Re: Antw: Groucho Marx Fan Club
From Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 24 Jun 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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In art<5oo2ub$ivl$2...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite writes: > > Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk) wrote: > >>Tjaart Glas <tkg...@worldaccess.nl> writes: > >> > >> Quote: > >> >"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before > >> > she was a virgin." > >> > -- Groucho Marx > >> > >>I have also seen this attributed to Oscar Levant. > >>Coiln Douthwaite has a collection of Groucho quotes; I >>have about 30 of them as individual sigs. > >Unfortunately many of them are not authenticated and get challenged. > > >>"We took some photographs of the native girls, but they weren't >> developed. We're going back next year." >> -- Groucho Marx ( Animal Crackers ) > >We're going back again in a couple of weeks ... is he proper quote In the way of many misquotes, this actually improves the joke: the girls' figures, which are not developed now, may indeed be more so next year (not in a couple of weeks). Perhaps the usual offscreen version had been "next year" but was toned down to get past the censors? |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |__<a href="news:alt.religion.scientology">_______________|/_______| L and<a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html">.Xemu,SP4(:)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11492d,caaa5f07fa4c7212 X-Google-Attributes: gid11492d,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,caaa5f07fa4c7212 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 1051ef,d84ef75089da14c X-Google-Attributes: gid1051ef,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Antw: Groucho Marx Fan Club Date: 1997/06/24 Message-ID: <BUB...@xemu.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 252313250 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk [158.152.196.209] References: <5bfdn2$hm...@orm.southern.co.nz> <5oo2ub$ivl$2...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.comedy.marx-bros,rec.humor
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