Getting Snickered
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jul 6 11:45:14 UTC 2005
scripsit Jonathan:
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Yes, Larry, and what's more, the "snickerer" (also the "snookerer" in such
cases) himself, or onlooking snickerers, is bound to be snickering at the
"snickeree," which is a hyponym for "snookeree."
It would be even worse if the "snookeree"/ "snickeree" happened to be
snacking (as "snacker") on a "Snickers" at the moment he or she was
snookered by the snickering snickerer's "snicker."
If a "Snickers" were to be snickered in a _faux_ snickering, the snookered
snickeree would have been snickered/ snookered by the snickering snickerer's
Snickers.
Altogether a highly unpleasant concept.
<<<
Hawkins (Danny Kaye): I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's
in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from with the palace has the
brew that is true! Right?
Griselda (Mildred Natwick): Right. But there's been a change: they broke the
chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the
pestle?
Griselda: No!!! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon!
The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the
vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.
-- The Court Jester (1956)
Directed by Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
Writing credits: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/quotes
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