azure legs of the cock, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Disney has run into problems with stereotyping before, but a percussion solo in this case seems inevitable:  Tonto's Totally Tom-Tom Two-Ton Two-Tone Toon 'Toon Tune.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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OK! Calf rope! Uncle! I give up!

(Unless, that is, we were to imagine the Lone Ranger
abrupting upon the bustling barnyard scene; after a tense
struggle, his sidekick takes possession of the fowl--
gargantuan and colorful--whereupon we hear, perhaps to
contrapunctal strains from the "William Tell Overture,"
Tonto's Two-Ton Two-Tone Toon 'Toon Tune.)

--Charlie
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>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 05:42:30 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: azure legs of the cock, etc.
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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>And a giant one would require a Two-Ton Two-Tone Toon Toon
Tune.
>
> Over to you.
>
> JL
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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
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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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