Krazy Kat Quotations

[Baker, John]

Well, Krazy Kat referred to Ignatz Mouse as "Li'l Dollink," and the strip's captions referred to Joe Stork as "purveyor of progeny to prince & proletarian."  I don't know if either of those really qualify as particularly memorable.

I am pleased to hear that the second edition is in preparation.  Sometimes I come across a notable but apparently uncollected quotation, or one that is collected but in inadequate form, and I've been wondering if I should drop a note.  One comes to mind right now:  YBK includes Keynes's famous remark "In the long run we are all dead," but it fails to include the following sentence, notable in its own right and putting Keynes's views on the long run in context:  "Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."


John Baker



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Since I am now working on the second edition of the Yale Book of Quotations, let me ask, were there any particularly memorable catchphrases or one-off quotations from the Krazy Kat strip?

Fred Shapiro


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Krazy, being androgynous, may not be a good illustration.


John Baker


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Krazy and Ignatz.

JL


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/22/2014 08:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >"(of women) sexually seductive."
> >
> >Not in OED, but must be at least forty years old in my memory.
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> The following all from Wikipedia:
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> The role of "Catwoman" goes back in print to "The Cat" of Batman #1,
> Spring 1940.  (It also notes a "hiatus" from 1954 through 1966 "due
> to the newly developing Comics Code Authority in 1954.")   And she
> appeared in the live-action television series in 1966.
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> Bob Kane allegedly said in 1989 "I felt that women were feline
> creatures and men were more like dogs "  Batman and Me. Foestfille,
> California: Eclipse Books. ISBN 978-1-56060-016-9.  Page 107.
>
> And there's always archy and mehitabel.
>
> Joel
>
>
> >Current ex. from IMDB:
> >
> >"Quickly pigeonholed as a stripper, chorus girl or brazen, gold-digger
> >type, her feline roles actually belied her off-camera personality as a
> shy,
> >intelligent and chic lady."
> >
> >JL
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