Getting Snickered

[Jonathan Lighter]

The worst thing is to get snickered *or* snookered while snockered. Trust me.

JL

"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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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.
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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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