy 365, Big Daddy.
BigDaddyD: thanks!
InRobert Heinlein’s novel “Time Enough for Love” (and in “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”) one of Lazarus Long’s notes is “Have you ever noticed how thety look like orchids? Wonderful!” For years that bothered me, because it had nothing to do with anything that preceded it or followed it. I had no idea what it referred to. What were “they”?
It’s a mark of my inexperience. When I reread the book years later it was immediately obvious to me that “they” referred to female genitalia. Heinlein, with his still Victorian sensibilities would never have actually identified the subject, but apparently knew the appropriate audience would “get it”.
Could Heinlein have been gay? Look up the definition of cryptorchidism. I think the resemblance is supposed to be to the bulb and not the flower.
Chrome Spot:
Heinlein gay? I very seriously doubt it. The man was married twice. He describes a LOT of heterosexual behavior in his books. In I Will Fear No Evil and To Sail Beyond the Sunset he suggests female-female attraction (not sex), but never even hints at male-male attraction. And I think he would have, if it was important to him. Besides, the sense of the original quote seenms abundantly clear to me now. (But I'll look up "cryptorchidism". Next thing you know you'll be suggesting that Nero Wolfe had feelings for Archie Goodwin, revealed through his love of orchids.)Okay, I confess. I have been reading this thread trying to figure out what ABC commercials had the tune for “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in them when I got to this message and it hit me. Not ABC network, abcdefg… letters. Duh!
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[li]Small town , no airport[/li]
[li]A dear friend told me once that she hardly ever went anywhere as a child, since her dad worked and mom stayed home. So whenever her mom got her keys to get ready to go out my friend always asked her mom where she was going, to which her mom replied, “I’m going crazy”. My friend never got mom’s joke and always then asked, “Can I come too?”.[/li][/ul]
Dave
After reading the Harry Potter post, seeing the word “seeresses” just made my mind click. However, I have strong doubts as to whether this is actually a true subtlety. In Homer’s Epic The Odyssey there is a woman that predicts his fate and warns him of the consequences of eating the cattle on the Sun God’s, Helios’s, island. Her name is Circe. Which is pronounced seersee. However, I am doubtful of the connection since it was not origonally written in English. Is there any pun here?
Also, I had heard the joke:
Q:Why was 6 upset?
A:Because 7 8 9
I have discovered three levels to this joke- two of them gosh darned dirty. The first is the obvious seven ate 9. The second is that 69, being the number representing sex, is involved. If one considers the 6 to be the man and 9 to be the woman, then 6 is upset because his lover just got gobbled up by 7. The third level is that 7 did not ate, as in gobbled up, but as in ate, and you can think about that (remember 9 is the woman).
Has anyone else considered any of this?
Actually, there was plenty of male-male stuff in his books as well…many references to kisses and bisexuality (Galahad, anyone?)
While I don’t think he was gay, I think that he MAY have been bisexual…but again, that’s just my opinion. YMMV 
This has to do with SPEAKING and READING the same word.
BRAVADO—I’d SAY it correctly—but would READ–BRAVE’-A-DOE.
FACADE----SAID correctly----READ—FAC’-ED
A city here in SO. CAL. LA CANADA (LA CANG-YA’-DA)----SAID—LA-CAN’-A-DA.
Mamma mia–thud!