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John E packed his fall wardrobe and fled with Jasmine, leaving me to take his place. I thought he yelled something about a hit squad of reviewers coming from Listener magazine, but the rustling of his nylons against his chunky little thighs as he was running down the street, was way too loud for me to know for sure.Would someone please get his EZLift outta my living room?
Holy mackerel,
Algonquin J. Calhoun
Follow Ups:
Algonquin? What the hell kind of name is that?
Me too. I was hoping it might stand for Jesse, which was the name of my favourite Great Aunty, who was well known for her raging canoe trips up in Algonquin country in the 40s.
but YECH is easier to type
YECHY
breed!
I will miss the old moniker.I hope that you received a tummy tuck with your face lift.
Gregg
but since John E was such a well-known and recognised member of the AA Bored, not the least reason being for his posting style, is an explanation or further details likely to be forthcoming? Will the day-to-day operations of Mothra be affected, and should the shareholders be concerned? Not to seem to minimize the importance of this to a selfish level, but is the warranty on my Listening Shoes still good, and who'll be designing the fall styles? Oh yeah, TIA.
"but since John E was such a well-known and recognised member of the AA Bored, not the least reason being for his posting style, is an explanation or further details likely to be forthcoming?"Because of the intense demands on his time from the R&D department of Mothra Research, and the pressing need to repair Jasmine's industrial strength electrolysis machine before the goddamn hair on her back resembles Austin Powers' chest, John E resigned from AA's Bored, effective yesterday morning. I'm sure that, like myself, you'll wish him well in his new life.
"but is the warranty on my Listening Shoes still good,"Unfortunately, none of Mothra's Listening Shoe purchasers returned their warranty cards before the six hour time limit had expired. But, a program has been established that will offer a deep discount on new heels with the full price purchase of half soles and horseshoe taps.
"who'll be designing the fall styles?"Not being as skillful with a needle, thread, and polyester as John was, I'm afraid I'll be unable to be of assistance. Besides that, the laws against child labor and sweat shops have pretty much put his line of fashions out of business anyway. Such a pity, a genius cut down at the peak of his creativity.
TIA for enduring him as long as you have.
Holy mackerel,
Algonquin J. Calhoun
LOL!
What will your nickname be? Algae?
They still have that round table behind the drapes at the Algonquin Hotel's bar....Stayed at the Algonquin years ago and it had too much old world charm for me....Rather be at Nepenthe on the Left Coast....Thought about changing my moniker to Mahatma Cane-Jeeves.........
Bout 20 years ago, before I became a permanent resident of the Nasty Apple, a client brought me to NYC and put me up at a suite in the Algonquin.... Dinner sitting at the Round Table brought illusions of great sophistication and savoir fair. As we sat eating a wonderful chateaubriand with a wonderful tuscan, the client started reminding me more and more of Francis Pangbourne and I started to giggle... and I couldn't stop. Lordy, I miss those days of overindulgence.
The bar now (the bartender is a novelist friend), is pretty much a tourists trap, but with a smattering of habitues who can afford the ambience.
Come to think of it, your partner is starting to remind me of WCF...
seem to recall the Algonquin Roundtable of the thirties included Woollcott, Kaufman, Connelly, Adams, Ross, Broun, Parker and Benchley........Who was WCF? Curl would fit into that crowd of curmudgeons very well as he speaks his mind.....
Your enumeration of the principals is correct. Don't think W.C.Fields was part of the crew and altough I've never met JC (either) I can imagine him in 'The Dentist'. We should not forget that occasional visitor, P.G. Wodehouse, with Bertie Wooster played by Thorsten.
:-)
Man, I had thought of that too . . . my favorite pseudonym of all time! I shied away from it, since I'm not that active a poster or all that knowledgeable about the hobby (yet?), and I figured it'd be presumptous. Now I know others have thought of it too!How about Cuthbert J. Twillee or Larson E. Whipsnade? Not pseudonyms, but great Field's characters, I think.
Other monikers I have thought of are Mr. Natural, Shuman the Human, Snoid or Professor Wanowski.
WC Fields loved funny names, but so did the Marx Bros....Hiram B Hungerdunger, Rufus T Firefly and all......I liked Claude Bissonnet and Carl laFong, the insurance salesman.....or how about Mr. Muckle, the blind and deaf man, but the best is probably Eggbert Souse.....
nt
Perhaps the funniest movie of all time. Actually, I think Carl LaFong was the guy who the insurance salesman was supposedly looking for when he came across Mr. Souse trying to sleep on the back porch:"Say, do you know a Mr. Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g?"
"No . . . I don't know a Car LaFong. Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g!"
AND --
"GET THE DOOR FOR MR. MUCKLE!" (Who, naturally, was the hotel securitiy guard).
AND --
"Strange thing, the maturnity ward calling you at this time of night!"
"No, dear, I didn't say it was the maternity ward. I said it was someone calling for the maternity ward."
"Oh, now your changing it!"
etc., etc.
I think Duck Soup is my all time fav followed by It's a Gift followed by Going South.....
Doh!
is why I took up the double bass. WhoooHoooo.
WoooooHooooo to you too!
"I can do this all day long, I'm talking about ALL DAY LONG, the secret is you have to take a little Spanish pause." Got to love Going South. I think I'll go can me some of them appricots!!!
Poulty's just another name for chicken....
Their gonna hang old speed....
Why do ya' think they call him Hog?....
Nature is the great provider....
Don't call me a been....
Toefield, you're messing up my' good luck bandanna....
Buzzards...they clean the desert....
Act foolish.....That's what I'm doing,
Ubiquitous Skittercat
nt
And those of 'yez with the MBA's, get out in the lobby and sell somethin'.
Can't have an "Amos & Andy" reference without the obligatory "Thing Fish" reference... It's the law.
nt
Now I'm going to be doubly challenged when responding to your posts.
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