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I was a bit surprised to realize that Melancholy Baby covers a film of that title, and not a Rdr to the song (with a
HatNote), but that was just a sidelight for me.
My real surprise is that even tho Google has 46 distinct hits for
nearly all of them just use it as a non-sequitur. I guess that includes a Christopher Durang monolog where he says it to a street musician who offers him help when Durang has been knocked down by a car.
But here's the
one that hints at what i was looking for:
"Water, water, everywhere, yet all the boards did shrink." I don't think i saw any of the movies our article mentions, and even if i heard
Monkees songs on the radio, i swear i never stayed in a room where the TV show was on.
Hogan's Heroes, yes, and perhaps that's the only place i learned that trope, but like the accordionist, i associate it with movies.
Which old movies, and did i actually see more than one of them? And which one was the first to document that as the epitome of the hapless drunkard? And was that bit of behavior a screenwriter's (or dramatist's or comedian's) dead-on characterization of what kind of song appeals to the mental state of the hapless drunk, or was that specific song actually the number-one song requested by hapless drunks, at some point in the 20th century?
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Jerzy•
t
05:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Statesville Record & Landmark › 17 February 1966 › Page 2 ... took me to www.newspapers.com/newspage/3062024/ and this scrap of flaky OCR:
The novel in question, also appearing in
Playboy in the late '60s, is briefly described at
Matzohball ad, but what you apparently won't find on the Web, and all you really want to know, is that the appeasement of
Kali involves a sacrifice of a melon, presented to the goddess with the hip incantation "Come and get your melon, Kali, baby."
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Jerzy•
t
08:43, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
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I was a bit surprised to realize that Melancholy Baby covers a film of that title, and not a Rdr to the song (with a
HatNote), but that was just a sidelight for me.
My real surprise is that even tho Google has 46 distinct hits for
nearly all of them just use it as a non-sequitur. I guess that includes a Christopher Durang monolog where he says it to a street musician who offers him help when Durang has been knocked down by a car.
But here's the
one that hints at what i was looking for:
"Water, water, everywhere, yet all the boards did shrink." I don't think i saw any of the movies our article mentions, and even if i heard
Monkees songs on the radio, i swear i never stayed in a room where the TV show was on.
Hogan's Heroes, yes, and perhaps that's the only place i learned that trope, but like the accordionist, i associate it with movies.
Which old movies, and did i actually see more than one of them? And which one was the first to document that as the epitome of the hapless drunkard? And was that bit of behavior a screenwriter's (or dramatist's or comedian's) dead-on characterization of what kind of song appeals to the mental state of the hapless drunk, or was that specific song actually the number-one song requested by hapless drunks, at some point in the 20th century?
--
Jerzy•
t
05:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Statesville Record & Landmark › 17 February 1966 › Page 2 ... took me to www.newspapers.com/newspage/3062024/ and this scrap of flaky OCR:
The novel in question, also appearing in
Playboy in the late '60s, is briefly described at
Matzohball ad, but what you apparently won't find on the Web, and all you really want to know, is that the appeasement of
Kali involves a sacrifice of a melon, presented to the goddess with the hip incantation "Come and get your melon, Kali, baby."
--
Jerzy•
t
08:43, 23 September 2013 (UTC)