[Ads-l] television ads for SALES

[Marc Sacks]

" crazy Kali goddess"? I always heard it as "crazy coke goddess" or "crazy
cult goddess," either of which makes more sense.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:19 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> But does it really matter, Larry?
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> Be free to be you.
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> (PS: "Crazy-colored' is better anyway.)
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> JL
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:00 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 30, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Marc Sacks <msacksg at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > Donovan's old song
> > >
> > > On the firefly platform on Sunny Goodge Street
> > > Violent hash-smoker shook a chocolate machine
> > > Involved in an eating scene
> > >
> > > seems relevant here. A few decades later it would be an eating event,
> i=
> f
> > he
> > > could get the rhyme down.
> > >
> > > Marc Sacks
> >
> > Hmmm.  I just checked the lyrics (to confirm my memory that Donovan
> > employed the nominalization =E2=80=9Cstonedness=E2=80=9D, which I don=E2=
> =80=99t think I=E2=80=99ve
> > encountered elsewhere) and discovered a mondegreen on my part.  I always
> > thought he was referring to a =E2=80=9Ccrazy-colored goddess=E2=80=9D,
> bu=
> t I see the line
> > was actually something else. This is the first verse, immediately after
> t=
> he
> > part Marc quoted:
> >
> > Smashing into neon streets in their stonedness
> > Smearing their eyes on the crazy Kali goddess
> > Listenin' to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic
> > My, my, they sigh
> > My, my, they sigh
> >
> > I picked up on the "Mingus mellow fantastic=E2=80=9D (a distant relative
> =
> of mellow
> > yellow?), but not the call-out to Kali. Luckily, She didn=E2=80=99t
> exact=
>  revenge
> > on me.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:03 AM Jonathan Lighter <
> > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > >> A "major [sic] motion picture" is now likely to be a "[major] motion
> > >> picture event."
> > >>
> > >> I also seem to remember "[multi-] part television event.'
> > >>
> > >> JL
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 5:51 PM Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
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> > >>> One almost never sees/hears an ad on TV for a "sale."  It's always a
> > >>> "sales event."  I suppose the word "sale" strikes Madison Avenue as
> > >>> declasse--like a rummage sale or a fire sale--whereas "event" implies
> > >>> something noteworthy and exceptional.
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