Multiplying slowly

[Scot LaFaive]

>Reminds me of a scene in the highly surreal Warner Bros. cartoon, "The Big
Snooze":
Is that the one when Fudd falls asleep and Bugs torments him? I love that
toon. "Look. I'm multiplyin'."

Scot

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > According to an item on local TV news in Boston, the mayor of
> > Randolph, Iowa, has offered a bounty of $5.00 each because (as said
> > by the news announcer) "stray cats are multiplying slowly".  Gags
> welcomed.
>
> Reminds me of a scene in the highly surreal Warner Bros. cartoon, "The
> Big Snooze":
>
> Elmer Fudd: Zillions and twillions of wabbits! Where are they all coming
> from?
> Bugs Bunny: [at an adding machine] From me, Doc. I'm multiplying, see?
> I'm multiplying!
> <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038356/>
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> --Ben Zimmer
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