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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 31 22:55:00 UTC 2007


Gonzo - HDAS: 1977.

Gonzo, by James Booker, Duke label recording, 1960.

Goon-child - HDAS: no cites bet. 1943 and 1975.

At some time between 1950(?) and 1955, in the original Mad Magazine,
Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD, there appeared a story entitled
"Goon(-)Child," in which an evil, lazy bastard of a mad scientist
builds an anthropoid robot to handle all of his scut work. He names
this robot "Goon(-)Child." Unfortunately, the mad scientist has built
better than he realizes and Goon(-)Child becomes self-aware. It then
takes over, making the mad scientist the slave and demanding that,
from that moment on, he address it as "MISTER Goon(-)Child!"

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam'l Clemens

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