Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: onions and eels Message-ID: <1144@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 15:18:25 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1144 Posted: Mon Jun 24 15:18:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:55:37 EDT References: <41@gpp1.UUCP> <328@petfe.UUCP> <1034@peora.UUCP> <1038@peora.UUCP> <823@gloria.UUCP> <795@oddjob.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 29 >He got the quote wrong, too. It should have been: > > "Should I wear the knickle-bonkers or the shorts from > the Bermoothes, land of the onion an' the eel?" > >Reference: _Positively_Pogo_, chapter 15. Pompous ass! Quoting from "Positively Pogo"! I got the quote straight out of the original "The Pogo Papers," published sometime in the late 1950s, and the quote is "I'm off to the Bermoothes, to watch the Onions an' the Eels". Well, I am certainly glad you know where the quote came from, even if I can't spell Kelly in a pinch. Now, you tell me, what does that quote refer to? Mail it by E-Mail, please, I don't normally read Net.Flame, only abnormally. The reference to wearing the shorts FROM the bermoothes, etc., is a much later capitalization on the original episode. "Those things that make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, that we shall meet the enemy -- and not only may he be ours, he may be us." -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS w95; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Erny vfgf qba'g hfr Xbqnpuebzr."