Oprah (Re: Opto-chips)

David Bergdahl bergdahl at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Tue Apr 11 17:29:05 UTC 2000


Evan Morris wrote:
>
> At 06:50 PM 4/8/00, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> >2.  Is there any chance Oprah will be covering slang and dialects?
>
> Gee, we can always hope.  Incidentally, am I the only one who assumed Oprah
> named her production company "Harpo Productions" because she appreciates
> Harpo Marx?
>
> Duh.  It's just "Oprah" spelled backwards, as was recently pointed out on
> alt.fan.cecil-adams. Anybody know a good anagram for "solipsistic"?

-- Actually, both names are from the character Harpo who was married to
Sophia [whom Oprah played] in the movie version of Alice Walker's
epistolary novel The Color purple.
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