tool

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Feb 23 19:01:43 UTC 2005


from the Firesign Theatre's "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger",
on the LP How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere
At All (1969):

Nancy: Oh Nick, you're such a tool!

(my reading of the scene is that 'stupid person', 'inept person', and
'person being taken advantage of, being used as a tool' are all evoked
by "tool".  various senses of "fool" might be in there, too.)

arnold



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