azure legs of the cock, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

And a giant one would require a Two-Ton Two-Tone Toon Toon Tune.

  Over to you.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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And if the Disneyfied singing cock has one azure leg and one
turquoise, we will hear a Two-Tone Toon 'Toon Tune.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:38:28 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: azure legs of the cock, etc.
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>And if it's a musical, there'll surely be the "'Toon Toon
Tune." (A sequence variously pronounceable.)
>
> JL
>
>
>
>Charles Doyle wrote:
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>Yes, "toon" is the pl. of "toe." If an animated version of
>the "Nun's Priest's Tale" ever appears, we will see
>blue 'toon toon.

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