porcinality

[Alison Murie]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

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> In the original, as I remember it, all those medial commas are
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> "with"-- rather sotto voce, so they might easily have been missed.
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> In February, Bill Palmer wrote:
>>> So do swine have "porcinality"
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>> Rattling around loosely in my occasionally empty brain pan, off and
>> on ever since I realized that the C should be soft (not that of
>> "pork"!), has been something about a song.  I finally decided to tie
>> it down.  I assume Bill had in mind "Porcinality" (lyrics by Lloyd
>> Price), which I nominate for Miss Piggy's anthem. Its refrain is (one
>> site tells me):
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>> 'Cause you got porcinality,
>> Walk, porcinality
>> Talk, porcinality
>> Smile, porcinality
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>> Charm, porcinality
>> Love, porcinality
>> And of Cause you've got
>> A great big heart.
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>> I hope I've finally rid myself of this "Punch, brothers, punch"!
>>
>> Joel
>>
"And of Cause you've got"  ...."Cause"?  Perhaps "of Course"?
AM

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